Greetings from Planet Data!  It was a monumental opening day here at #EMCWorld!  If only I could travel as fast EMC solutions…so much to cover and so little time; here goes: After an inspiring and visionary keynote from Joe Tucci about transformation and the future of cloud computing, Pat Gelsinger introduced EMC’s new products, and ...

As I’ve been preparing for today’s EMC World 2012 super-session with BJ Jenkins, president, EMC Backup Recovery Systems (aka ‘my boss’), I’ve been thinking about some of the lessons I’ve picked up while speaking to customers. None is more poignant than my first… I was a 25-year-old engineer, and I had just walked out of ...

The first annual Global Partner Summit got underway, today, at the Venetian Ballroom in Las Vegas. To the accompaniment of very energetic, upbeat music from an on-stage live band and with EMC Blue as backdrops to 5 screens with continuous running statistics on the successes of EMC on all front, an eager crowd of about ...

Isn’t it funny how when you are prepping to go to a conference, it’s the prospect of the live entertainment that is many times what gets you jazzed?  Well, maybe it’s just me?  … And, as you may already know, MAROON 5 is scheduled to play Wednesday night during the upcoming #EMCWorld!  How cool is ...

Do you ever feel like you’re trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Or maybe you feel like you are the square peg in the round hole? I know I have. In fact, just last week I experienced that feeling of being squeezed or wedged. But I digress. Based on the conversations ...

In the automotive industry, the word, “boost” is “a loose term for turbo or supercharger.” It describes positive manifold pressure in automobile engines that increases horsepower and performance. If you have ever driven a car with a turbo you can attest to the dramatic acceleration experienced when the turbo kicks in. There are times when ...

It’s been 3 years since we launched EMC SourceOne and we’ve been delivering enhancements and additions to the program ever since. We’ve added SharePoint support, and file system support. We’ve updated our offline access capabilities and added mobile support for archived data. Our platform support continues to grow and device support is routinely enhanced. With ...

I confess. I have a passion for market data. Maybe it stems from years of studying mathematics at the undergraduate level, or perhaps it’s a byproduct of a 10-year stint as a high-tech journalist. I’m not sure. But what I do know is that if you give me a topic to research, a study to ...

While natural disasters are fresh in everyone’s mind, especially across Asia, due to recent floods, earthquakes and tsunamis, the results of a recent survey show that it’s not the extraordinary events that cause downtime and data loss. In fact, the research shows that the causes of disasters are often the commonplace events such as hardware ...

Well folks, if I take a look at my trusty countdown clock that I keep on my desk here in the office we have just about 11 days, 280 hours, 16831 minutes, or 1009886..5..4..3 seconds until EMC World. Now I am keeping such a close eye on the time for two reasons, excitement and nervous ...