Dell EMC The Source

The Dell EMC Heroes Program was launched at Dell EMC World 2017. The program is designed to create a technical community between Dell EMC Systems Engineers and our Partners Systems Engineers globally. The Heroes Program is all about you, our partners and connecting you with the latest information on our products, solutions and technologies. Attend Quarterly Heroes Exchange events featuring the latest details on product features, roadmaps, and a solution showcase in your area. Other offerings include a Semi-annual Partner Technology Advisory Board and Annual Partner CTO Summit, the Heroes Program is designed to enable you our partners to fully understand the scope of Dell Technologies and Dell EMC solutions.   

I sat down with Patti Moy, Director Dell EMC Heroes Program, to get a mid-year update on the program and what to expect leading into Dell Technologies World and the Global Partner Conference. Patti talked about a holistic approach to Data Center Design, not just storage, not just servers but everything in the Data Center.

If you're a Dell EMC Partner, you can learn more about the Heroes Program on the Partner Portal, from your local Partner SE or by dropping a note to [email protected]; there is also a LinkedIn community here

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Frank Hauck started his EMC career 30 years ago.  He currently serves as principal liaison to global customers, strategic international countries and markets and other external stakeholders, helping to coordinate account teams, alliance teams and others around the world to engage customers on their transformative IT journey.

As President of Dell EMC Customers & Markets within the Infrastructure Solutions Group, Frank has traveled the globe and participated as the Keynote presenter at numerous Dell EMC Forum Events.  Most recently, he was the keynote speaker at one of the last Dell EMC Forum Events in Charlotte, North Carolina.  While his schedule was tight, I was honored that Frank agreed to spend some time talking about our Global Customers and his experiences helping those customers along their Digital Transformation.  Thanks for the time Frank, and we look forward to Dell Technologies World and the Dell Technologies Forum events that will follow.

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Dell EMC Partners are technology experts who help understand and solve our joint customers' business problems and drive business to even greater success.  Ahead is one of those technology partners actively helping our customers transform how they run applications and infrastructure. 

One of the breakout sessions at the Dell EMC Forum Charlotte, NC was "Think Ahead: How Optimizing Your Data Center Can Pave the Way to Digital Transformation".   John Cole, Solutions Principle at Ahead presented the session.   I caught up with John after the breakout.  We talked "Meaningful Enterprise Cloud" and real examples of customers implementing Dell EMC Converged Platforms with Ahead to deliver real results, like reducing SQL Server Provisioning from a month to less than an hour.   For more information on Ahead visit  www.ThinkAhead.com.

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The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Red Hat OpenStack Platform combines a core validated architecture with select extensions to create an adaptive infrastructure that integrates the best innovations from the OpenStack community with proven Dell EMC and Red Hat technologies. This open, secure, reliable and supported solution is built on validated, integrated components and features rapid, automated provisioning to simplify and speed deployment; helping you can take advantage of cloud benefits sooner.

I sat down with, Peter Teeling (@DellTeeling) and Jerry Ness (@Jerry_Ness) at the Dell EMC Forum in St. Louis. They had just presented the topic during a standing room only breakout session. We talked Open Stack, Jet Pack Automation Deployment Engine and Accelerating Application Deployment.

For more information check out Dell.com/openstack and http://dellemccloudbuilders.com/ to learn more.

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[The Source Podcast] Emerging Media: Flash, Compute, Interconnects and Apps and the Data Center. Hello 2018!

What is emerging media? For years now, we have equated emerging media to "Flash Storage" and rightfully so; remember 2016 The Year of All-Flash? As promised, Flash has fundamentally changed the way enterprise storage systems are designed, and to a greater extent, Flash has changed the way we live – whatever device you are reading this on most certainly has NAND Flash at its core.

But, as it turns out, Flash was just the latest evolution of Moore's Law. While Flash continues to evolve: TLC, QLC, V-NAND, MLC Z-NAND, Z-SSD and 3D XPoint for example, we have just begun to scratch the surface. Emerging media applies to other areas as well. Who better to update us than the Vice President of Dell EMC Emerging Media and Dell EMC Fellow, Danny Cobb (@Dcobbweb).

Emerging Media applies to much more than just storage media. The media evolution applies not only to storage, but applies to Interconnects, Compute, Applications and Application Development and the Data Center itself.

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The Dell Technologies Executive Briefing Program provides a perfect opportunity for our customers to address a wide range of IT topics, built on a foundation of trust, as well as Dell's commitment to solving your complex business challenges. Executive Briefings provide the opportunity to participate in a customized program based on your current IT environment — and the issues on your horizon.

I sat down with John Clifford, (@John_A_Clifford), Global Lead Dell Technologies Executive Briefing Program.  We talked transformation, for both our customers and internally.  Throughout 2017, the Executive Briefing Centers have undergone an extensive transformation and are entering 2018 ready to deliver our customers the best of Dell Technologies.   

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Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Data Analytics are designed to help our customers and partners deploy systems for supporting the deployment of advanced analytic workloads. Covering Data Analytic Solutions for Hadoop covering both Cloudera and Hortonworks along with Splunk Solutions. Dell EMC is focused on providing the right Solution to accelerate your Data Analytic workloads.  

Cory Minton (@Cory_Minton), Principle Systems Engineer for our Data Analytics Solutions and host of the Big Data Beard Podcast, was more than happy to talk about the latest enhancements in the data analytics space, and how we help address our customers business problems.  

You can find more information on all of the Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Data Analytics here.

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The Dell EMC Forum 2017 provided the opportunity for Dell EMC customers to get the latest updated direct from product and solutions specialists. With a cornucopia of breakout sessions available, not many presenters get to present multiple sessions.  

Garrett Van Siclen (@gtvansiclen) is one of the exceptions; covering Dell EMC Data Protection Solutions including Data Protection Storage, Data Protection Software and Converged Data Protection, including "Why Dell EMC Data Protection, Modernization and Transformation". I caught up with Garrett near the Data Protection Solutions booth in the Solution Expo; he was more than happy to talk Data Protection including the latest Converged Data Protection offering, the Integrated Data Protection Appliance.

For more information on the Dell EMC Data protections portfolio be sure to visit www.dellemc.com/dataprotection for more on the Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance visit www.dellemc.com/idpa

Couldn't make the Dell EMC Fourm in your city? Don't miss the Virtual Dell EMC Forum www.dellemc.com/virtualforum

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Technology is advancing at an exponential rate, changing how we live and work. Customers in every industry are fundamentally rethinking their business models. IT is the heart of this transformation, the Dell EMC forum event series allows us to continue that conversation.

I sat down with Bryan Jones (@BryanEJones), Sr Vice President Dell EMC Field Marketing at the Dell EMC Forum Vancouver right after his morning keynote. We talked Dell Technologies and bringing the best of the best to our customers with the Dell EMC Forum. Bryan talks transformation and some big news regarding the Dell EMC Forum series in 2018 and beyond.

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It all starts with data analytics. The practice of applying modern analytics software tools across data of all types, including unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data; as well as real-time/streaming and batch. Discovering insights to enhance the understanding of business and customer behavior is the primary goal. These analytics-driven insights can be used to shape business outcomes, improve competitive advantage, enhance financial decisions and develop more concise projections.

I sat down with Erin Banks (@BanksEK) aka #BigDataBanks at the Dell EMC Forum Montreal to get the latest. From pizza to elevators to Mexican food and grocery stores, Big Data is nothing without Big Data Analytics. We have the details this week.   For more inofrmation visit: dellemc.com/bigdata or Email: [email protected]

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