New Technologies Are Not a Threat, but the CIO’s Biggest Opportunity

As I travel around the region, it is incredibly valuable to meet with CEOs and CIOs where they live and do business, and hear directly from them what keeps them up at night. Whether in London or Bucharest, all share concerns about ‘the future’ and the role emerging...

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Software Defined Storage Availability (Part 2): The Math Behind Availability

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In this blog we will discuss the facts of availability using math and demystify the myth behinds ScaleIO’s high availability. For data loss or data unavailability to occur in a system with two replicas of data (such as ScaleIO) there must be two concurrent failures or a second...

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Dell EMC and VMware – Better Together for Service Providers

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With Mobile World Congress in Barcelona coming soon, there is a lot of anticipation on what vendors will be showcasing at the event and what will solve the challenges facing for service providers today.  Some of their main challenges include: Slowing growth & innovation due to increasing technological...

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Creatives & Engineers – Understanding & Empowering Your ‘Workstation’ Customers

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As workplaces have evolved, so have the workforces that use them. Several distinct worker personas have emerged, each with its own demands for specific hardware, software and services. We think it’s time your customers knew more about them. Thinking about how people work forces you to categorize them...

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Blockchain + Analytics: Enabling Smart IOT

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Autonomous cars are racing down the highway at speeds exceeding 100 MPH when suddenly a car a half-mile ahead blows out a tire sending dangerous debris across 3 lanes of traffic.  Instead of relying upon sending this urgent, time-critical distress information to the world via the cloud, the...

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Five Reasons Mobile Devices Will Generate the Need for More Servers

In 1987 when I read a book titled The Media Lab that described some forward-looking work at MIT, I came across the question: how will we directly connect our nervous systems to the global computer?  I remember wondering at the time what global computer they were talking about. ...

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Get Modern with Enterprise-level Data Protection for Small, Mid-Size and Enterprise Remote and Branch Office Environments

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Today, Dell EMC is expanding its modern protection storage portfolio with Dell EMC Data Domain DD3300, a new platform specifically designed to deliver enterprise-level data protection to small to mid-size organizations and remote/branch office environments of larger enterprises. Why Data Domain DD3300 and Why Now? Organizations today face...

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2018 Brings Once-in-a-Generation Shift in Data Storage

I have to be honest. Much of what I predict to be significant for the data storage industry in 2018 may go unnoticed by most IT professionals, even though some of these concern major progress that hasn’t been experienced in nearly a full generation! So much has been...

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Unlocking “Out of Office” Personas to Drive Customer Demand

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Dell EMC is committed to helping businesses maximize the potential of their employees via the technology they use. And because we can offer more personalized products to suit a range of in- and out-of-office environments, that potential is more achievable than ever. So, with that in mind, let’s...

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