Opening with a gentleman – John Maclean – who was an athlete, hit by a truck while running, and paralyzed from the waist down…his story. He wondered if he could ever do anything…married, have children, etc. His father asked him during recovery – “look how far you’ve come – how far can you go?”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maclean_(sportsperson)

He was training for a triathlon and continued – finished a 141 mile triathlon paralyzed from the waist down.  He later married in 2009 and now has a son.

After 25 years in a wheelchair, he’s learning to walk again since last year – is hoping to enter a triathlon as an able bodied athlete. It’s incredibly hard to take 25 years of internal dialogue and reset that.

Incredible. He did.

He did the triathlon – if he could make it one step at a time and keep going, he could do it.

What’s the takeaway? TABB

• Think
• Act
• Believe
• Become

Incredible.

Now into GPS session items….Greg Ambulos on stage (some items may intentionally be clear if you’re not an EMC Partner)..

• High intensity opening video…
  • 189 million of Facebook’s users are mobile-only.
  • Mobile drives half of e-comerrce.
  • Spending on cloud computing will grow at 30% CAGR – Goldman
  • By 2020 internet connected devices will outnumber humans 3 to 1.
• Ambulos telling his first and last story of white water rafting.
  • It’s amazing how we like stories….he went off the raft accidentally and went over a 70 foot falls.
  • He was only focusing on survival.
  • Flash – XtremIO #1 fastest growth platform in the history of IT

<snip>Next section is in Evernote….feels like shouldn’t disclose partner program details publicly. ;-)</snip>

• Billy Scannell on stage now…
  • We must have the intestinal fortitude to lead the disruption or risk being disrupted.
  • Lead on-prem expansion and off-prem/on-prem portability.
  • Always awkward when the slides get stuck…
• Chris Riley – Senior VP, EMC Americas Enterprise Sales
• Jay Snider – Senior VP, EMC Global Alliances