Talk:Dell EMC/Archives/2012

Biased?
this statement in the product section strikes me as fairly biased, should we go through the entire tone of the article, or am i just reading it wierdly? "EMC’s data storage products are built to store and protect information." Chocrates (talk) 17:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Ridiculous. I suggest you contact EMC and suggest them to add to some products' descriptions: This addition will completely satisfy your unbiased view, and quoting it in the article will give the entire article a satisfactory neutral tone you are looking for...
 * "This product is not intended store user data. It is intended to lose user data whenever the user uses the product. Be very careful when using this product. The Company is not responsible for user data used with the product."

Thanks for providing me the daily joke. ---Comps (talk) 13:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC) --Comps (talk) 03:43, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Selling furniture
The article currently says this about EMC's origins: "Originally a manufacturer of memory boards, (and before that, selling computer furniture) EMC quickly began expanding beyond memory to disk drives." The parenthetical remark about computer furniture is incorrect. The company EMC never sold computer furniture. Here is what EMC cofounder Dick Egan says on the subject:"A friend of mine from California owned an office furniture company---he'd designed a workstation specifically for computer users, and he wanted us to sell it to firms in New England. Now, Roger, I, and 'C' (a third person who was involved briefly) had five electrical engineering degrees between us. We didn't want to become furniture salesmen! But with a 55% commission and enough samples to furnish our own office, we didn't refuse. We saw this as a way to make some money while we got our real business off the ground. We registered EMC Corporation; we manhandled desks into customers' elevators … and we made our seed money."See the difference? The company that sold furniture wasn't EMC. It was an entirely different company that existed before EMC did. Egan and the other two EMC founders worked there as salesmen for a while to raise the capital that they later used to start EMC.

I'll delete the parenthetical remark and add some external links to the historical pages at the EMC official site. Pat Berry 20:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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Update required?

I agree the History section needs to be changed, I believe, as I'd always thought the name originated as per the 'trivia' section that states, "EMC Corporation" is the company's full name, shortened in the company logo by using the mathematical convention of squaring the C."

I can't find mention of the anonymous third partner anywhere on their website.

One other acquisition that is missing
Would be Conley Corp. EMC acquired them in 1998 (IIRC, the date was August or early September). I worked for Conley at the time, so I remember this very clearly. Conley was based in Cambridge, MA after moving from NYC. The Conley product that EMC wanted was SafePath. EMC sold off the other major Conley product at the same time, which was SoftRAID. joijiosjvosioviosjnoJVIOsnvoisnvjosfioasiasasfasjsas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.174.79.159 (talk) 11:06, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Unlikley?
I find the statement "EMC did not adopt the EMC² notation to refer to Einstein's famous equation, E=mc². The first C stands for the third partner who left before the formation of the company and the second C stands for the Corporation" to be highly unlikley. The form may not have been chosen solely to refer to "E=mc²" but it's pretty obvious that the formula played some part in developing the name, if only a referential one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.135.32.188 (talk) 16:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposals
I'm proposing merge of minor articles about EMC products, each one them really containing 1 or 2 paragraphs, into main EMC article and replacing them with redirects. These products are non-notable by itself and would be eventually deleted by itself. --GreyCat (talk) 08:00, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

No. This is not a minor article. The product article(s) may be extended instead. The proposal and tag are old (12/2008), and if no support for the merge in reasonable time, then tag is proven unnecessary, and should be removed. --Comps (talk) 23:52, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

No support for merge since 12/2008. Tag is being removed. Overdue. People who put tags and open discussions have to follow on them and finalize in a timely manner. Otherwise they introduce unnecessary noise in the respective articles. --Comps (talk) 22:48, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed EMC Corporation Edits - Feedback Welcome!
My name is Jamie Pappas and I manage social media strategy for EMC. I am working on a project to update our Wikipedia page with factual and relevant information to make it more useful for visitors who may wish to learn more. I am keen to observe the Wikipedia guidelines and etiquette standards of factual, neutral information on our page.

I am going to be proposing changes over the course of the month of December and welcome your feedback on the proposed changes.

Proposed Introduction: Implemented: 3 December 2010

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), a Financial Times Global 500, Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure hardware, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA.

Former Intel executive Dick Egan and his college roommate, Roger Marino, founded EMC in 1979. The company’s name, EMC, stands for the initials of the founders, and an unknown third individual who has remained nameless. "EMC Corporation" is the Company's full name.

EMC stock went public on April 4, 1986 at a price of $16.50 per share.

JamiePappas (talk) 22:21, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Forthcoming Proposed Sections & Edits:


 * History


 * Company Culture


 * Products


 * Acquisitions


 * Partners


 * Sustainability


 * Corporate Affairs

Proposed Products Section: Implemented: 11 December 2010

EMC's product line ranges from enterprise storage arrays to content management systems to storage area networks, backup, recovery and archiving solutions and information security. A sample of EMC products are listed below.

EMC also offers services, including consulting, technology deployment, customer service and support, and training and EMC Proven Professional certification services provided by the education services division.

Proposed Acquisitions Section: Implemented: 15 December 2010

Proposed Partner Programs Section: Implemented: 26 December 2010

EMC has a Velocity Partner Program that supports all EMC partner types and business models. All EMC partners participate in a single partner program, use one set of systems, and interact with one EMC Partner Manager.

