EMC’s cloud strategy
October 25, 2012
Grazed from ITWorld Canada. Author: Howard Solomon.
Traditionally, Canadian organizations are slow to adopt technology and cloud computing is no different. But the country manager for EMC Corp., which sells storage and virtualization solutions, isn’t frustrated by our conservatism.
“It doesn’t because the whole ‘big bang’ approach to go [entirely] to the public cloud is a difficult approach to make,” Michael Sharum, said in an interview Wednesday at the EMC Forum, a day-long seminar in Toronto to showcase its solutions…
“And it’s not in our nature to do that. We as Canadians, we try things, we explore, we dip our feet in the water. We don’t ‘big bang’ anything.” And, he added, its EMC’s job is to provide organizations with core competencies before they move into the cloud. “You need to clean up your own house and have it operating efficiently before divesting yourself of your applications.” When he talks to companies and governments about cloud computing their main concerns are trust and security, he said, which echoes surveys done by research firms such as IDC Canada…
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