Category Archives: Storage & Networking

Big Data Takes On Security

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When it comes to IT security, we are at an opportunistic intersection.  Each and every day, we hear more and more about how the increasingly complex and aggressive threat landscape is impacting the security of companies around the globe.  However, Big Data strategies and technologies are rapidly approaching the intersection and arming us with the analytics we need to more proactively assess risk and identify threats.

As a leading global technology company, EMC has wholeheartedly embraced Big Data to get ahead of this.  If you’re interested in learning more, EMC is also hosting a webinar on “Using Greenplum to Deliver Big Data Analytics” on Tuesday, Sept. 18th @ 11am PT.  Sign up here:  http://bit.ly/SyLwWV

To Vblock, Or Not To Vblock

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I recently had a conversation with Paul Divittorio, EMC IT’s Director of Enterprise Systems and Application Hosting Architecture. He’s the guy responsible for designing the next generation hosting platforms being installed in our production data centers here at EMC. When Paul is talking with EMC customers about our IT organization’s journey to Private Cloud, he’s often asked about Vblock. Where does EMC IT think it makes sense to use it? Where is EMC IT using it now? Continue reading →

Getting More For Less By Virtualizing Oracle

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My EMC colleagues and I often advise IT leaders to begin their own Private Cloud journey by virtualizing everything. That includes “Tier One” applications. When IT people hear “Tier One,” a few brands immediately pop into our heads. When I describe how EMC’s internal IT organization is aggressively building a Private Cloud, I’m not surprised when asked, “What about Oracle?” Continue reading →

Why EMC IT Is Going “All In” On Private Clouds – Part 5

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This is the final part of a series of posts outlining how our IT organization started its aggressive journey to private clouds. Previously, I described IT’s strategy shift, the trigger for its urgency, navigating through “cloud fog,” and the unusual path IT decided upon.

In this post, we’ll take a look at EMC IT’s overall strategy for actually making this journey. Continue reading →

Why EMC IT Is Going “All In” On Private Clouds – Part 4

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This is the fourth of a multi-part series exploring why our IT organization is aggressively transforming EMC’s corporate datacenters into Private Clouds. Previously, I described IT’s strategy shift, its newfound sense of urgency, and navigation through some “cloud fog.”

In this post we look at the unusual course EMC IT charted for its Private Cloud journey, and how the team approached selling its plan to our top execs. Continue reading →

Chronicling EMC IT’s Private Cloud Journey

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We at EMC have been talking about private clouds from the perspective of an IT vendor for quite some time. But EMC is also an IT consumer. Our IT organization supports over 40,000 internal users in 61 countries (and 20 languages), and many hundreds of business applications on over 6,000 server instances spanning five data centers worldwide. Never mind the thousands of terabytes of storage, tens of thousands of devices, and hundreds of thousands of network ports used to conduct business every day.

It comes as no surprise, then, to be asked: “is EMC’s IT organization doing this?” when discussing private clouds with enterprise customers. My answer: “of course.” That’s not hubris. EMC IT began its journey a few years ago. The evolution in EMC IT’s thinking and plans—leveraging virtualization as a technology building block, then taking it to the next level—reflects the evolution in thinking and plans that led us to our vision of private clouds and the VCE coalition.

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EMC IT’s Journey to the Private Cloud

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Interested in learning what EMC IT is doing with virtualization? Join us each month as EMC IT documents its own virtualization journey. Join Sanjay Mirchandani, EMC Senior Vice President and CIO, as he introduces this exclusive, inside-look at EMC’s virtualization status from challenges faced through improvements made to future plans. This documentary series focuses on five key initiatives:
• Server virtualization
• Optimized storage and networks for a virtual environment
• Closed looped automated configuration management and monitoring
• VDI
• Cloud
The series is an ideal venue for customers and prospects to follow and learn best practices directly from EMC IT.