EMC Velocity² Resellers and Distributors
EMC Velocity² Solution Providers are accredited in the EMC Proven Professional Program and gain the opportunity to resell EMC hardware, software, and services. The EMC Velocity² Partner Program is comprised of tiers that provide incremental business benefits and rewards to partners based on their revenue, training, and accreditation achievements. The tiers, with graduated benefits, are: Associate, Advantage, Premier, and Signature.

EMC Velocity² Technology and ISV Program
The EMC Velocity² Technology and ISV Program provides companies the ability to align their technologies with multiple EMC technology areas and obtain certification where relevant. Several specialty programs offer additional design, technical, and marketing elements, depending on the partner’s level of participation.

EMC Systems Integrators Program
The EMC Global Alliances Velocity² Program is a program for global systems integrators and outsourcers. The program focuses on developing partnerships by investing in joint business development, offering access to the EMC portfolio of offerings. EMC System Integrator (SI) partners provide customers with consulting, integration, and implementation services for EMC-based products and technologies.

OEM and SaaS Programs
EMC provides the ability for independent software vendors (ISVs), equipment providers, and commercial service providers to create commercial products and hosted services that extend, enhance, complement, or embed EMC products.

EMC Select Program
Under this program, EMC resells third-party products as part of its offering. The EMC Select portfolio consists of technologies that complement EMC's core technology and products.

Preferred Professional Services Delivery Partners
This group of partners is comprised of a group of EMC-authorized service delivery partners that have been chosen and qualified by EMC Global Services to be the subcontracting partners of choice for delivering professional services work on EMC engagements.

The table below represents a sample of EMC partners. It is not all-inclusive.

Proposed Corporate Culture & Work Environment Section: Implemented: 26 December 2010

EMC is a global company with over 47,000 employees worldwide. EMC is ranked 3rd on Fortune’s list of the World’s Most Admired Computer Companies. EMC was recognized in 2010 for its IT Proven Project with a CIO 100 Award, which awards business that are creating new business value through innovation of technology. EMC also tied for 16th on NetProspex’s Social 50 List in May 2010, which scores based upon the social media activity of each company by measuring employees average activity across major social media channels.

EMC has ranked on several best places to work including ones abroad. EMC was ranked 33rd in the Top 50 Best Places to Work of 2010 by Glassdoor.com. In Ireland, EMC was ranked 4th in the Great Place to Work Institute’s Best Places to Work, where employees ranked companies. EMC has also won awards for programs for interns and recent college graduates, including in 2008 EMC was ranked 44th in BusinessWeek’s List of Top 50 Places to Intern and also 66th ranked in BusinessWeek's List of Top 100 Places to Launch a Career. In 2009 Collegegrad.com list of Top 50 Entry Level Employers.

Proposed Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Section: Implemented: 26 December 2010

EMC supports a variety of corporate responsibility initiatives around the world and in 2010 EMC ranked 19th on Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens List. EMC Ranked 66th on Newsweek’s U.S. Green Rankings and 20th in the Technology Green Rankings in 2010. In February 2010, EMC joined the Ceres Network, a non-profit organization that addresses sustainability challenges, such as global climate change. In 2009, EMC was awarded the “Enable the Eco-Enterprise” by Oracle for its effort to support their green business practice and reduce environmental impact by utilizing Oracle applications and reporting.

EMC sponsors programs in the U.S. that strive to improve education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and 19,000 students have taken Information Storage and Management courses from 2006-2009. EMC is a partner of the World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative (GEI) whose charter is to raise awareness and support the implementation of relevant, sustainable and scalable national education sector plans on a global level. EMC and its employees support a variety of local community foundations and programs in order to give back to their local communities.

In support of its Supply Chain Sustainability initiative, EMC is a member of the Electronic Industry Citizen Coalition (EICC), which promotes an industry code of conduct for global electronics supply chains to improve working and environmental conditions.

EMC is a board member of The Green Grid, a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiencies in data centers around the world. The Green Grid’s mission is to help promote the adoption of energy efficient standards, process, measurement method and technologies in order to reduce power consumption and waste globally. EMC is also a member of one of Green Grid’s Alliance Partners, SNIA. SNIA is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping companies manage information through development and promotion of standards, technologies, and educational services. EMC Chairman, president and CEO Joseph M. Tucci currently resides on the Technolgoy CEO Council which advocates for public policies that promote innovation and U.S. competiveness.

All proposed changes implemented as of Implemented: 26 December 2010 JamiePappas (talk) 12:26, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Ionix transferred to VMware
Since Ionix was transferred to VMware (ref: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/25/emc_vmware_ionix/), should it be removed from the list of product offerings? Or is it included since EMC still re-sells it? Kevink707 (talk) 23:15, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed Change to EMC Corporation page
I am an EMC employee in the unified storage division proposing a change to the EMC Corporation Wikipedia page. I will create a new page on the VNX family product line and add a WikiLink where "VNX/VNXe" is listed under the current "Products and Services" section. This is necessary to provide in-depth information on the new product family that launched in January 2011. Here is a link to the VNX family product website. http://www.emc.com/products/family/vnx-family.htm?CMP=int-vnx_fam-gsa Fleiscal (talk) 17:57, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Please provide independent and reliable sources to ensure that the addition doesn't come across as advertising. --Ronz (talk) 21:51, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

SecurID breach section
Added inline link to Wikipedia article on Advanced Persistent Threat, as most people who are not in information security wouldn't understand the term.Wzrd1 (talk) 05:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)