Energy Matters

October Conversations

                                                        

I'm presenting this Thursday, October 30th, at the EMC Forum in New York City.  If you'd like a dive into the latest technology and trends with EMC and   our partners, here's a great way to get fully immersed in a single day.

"EMC Forum is the premier one-day opportunity to learn how EMC and our partners can help your organization build and refine your information infrastructure to reduce risk, eliminate costs, and exploit the value of your information. This complimentary event features an engaging keynote address by an EMC senior executive, followed by a series of breakouts on key technology trends and challenges."

With regular updates, I've been discussing variations on the efficiency theme for more than two years now and the focus of our message has been consistent.

That's changed.

Crisis Consolidating - Or Not

consolidation: from Latin consolidationem, from consolidare.The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification

Nearly every customer I speak to has a plan or is underway with some degree of IT consolidation.

Now what? How will the global economic turmoil impact consolidation trends?

What does your intuition predict?

How does that fit with history?

How are you at predicting the future?

Yogi Berra wisdom: "The future isn't what it used to be." 

Earlier this year, IDC updated their report on the digital universe with a projection of continued data growth at about 60% annually through 2011. They included a backward look, tracing growth over the ten years from 1996 to 2006.

Dave Donatelli, president of our storage division, noted recently that during that ten year span, we had the internet bubble, Y2K, the burst of the bubble, 9/11, and a recession. All of that turmoil and the data growth line continued steadily up and to the right.