Craig’s Musings

Today, EMC announced new releases of EMC Captiva products (i.e. EMC Captiva InputAccel 6.0 and EMC Captiva Dispatcher 6.0). I want to address the benefits of service-oriented infrastructure related to capture as embodied by these new releases.
The big deal with SOA and InputAccel 6.0 (IA6) is the connectivity it enables with other enterprise applications.
Capture depends [...]

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My colleague, Don Robertson, has finally succumbed to my constant encouragement (er, barrage) to blog publicly. Even better, Don’s put several of his previously behind-a-firewall posts into the public domain. If you want to know about business objects, aspects, smart containers, etc. in the EMC Documentum ECM platform, you’ll definitely want to subscribe to Don. [...]

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On Monday EMC announced Atmos. While I was in flight, returning from a short vacation, a number of my EMC colleagues blogged about this new offering. I’d like to draw your attention to their posts as follows:

Steve Todd first offers, among other things, a concise definition of Cloud Optimized Storage (COS): “global storage with a [...]

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Continuing from the first half of my day two notes…
Steve Santini (internal EMC link), CTO, Bank of America Securities spoke next as the day’s featured guest speaker. Steve shared his perspective on how how Bank of America (BofA), as a very large company, organizes itself for successful innovation; the bank’s vision for the future of [...]

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Continuing from the good start on day 1 (10/21/2008), the second and final day of the conference (10/22/2008) began with a world tour of EMC’s Centers of Excellence in China, India, Russia and Ireland. It was great to see a large remote gathering at each site via live video feed. The leadership of each center [...]

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