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EMC SAP Week is a Strategic Technology Roadshow held globally, designed to help you, our customers address technology challenges associated with SAP Deployments.  We realize when making changes to your SAP landscape, you need resources to help you explore options and gain a perspective based on experience. Our goal at EMC is to help our customers understand what our experts and partners believe will maximize your value, leveraging timely and proven solutions, while working to thoughtfully minimize your risks.

EMC SAP Week provides a one-day Executive Briefing featuring SAP subject matter experts from SAP, EMC, Cisco, VCE and VMware.  The briefing is designed to provide a unique collaborative environment where the specifics of your SAP deployment can be discussed.  The focus includes: Improving agility & reducing TCO of SAP infrastructure, Simplifying and accelerating your SAP Cloud & Big Data Deployments with increased flexibility, and Providing scaling and protection capabilities of SAP applications without impacting production.

The SAP Week roadshow rolls into Dallas and Houston Texas next week (November 3rd 2015), and I recently sat down with EMC SAP GTM Lead, Andy Sitison (@ASitison)

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

EMCs secret sauce?  EMC Global Solutions!  The EMC Global Solutions Team is driven by you, our customers – and specifically designed to leverage EMCs portfolio of products to directly address your business challenges.  Your company is transforming how you interact with customers, and IT is the foundation of this shift.  EMC Global Solutions provides you with solutions designed to reduce the cost of delivering mission-critical IT services – while providing the financial transparency of on-demand services and agility that your business needs.  Focusing on industry trends like: Cloud, Big Data, Data Protection, Security and Content Management allows our teams to focus on Business Value, not product speeds and feeds.  Global Solutions is also designed to directly address challenges associated with specific technology deployments like Microsoft, SAP and Oracle. 

I recently sat down with EMC Global Solutions Sr. Vice President Josh Kahn (@KahnJosh)

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

XtremIO Truly Transformational, that’s been the heartbeat of the EMC XtremIO story since its launch over 2 years ago.  I asked the XtremIO CTO, Itzik Reich (@itzikr) to elaborate.  Itzik presented “Best Practices for Running Virtualized Workloads on All-Flash Arrays” at VMworld 2015.   

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

EMC: The Source Podcast Episode #16:  Clouds, Code, Containers, Open Source, DevOps and EMC?  Yes – and EMC!  The EMC {code} movement has created a tremendous following in the open source community.  Free Software, Free and Open Code and a development community, this isn’t your grandfather’s EMC.

I spent some time at VMworld 2015 with Matt Cowger (@mcowger) before his breakout session: “Containers on VMware Infrastructure”, Containers on VMware?  What does that mean?  Find out this week on “EMC The Source”.   Looking for more details?  Check out www.emccode.com

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

EMC: The Source Podcast Episode #15: EMC and Oracle have partnered for more than 15 years, helping more than 80,000 customers optimize their Oracle software on EMC virtual infrastructure. EMC has invested deeply in joint engineering, Proven Solutions, and global Joint Escalation Centers making the EMC-Oracle relationship unique in the industry. I spent some time at VMworld 2015 with Sam Lucido (@Sam_Lucido) before his breakout session: “Virtualized Oracle On All-Flash: A Customer’s Perceptive on Database Performance and Operations”.   Need more info? Don’t miss EMCs DBA Society for details on EMC ProtectPoint, EMC OEM Plugin and EMC AppSync

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

EMC: The Source Podcast Episode #14:   The Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions provide the ability for IT to focus on business innovation rather than deploying and maintaining infrastructure, minimize provisioning times with policy-driven templates, and becomes more nimble and responsive while lowering costs.  Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud delivers automation and always-on Infrastructure-as-a-Service including: a full suite of data protection and security options such as high availability, disaster recovery, continuous availability, encryption and more.  End users can modify service levels at any time to adapt to changing workload demands.  Empowering end users with a self-service portal that allows access to application and IT service on-demand.  Resources that used to take months to acquire are now available in just a few clicks, and IT maintains control and visibility by setting policies for how the self-service catalog operates.

The latest version of The Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud was announced at VMworld 2015.  I sat down with Berna Devrim (@Berna_Devrim) and Jim Sanzone (@theSANzone) in the EMC Skybox at VMworld 2015 to get the latest.

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Today’s end users are more mobile than ever and expect continuous access to business-critical information when, where, and from any device they choose.  IT must strike a balance between open, accessible infrastructure supporting collaborative, real-time, resource-intensive applications and maintain a secure environment that protects the business and its digital assets.  The Federation End-User Computing (EUC) solution offers a strategic and streamlined approach delivering simplicity, efficiency and flexibility; allowing IT to deploy and manage end user environments quickly, securely, and at the lowest cost. 

 The Federation End-User Computing (EUC) was announced at VMworld 2015.  I sat down with Rajeev Dawar (@VirtuallyRaj) and Tony Foster (@Wonder Nerd) before their breakout session, “Desktops: Part of a Comprehensive Cloud Strategy”, to get some insight into the announcement.   

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

Converged Infrastructure represents a monumental shift in IT infrastructure consumption.  By grouping together multiple infrastructure components into a single optimized computing package, infrastructure can be deployed faster at a lower cost with less risk.  Converged Infrastructure decreases complexity through the use of pre-integrated hardware with virtualization and automation management tools.  VCE pioneered the development of Converged Infrastructure when it was formed by EMC, VMware, Intel and Cisco in 2009.  In 2014, EMC acquired over 90% of VCE making it a part of EMC. 

John Lockyer, Americas CTO and Global Lead of Technology Consultants, has been with VCE since the beginning.   I spent some time with John at VMworld 2015 to talk about the latest trends in Converged Infrastructure and what we can expect moving forward.     

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EMC: The Source Episode #11: VMworld 2015, The Bleeding Edge!  VMworld is here, and I found “The Source” of everything EMC VMware – The Virtual Geek, Chad Sakac!  I ran into Chad just before the Monday morning Keynote address, and we talked show expectations and what to look for.  Chad also talked about his breakout session: The Bleeding Edge: A Face-Melting Technical Smorgasbord of Private, Hybrid and PaaS SDDC6642-SPO).  Chads breakout is the annual review of everything, and I mean everything EMC and VMware!  What better way to get that information directly to you than to bring you unedited audio from the session!  The podcast includes the FULL UNEDITED Breakout Session from VMworld 2015!  It’s longer than a normal show, but I think you’ll find the content worth the time.  You can expect lots of future episodes of the Source to feature interviews from VMworld 2015, so don’t miss any.  Download "EMC The Source" App in the Apple Store.  Subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog at EMC The Source Blog.  

The Source Episode #10: VMworld Preview.  Are you “Ready for Any”?  We are!!!   EMC is once again a Diamond Sponsor of VMworld!  The amount of work that goes into an event like VMworld is amazing.  In addition to the EMC Trade Show booth, you will be able to find a Federation Booth, Virtustream and VCE.  EMC is hosting 4 Sponsor Sessions, 12 Selected Sessions and 13 Additional Sessions including EMC along with Self-Paced Hands-on Labs.  And if you are going, it might not be too late to sign up for the EMC VIP Party Monday night…  Register here  Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog at EMC The Source Blog