Page 1 of 2
EMC CEO Joe Tucci Monday kicked off the 10th anniversary of EMC World in a keynote address in which he described EMC's "mission" as acting as a guide for customers making the journey to the private cloud. As part of that mission, he pledged "choice, control and efficiency." That message of choice strikes at the heart of critics' claims that the EMC-Cisco joint venture amounts to a propretiary private/public cloud architecture. In a brief interview with CRN Editor/News Steven Burke after his keynote, Tucci dispelled claims that VMware, which is owned by EMC, will favor the Cisco-EMC cloud. Tucci also directly addressed HP CEO Mark Hurd's claims on the high margins in the networking and storage business. Below is an excerpt.
HP CEO Mark Hurd recently talked about this whole issue of margins, with 80 percent networking margins for Cisco and 48 percent margins on storage. What is your response to that message that HP is going to drive margins down?
This is the guy that makes how much money?
EMC has 14,000 developers -engineers. Do you know how many do hardware? 300. So what are we? A software company. There is always great margins in software. So he's got it wrong. And then fundamentally when you talk about the margins what does he make on (printing) ink. Give me a break.
What is your message on the cost and value of the EMC-Cisco solution versus what else is out there?
Look, there is a lot of complexity. As we do a lot in our labs to pre-integrate with these Vblocks (EMC, Cisco, VMware integrated packages aimed at providing best in class technologies), we can take a best at what Cisco has to offer, the best at what we have to offer and really substantiating that in a single deliverable backed by a tremendous amount of resources. It is a good way -- not the only way -- a good way. I am dead over on this choice thing. Dead over.
EMC-Cisco has some special go to market relationships with large systems integrators like CSC and Capgemi. What is message to the other partners that are not part of the VCE right now?
Let me give you another example: HP. You mentioned a bunch of SI partners. One of the things that we are not doing and Cisco is not doing and we are unique in that is we are not buying systems integrators. Therefore we are much more benign, much easier to partner with because we are not going to compete with them.
Next: Tucci's 100 Percent Independent VMware Pledge
1
|
2
|
Next >>
|
New Storage Devices Come To Light At CES 2012, Storage Visions While the buzz in Las Vegas this week was focused on tablets, TVs, and smart mobile devices, there was plenty to see at the CES and Storage Visions conferences for anyone looking for the latest storage innovations. |
|
12 New Flash Memory, SSD Devices Provide Diversity Diversity was the watchword in the second half of 2011 as vendors introduced a wide range of SSDs and Flash memory devices to increase the storage performance of mission-critical applications. |
|
10 Storage Predictions For 2012 The storage industry will never be the same after 2012 as data capacity growth decelerates, cloud storage accelerates, and mobile devices force storage admins to rework their playbooks. |
 More
Slide Shows |
- Partners: HP's Economic Leverage Having An Impact On Cisco
- Where Does VMware Play In Cisco-EMC Alliance?
- EMC VPLEX Pushes Storage Virtualization Toward Private Clouds
- Red Hat Releases Virtual Storage Appliance For Amazon AWS
- VARs Say VCE To Target SMBs With Entry-Level Vblocks
- Cisco Restructuring Pays Off: Q2 Profit Jumps, More M&A Expected
- Cisco's Sherriff: Cloud, Competition And Who's Making The Calls
- EMC Rolls Out PCIe Flash-Based Storage Technology
- EMC Enhances Isilon NAS With Hadoop Integration
- VARs Plan 'Divide And Conquer' To Cover Next Week's HP, VMware Conferences
- 10 Challenges That HP Wants Partners To Tackle Right Now
