Chuck's Blog

Making Life Easier For The Security Person

EMC announced a major update to the popular enVision security information and event management (SIEM) platform. 

A few days back, members of the product team were in my office, and we were chatting about what made this announcement so cool.  Update: one of them has even started a cool security blog: Token Security Guy.

And the cool stuff wasn't what I first thought.

Virtual Findings From Gartner

Someone shared a copy of a recent Gartner report "2008 Data Center Conference Instant Polling Results: Virtualization Summary", dated March 2, 2009.

For those of you who are obsessed with methodologies, you won't like this one -- the sampling bias is rather significant, e.g. attendees at the Gartner conference who chose to answer this survey.

But, with that grain of salt, there are some interesting findings.

Dear Mr. Kundra

Today, Vivek Kundra was appointed as the first CIO for the US government.

Mr. Kundra's appointment is big news on several levels. 

I felt moved to write him a note -- which he may never see -- that expressed a few sentiments for the occasion.

IDC Q4 2008 Storage Scorecard

Four times a year, IDC releases their market share analysis for the storage market. 

Even though most vendors don't talk much about it, just about every vendor subscribes to their service.  Much time is spent in conference rooms debating and discussing the numbers and their implications: by segment, by protocol, by geography, etc. etc.

I usually try to find a bit of time to reflect on a few trends that others might find interesting, but that's no substitute. 

And there were definitely a few thought nuggets with this round of analysis.

Maybe This Technology Stuff Is Important After All ...

Today, I spent a full day talking technology strategy with some pretty smart, and motivated people. 

Intense discussions, passionate viewpoints -- all good.

And then I come home, fire up my browser, and realize the true potential of all of this stuff.

I've been humbled ....

Of Barcodes, VMware and Private Clouds

People who read this blog must sometimes think I come up with all these ideas all by my lonesome self.

I do my fair share, but I'm also heavily influenced from others here at EMC.

Today, I'm going to channel another VMware uber-geek at EMC, Chad Sakac, and explore the simple but powerful concept of barcodes as today's virtualized environments evolve into tomorrow's private clouds.

It's just a well-understood concept from one domain being applied to another.