February 28, 2008

Travels In Europe

Sorry for not posting lately, but I've been travelling this week.

I seem to go back and forth between despising travel, and welcoming the variety and exposure to other perspectives.

I'll need to catch up as quickly as I can -- a lot happened this week that deserves commentary.

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September 05, 2007

Never Talk When You Can Nod ...

The line is a partial quote from the (in)famous Eliot Spitzer.

I am very pleased to welcome Andrew Chapman to the EMC blogosphere.  As you'll see, he's very passionate about a number of newer topics in information management: compliance, records mgmt, and so on.  And to get the full Spitzer quote (which is great!), you'll have to see Andrew's blog ...

You know, at some point, the IT industry is going to have to get together and publicly acknowledge Mr. Sptizer for all of the IT spend he's created.  Don't know if that was his motivation, but -- if you think about it -- all of us in the vendor community can't ignore his cumulative effect.

Welcome, Andrew!

May 16, 2007

Sorry, I've Been A Bit Busy ...

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been posting lately.

One of the hardest things I find with this whole blogging thing is regular contributions to keep it fresh.  And I've fallen down in that regard in the last week-and-a-half.

No real excuse -- just a lot of travel and work-related stuff -- and I didn't want to bore anyone with a travelogue-style entry.  Business travel sounds glamorous, until you realize that every airplane seat and hotel room looks about the same.  Trust me, a conference room is a conference room just about everywhere in the world. 

But it's always great meeting new people, which is I guess why we travel.

So let me provide a bit of catch-up in this post, before I get to some beefier topics I've been thinking about.

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Chuck Hollis


  • Chuck Hollis has been with EMC for 12 years, and is Vice President of Technology Alliances at EMC. He frequently speaks to customer audiences about a variety of technology topics, and can usually be counted on for an interesting point of view. He lives in Holliston, MA with his wife, three kids and two dogs when he's not travelling. Chuck enjoys piano, mountain bking and skiing -- in that order.

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