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We heard about Full Flash Storage and Pivotal initiative last year. In the Q4 2012 Financial Call, EMC gave some insight into its 2013 vision.  Technology drivers for 2013 EMC, VMware and Pivotal Initiatives key focus areas for 2013 More specifics will be available in the coming month. 

This TechBook provides an introduction to FCoE to better understand the various aspects and protocols involved with a typical Ethernet environment. It includes information on FCoE connectivity and storage in an FCoE environment, RecoverPoint and Celerra MPFS as solutions, and basic troubleshooting techniques

This EMC Engineering TechBook focuses on case studies and provides a brief overview of FCoE, the supported configurations and features, and case studies to show how to incorporate EMC Connectrix B switches, Cisco Nexus switches, Blade Servers and Juniper QFX3500 switches utilizing FCoE into an existing data center  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Data Center Bridging (DCB) Case Studies from EMC Academic Alliance

Today,  Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), the largest IT degree awarding institute in Sri Lanka, announced it has joined the global EMC Academic Alliance program (EAA). As part of this association SLIIT and EMC will work towards empowering future IT professionals in the following ways -  Offer  industry leading training programs from EMC Education Services on Information Storage & Management Backup Recovery Systems Cloud Infrastructure and Services  Data Science and Big Data Analytics    Special Discount on  EMC Proven Professional Certification  exams Access to EMC Weekly Tech talks   Regional events

EMC Global Services has created an excellent  graphic visualization  on the journey to Cloud Computing and  Big Data. Check them below - 

Gartner has published a study on the need to scale up Business Intelligence and Analytics to Support Explosive Growth in Data Sources via areport titled  " Predicts 2013: Business Intelligence and Analytics Need to Scale Up to Support Explosive Growth in Data Sources ."  Some of the key finding are -  By 2015, 65 percent of packaged analytic applications with advanced analytics will come embedded with Hadoop. By 2016, 70 percent of leading BI vendors will have incorporated natural-language and spoken-word capabilities. By 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver insights based on structured and unstructured data. Source: gartner.com via EMC Academic Alliance on Pinterest

Gartner Executive Program Survey ranked the Top technology Priorities for 2013. The survey was conducted among 2,000+ CIO's. Here is a snapshot of the of technologies to fwd -                                   Source: gartner.com via EMC Academic Alliance on Pinterest

As a follow up from my earlier post on  International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Analytics #ICCBDA 2013 , we are pleased to invite you to Day 1 event - EMC Academic Forum 2013 -

RSA today released a Security Brief asserting that  The dissolution of traditional defensive perimeters coupled with attackers’ abilities to circumvent traditional security systems requires organizations to adopt an intelligence driven security model that is more risk-aware, contextual, and agile. Intelligence-driven security relies on big data analytics. Big data encompasses both the breadth of sources and the information depth needed for programs to assess risks accurately and to defend against illicit activity and advanced cyber threats. Within the next two years, we predict big data analytics will disrupt the status quo in most information security product segments, including SIEM; network monitoring; user authentication and authorization; identity management; fraud detection; and governance, risk & compliance. In the next three to five years, we predict data analytics tools will further evolve to enable a range of advanced predictive capabilities and automat...

Cloud represents the ideal infrastructure for dealing with vast quantities of data–or Big Data. Businesses are motivated to leverage Big Data because they know that locked inside of it are big opportunities. As a continuation to my post on  EMC IT's Journey to Cloud ,  i'm pleased to share a new w hitepaper on Business Analytics as a Service . This white paper examines how EMC is exploiting the Big Data opportunity with a new agile model for analytics and reporting. Business-Analytics-as-a-Service (BAaaS) significantly reduces total cost of ownership and provides predictive analytics proficiency and increased business agility. The paper details BAaaS architecture, deployment, results, best practices, and early adopter use cases.

An EMC-sponsored CIO research study by IDG sampled more than 1,500 participants worldwide through an online survey and in-depth interviews. Here are some excerpts from the same on trends like  Cloud, Big Data, analytics and security— Jim Malone of IDG reports on an EMC-sponsored survey of global CIOs and their priorities for the New Year. Info-graphics  on top-line Global findings of IDG's global CIO research on 2013 investment priorities Additional References The top-line findings of IDG's global CIO research on 2013 investment priorities, Big Data, IT Transformation, and Security in the form of Infographics ( global and region-wise ) can be viewed on  http://pinterest.com/emcacademics/infographics   American CIOs Shift Focus from Cost Cutting to Value Creation Asia-Pacific CIOs Looking to Lead in Big Data and Cloud   European CIOs Drive Value Generation and See Gold in Big Data  

RSA Security, released a special report from the Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) that assesses how disruptive innovations such as Big Data analytics , cloud computing, enterprise mobility and social media will transform enterprise IT and hammer away at the foundations of information security strategies in 2013.  The Council’s latest report details four strategies to help enterprises adapt information security programs to help enable business innovation over the next 12 months. These strategies include how to boost risk and business skills, court middle management, tackle IT supply chain issues and build tech-savvy action plans. The Council’s guidance will help enterprises face the impact of the technology adoption of cloud computing , social media , mobile and Big Data . The Council also outlines the major impacts of these trends for security teams and how to address them.  Cloud Computing – The accelerated adoption of cloud will push security conc...