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Acquisition of the Decade
Last week I attended the monthly CTO Council meetings, in which technologists from many of EMC's different business units fly or dial in to discuss the latest internal developments in…
Posted inStorage Research
What’s In A Storage Name
When the acronym RAID came out, it stuck like glue. The original paper from Berkeley was extremely influential in its introduction of terminology that combined disk striping and data protection…
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Provenance Awareness
EMC is building stronger relationships with universities and technology companies in the Cambridge, MA area. I've been making monthly visits to Harvard University to interact with both their CS department…
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Scientific Data: Link or Die
While working at EMC Cambridge last week I took the Red Line over to Harvard to attend a lunchtime lecture by Joe Futrelle. Joe's lecture focused on the availability of…
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Cloud Building: New Internal User Community
I've read (and written) quite a bit about private cloud this year. One of the private cloud aspects that I find most interesting is the fluidity of IT resources and…
Posted inBooks
Book Review: 7 Lessons For Leading In Crisis
Last month I attended (and blogged about) the World Business Forum in New York City. The evening before the event, Bill George (who was attending the WBF as both a…
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Research Papers Moving to the Cloud
The ACM has been publishing scholarly works since 1954. They have been diligently maintaining an online library of research papers that has continually benefited the technical community. For years much…
Posted inCloud Optimized Storage
Information’s Carbon Footprint
I noticed last week that Chad mentioned the Intel - EMC research that will reduce server power consumption for the Atmos Storage System.For those unfamiliar with the software internals of…
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Medical Cloud Formations
The latest issue of ON Magazine describes use cases for three early "cloud adopters": the National Business Center, Hill Air Force Base, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).In particular…
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Preserving Profiles in Courage
The digital preservation effort at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum keeps rolling on, one scanned document at a time. All of President Kennedy's office files (POFs) have been scanned…
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