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State-Sponsored Cyber-Penetrations Focus on Long-Term Data Theft
For the past five years Western nations and corporations have been penetrated at will and their most valuable secret data stolen by a new group of state-sponsored actors, mostly from China. And the victims don’t even realize they’ve been robbed. That is the warning from cyber-security expert and co-founder of cyber-security startup CrowdStrike, Dmitri Alperovitch. ...
FalconStor: In Eclipse or Poised for Growth?
A high-growth startup in the first decade of the new century, data backup solution vendor FalconStor has stalled financially in the last two years, admits company VP of Worldwide Marketing Fadi Albatal. An early developer of disk storage virtualization, it was known for its Virtual Tape Library technology that automates data backup to SATA disk systems ...
Is VMware Turning a Corner in VDI? Wikibon’s Scott Lowe Thinks So
When VMware finalizes its purchase of Wanova, it will actually have four technologies taking three different approaches to desktop virtualization on today’s increasingly diverse population of end-user computing devices, writes consultant Scott Lowe on Wikibon.org. The other three are VMware View, Horizon Application Manager, and Project Octopus. Lowe provides a review of all of them, ...
EMC Far Ahead in Understanding Public, Private Cloud Services
When Colt Technology Services, a UK-based worldwide cloud service provider and on-premise systems supplier, talked to its EMC rep about what it really needed from its hardware provider, Colt was “fully expecting them [EMC] to look at us and think, ‘You’re really off on that one,’” says Colt CTO Matthew Yaeger. Instead within a week ...
EMC Shifts Around Internal Open-Source Approach
“EMCworld is all about transformation – of our customers, the technologies, and ourselves,” says Brian Gallagher, president of EMC’s recently re-named Unified Enterprise Storage Division. One of the major transformations going on inside EMC is that the walls between divisions are being broken down and technologies are being shared. “We derive the greatest value from ...
Fear and Opportunity Drive Big Data in Business, Says Tom Roloff
Big data is still in the strategy planning stage in most industries according to Tom Roloff, COO for EMC Consulting. But, he said in an interview in The SiliconAngle Cube from EMCworld 2012, companies are moving aggressively, and often fear is as much a motivator as business opportunity (see full video below). “Everybody is worrying ...
Louisville Gas & Electric Chooses Vblock Infrastructure, VMware for VDI System
Louisville Gas & Electric is moving to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) from stand-alone laptops, in part to support a more mobile workforce and computing environment. And it has chosen Vblock and VMware as its infrastructure, replacing a Citrix infrastructure in the process. “We looked at HP as well but chose Vblock because of the ...
EMC Positioning As Big Data Leader, Says CMO Burton
“Big data is where cloud was three years ago in the market,” says EMC Chief Marketing Officer Jeremy Burton in an interview from EMCWorld 2012 on the SiliconAngle Cube (see a slideshow here). “So there will be confusion, with new technologies brought to market and more ideas appearing over the next three years. But when ...
EMC Commitment to Channel Expressed in Sales Strategy Changes
When EMC CEO and Chairman Joe Tucci said the company is committed to expanding its channel support, that announcement signaled major change in the sales culture. That change is expressed in a set of sales rules of engagement when working with channel partners, enforced by changes in compensation for internal sales reps, says EMC VP ...
EMC Customer Services in Continuous Upgrade Mode
“We are doing a continuous upgrade of our customer services program,” said EMC Senior VP for Customer Services Tony Kolish. “That is what Agile Services is about, meeting new demands for support services, including delivering services over multiple new channels and in more languages and anticipating demands that “we expect to see in the next ...