EMC has partnered with Avnet to offer the VSPEX Blue converged infrastructure appliance to Australian enterprise clients beginning in early 2015. Avnet said Tuesday it will serve as a distributor of EMC’s platform to independent software vendors, system integrators and value-added resellers throughout Australia. The companies’ agreement also covers big data, storage and cloud computing […] More

An Emcor Group subsidiary has been awarded a contract of an undisclosed value to modernize and expand a wastewater treatment facility in Palm Beach County, Florida. Poole & Kent Co. of Florida will upgrade the sewage plant’s 22 structures in multiple phases in order to minimize disruption to ongoing operations at the site, Emcor said […] More

The Open Platform for NFV Project has added EMC as a Platinum member and VMware as a Silver member as the open source platform continues its work to boost innovation using network functions virtualization. OPNFV said Friday EMC and VMware will join other members in collaborating toward the development of an open source framework for NFV. “I’m delighted […] More

Mike Walsh leads EMC‘s team that offers technologies and services to the Defense Department in an effort to help address application, security and infrastructure challenges. He brings over 20 years of federal contract experience to EMC and has held leadership positions with NetApp, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. Walsh recently spoke to ExecutiveBiz for an in-depth conversation […] More

Mike Walsh is the director for Defense Department operations at EMC Corp.‘s federal division and oversees a range of EMC products designed to help U.S. defense agencies manage information technology systems. He leads a team of professionals who work with DoD to address the agency’s IT infrastructure, application and security management challenges through the use […] More

EMC has commissioned a survey of 10,451 information technology professionals worldwide to assess their views on the role of IT in organizations. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne, indicates a growing adoption of hybrid cloud among companies due to pressure from IT skills gap and the need for an in-house broker of on-demand services, EMC […] More

EMC wants to build a data center and an office complex in Cork, Ireland, as part of an expansion effort, Data Center Knowledge reported Tuesday. Jason Verge writes EMC lodged an application with the Cork County Council last week to establish a new office campus next to the company’s Ovens research and development center. The […] More

VCE, a joint venture of EMC and Cisco, will become an EMC company by the end of the quarter and Cisco will continue to be a partner and investor in the business alongside VMware. EMC said Wednesday that it will acquire a controlling interest in VCE as part of a reorganization agreed upon between all arties to build on the business’ hybrid […] More

EMC has unveiled the first EMC Federation suite that works to deliver an automated, virtual data center as a service, accelerate time-to-deployment of applications and support orchestration workflows. The company said Thursday the Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution is the first of five offerings under EMC Federation, which comprises EMC II, VMware, RSA and Pivotal. Ray O’Farrell, corporate senior vice […] More

Paul Austin, chief technology officer of EMC’s federal division, believes it is critical for agencies to view applications across their enterprise and cloud platforms for resiliency, Federal Times reported Sept. 15. He said agencies must shift their focus on the applications and their connections to business processes, Rutrell Yasin reports. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has deployed the cloud-based RSA Archer portal to […] More

John Custer serves as director of federal strategic missions and programs at EMC Corp., where he is responsible for strategy, business development and program execution work for the company’s federal business division. The retired U.S. Army major general holds three decades of government experience in intelligence, secure communications architectures, information technology and surveillance operations. Prior to EMC, Custer served […] More

Dan Dougherty has led EMC‘s work in the federal market for close to four years in his role as vice president of the data storage and technology provider’s federal division. His more than two-decade career at the company has included service as a VP for the company’s APJ sales strategy and as an area sales […] More