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My goodbye song……

Posted by  on Tuesday, January 25th 2011     

I couldn’t think of a good way to say this – so I’m just going to cut to the chase. I’m leaving EMC. In fact, yesterday was my last full day of work.

My time at EMC has been filled with interesting and challenging roles. I started as a developer for the SAN courses. I moved on to develop courses in the Ionix space, specifically the Voyence Control suite.

At the same time I was developing the Voyence courses, I was part of the group that jumped at the chance to do social media internally at EMC. I started a blog internally that rounded up all the stories I could find about the storage industry, and I eventually created this blog. I’ve trained and mentored lots of folks, and set the strategy for social media for Education Services.

I’m going to miss working daily with so many people! First of all, members of our Proven Professional Community …. representing you internally, making sure what you share is heard by the right people, has been without a doubt the most satisfying part of my job. Everyone working with social media – how fun has this been! We’re all connected and I hope it stays that way.

Inside Ed Services – I’m going to miss you all. From the operations team (who make me miss being a sysadmin every time we chat!), to the course developers, to the instructors, to the folks that market the product, to the ladies that answer the phones and help people get registered for class – y’all are amazing. This organization is filled with so many talented, incredible people. Saying goodbye to you all is the hardest part of this transition.

Ed Services folks will know the background story on this dollar:

dollar

Its hard to see I know, but here is what is written on it:

Think big

Think different

Connect all

Connect all – that is my mantra. The storage industry in which we work is really a very small industry. But it is probably one of the most important industries there is – we are responsible for storing the world’s information. I believe its vital to connect all to live up to this responsibility.

So please let’s stay connected! Or connect with me if you haven’t already! For me, its on to new, exciting adventures. :)

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Help EMC indentify the storage industry’s trends & challenges

Posted by  on Thursday, January 20th 2011     

It’s that time of year again – time for EMC Education’s annual survey of storage and IT managers and individual contributors. Cutting to the chase - this is the link to the survey.

Every year we reach out to information and storage professionals, excluding any EMC employees, and ask them to give us feedback on the challenges they are seeing in their environments, as well as trends (what technologies is everyone using, what are the new technologies that are actually being adopted, what things do people no longer use).

Each year we publish the results at EMC World. Last year’s survey results can be downloaded here. One place the results were discussed last year was in the Proven Professional Community. Last year’s survey had questions that specifically addressed how the downturn in the economy in 2009 had impacted storage professionals, and those results were pretty telling.

This year, the survey will attempt to measure the impact of virtualization and cloud computing on our industry. Understanding this impact is important from an education perspective – do we have enough skilled workers to meet the demands of virtualization and cloud computing? What skills do they need to know? Is expanding and building on their current set of knowledge skills enough to bridge any gaps identified?

Its also important from a planning perspective. If  I manage a data center, info on emerging trends can help me identify hiring and training needs for the next year.

The survey is not for EMC employees – we are looking for participants who are in the trenches in data centers every day, either building, managing and maintaining these systems, and also the people responsible for managing these sorts of teams. Of course we’ll reach out to the folks who manage EMC storage, but the intent is to create a comprehensive industry survey. So please consider participating even if you don’t have any EMC arrays in your shop.

Once again here’s the link to the survey. We have a discussion started in the Proven Professional Community – if you have any questions about the survey logistics please let us know! We’ll also be previewing some of the findings in the community, so keep an eye out for that!

Please help us spread the word!

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EMC Proven Professional Community Roundup: 2010 year in review

Posted by  on Thursday, December 30th 2010     

This post is cross-posted from the EMC Proven Professional Community on ECN.

Hi everyone! Sorry the round-ups have been sporadic the last part of this quarter. One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to be sure to get the round-ups out every Friday for 2011. If you have them, why not share your resolutions over on our Facebook fan page!

I thought this week I’d do something a little different. I wanted to reflect on what we’ve done together as a community in 2010. And instead of doing a top 10 list, I’m doing a roundup of top 10 lists.

Proven Professional Community – 2010

  • World Wide Proven Professional Day
    This event is near and dear to my heart. In addition to planning events for the Proven Professionals who were physically at EMC World, we planned events for Proven Professionals across the globe – and World Wide Proven Day was born. You guys really came through, changing your avatars on different social media spaces, telling us what you were doing on #WWPD2010, and posting pictures to the Flickr group. It was a truly global event.
    I can’t wait to see how many Proven Professionals we can connect for #WWPD2011!

