Reflections

Mainstreaming Sustainability

2013-05-22T09:01:00-04:00

Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer At EMC, as in many leading companies, we believe in mainstreaming sustainability. Rather than belonging to a single team, we see it as a shared responsibility and as a pervasive consideration in how we conduct business. Sustainability as a concept is not there in every...

Backup Is Broken – But Why?

2013-05-20T09:59:32-04:00

Stephen Manley, Chief Technology Officer, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division “Well, at least you brought lunch.” – Every CIO’s reaction after I tell them we’re going to talk about backup. Backup is broken. Backups are slow and restores are even slower. Even worse, application administrators assume they’re unprotected because they...

Educating Business Leaders To Exploit Big Data

2013-05-16T11:11:39-04:00

Bob Savage, Vice President and Managing Director, EMC Ireland Across every sector and in every boardroom, Big Data is disrupting business models. The challenge facing enterprises is how to monetise data and drive new revenues. To do that, organizations will need data savvy and business savvy innovators who can trigger...

Standardize Without Compromise

2013-05-08T09:00:00-04:00

Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division Unique architecture for each business-critical application or standardize for efficiency? I spend a lot of time talking with IT leaders around the world, so I get a first-hand account of the struggles, tradeoffs, and effective approaches of their IT transformation and journey to cloud,...

What We Mean By Software-Defined Storage

2013-05-07T13:40:08-04:00

Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President, Product Operations and Marketing It’s day two of EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas. Everybody here is talking about or asking about software-defined storage. Let me give you a couple of analogies to help you understand what we mean by software-defined storage and what we...