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EMCWorld and Interop Las Vegas 2103 Going Soft(ware)

posted by Jim Frey | May 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

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During the week of May 5th, EMC held its fast-growing user conference in Las Vegas, while just down the strip the Interop 2013 event was also underway. Lacking an ability to clone myself, I did my best to attend both, in the process actively supporting the local contingent of taxi drivers and putting in more...

Posted in IT Management, Jim Frey, Network Management Tags: Application programming interface, EMC, Interop, Las Vegas, Software Defined Storage, UBS, VMware

The Software Defined Datacenter: Part 4 of 4 – Where We Are Today

posted by Torsten Volk | March 26, 2013 | 0 Comments

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Almost one year into the discussion about the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), it is time to take inventory of the state of the discipline. As a reminder, the ultimate goal of the SDDC is to abstract and centralize the management of compute, network, storage, operating systems, middleware and applications in order to dynamically place...

Posted in IT Management, Systems Management, Torsten Volk Tags: CloudStack, EMC, Hyper-V, IBM, network virtualization, Nicira, OpenFlow, VMware

Security in 2013: The “Productization” of Big Data

posted by Scott Crawford | January 29, 2013 | 0 Comments

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In my last post, I noted that I expect intelligence and the coordination and integration of defense technologies to be key drivers of the IT security market in 2013. This is not just about some major vendors who have acknowledged their need for a wake-up call on these fronts. These are larger trends that are...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford, Security Tags: Big data, EMC, NetWitness, Network Intelligence, RSA, RSA Conference, Security Information and Event Management, Shawn Rogers

Validating the Rise of Data-Driven Security: EMC/RSA Acquires Silver Tail

posted by Scott Crawford | October 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

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This morning, EMC’s RSA Security Division announced its intent to acquire Silver Tail Systems. The press release is here. I’ve written about Silver Tail before, going back to one of my first posts on the rise of data-driven security. In a five-part blog series introduced by that post, I described how data-driven security is evolving...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford, Security Tags: Big data, EMC, EMC Corporation, RSA, Security Information and Event Management, Security Operations Center, Silver Tail, Silver Tail Systems

The Software-Defined Datacenter: Part 2 of 4 – Core Components

posted by Torsten Volk | August 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

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In part 1 of this series of four posts, we examined the grand vision of the software-defined datacenter (SDD). In this second post of the series, we will take a look at the core components of the SDD (see Figure 1) and provide a brief evaluation of how mature these components currently are. Figure 1...

Posted in IT Management, Systems Management, Torsten Volk Tags: BMC, Cisco, Cisco Systems, DataCore Software, EMC, IBM, Nicira, VMware

5 Network Management Resolutions for 2012

posted by Jim Frey | January 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

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In keeping with my nascent tradition of not predicting trends, I’ll instead propose a number of focal points that network engineering and operations professionals should keep in mind in the coming New Year of 2012. 2011 resolutions were around application-awareness, connecting with the network security team, assessing the impact of videoconferencing, embracing automation, and improving service...

Posted in Jim Frey Tags: APM, ASM, BYOD, cloud computing, EMC, NetFlow, Network security, UIM, vblock

Information Governance in the Age of Analytics, Big Data, eDiscovery and Social Media

posted by | January 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

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As the digital world becomes increasingly more connected at the individual and organizational levels, our desire to derive insight from the collective stacks of electronically stored information (ESI) has fueled technology innovation and enabled companies to leverage these technologies and to transform their businesses as well as people’s lives. Meanwhile, organizations are in danger of...

Posted in Enterprise Content, Gary MacFadden Tags: Analytics, Big data, CGOC, EMC, Greenplum, Hadoop, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Watson

Behind Oracle’s Disappointing 2nd Quarter Numbers: Europe, Big Data, Competition, The Setting of Sun or All The Above?

posted by | December 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

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After a blisteringly hot day for all of the US stock indices yesterday, the news following the close of the markets that Oracle had missed its quarterly numbers for the first time in 10 years came as a bit of shock to investors. Whether or not continued world economic woes, especially in Europe, will affect...

Posted in Enterprise Content, Gary MacFadden Tags: Big data, BigInsights, Cloudera, Dell, EMC, Greenplum, Hadoop, HP, IBM, Oracle

What to Expect from Enterprise Content Management Solutions in 2012 and Beyond

posted by admin | December 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

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The advent of highly scalable hardware along with software solutions that can quickly process virtually any form of data regardless of its origin has far reaching ramifications for organizations looking to leverage a new class of Enterprise Content Management solutions to run their businesses more efficiently and innovatively. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions have been...

Posted in Enterprise Content, Gary MacFadden Tags: AIIM, Altivo, ECM, EMC, Enterprise content management, IBM, Microsoft SharePoint, Open Text Corporation

EMC/RSA Acquires NetWitness: Data-Driven Security Goes Mainstream

posted by Scott Crawford | April 4, 2011 | 0 Comments

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No sooner had the ink dried on RSA’s disclosure of the nature of the attack that resulted in its high-profile breach than NetWitness, RSA’s partner in investigating this incident, announced its acquisition by RSA parent EMC. (Given the fact that the deal is already closed, it’s safe to assume that due diligence well preceded this event.)...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford, Security Tags: Acquisition, ArcSight, EMC, NetWitness, VMware