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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