Reflections

Standardize Without Compromise

 

Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division

 

Unique architecture for each business-critical application or standardize for efficiency?

I spend a lot of time talking with IT leaders around the world, so I get a first-hand account of the struggles, tradeoffs, and effective approaches of their IT transformation and journey to cloud, especially in dealing with business-critical databases and applications, like Oracle, SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint and SAP. Frankly it’s the part of my job that I value the most, and there’s always a concentration of these discussions at EMC World. I consistently hear stories of vast landscapes of business-critical production, development and test environments that consume nearly 2/3 of the total IT budget. Why? Each business-critical environment seems big enough for its own unique infrastructure; they’re too important to clump all together in one big homogenized infrastructure; and well, it’s always been done this way.

Three Solutions Trends – Enabling Differentiated Value for Customers

 

Prasad Rampalli, Senior Vice President, EMC Solutions Group

 

 

As IT goes through waves of transformation every decade (Mainframe in ‘70s => Cloud today) the core CIO/business drivers of TCO and business agility remain as primary metrics pacing adoption. In the Cloud “wave,” I see three converging trends that will dictate how solutions will be architected and deployed.

ERP Is No Longer Considered A Four-Letter Word

 

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

 

For most IT executives, the term ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is often a four-letter word, but it doesn’t have to be.

EMEA’s Race to Change

 

Adrian McDonald, President EMEA, EMC

 

Organisations are putting aside the retrenchment of the recession years and once again looking to IT to underpin the transformation and growth ambitions of their businesses. This is the clear takeaway from research conducted at EMC’s EMEA Forums in late 2012. More than 6,500 business and IT management professionals from 22 countries were surveyed to determine how businesses are changing in today’s economic climate.

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.