Reflections

Achieving IT Financial Transparency: Simple Is Better

 

Paulo Prazeres, Senior Director of IT Finance

 

Sometimes simple is just better, even when complex financial and IT strategies are at stake. So it wasn’t totally surprising that EMC IT’s simple approach to creating financial transparency for its transformation to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) struck a positive note with financial leaders at two recent conferences where I gave presentations last month.

Backup and ITaaS – Your Business Depends on It

 

Stephen Manley, Chief Technology Officer, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division

 

While companies now understand that information drives their business, many have yet to consider the impact backup can have on their bottom line. IT organizations that drive a service-provider approach to backup can accelerate both IT and business initiatives. To deliver backup in an IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) model, however, the team must transform both their approach and their technology. 

Empowering the business to come out of the Shadow IT

 

Tony Pagliarulo, Senior Vice President, Business Technology & Service Delivery

 

First we called it shadow IT. Then it was rogue IT. Now, we refer to it euphemistically as business-managed IT (BMIT). No matter what you call it, the longstanding problem of business groups buying, building and deploying IT solutions without company authorization presents the same challenges to IT executives everywhere.

The Rise of Federation: Innovating the Data Layer

 

Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division

 

In August, I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote address at SHARE Conference in Anaheim. SHARE is an industry wide Mainframe conference that attracts more than one thousand Mainframe participants and large multi-national companies. EMC and its Enterprise Storage Division have a strong presence in Mainframe environments and have served this market since its foundation. As someone who has developed information technology products for more than 30 years, this is by far the most exciting time period that I’ve seen to date; and those in the audience shared in my excitement.

The End of Flat Tax Funded IT

 

Paulo Prazeres, Director of IT Finance

 

 

I head up the EMC IT Finance group at what is an extremely critical junction in the history of our IT operations as well as the industry in general. Namely, as part of EMC’s third phase of our journey to the private cloud, we are switching from a traditional, centralized IT operation to IT-as-a-Service.