Got here a bit later due to giving feedback to a product manager on MyService360...when I came in, the room was doing introductions and topics were interested in. General topics of interest are around Dell/EMC/VMware, Software Defined Cloud/Storage, NFV - lots of familiar faces in the room. I've sat in several of these sessions (invite … Continue reading EMC World 2016 – EMC Elect Meetup with John Roese, EMC CTO
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EMC World 2016 – Day 3 Keynote
Got here a bit late due to VCE PTAB on the 5th floor - had to hike down to get a seat in the Analyst section. Started with a Mission Possible theme - Jeremy Burton in a bowtie, etc. CJ Desai Software Defined strategy has 3 components - 1) ScaleIO, 2) ECS, 3) IsilonSD Edge … Continue reading EMC World 2016 – Day 3 Keynote
EMC World 2016 – Day 2 Keynote
Nina Hargus, 1st Speaker, CMO Opening recap of yesterday's events. "Leaders of the Modern Data Center" awards to customers - Jeremy Burton on stage with Nina 1st Award - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Congrats to Sheila Hartness with Wake Baptist Medical Center in NC for winning an EMC Leadership award. Lightstorm (James Cameron/Avatar company). … Continue reading EMC World 2016 – Day 2 Keynote
EMC World 2016 – Day 1 Keynote
First Speaker - Nina Hargus - Chief Marketing Officer now on stage. Reviewing EMC World overall and general goal. Modernize the Industry, Modernize the Data Center, Modernize the <one more thing> Stats - 500 breakouts, 1000 meet ups, 50+ vLabs, 1,700 Proven Professional Exams Use Twitter hashtag #EMCWorld Reviewing Diamond Sponsors - Cisco, Brocade, Dell … Continue reading EMC World 2016 – Day 1 Keynote
EMC World – Here we go!
If memory serves, this will be my 5th EMC World (yes, the last 6 years since joining Varrow and now Sirius have been something of a blur). Each year at EMC World has been a bit different for me. The first two years I was attending as a senior presales engineer and was heavily focused … Continue reading EMC World – Here we go!
EMC World 2014 – Blog Posts Reference
Just a wrap-up post given I wrote 10 blog posts at EMC World 2014 - general sessions, keynotes, breakout sessions, and NDA items. Please note while I did post general notes from the NDA sessions, my longer notes are not posted - please email me (amiller at varrow dot com) or catch me on Twitter or … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Blog Posts Reference
EMC World 2014 – NDA Session Notes
This EMC World was different from previous conferences for me as I spent almost as much time in NDA sessions as regular breakout sessions. The good = hearing lots of roadmap info and being able give input. The bad = I can’t blog as much. 😉 Varrow side-note: wouldn’t you want to work with a … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – NDA Session Notes
EMC World 2014 – Area 53 Keynote
Cool intro video….as you’d expect. “Please welcome Agent J & Agent H” - Jeremy Burton and some other folks (young man as well). Some T-Shirt shooting….fun. Jeremy Burton - “If you can’t download an app from the App Store, please leave now as you won’t understand anything.” New world is driven by deployment of applications … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Area 53 Keynote
EMC World 2014 – Social Village Meetup with John Roese, EMC CTO
Meeting with John Roese, CTO of EMC - early prolific blogger. With EMC for the last 1-2 years — with Huawei before then, then Broadcom, Nortel, etc. Is the first executive in Canada to have a non-supervised blog - around the same time as Jonathan Schwartz. Exec in Nortel came to him and asked him … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Social Village Meetup with John Roese, EMC CTO
EMC World 2014 – Keynote – Gelsinger & Maritz
Live blog…as always, I don’t necessarily expect new content in a keynote but do always find it interesting what EMC chooses to focus on whey have a huge audience (12,00 onsite Jonathan Martin - Chief Marketing Officer - taking the stage. 2,761 people have done the Water Walk to raise money for charity. Now discussing … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Keynote – Gelsinger & Maritz
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