EMC Corp. not only works with partners such as VCE Company, LLC when developing infrastructure, but also with competitors such as Oracle. During EMC World 2015, EMC Solutions Director Jason Kotsaftis explained to theCUBE hosts Stu Miniman and Steve Chambers that EMC’s collaboration with VCE’s Vblock gives them standardization with flexibility at the database and application ...

The University of North Texas system oversees campuses in Ft. Worth, Denton and Dallas, Texas. The institution already serves more than 41,000 students with a broad range of Academics. Recently it turned its attention to infrastructure by upgrading to EMC’s Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud. The benefits of the hybrid Cloud   “The hybrid Cloud enables ...

SAS Institute, Inc., a leader in analytics and data management, helps customers move through the digital divide by teaming with more than 800 IT industry partners. SAS, like EMC Corp., clearly values collaboration, which makes is an important aspect to big data and data management. ‘Big Data is an ecosystem plane’   “To make the ...

In the realm of distributions, there is no “winner take all,” according to EMC Corp.’s chief strategist for solutions, Ryan Peterson. “Application vendors are creating solutions on top of distributions,” Peterson said in an interview with theCUBE during EMC World 2015. “Just as different databases have existed inside the same infrastructure, customers are thinking about ...

Pivotal Software, Inc., the Big Data and software arm of EMC Corp.’s Federation, has built its business on the value of data. “Our go-to market is focused on building new, agile applications,” Craig Steel, Pivotal’s GM and senior director of Global Strategic Alliance, told theCUBE during EMC World 2015. “Those applications eventually have data associated ...

Pivotal Software, Inc., the EMC Federation member that specializes in big data and software, recognized and embraced the vibrancy of open source by moving portions of its Big Data Suite to open source. “In the Big Data and traditional analytic space … thanks to Hadoop and the energy in the Apache organization, we’ve really seen ...

Quincy, Massachusetts-based Itrica Corp. expanded from software development, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry, into infrastructure solutions. When the company wanted a more hybrid-performance storage solution, it turned to EMC’s ScaleIO. “Traditionally our company has offered high-performance storage solutions based on legacy flash technology,” said Itrica Corporation EVP and CTO David Sampson in an interview with ...

EMC Corp. strives to be a tech enabler of business outcomes according to Howard Elias, president and COO of EMC Global Enterprise Services. This means that EMC works with its partner ecosystem to ensure that customers spend their time and dollars on the highest order possible. “We’ve seen a huge sea change in the ability ...

Josh Kahn, senior VP of EMC Corp. Global Solutions, spoke with theCUBE during EMC World 2015 about the various solutions that his department offers IT organizations. The “solutions” buzzword has become synonymous with platform and other services. And Kahn explains that for EMC, the solution ends with the customer. “We look at products from EMC, ...

St. Charles Health System, which comprises four hospitals and about 15 clinics in and around Bend, Oregon, recently partnered with EMC to acquire VMAX3 enterprise data services platforms to expand upon its existing VMAX system. The upgrade marks a significant change from the healthcare company’s former tape-based system. “That obviously comes with its own set ...