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Yesterday’s launch of VxRail represents a historic moment in EMC history. Together with VMware the introduction of the VCE VxRail appliance family marks the first joint product announcement, where EMC and VMware engineers have worked side by side developing, testing and validation a fully integrated hyper converged appliance. IT infrastructure is no longer just supporting the business; it is the business enabler. Infrastructure must support constant business demands for new applications and services with limited budgets and resources. Yet there is limited time to constantly evaluate and integrate hardware, software and networking solutions to meet continuously evolving requirements. Create an automated, dynamic infrastructure that adapts to your business demands with the VCE VxRail Appliance Family. The VxRail appliance family offers Massive scalability, Simplified management, Simplified IT and Industry-leading data services that extend beyond the traditional appliance model including: deduplication, compress

EMC teams with industry-leading video surveillance partners to provide proven, end-to-end video surveillance solutions.  Back in Episode #7, I spoke to Ken Mills (@OtherKen) and Terry Gainer, former law enforcement officer with over 30 years experience on the force.   Terry outlined the rapid growth and challenges faced by law enforcement offices in connecting, storing and managing massive amounts of data in a Video Surveillance Data Lake.  Continuing that conversation, I’m once again joined by Ken Mills (@OtherKen) to review some of EMCs joint solutions; Solutions tested and certified at the EMC Surveillance Validation Labs, renowned for conducting rigorous interoperability testing and optimized storage configuration models.  EMCs extensive partner community allows for simple and efficient Plug and Play solutions, requiring little technical configuration during deployment and operation.  Joining Ken and I this week is Steve Teitelbaum (@STeitelbaum).  Steve is the Solution Manager for Surveillance Solutions

EMCs acquisition of Virtustream last year represented a transformational element of EMC’s strategy to help customer move applications to cloud-based IT via a new managed cloud services business. The Virtustream Enterprise Class Cloud provides a secure, highly available, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to enterprises and government customers.  xStream, Virtustream's cloud management software enables customers to move existing mission-critical and production applications to the cloud. xStream delivers enterprise-grade security and compliance, performance SLAs, multi-tenant efficiency, and consumption-based charging for both legacy and web-scale applications. This week on EMC The Source, I sat down with Henrik Wagner (@HenrikWagner73) the Global SAP Practice Lead at Virtustream. Earlier this week, Virtustream formally launched the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud based on Virtustream; this new cloud consumption model provides unprecedented value for our joint customers. Don’t forget EMC SAP WEEK 2016 is coming to Sa

Organizations are increasingly looking to do more with less.  One way to achieve this objective is by transforming to a fully virtualized cloud infrastructure to deliver IT as a service to increase performance, agility and flexibility.   Microsoft Cloud based solutions provide a unique opportunity for joint EMC and Microsoft customers to leverage existing infrastructure in support of both on prem, and public cloud offerings.  EMC continues to develop architectures specific to deploying Microsoft applications in a rapid, low-cost model with “as a Service” capabilities.  These architectures leverage the convergence of virtualization, networking and EMC Storage platforms along with infrastructure that provides management, monitoring and reporting to cloud administrators. EMC recently published two Cloud Reference Architectures based on this joint technology offering.  This week on EMC The Source, I spent some time with Paul Galjan (@PaulGaljan), functional lead for EMC Microsoft Technologies.  Both the Microsoft

The Federation End User Computing Solution (Federation EUC) makes it easier to deploy virtual desktops by going beyond just desktops. The Solution provides everything you need for secure, anytime, anywhere access to desktops and applications. This includes not just the VDI, but also the support desk software, orchestration and automation tools, security, installation services, and one-call support. Providing IT with simpler deployment, management and support while providing end users with self-provisioning desktops along with the ability to work efficiently from any end point from anywhere at any time. The Federation EUC Solution provides a foundation for simplifying your End User Compute Infrastructure.  The Federation End-User Computing (EUC) solution continues to evolve.  I sat down with Jay Chitnis, Director of EMCs End User and Mobility Solutions before his Keynote presentation at the New England EUC Summit to the latest developments on the Federation EUC Solution. Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the

The recent EMC Forum events in both New York and Dallas featured a mainframe breakout track.  That’s right, mainframe is back; actually, it never went away.  The breakout track included:  “Mainframe: EMC Storage Solutions Vision and Strategy for z Systems”, “VMAX Mainframe Performance Update: Turbocharging Your Mission-Critical infrastructure with zBoost and zBoost PAV Optimizer”, ‘FAST: Game-Changing Storage Tiering for the Mainframe, “Disk Library for Mainframe (DLm) Concepts, Product and Performance Update”, and “Mainframe Birds of a Feather Discusses EMC Storage” I tracked down one of the masterminds behind the highly successful track, a longtime friend of mine, David Kipp.  David is the Go-To-Market Lead for EMC Mainframe Solutions.  We spent some time talking about the track at the Dallas EMC Forum. Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog at thesourceblog.emc.com

