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01. Chad Sakac, EMC Global Systems Engineering, Visits theCUBE at #EMCWorld!. (00:23)
02. Are Chad's Blog Posts too Long?. (01:40)
03. What has Changed with the Federation?. (03:06)
04. Feedback from A Group of French Customers. (06:14)
05. What Small Things Matter the Most to Customers?. (09:11)
06. Is the Company Structure Going to Change?. (11:010)
07. How Does Chad Rally Around an Idea?. (12:53)
08. Retraining Doesn't Work. (14:47)
09. Who is Driving the Changes in the Industry?. (17:03)
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Rallying partners together is key in EMC’s strategy for the future| #emcworld
by Nelson Williams | May 8, 2015
At EMC World 2015, Chad Sakac, president of EMC Corp.’s Global Systems Engineering, stopped by theCUBE to discuss the growing needs of businesses with Stu Miniman and Steve Chambers. The talk started with a lighthearted conversation about Sakac’s blogging style and his tendency for very long and involved posts. Soon, things moved on to the more serious matter of EMC and its new federation concept.
Bringing it together
Sakac related how customers have been demanding that EMC and the partners it works with should operate as one. To solve this, EMC has built the federation on the idea of rallying around the points of convergence with its solutions. “You focus where the customer wants you, you build your solution stacks in a tightly coupled way and then you also acknowledge where you’re going to go on different paths,” Sakac said.
He then told a story about meeting with a group of customers who wanted the same technology base for their companies but had different plans for how to get there. Some wanted a prepackaged solution, while others wanted choice and options at every level.
Supporting the future
Next, the discussion came around to what companies were in danger from the changing landscape. A company built around services to deploy infrastructure is going to have a bad time, Sakac felt. Meanwhile, he saw a rising demand for services to help companies transform, to build new application stacks and to figure out data analytics.
“You cannot rally around a product anymore,” he said. “You have to rally around an idea.”
Ending the interview, Sakac fielded the question of how EMC handled the change in skills for supporting this new way of business. He replied that retraining alone didn’t work. Customers wanted its employees to provide support on the older systems in the usual ways. Instead, it had to look at customers who needed cutting-edge systems and brand new skills and then match those companies with the retrained employees. The lesson was that you have to support both the new and the familiar.
“You shouldn’t over-rotate on buzzword bingo,” he said.
@theCUBE
#EMCWORLD
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Chad Sakac | EMC World 2015
Enhanced video at http://vinja.tv/Vwk6QxVv
01. Chad Sakac, EMC Global Systems Engineering, Visits theCUBE at #EMCWorld!. (00:23)
02. Are Chad's Blog Posts too Long?. (01:40)
03. What has Changed with the Federation?. (03:06)
04. Feedback from A Group of French Customers. (06:14)
05. What Small Things Matter the Most to Customers?. (09:11)
06. Is the Company Structure Going to Change?. (11:010)
07. How Does Chad Rally Around an Idea?. (12:53)
08. Retraining Doesn't Work. (14:47)
09. Who is Driving the Changes in the Industry?. (17:03)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
--- ---
Rallying partners together is key in EMC’s strategy for the future| #emcworld
by Nelson Williams | May 8, 2015
At EMC World 2015, Chad Sakac, president of EMC Corp.’s Global Systems Engineering, stopped by theCUBE to discuss the growing needs of businesses with Stu Miniman and Steve Chambers. The talk started with a lighthearted conversation about Sakac’s blogging style and his tendency for very long and involved posts. Soon, things moved on to the more serious matter of EMC and its new federation concept.
Bringing it together
Sakac related how customers have been demanding that EMC and the partners it works with should operate as one. To solve this, EMC has built the federation on the idea of rallying around the points of convergence with its solutions. “You focus where the customer wants you, you build your solution stacks in a tightly coupled way and then you also acknowledge where you’re going to go on different paths,” Sakac said.
He then told a story about meeting with a group of customers who wanted the same technology base for their companies but had different plans for how to get there. Some wanted a prepackaged solution, while others wanted choice and options at every level.
Supporting the future
Next, the discussion came around to what companies were in danger from the changing landscape. A company built around services to deploy infrastructure is going to have a bad time, Sakac felt. Meanwhile, he saw a rising demand for services to help companies transform, to build new application stacks and to figure out data analytics.
“You cannot rally around a product anymore,” he said. “You have to rally around an idea.”
Ending the interview, Sakac fielded the question of how EMC handled the change in skills for supporting this new way of business. He replied that retraining alone didn’t work. Customers wanted its employees to provide support on the older systems in the usual ways. Instead, it had to look at customers who needed cutting-edge systems and brand new skills and then match those companies with the retrained employees. The lesson was that you have to support both the new and the familiar.
“You shouldn’t over-rotate on buzzword bingo,” he said.
@theCUBE
#EMCWORLD
