EMC Convenes Panel of Industry Luminaries to Shape Strategic Vision of Private Cloud and Beyond
New EMC Technology Advisory Board to Explore Broad Range of Issues, Including Accelerating Customer Adoption of Private Cloud
BOSTON, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- (EMC World) As part of their strategy to help customers accelerate their journey to the private cloud and adopt highly efficient and flexible new models of computing, EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced the formation of a new Technical Advisory Board. Consisting of a broad range of recognized leaders from academia and industry and chaired by EMC management, this panel will provide independent review of and perspectives on EMC's future technologies and strategy -- including private clouds -- and report its findings and recommendations directly to EMC's senior leadership team.
"Private clouds hold the promise of delivering unprecedented gains in operational efficiency, quality of service and business agility," said Pat Gelsinger, President and COO, Information Infrastructure Products, EMC. "To execute on EMC's vision of being the leader in the journey to the private cloud, we need to harness the best thinking and thinkers in the industry. The formation of the Technical Advisory Board is a major milestone in this strategy, giving EMC an independent resource to ensure we fully address the dramatic challenges customers face as they move to the private cloud."
Specifically, members will provide EMC's leadership team with an external perspective on long-term technology strategy, advice on industry trends, and opinions on advanced development opportunities and initiatives. The board is comprised of recognized industry experts from business and academia, including key leaders from some of EMC's strategic partners. Members were selected for their expertise and thought leadership in such key areas as: server, networking, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, data structures, security, application middleware, and technical computing. The charter members include:
- Randolph Cowen -- Board member, EMC; Former Chief Information Officer, Goldman Sachs
- Ian Foster -- Professor and Director, Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
- Pat Gelsinger -- President and Chief Operating Officer, Information Infrastructure Products, EMC; Technical Advisory Board Chairman
- Joseph M. Hellerstein -- Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
- Steve Herrod -- Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D, VMware
- Rod Johnson -- General Manager, SpringSource; Senior Vice President of Middleware, VMware
- Kai Li -- Paul M. Wythes '55, P'86 and Marcia R. Wythes P'86 Professor, Princeton University; Founder and Chief Scientist, EMC Data Domain
- Jeffrey M. Nick -- Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, EMC
- Steve Pawlowski -- Senior Fellow, Intel Architecture Group; General Manager, Central Architecture and Planning, Intel Corporation
- Ronald L. Rivest -- Viterbi Professor of Computer Science, MIT EECS Department
"The bottom line is that the private cloud is real and companies are looking for more effective ways to transform their IT infrastructures, leveraging the full benefits it brings," said Jeffrey M. Nick, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, EMC. "EMC is putting together an unprecedented panel of industry luminaries from academia and the business world to tackle customer challenges across a broad range of issues. In addition to the journey to the private cloud, the Technical Advisory Board will focus on key trends shaping the IT industry such as the convergence of server, network and storage technology platforms; data analytics at cloud-scale; and IT governance, risk and compliance."
All Board members are appointed for a period of two years. Members will meet regularly, with the inaugural event taking place at EMC World, May 12. For more information on all the news at EMC World, please visit www.emc.com/emcworldnewsroom.
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This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (iv) risks associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (v) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (vi) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (vii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (viii) component and product quality and availability; (ix) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) war or acts of terrorism; (xii) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xiii) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xiv) litigation that we may be involved in; and (xv) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
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