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EMC teams with industry-leading video surveillance partners to provide proven, end-to-end video surveillance solutions.  Back in Episode #7, I spoke to Ken Mills (@OtherKen) and Terry Gainer, former law enforcement officer with over 30 years experience on the force.   Terry outlined the rapid growth and challenges faced by law enforcement offices in connecting, storing and managing massive amounts of data in a Video Surveillance Data Lake. 

Continuing that conversation, I’m once again joined by Ken Mills (@OtherKen) to review some of EMCs joint solutions; Solutions tested and certified at the EMC Surveillance Validation Labs, renowned for conducting rigorous interoperability testing and optimized storage configuration models. 

EMCs extensive partner community allows for simple and efficient Plug and Play solutions, requiring little technical configuration during deployment and operation.  Joining Ken and I this week is Steve Teitelbaum (@STeitelbaum).  Steve is the Solution Manager for Surveillance Solutions at Avnet Embedded, where he is responsible for building end to end Video Surveillance Solutions. 

This week we dig into Avnet Enabled Video Surveillance Solutions.

Get the details this week on #EMCTheSource Podcast.

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EMCs acquisition of Virtustream last year represented a transformational element of EMC’s strategy to help customer move applications to cloud-based IT via a new managed cloud services business.

The Virtustream Enterprise Class Cloud provides a secure, highly available, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to enterprises and government customers.  xStream, Virtustream's cloud management software enables customers to move existing mission-critical and production applications to the cloud. xStream delivers enterprise-grade security and compliance, performance SLAs, multi-tenant efficiency, and consumption-based charging for both legacy and web-scale applications.

This week on EMC The Source, I sat down with Henrik Wagner (@HenrikWagner73) the Global SAP Practice Lead at Virtustream. Earlier this week, Virtustream formally launched the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud based on Virtustream; this new cloud consumption model provides unprecedented value for our joint customers.

Don’t forget EMC SAP WEEK 2016 is coming to Santa Clara later this month. February 23 & 24th , 2016 Sign up today!

More details on the Virtustream Risk Management Solution can be found here http://www.virtustreamsecuritysolutions.com/

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EMC: The Source Podcast is hosted By Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini)

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Organizations are increasingly looking to do more with less.  One way to achieve this objective is by transforming to a fully virtualized cloud infrastructure to deliver IT as a service to increase performance, agility and flexibility.   Microsoft Cloud based solutions provide a unique opportunity for joint EMC and Microsoft customers to leverage existing infrastructure in support of both on prem, and public cloud offerings.  EMC continues to develop architectures specific to deploying Microsoft applications in a rapid, low-cost model with “as a Service” capabilities.  These architectures leverage the convergence of virtualization, networking and EMC Storage platforms along with infrastructure that provides management, monitoring and reporting to cloud administrators.

EMC recently published two Cloud Reference Architectures based on this joint technology offering.  This week on EMC The Source, I spent some time with Paul Galjan (@PaulGaljan), functional lead for EMC Microsoft Technologies.  Both the Microsoft Cloud Reference Architecture:  Microsoft applications and Microsoft Cloud Reference Architecture: Foundation provide a blue print for deploying an EMC/Microsoft Cloud based application and infrastructure stack.

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The Federation End User Computing Solution (Federation EUC) makes it easier to deploy virtual desktops by going beyond just desktops. The Solution provides everything you need for secure, anytime, anywhere access to desktops and applications. This includes not just the VDI, but also the support desk software, orchestration and automation tools, security, installation services, and one-call support. Providing IT with simpler deployment, management and support while providing end users with self-provisioning desktops along with the ability to work efficiently from any end point from anywhere at any time. The Federation EUC Solution provides a foundation for simplifying your End User Compute Infrastructure.

 The Federation End-User Computing (EUC) solution continues to evolve.  I sat down with Jay Chitnis, Director of EMCs End User and Mobility Solutions before his Keynote presentation at the New England EUC Summit to the latest developments on the Federation EUC Solution.

