A Personal Word From Plain Old Joe

January 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I wanted to address this whole “Don Joey” thing. See, I’m not at all like this in person. I’m more like a friendly grandfather. I guess my Italian heritage makes people take me wrong.

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What’s Keeping Me Up At Night

January 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

My latest meeting with the boys on the strategy committee caused me to reappraise a few things. Our biggest threat is HP, but we got a real problem growing this company. We need to think bigger.

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What Are HP and Hurd Up To?

January 19, 2010 By 3 Comments

I got something to say to Mark Hurd over at HP about Dave Donatelli and all that.

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Will Alan Atkinson Have The WysDM To Steer Xiotech Right?

October 1, 2009 By 8 Comments

Today marks the next step for Xiotech, with a new round of funding and a new CEO at the helm. Alan Atkinson founded WysDM, sold to EMC, and takes over Xiotech and its ISE hardware.

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Dave Donatelli’s move from EMC to HP

April 28, 2009 By 3 Comments

As news hit the wire this afternoon, about the latest move by Dave Donatelli (President EMC Storage Division) from EMC to HP. As Dave’s new job, he will report to Ann Livermore at HP and will handle all Server, Storage and Networking business also known as ESS (Enterprise Storage & Server) Division, worth about US 20B, more than his current responsibilities at EMC, in terms of Dollars.

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