Innovation Roadmap 2013: Push the Improve Button
Earlier this week the Chief Technology Officer of EMC, John Roese, launched his own version of what used to be called the Innovation Showcase: The 2013 Innovation Roadmap. The Innovation…
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Cairo Innovation Clouds
In March I visited two universities in Egypt that have deployed "mini-clouds" for the purpose of education and innovation: German University Cairo (GUC) and Ain Shams University. This visit coincided…
Posted inPrivate Cloud
Doing Three Things at Once
In the past several years data center admins have continually deployed virtualization software onto their servers. My own company's IT department (EMC IT) actually tracked the percentage of virtualizated versus…
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Strengthening the Weak
In the area of data center construction, there is still plenty of room left for innovation. In particular, the industry is trending towards constructing software-defined data centers (SDDC). For those…
VMAX Cloud Edition
As I've watched and written about the evolution of cloud infrastructures, I tend to fall back on the NIST definition of cloud computing, which highlights five essential services: On-demand self-service.…
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Pivotal: Onward to Analytic Correctness
I'm in the Bay Area today and was faced with a tough choice. Do I go to the opening day of RSA Conference, or do I attend the Pivotal HD…
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When Right is Wrong
In my recent post How to Get the Wrong Answer, I stated that analytic correctness (e.g. the "right answer") increases when large volumes of data are highly varied. Analytic correctness…
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Russian Re-use: An Innovation Mentoring Tale
I am starting the year with two mentees: one in China and one in Russia. We meet every two weeks. In both cases the mentees drive the agenda. They state…
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Hybrid Analytics
Every IT organization (and IT vendor for that matter) has one of those performance geeks who answers every question with "It depends". When I designed storage systems, I tried to…
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How to Get the Wrong Answer
In the 1980s, the introduction of RAID technology set off a wave of innovation in high-tech. This innovation was in response to a very simple customer request: "Never give me…