
Sanjay Mirchandani, Chief Information Officer and COO, Global Centers of Excellence
While a little worn and a little hoarse from yet
another action-packed EMC World, I can’t help but reflect on my numerous engaging and enlightening conversations with EMC customers. For instance, EMC’s second annual CIO Summit encouraged the nearly 70 attending CIOs from various industries and geographies to share their opinions, concerns and best practices in their own transformation.
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Michael Howard, Vice President of Marketing, Greenplum, A Division of EMC
Did you know that "a dog can detect a teaspoon of sugar diluted in a million gallons of water: two Olympic-sized pools full?" I got that insight from a great book I'm currently reading by Alexandra Horowitz called Inside of a Dog. Now, what does that have to do with the Data Science Summit that I attended as a host last week?
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Bill Schmarzo, CTO, EMC Consulting, Enterprise Information Management & Analytics
During his opening EMC World keynote presentation, Joe Tucci talked about how enterprise information is dwarfed by data being created in the “digital universe” - outside the four walls of the organization. According to the IDC Digital Universe study sponsored by EMC, this data is growing at an astounding rate of more than 5,000 petabytes per day, and 80% of it is non-enterprise generated.
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Pat Gelsinger, President and COO, EMC Information Infrastructure Products
Last week, I took part in a panel on cloud adoption at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit. Joining me on the panel were the CTO for Infrastructure at Zynga and a panelist from one of our major competitors who said, “The cloud doesn’t make security different from IT, because you have to think about security in IT in general and the cloud just adds other elements.”
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Clive Gold, Marketing CTO, EMC Australia and New Zealand
I am continuously surprised by people who tell me that Big Data has no relevance to their organization. To me it’s like the 90s where people said that the internet was not relevant to business. If you are one of the people battling with the concept, let me ask you to consider three key data sources: Social Media, Operational Technology and Third-party Data.
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