The path to a competitive advantage is being able to make predictions from Big Data.  The more you can build predictive analytics into your business processes, the more data driven and successful your organization will become.  Taking a low risk, best-of-breed approach to quickly transform from a rigid, soiled infrastructure to a modular, agile infrastructure is critical to success. The EMC Forum breakout session, “Redefine Big data” was focused on exactly that, leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage.   I sat down with Kevin Zawodzinski (@kzawo) after his session in Dallas.  While technology plays a big part of Big Data, organizational processes need to adapt to take advantage of the data mine. Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog at thesourceblog.emc.com

Data protection can do more than reduce risk and costs. It can drive business agility by enabling you to spend less time worrying whether your data is protected and more time adding business value. But first you need the confidence that all your data is protected. EMC delivers a continuum of data protection services—from availability to backup and recovery to archive. This ensures you have the right level of protection wherever your data is and whatever infrastructure it's running on.  I recently sat down with Steve Long, Field CTO for EMC Data Protection Solutions; we covered lots of recent developments and looked into the future.

As data volumes continue to grow, organizations are under more pressure than ever to make smart decisions on which data to save and how to archive it all while managing a variety of compliance, governance and operational needs.  But do the applications that created the data all need to be saved too?  Even if the data is essential to an organization, it doesn’t mean all of the applications need to be retained. After all, the cost, time, and manpower required to maintain aging applications can be substantial.  Simply retaining every application in an organization’s portfolio because it has authored essential data no longer makes sense.  In fact, it is a looming problem that must be addressed.  Whether it is caused by technology platform changes, compliance requirements or business events like mergers and acquisitions, decommissioning applications must be part of every IT organization’s strategic plan to become more efficient, agile and aligned with the business. EMC Infoarchive is designed to directly address t

Definition: DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a software development method that emphasizes the roles of both software developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals with an emphasis on IT Operations. Application development is critical to business success. DevOps promises to improve your IT organization’s ability to respond to new business requirements by accelerating the delivery of new custom-built applications, along with updates to existing applications.   Transforming application development teams and operational teams improve the way people, process and technology work together. Brian Whitman (@Brian_D_Whitman) presented “Why DevOps is Critical to Your Business” at the 2015 EMC Forum event in New York City.   I sat down with Brian to review his breakout session, and get more details on why DevOps is Critical. Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store. Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog

EMC Core Technologies Division includes EMCs traditional File and Block Storage Technologies along with EMC Backup and Recover Solutions. I had the opportunity to sit down with Scott Delandy (@ScottDelandy) at the EMC Forum in New York City last week. Scott is part of EMCs CTO Office within EMC Core Technologies. Scott has been in IT for 25 years with a wide range of expertise across storage, network, backup and management software. In his current role, he works closely with users and partners and is responsible for defining the “why” for EMC’s technical strategy and roadmap. His previous roles include product management, market and technology analysis, and technical pre-sales field support. Scott presented ‘VNX and VMAX: A proven Hybrid Cloud Storage Foundation” at the EMC Forum. We spent some time talking about that breakout session and general core technology thoughts. Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store. Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the offi

EMC SAP Week is a Strategic Technology Roadshow held globally, designed to help you, our customers address technology challenges associated with SAP Deployments.  We realize when making changes to your SAP landscape, you need resources to help you explore options and gain a perspective based on experience. Our goal at EMC is to help our customers understand what our experts and partners believe will maximize your value, leveraging timely and proven solutions, while working to thoughtfully minimize your risks. EMC SAP Week provides a one-day Executive Briefing featuring SAP subject matter experts from SAP, EMC, Cisco, VCE and VMware.  The briefing is designed to provide a unique collaborative environment where the specifics of your SAP deployment can be discussed.  The focus includes: Improving agility & reducing TCO of SAP infrastructure, Simplifying and accelerating your SAP Cloud & Big Data Deployments with increased flexibility, and Providing scaling and protection capabilities of SAP applications

  EMCs secret sauce?  EMC Global Solutions!  The EMC Global Solutions Team is driven by you, our customers – and specifically designed to leverage EMCs portfolio of products to directly address your business challenges.  Your company is transforming how you interact with customers, and IT is the foundation of this shift.  EMC Global Solutions provides you with solutions designed to reduce the cost of delivering mission-critical IT services – while providing the financial transparency of on-demand services and agility that your business needs.  Focusing on industry trends like: Cloud, Big Data, Data Protection, Security and Content Management allows our teams to focus on Business Value, not product speeds and feeds.  Global Solutions is also designed to directly address challenges associated with specific technology deployments like Microsoft, SAP and Oracle.  I recently sat down with EMC Global Solutions Sr. Vice President Josh Kahn (@KahnJosh)  Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to su