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The recent EMC Forum events in both New York and Dallas featured a mainframe breakout track.  That’s right, mainframe is back; actually, it never went away.  The breakout track included:  “Mainframe: EMC Storage Solutions Vision and Strategy for z Systems”, “VMAX Mainframe Performance Update: Turbocharging Your Mission-Critical infrastructure with zBoost and zBoost PAV Optimizer”, ‘FAST: Game-Changing Storage Tiering for the Mainframe, “Disk Library for Mainframe (DLm) Concepts, Product and Performance Update”, and “Mainframe Birds of a Feather Discusses EMC Storage”

I tracked down one of the masterminds behind the highly successful track, a longtime friend of mine, David Kipp.  David is the Go-To-Market Lead for EMC Mainframe Solutions.  We spent some time talking about the track at the Dallas EMC Forum.

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The path to a competitive advantage is being able to make predictions from Big Data.  The more you can build predictive analytics into your business processes, the more data driven and successful your organization will become.  Taking a low risk, best-of-breed approach to quickly transform from a rigid, soiled infrastructure to a modular, agile infrastructure is critical to success.

The EMC Forum breakout session, “Redefine Big data” was focused on exactly that, leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage.   I sat down with Kevin Zawodzinski (@kzawo) after his session in Dallas.  While technology plays a big part of Big Data, organizational processes need to adapt to take advantage of the data mine.

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Data protection can do more than reduce risk and costs. It can drive business agility by enabling you to spend less time worrying whether your data is protected and more time adding business value. But first you need the confidence that all your data is protected.

EMC delivers a continuum of data protection services—from availability to backup and recovery to archive. This ensures you have the right level of protection wherever your data is and whatever infrastructure it's running on.

 I recently sat down with Steve Long, Field CTO for EMC Data Protection Solutions; we covered lots of recent developments and looked into the future.

As data volumes continue to grow, organizations are under more pressure than ever to make smart decisions on which data to save and how to archive it all while managing a variety of compliance, governance and operational needs.  But do the applications that created the data all need to be saved too?  Even if the data is essential to an organization, it doesn’t mean all of the applications need to be retained. After all, the cost, time, and manpower required to maintain aging applications can be substantial.  Simply retaining every application in an organization’s portfolio because it has authored essential data no longer makes sense.  In fact, it is a looming problem that must be addressed.  Whether it is caused by technology platform changes, compliance requirements or business events like mergers and acquisitions, decommissioning applications must be part of every IT organization’s strategic plan to become more efficient, agile and aligned with the business.

EMC Infoarchive is designed to directly address these concerns, allowing you to extract the data trapped in legacy applications so you can focus on the future, leaving no application data behind.  Decommissioning applications is the key to repurposing IT budget for the move to the third platform.

I recently sat down with Bryant Bell (@bell2bry) before his “Using InfoArchive to Accelerate Your Move to the Third Platform” breakout session at the EMC Forum in Dallas, Texas.  www.emc.com/infoarchive

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Definition: DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a software development method that emphasizes the roles of both software developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals with an emphasis on IT Operations.

Application development is critical to business success. DevOps promises to improve your IT organization’s ability to respond to new business requirements by accelerating the delivery of new custom-built applications, along with updates to existing applications.   Transforming application development teams and operational teams improve the way people, process and technology work together.

Brian Whitman (@Brian_D_Whitman) presented “Why DevOps is Critical to Your Business” at the 2015 EMC Forum event in New York City.   I sat down with Brian to review his breakout session, and get more details on why DevOps is Critical.

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EMC Core Technologies Division includes EMCs traditional File and Block Storage Technologies along with EMC Backup and Recover Solutions. I had the opportunity to sit down with Scott Delandy (@ScottDelandy) at the EMC Forum in New York City last week. Scott is part of EMCs CTO Office within EMC Core Technologies. Scott has been in IT for 25 years with a wide range of expertise across storage, network, backup and management software. In his current role, he works closely with users and partners and is responsible for defining the “why” for EMC’s technical strategy and roadmap. His previous roles include product management, market and technology analysis, and technical pre-sales field support. Scott presented ‘VNX and VMAX: A proven Hybrid Cloud Storage Foundation” at the EMC Forum. We spent some time talking about that breakout session and general core technology thoughts.

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EMC Core Technologies Blog: http://TheCoreBlog.emc.com/

EMC: The Source Podcast is hosted By Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini)