EMC World 2015 – Day 3

Day 3. Again started with coffee, but this time together with EMC’s Educational Manager for our company (Thanks Sumi). We talked about a new Portal and the different options of education and certification. We will be planning some stuff in the future and hope we get that speed stuff going ;). The General session was pretty cool with some very interesting releases. ScaleIO will be free for non production and EMC will release ViPR to the opensource community. CoprHD (copperhead) will be the project name and a GitHub repository will be available from July 2015. Chad battles it out with Bill Moore of SDDS (new buy from EMC) and leaves the stage in a wheel chair (pretty funny). The Expo floor was mine again right after. I spoke to Dan Baskette (thanks Dan it was great to meet you) about Cloud Foundry and the integration with Pivotal HD. Right after I spoke to the guy behind Federated Business Data Lake, he explained me how the solution worked and what it was based on. Someone forgot to tell him Pivotal does not allow to use Pivotal Cloud Foundry to provision a Production Pivotal HD environment. Another nice example on how people don’t talk to each other in a large company. I made the introductions between him and the Pivotal team standing 30 feet away. Will this standpoint change on short term, Dan says no, and he should know. Let’s see how EMC solves that issue. Went on and spoke to some more people, discussed some issues but nothing really interesting. The day ended with the Customer Appreciation Event featuring two great bands Fall Out Boy and One Republic!

We left Thursday morning. Back home and back to work. All in all a great EMC World, met a lot of great people and learned some new stuff.

I would like to thank everyone who made this possible, and hopefully I will be back in the future.