EMC’s Pivotal Initiative takes off with enterprise PaaS debut
April 24, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Rachel King.
Introduced during a media presentation at Pivotal Labs on Wednesday morning, EMC execs boasted that Pivotal One integrates data fabrics, programming frameworks and support for legacy infrastructures. Some of the typical target uses cases that Pivotal is shooting for include real-time telecommunications and future retail scenarios, large-scale intelligent agriculture, and intelligent industrial control and services utilizing telemetry.
"The short reason for Pivotal’s existence is we feel there’s a need for a new platform for a new era," said Maritz.
Paul Maritz, formerly CEO of VMware and now at the helm of Pivotal, offered some background about the project, outlining that it is based upon "key assets and people" from across both VMware and EMC…
Referencing the "Googles, Facebooks and Amazons" of the world that do IT "differently" from enterprise companies, Maritz posited that "we need to allow enterprises to partake in these new set of capabilities that we tongue-in-cheek call ‘consumer capabilities.’" Maritz noted that these consumer-like strategies consist of automation as a fundamental approach as well as rapid app development…
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