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Designing a world-class cloud data center
Designing a multimillion-dollar cloud data center from scratch—the focus of my efforts over the last year—is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We were running out of capacity in our enterprise...
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Durham Cloud Data Center: Disaster Resiliency
The EMC IT Durham Cloud Data Center survived its first major run in with Mother Nature. On Saturday April 16th at least 25 tornados touched down across North Carolina making it the state’s most active...
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Migrating Applications and Data from our Westboro (MA) Data Center to the...
Here is the latest update on our migration to the Durham Cloud Data Center. The Data Center is “live” and running production applications. The bundling process (what applications must migrate...
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A Watershed Year for Data Migration: Keeping the Lights on in Transition
When it comes to moving a live data center that is supporting a nearly $20-billion corporation, things change daily. So even though the team overseeing EMC Corporation’s transfer of data to a new data...
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Architecting the Cloud with Vblock: New Data Center Shows Value
By Stephen Doherty, Principal IT Project Manager There are big IT projects at every company and in everyone’s career. I was fortunate enough to be a part of the largest IT infrastructure project in...
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EMC Durham Data Center: The First 90 Days Mad Dash Teamwork Brings Success
By Stephen Doherty, Principal IT Project Manager This is the second installment of a blog series about the EMC Durham Data Center. Click here to read part one. In my first blog in this data center blog...
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The EMC Durham Data Center Migration: Lessons in Solidifying Configuration...
By Stephen Doherty — Principal IT Project Manager This is the third part in a series on EMC’s new Durham Cloud Data Center by Stephen. Click here to read part two. Many organizations these days are...
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The EMC Durham Data Cloud Center Migration: Planning Migration, Discovery and...
Fourth in a series on EMC’s new Durham Cloud Data Center. Click here to read part three. By Stephen Doherty, Consultant IT Project Manager If you are struggling to sort out decades of intertwined...
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The EMC Durham Cloud Data Center Migration: A Long Night of Lessons Learned
Fifth in a series on EMC’s Durham Data Center. By Steve Doherty — Consultant IT Project Manager With the migration plan completed (click here to read part 4) for EMC’s Durham Data Center, we began the...
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The EMC Durham Cloud Data Center Migration: Inventing a Better Way
By Stephen Doherty, Consultant IT Project Manager In my last post, (click here to read Part 5) I explained how we set up a Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) bridge between our old and new...
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EMC Durham Data Center Migration: The Pinnacle
By Stephen Doherty — Consultant IT Project Manager In my last post, (click here to read Part 6) I explained how we invented a better way to migrate and transform an application either across the room...
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A Glimpse Behind the Cloud: Tour the EMC Durham Data Center
By Dave Scheffler — EMC Director of Data Center Services Today, everyone is talking about IT in the cloud, but there still has to be a physical infrastructure on the back end on which to run the cloud....
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The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud: Hitting New Heights
EMC IT’s ongoing quest to meet business’ need for speed and on-demand infrastructure has entered a new chapter as our IT organization implements a software defined data center using EMC’s Federation...
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Your Data Protection Strategy: An Evolving Business/IT Conversation
Creating a data protection strategy for your organization is a little bit like selecting the right insurance policy for your home. It isn’t the most flashy of endeavors and nobody likes paying those...
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Building a Software Defined Data Center: Automation, Orchestration and Agility
Despite the emergence of IT as a Service and the rise of self-service catalogues, most IT operations—including EMC’s—have remained largely manual when it comes to filling users’ requests for...
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Optimizing the Modern Data Center: The View from New Big Data Heights
From adapting energy use to maximizing data consolidation, Big Data (BD) analytics has taken the guesswork out of optimizing the modern data center. More than ever, the modern data center is a living,...
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Learn More at EMC World 2016 with EMC IT Proven
As EMC World 2016 gets underway this week, EMC IT’s top subject matter experts will be on hand to deliver sessions as well as to answer your questions on topics ranging from DevOps to Big Data...
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The EMC Durham Data Center Migration: Lessons in Solidifying Configuration...
This is the third part in a series on EMC’s new Durham Cloud Data Center by Stephen. Click here to read part two. Many organizations these days are facing the substantial task of migrating their...
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EMC IT Helps Drive Sustainability
EMC IT is innovating and developing new IT solutions that not only meet our internal customers’ growing data and IT demands but also help us drive improved space utilization and energy efficiencies in...
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Building the Modern Data Center on a Foundation of Trust
If your organization is struggling with how to keep your enterprise data secure in the cloud, you aren’t alone. The fact is, the modern data center poses some fairly new security challenges and there...
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