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Michael Howard

Michael Howard is vice president of marketing at Greenplum, a division of EMC. Prior, he had an advisory position with EMC on the architecture and business development of Cloud offerings for their Information Intelligence Group. Formerly, Michael Howard was the CEO of Ingrian Networks (acquired by Safenet), CEO of Outerbay (acquired by HP), VP of the Internet Division at Veritas, and VP of Datawarehousing at Oracle. He serves on a number of boards, including Acunu, and Analytica.

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On December 4, 2012, EMC and VMware shared information on the newly formed Pivotal Initiative.

Q: What is the Pivotal Initiative?

VMware and EMC are committing key existing technology, people and programs from both companies focused on Big Data and Cloud Application Platforms under one virtual organization—the Pivotal Initiative—led by Paul Maritz, Chief Strategy Officer of EMC.  The companies expect to formally unite these resources by Q2 2013, with a specific operational structure to be determined.*

Q: Why is this happening?

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Did you know that it takes at least two data scientists to determine the validity of a three-dimensional bar graph? That was my first takeaway from a recent Harris/SAP poll asking what percentage of enterprise Big Data solutions deployed data warehousing versus the cloud.

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