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The Key to Innovation is Culture
Today leading edge companies are grasping the opportunities provided by technologies like the cloud, mobile computing, and Big Data to create innovative change in their organizations, in some cases to the point of completely reinventing their businesses. CEOs are acknowledging that technology is leading business, not simply supporting it. And Chief Information Officers are being ...
HP Demonstrates Working Kraken Prototype, Announces Preloaded HANA Appliance, New Services for SAP Users at Sapphire
HP demonstrated the first public working prototype of its Kraken joint initiative with SAP at SAP Sapphire Now 2013. A test system on the latest HP server hardware optimized to run the in-memory SAP HANA database for the SAP Business Suite, is a first step toward a system designed to provide customers with a choice ...
Before it can Transform the Enterprise, IT Needs to Transform Itself
The irony is that IT, who’s job is to transform the enterprise with automation, has the least management sophistication in the enterprise,” says Frank Slootman, CEO of ServiceNow, a company dedicated to bringing proven management automation to IT. Large enterprise IT shops typically run their multibillion dollar budgets on spreadsheets. Every process is manual, requests ...
Vspex Provides Flexibility to Partners, Customers #EMCworld2013
Three years after announcing its UCS servers and VCE partnership with EMC, Cisco is the number two vendor of x86 bladeservers in the United States, number 3 in the world, said Cisco VP of UCS Marketing Jim McHugh in an interview in the Cube from EMC World 2013. A lot of that success is due ...
Tight Controls, Close EMC partnership Keys to Accenture Services Success #EMCworld2013
For a service provider running mission-critical, high-availability services, the right IT operating model is critical, Andrew Wilson, senior managing director of Accenture Infrastructure Outsourcing, said in a Cube interview at EMCworld 2013. “There is the potential for anarchy if you run in a non-industrial way.” That means that “your command, control, management, and upgrade processes, ...
EMC’s Napolitano Outlines a Vision of the Software-Led Future #EMCworld2013
“We wanted to take a different approach in the keynotes [at EMCworld 2013] this year,” said Rich Napolitano, President of EMC’s Unified Storage Division, in an interview in the Cube with SiliconAngle Founder/CEO John Furrier and Wikibon.org Co-Founder/Chief Analyst David Vellante, immediately after delivering his keynote speech. “Instead of talking about products, we wanted to ...
VSPEX Has Become Huge for EMC Channel Partners, Midrange Customers #EMCworld2013
In the year since it was announced, EMC’s VSPEX validated infrastructure pattern program has proven to be a vital tool for EMC channel partners serving midrange customers, says Kent Christiansen, visualization practice lead for EMC channel partner Datalink. When it was announced a year ago it was a big olive branch to the channel, he ...
In the Move to the Cloud, Services and Speed Wins the Day #emcworld
As customers start their journey to the cloud, EMC is also on a journey, says EMC SVP of Global Services Mike Koehler. On the one hand, EMC services has grown to an inflection point where it needs to reorganize into a single organization including traditional consulting in support of its products, education, and higher level ...
CIOs Need to Transform IT or Be Left Behind #emcworld
Business leaders want instant gratification, they want IT services that will transform their businesses, not more data centers filled with IT systems that may provide benefit in two years, says Vic Bhagat, the new CIO of EMC, in the Cube at EMC World 2013. CIOs need to stop being chief information officers and become chief ...
80% of ITOs Will Pursue Cloud Strategy by 2018
“The writing is on the wall,” writes Wikibon Chief Analyst/Cofounder David Vellante in his latest Professional Alert: “Software is Eating the World: Will Amazon Eat Enterprise IT Infrastructure”? “Wikibon believes that by 2018, 80% of IT organizations will be pursuing a strategy that involves a public or hybrid cloud approach with a major emphasis on ...