Today I take on a new gig inside Dell EMC. I am really excited to be leading the Dell EMC APJ Commercial Presales team. In 2012 a really important blog post was published (IMHO one of the most powerful reads for any SE). You can find it here: http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2012/01/this-i-believe-emc-presales-manifesto.html The ideas in this post have…
TechBasement S01E07: Chad Sakac Unplugged
In this epic episode of TechBasement, we talk to EMC’s president of converged systems and solutions, Chad Sakac. He discusses EMC’s converged and hyperconverged strategy, what happened to VSPEX Blue, the adoption of flash, his new role, native hybrid cloud, open source and the shift to DevOps and infrastructure as code. Music credit http://www.bensound.com Episode…
CIOs: IT Transformation, you are doing it wrong
A few weeks ago I visited a customer that laughed about how they were 5 years into their 2 year IT transformation program. Sounds like a familiar story. I can’t count on my two hands the number of customers that have shared the same story, always with that funny smirk of “what were we thinking”…
What’s Going On In Australian IT?
Some insights from Australian IT leaders… This week we spent a lot of time meeting with IT execs across a wide range of industries in Australia. It was a great checkpoint on IT strategy in Australian business. In particular we had deep conversations with CIOs and CTOs in some of the largest financial services companies,…
Some thoughts ahead of the SE conference
Tomorrow kicks of the annual EMC Australia/NZ Presales conference. This is an opportunity for us to shape the culture and look at how we build momentum for the coming year. This year the feedback was overwhelming that the team wanted this to be a conference driven by the SEs – not a corporate top down…
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