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From my personal collection of the best sessions from EMC World 2012 : Cloud Architect - Do You Have What it Takes to Lead the Transformation? This session provides an overview of EMC’s highly successful Cloud Architect and Data Center Architect training and certification in addition to both the new Cloud Infrastructure and Services foundation and the Cloud Architect IT-as-a-Service expert level training and certifications. EMC Education and IT experts take you through the industry's hottest open curriculum and certification programs that prepares IT practitioners for the planning, designing, and migration to Virtualized Data Centers (VDC) and Cloud environments. After this session you will be able to: Gain insight into the type of knowledge and skills sought out into planning and designing highly virtualized, cloud-ready information infrastructure. Identify the training and certification paths that will help you transform your IT infrastructure for ...

From my personal collection of the best sessions from EMC World 2012 : FC/FCoE - Topologies, Protocols, and Limitations An in-depth discussion of the FC and FCoE protocols focusing on the topologies that are currently supported, those under development and any known issues. The current EMC best practices are also reviewed and the reasons behind them explained. After this session you will be able to: Describe the technical benefits and limitations of both FC and FCoE. Describe the FC and FCoE topologies that are currently supported as well as the EMC recommended best practices. Discuss the known limitations with FC and FCoE.

As we get closer to EMC World 2013, i would like to share some of my personal best technical sessions from 2012. We will spend the next few weeks reliving them one by one. Today, i'm pleased to share a session  on -  Converged Data Center: FCoE, iSCSI and the Future of Storage Networking This session explores the opportunities and challenges of using a single network to support both storage and networking. The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI (SCSI over TCP/IP) protocols offer two approaches for supporting storage over Ethernet. Standards, technologies and deployment scenarios for both protocols are covered, along with the future of storage networking technology. 

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 with SRDF SRA 5.1 provides workflow and business continuity and disaster restart process management for VMware vSphere. The software leverages storage array replication and communicates to replication management through a well-defined set of specifications. Using the SRDF Adapter with VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 from EMC Academic Alliance

At International Conference on Cloud & Big Data Analytics (ICCBDA 2013) - David Dietrich Advisory Technical Education Consultant, Big Data & Data Science, EMC Corporation - delivered the pre-conference talk on Big Data Analytics. Here is the Slidecast for you -  Big Data Analytics from EMC Academic Alliance

New version - This EMC Engineering TechBook provides a general description of EMC products that can be used for DB2 administration on z/OS. Using EMC products to manage DB2 environments can reduce database and storage management administration, reduce CPU resource consumption, and reduce the time required to clone, back up, or recover DB2 systems TechBook: DB2 for z/OS Using EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems from EMC Academic Alliance

Big Idea videos from EMC are a great example of how to  Learning can be FUN . These  hand-drawn animations are created and narrated by EMC's Patricia Florissi, VP and Global Sales CTO. An Exhaustive list of these popular videos are below :   How Big is Big Data?  Big Ideas: Simplifying Cluster Architectures  Big Ideas: Demystifying Hadoop  Big Ideas: Simplifying High Performance Computing Architectures Big Ideas: Demystifying Fast Data  Big Ideas: Why Big Data Matters  Big Ideas: Simplifying Big Data Loading Big Ideas: Demystifying the Convergence of Big Data Architectures Big Ideas: When Data Needs Continuous Availability Big Ideas; Big Tech: Continuous Operations for VMware with EMC VPLEX Big Ideas; Big Tech: Continuous Operations for Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX FLASH In A Flash Big Tech...

This analyst report explains that organizations can no longer rely on preventive security systems, point security tools, manual processes, and hardened configurations to protect against targeted attacks. Henceforth, security management must be based on continuous monitoring and big data analysis for situational awareness and rapid decisions.

This analyst report describes reasons why adoption of continuous availability is rapidly increasing, citing research on benefits they believe they can realize in their IT environment.

The January 2013 report highlights the latest fraud and phishing trends from RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What is RSA Fraud Report ? " Each month the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center issues the RSA Online Fraud Report that includes a monthly highlight as well as over a half dozen charts with analyses featuring phishing trends such as top ten countries attacked, most used attacked vectors, and other data from the Center’s global phishing repository. " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Read More via  RSA Fraud Report: January 2013 from EMC Academic Alliance

Every session to introduce Cloud Infrastructure Services course  ends with a question on how Grid Computing is different from Cloud Computing ?   Most of academia in India speak of Grid and hence i have seen academicians confuse it with Cloud Computing. This post today will share some insight into comparing  Cloud Computing with Utility Computing and Grid Computing Historically, Cloud Computing has evolved through Grid and then Utility Computing.  In  Grid Computing Environment , the workload is distributed or transferred to nodes with needed computing resources. Usually a chain of nodes, such as servers, are networked to form the grid. These nodes are typically clustered and are kept ready to handle the distributed workload. Grid computing enables parallel computing, although its utility is best for large workloads. The emergence of the  virtualization  technology at storage, servers, and network allows organizations to...