XtremIO Truly Transformational, that’s been the heartbeat of the EMC XtremIO story since its launch over 2 years ago.  I asked the XtremIO CTO, Itzik Reich (@itzikr) to elaborate.  Itzik presented “Best Practices for Running Virtualized Workloads on All-Flash Arrays” at VMworld 2015.    Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog at EMC The Source Blog   EMC: The Source Podcast is hosted By Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini)

EMC: The Source Podcast Episode #16:  Clouds, Code, Containers, Open Source, DevOps and EMC?  Yes – and EMC!  The EMC {code} movement has created a tremendous following in the open source community.  Free Software, Free and Open Code and a development community, this isn’t your grandfather’s EMC. I spent some time at VMworld 2015 with Matt Cowger (@mcowger) before his breakout session: “Containers on VMware Infrastructure”, Containers on VMware?  What does that mean?  Find out this week on “EMC The Source”.   Looking for more details?  Check out www.emccode.com Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog at EMC The Source Blog   EMC: The Source Podcast is hosted By Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini)

EMC: The Source Podcast Episode #15: EMC and Oracle have partnered for more than 15 years, helping more than 80,000 customers optimize their Oracle software on EMC virtual infrastructure. EMC has invested deeply in joint engineering, Proven Solutions, and global Joint Escalation Centers making the EMC-Oracle relationship unique in the industry. I spent some time at VMworld 2015 with Sam Lucido (@Sam_Lucido) before his breakout session: “Virtualized Oracle On All-Flash: A Customer’s Perceptive on Database Performance and Operations”.   Need more info? Don’t miss EMCs DBA Society for details on EMC ProtectPoint, EMC OEM Plugin and EMC AppSync Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store. Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog at EMC The Source Blog EMC: The Source Podcast is hosted By Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini)

EMC: The Source Podcast Episode #14:   The Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions provide the ability for IT to focus on business innovation rather than deploying and maintaining infrastructure, minimize provisioning times with policy-driven templates, and becomes more nimble and responsive while lowering costs.  Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud delivers automation and always-on Infrastructure-as-a-Service including: a full suite of data protection and security options such as high availability, disaster recovery, continuous availability, encryption and more.  End users can modify service levels at any time to adapt to changing workload demands.  Empowering end users with a self-service portal that allows access to application and IT service on-demand.  Resources that used to take months to acquire are now available in just a few clicks, and IT maintains control and visibility by setting policies for how the self-service catalog operates. The latest version of The Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud wa

Today’s end users are more mobile than ever and expect continuous access to business-critical information when, where, and from any device they choose.  IT must strike a balance between open, accessible infrastructure supporting collaborative, real-time, resource-intensive applications and maintain a secure environment that protects the business and its digital assets.  The Federation End-User Computing (EUC) solution offers a strategic and streamlined approach delivering simplicity, efficiency and flexibility; allowing IT to deploy and manage end user environments quickly, securely, and at the lowest cost.   The Federation End-User Computing (EUC) was announced at VMworld 2015.  I sat down with Rajeev Dawar (@VirtuallyRaj) and Tony Foster (@Wonder Nerd) before their breakout session, “Desktops: Part of a Comprehensive Cloud Strategy”, to get some insight into the announcement.    Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visi

Converged Infrastructure represents a monumental shift in IT infrastructure consumption.  By grouping together multiple infrastructure components into a single optimized computing package, infrastructure can be deployed faster at a lower cost with less risk.  Converged Infrastructure decreases complexity through the use of pre-integrated hardware with virtualization and automation management tools.  VCE pioneered the development of Converged Infrastructure when it was formed by EMC, VMware, Intel and Cisco in 2009.  In 2014, EMC acquired over 90% of VCE making it a part of EMC.  John Lockyer, Americas CTO and Global Lead of Technology Consultants, has been with VCE since the beginning.   I spent some time with John at VMworld 2015 to talk about the latest trends in Converged Infrastructure and what we can expect moving forward.      Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radioand visit the official blog at EMC The Source Blog  

EMC: The Source Episode #11: VMworld 2015, The Bleeding Edge!  VMworld is here, and I found “The Source” of everything EMC VMware – The Virtual Geek, Chad Sakac!  I ran into Chad just before the Monday morning Keynote address, and we talked show expectations and what to look for.  Chad also talked about his breakout session: The Bleeding Edge: A Face-Melting Technical Smorgasbord of Private, Hybrid and PaaS SDDC6642-SPO).  Chads breakout is the annual review of everything, and I mean everything EMC and VMware!  What better way to get that information directly to you than to bring you unedited audio from the session!  The podcast includes the FULL UNEDITED Breakout Session from VMworld 2015!  It’s longer than a normal show, but I think you’ll find the content worth the time.  You can expect lots of future episodes of the Source to feature interviews from VMworld 2015, so don’t miss any.  Download "EMC The Source" App in the Apple Store.  Subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the