Innovation

I’ve been delivering a series of posts that describe the approach that my company (EMC) is taking to guide innovation investment strategies. This approach is called Know Where You Are.…

In a previous post I described the formation of a global team that began gathering innovation data from EMC R&D teams around the world.  This team decided to start by…

In a previous post I introduced the “data gathering” aspect of a four-point innovation strategy to Know Where You Are. I discusses the creation of a Portfolio Intelligence team to…

In a previous post I discussed the “data gathering” aspect of an innovation strategy named "Know Where You Are". I recommended the creation of a Portfolio Intelligence team to gather…

In a previous post I described EMC’s historical innovation strategy. I then introduced an additional approach proposed by EMC’s Chief Technology Officer (John Roese). This strategy is called Know Where…

Recently I gave a keynote speech at NCTA, the North Carolina Technology Association. I was asked to start the conference by answering one question: How do market leaders sustain innovation?…

In a previous post I highlighted that certain application workloads (public cloud, web-scale, etc.) were pulling applications and data increasingly closer together. Is it possible for them to get any…

In a previous post I introduced the diagram below to emphasize that: a)      SANs introduced a shift in application nearness b)      Scale-out and mobile applications stretched this distance even further…

I’ve written several times about application nearness, and use the diagram below to highlight the fact that applications simply want to store data and get it back again. In the…

As VMworld starts this week I'd like to follow up on my last post on SDDC solving fan-out problems. I closed the post by showing the diagram below and asking…