  • Community Involvement
    The communities have definitely become a places that people can come to get help with questions about Proven Professional certifications. Its also been amazing to watch people go from students to professionals, and from partners or customers to fellow employees, or just stretching their career paths using Proven Professional certifications as a starting point.
    Its also great to watch experts in our community willingly share their knowledge with newcomers.
    If you haven’t asked or answered a question, don’t be shy, speak up! If you are nervous, you can always just introduce yourself first.
  • Online Events
    If you are a Proven Professional, you may have attended one of the online events we sponsored (either an E2E or eSeminar event). Here are the events we held this year:

  • New programs
    Here are some of the programs we launched this year.

Gina’s top 10 technology top 10 lists

I’m not saying I agree with everything on these lists, but they definitely give you food for thought. I was actually surprised how many lists mentioned the iPad. I threw in a couple of silly ones. If you know of a list I missed, add it in the comments!

  1. Big themes 2010 via Chuck Hollis
  2. 10 2011 predections via Chad Sakac
  3. 2011 ECM Prophecies and trends by (Proven Professional) Lee Dallas
  4. 10 most important enterprise IT products via CTO Edge
  5. 10 most important data storage stories of 2010 via eWeek
  6. Top 10 technology trends via the Telegraph
  7. The 10 biggest data center stories of 2010 via CRN
  8. Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2010 via Computer Weekly
  9. The 10 most powerful tweets of 2010 via Twitter
  10. Top 10 gadgets via Time

As 2010 closes out, I just want to say how much I enjoy working with my EMC colleagues and all of you here in the community. It has been great this year, and I’m looking forward to even a busier 2011! Happy new year everyone!

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Building Trust in the Cloud, One Proven Professional at a Time

Posted by  on Tuesday, December 7th 2010     

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been at a forum or read a blog that talks about all the trust issues with the cloud – no security, lack privacy, doesn’t stand up to regulations, etc. Everyone seems to think of the cloud still as the wild-wild-west and yet I think by this time that we have a pretty good handle on what the problems are – now we need to really focus our efforts on how to solve those problems.

In October of this year a friend of mine – Dr. Jeffrey Voas, a computer scientist at NIST, co-authored a paper called “In Trust we Trust”in IEEE Computer Magazine.  In the article they made the statement:

Trust isn’t a static property and must be evaluated continuously

Cloud embodies one of the most dynamic computing environments so how do we engender an atmosphere of trust?

If you want to build a house that will stand the test of time (and the elements) you find a good contractor, one you can trust will do a great job.  And that contractor will  employ (or contract) trusted partners for materials and specialty functions like foundation teams, masons, and most important the architects who are going to specify how the structure is built and what the materials have to be to make the structure safe and pass the regulations.

It’s the same with technology. Have you ever walked into a technology Value Added Resellers (VAR) lobby? I have had the privilege of visiting many of EMC’s partners (VARs), and the first thing you always see is in their lobby are the plaques and awards from the vendors they resell for.  The execs at these partners will lead you down the hallway of their greatest assets – their technical people. They will talk about the years of experience on their technical staff and how they have built the best all-star team. Many of these technical people will have plaques, awards, and most importantly certifications showing their deep expertise in multiple related technical disciplines – security, networking, virtualization, or specific applications. The partner execs make sure you see this as part of their trust campaign – so that you see that they are serious and committed to making the investment in the technologies that they want to help you purchase and implement successfully.

There are many things we do at EMC to help our customers with their journey to the cloud. EMC Ed Services is no different with a great curriculum already in place designed to prepare technical people and turn them into EMC Proven Professionals. Our mission is now extended to help our customers, our partners, and our own internal technical talent become better trusted technical resources specifically in cloud and virtual data center certifications - so that all of us can build better trusted clouds.

I’m looking forward to learning even more about the cloud through more research and through the process of teaching. I know I’m going to meet a lot of really smart people, hear their stories and challenges, hopefully see a few light bulbs go off, and  then watch them take what they learned to new and more trusted heights.

/wayne

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So I took the ISM practice exam…

Posted by  on Monday, November 29th 2010     

I got a 72 (67 is passing). Wow some of these questions are like goldie-oldies—haven’t had to think about them for a long time. I got the iSNS question right – but missed some really basic questions. This practice test is supposed to show you where you need to concentrate your studies….so I guess I need to get cracking!

I have always been more of an application person, so I really don’t remember some of the in-depth disk questions.

So, now its off to study the ISM book – starting with Chapter 1.

So are you studying? Post your practice test score in the comments! Brian is supposed to be doing this too – so we’ll see if he participates.

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