InFocus Roundup May 4, 2012: “One Size Doesn’t Fit All…”  says Kevin Scanlon, with regards to customer Strategy.  “True return on a social media program is best seen in the cost savings.”    This week we welcome Dave Bagatelle from the Asset and Wealth Management division of EMC Consulting to the InFocus Community. Dave covers

Cloud computing is one of the high tech industry’s most significant and disruptive developments of the past few decades, changing the way organizations build, operate, and consume IT. Businesses are eagerly adopting cloud as a means to make enormous gains in the efficiency and agility of their IT, and to enable aggressive exploration of opportunities

InFocus Weekly Roundup: April 27, 2012 “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Choong Keng Leong draws on Sun Tzu’s quote to explain the use of holistic strategies as the starting point for IT Transformation. Engage in a discussion with InFocus Bloggers on “Capitalizing on Cloud

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  — Sun Tzu The reason why people are reading this blog post is because IT Transformation has become inevitable to a certain extent for many IT organizations.  Do a quick scan of major IT vendors’ websites — everyone

This week,  we learn how Advanced analytics help retailers better understand their customers. Tom Clancy, VP EMC Education Services talks about the convergence of advanced skills required to meet the demand in this growing field, including a new course in Data Science and Big Data Analytics being offered at EMC. The Big Data MBA course series takes a week off as

As the Big Data phenomenon continues to grow, we’re seeing demand for trained and talented data scientists far exceeding the supply. In the past, there were individual specialists that handled pieces of what today we call data science, with three or four different people with different skill sets touching your company’s data. There might be

Transforming IT continues as our topic of focus this week with answers to many questions about IT as a Service. Once you’ve bought into transforming IT to ITaaS, you need to answer a key question: “Where do we start?” Wayne Pauley shares his thoughts on the business skills needed by Cloud developers and explains “Why do

We are a few years into this whole Cloud thing now and I’m surprised by how people still talk about it as a Cure All, some sort of silver bullet, conflating Cloud as a Service Delivery model with all sorts of things like collaboration, increased productivity, analytics – analytics?!, and a new model for application

IT Transformation has become a popular topic lately and has been closely associated with recent technology innovation and evolution, namely virtualization, mobile computing and cloud computing. Why does IT need to transform and why now? We can look at this from several perspectives. Global Economy Recent spates of global financial crisis and recessions reinforce the

The subject of Application Modernization and the impact cloud technologies are having on applications owners is top of mind with many customers today. Specifically, how external and private clouds are affecting the decision making process including how organizations develop and expose their software to their corporate customers. Put more bluntly, cloud environments are driving application