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What do you get when you put a data scientist and an MBA in a blender? | #emcworld
Better business through Big Data is a top area of interest in technology, with those on both sides of the aisle asking the same question: Do we make business people data scientists, or do we make data scientists business people? Bill Schmarzo, chief technology officer of EMC’s Global Services Big Data Practice, has written a ...
No application left behind: Can everything be virtualized now? | #emcworld
Five years ago, when he would go to conferences, Don Sullivan, database specialist solution architect at VMware, Inc., would ask attendees who was virtualizing their applications and databases. He said that a few people would raise their hands. At the EMC World event this week, he asked the same question and saw a veritable sea of ...
Evolution vs. revolution: What benefits does paced scale-out offer? | #emcworld
Developers all over Silicon Valley and the globe are trying to get rich on the software-defined goldrush. In their haste to create to shiniest, most cutting-edge products, they often neglect to ask, “How is a company going to implement this without upending their workplace culture?” Whether your goal actually is to transform your business or ...
Can Dell EMC pull off its enterprise-midmarket balancing act? | #emcworld
Dell’s in-process acquisition of EMC — what’s being touted as the biggest tech merger in history — has many speculating about what new direction the duo will take. Is the midmarket behemoth merging with EMC in order to appear more “cloudy” and innovative? Is EMC simply looking for more dollars to fuel its own operations? ...
Moving on up: The benefits of working higher up the stack | #emcworld
Businesses of all sizes are in a race with competitors to digitize, use data to improve marketing and build advanced applications that satisfy customer demands. Companies could lose customers to another business simply because they’re running a better mobile application. This is why it’s crucial for businesses to focus on up-the-stack software and application problems and outsource ...
Real time in our time: Honing the Big Data end game | #emcworld
Data scientists are aggregating information from all new and unthought-of sources all the time these days. From geospatial imaging, to social feeds, to your shopping bill — they are going over the universe of available information with a finetooth comb. What does it all mean? What value are businesses and consumers going to get out of ...
Analysts on the Amazon effect: How will Dell EMC innovate, manage debt? | #emcworld
In IT, there are old names and new names. The new, cloud-native players excite customers with cutting-edge technology and Everything-as-a-Service philosophy of convenience. Yet the older names still inspire trust in reputation. However, the greater scale and variety of software-led infrastructure seems to be giving the newer companies most of the momentum right now. Which brings us ...
A seat at the table: The new role of marketer | #MME16
A company’s marketing team has historically toiled in relative obscurity while CEOs and managers received both credit and blame for performance. However, Big Data technology is transforming marketing as we know it, along with the role of the marketer. Ryan Buma, GVP of AppCloud at Oracle Marketing Cloud, said marketers are now being given “a seat at ...
Use it or lose it: Can an application inventory raise your bottom line? | #emcworld
You know how you keep saying you’re going to go to your computer’s control panel and uninstall all the applications you’re not using, but you keep forgetting? Well, a lot of enterprise managers are just like that with the applications they run for their businesses — only the cost of not taking inventory is higher ...
Don’t go there: Using data to build a better threat brief for travelers | #emcworld
If you happen to travel abroad for work from time to time, you may have been provided with what’s called a “threat brief” to alert you to any safety concerns at your destination. And if it was the typical threat brief, it was up to six months old and about 30 pages long, which may ...
