Knowledge Sharing Archive

Knowledge Sharing is a platform for certified professionals to share their expertise, unique deployments or best practices through a written or video submission. Submissions are reviewed in 2 phases; 1. submission of a short abstract which briefly outlines your intended topic, and the 2nd Article phase where your topic knowledge is shared through video or a written paper. Submissions chosen for publication in our Knowledge Sharing Program Library reap the rewards and industry recognition that comes with being published. Submissions chosen as a finalist become eligible for a free pass to Dell Technologies World and cash prizes.

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2022 Knowledge Sharing Winners and Articles

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2022 Competition First Place Winner

Surviving Ransomware – A Story of Preparation

Bruce Yellin

Surviving ransomware’s rampage is a story of preparation. No organization, whether it leverages a local data center or has operations in the cloud, is immune from a ransomware attack.

In this article, awarded 1^st Place in the 2022 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Bruce Yellin explores the current state of ransomware and its dangers. He provides real life examples of attacks, how the attacks have been or can be handled and offers valuable insight into what you can expect and ways to prepare for and survive an inevitable attack.

Grabbing the readers’ attention from the beginning, Bruce does a thorough job of explaining every piece of information related to ransomware. His use of tables and graphics throughout is a clever and engaging way to emphasize the content. Highly recommended as a valuable resource for all audiences; even those with limited knowledge of ransomware can quickly gain confidence on the topic after reading this article.

2022 Competition Second Place Winner

Quantum Supremacy: Datacenter Transformation

Sneha Venkatesh
Associate Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

Sai Ganesh
Specialist 2, Inside Product
Dell Technologies

Parikshit Patil
Associate Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

Quantum computing is the next great step in the data-driven revolution, according to Knowledge Sharing authors Sneha Venkatesh, Sai Ganesh, and Parikshit Patil.

This article, awarded 2nd Place in the 2022 Knowledge Sharing Competition, sets a technological and operational baseline for those new to this subject. The authors present clear differences between quantum computers and classical computers as well as a hint to what the future of the IT industry could look like with the rise of quantum computers.

2022 Competition Third Place Winner

5G Cybersecurity

Anitha Rosely
Specialist 2, Inside Product
Dell Technologies

Haseeb Makarabbi
Senior Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

Higher data speed is top of mind when people think of 5G, but it's not the only advantage or use case 5G offers. Due to its low latency, low power consumption, and high data capacity, 5G opens many possibilities for IoT devices to be connected on a scale never seen before. However, as common to all new technology, there will always be vulnerabilities that come with it.

In this article, awarded 3rd Place in the 2022 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Anitha Rosely and Haseeb Makarabbi explore 5G attack scenarios and mitigations and detail the best way to handle all the new vulnerabilities that, if not addressed effectively, could become more dangerous in 5G.

2022 Competition Third Place Winner

5G Cybersecurity

Anitha Rosely
Specialist 2, Inside Product
Dell Technologies

Haseeb Makarabbi
Senior Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

Best of Artificial Intelligence

Conversational AI: Redefining Human Experiences

Mohammed Hashim
GTM Leader – Digital Infrastructure
Brillio

Conversational AI is a form of advanced AI that facilitates real-time human-like conversation between a human and a computer. According to Gartner, CAI adoption rates are expected to almost double over the next two to five years.

In this article, awarded Best of Artificial Intelligence in the 2022 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Mohammed Hashim presents a comprehensive analysis of the current state of CAI. He discusses the fundamentals and adoption strategy of Conversational AI, the Global CAI market, CAI technology, solution models, top platforms, practical use cases, risk mitigations and the future of CAI.

Best of Scale-out Storage

Computer Vision Applications with PowerScale

Sneha Venkatesh
Associate Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

Sai Ganesh,
Specialist 2, Inside Product
Dell Technologies

Parikshit Patil
Associate Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

Computer vision’s AI-based applications input huge amounts of unstructured data, consequently increasing the storage requirements for these applications.

In this article, awarded Best of Scale-out Storage in the 2022 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Sneha Venkatesh, Sai Ganesh, and Parikshit Patil examine the massive amount of data utilized for training sets, as well as data created by Deep Reinforcement Learning networks. The authors then explain how the PowerScale scale-out platform leverages its powerful processors to provide an excellent solution for storage of these large amounts of data.

2021 Knowledge Sharing Winners and Articles

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1st Place - 2021 Knowledge Sharing Competition

How Computer Science Helps Car Technology

Bruce Yellin

In this Knowledge Sharing article, awarded 1st Place in the 2021 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Bruce Yellin examines the innovations coming in computing automotive technology that will transform the way we drive.

Bruce takes the reader on a journey of how vehicles used to work and how they work today with the infusion of microprocessors. His narrative is discussed in a clear, accurate way to provide a fresh view of the changes occurring in your driveway and the way the automobile is becoming a platform for technology.

2nd Place - 2021 Knowledge Sharing Competition

Can Technology Reshape Americas Election System?

Bruce Yellin

In this Knowledge Sharing article, awarded 2nd Place in the 2021 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Bruce Yellin examines the challenges faced by IT voting systems and what can be done to improve them to help voters make informed and rational decisions imperative to America’s future.

Bruce discusses the current state of elections and the specter of fraud that threatens to undermine our constitutional rights. He also explores questions on support for smart device voting, ways to end long polling lines, and how our government security officials attempt to and often succeed at preventing cyberterrorists from influencing our rights.

3rd Place - 2021 Knowledge Sharing Competition

DPUs: Acceleration Through Disaggregation

Hussein Baligh
Senior Advisor, Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

Ebrahim Serag
Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

Sameh Talaat
Senior Advisor, Customer/Technical Training
Dell Technologies

Yehia Gaballah
Sales Engineer Analyst, Data Protection Solutions
Dell Technologies

For years, the computing industry was dominated by the traditional x86 central processing unit (CPU)-centric architecture. Introduction of the Data Processing Unit (DPU) empowers us to rethink data centers around their most precious commodity – the data itself – putting us on the path to a true data-centric model.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, awarded 3rd Place in the 2021 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Hussein Baligh, Sameh Talaat, Ebrahim Serag, and Yehia Gaballah examine revolutionary use cases enhanced by the DPU, such as Hyperscale Cloud, Next Gen Networking, Next Gen Storage and GPU/Compute.

Best of IT Transformation

AI Role in IT Before and During Covid-19

Mikhail Gloukhovtsev
Sr. Solutions Architect
Digital Solutions,
Cloud & IoT
Orange Business Services

In the wake of COVID-19 cloud migration has become the key component of IT service strategy. In this Knowledge Sharing article, awarded Best of IT Transformation in the 2021 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Mikhail Gloukhovtsev goes in-depth to help readers understand how AI transforms traditional IT services and enable them to develop AI-powered IT service strategies post-COVID-19.

Mikhail discusses how AIOps plays a major role in cloud migration success, demonstrates how AI enables cloud operations (CloudOps) efficiency and considers the emerging concept of Edge AI, recognizing the move to remote working caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best of Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing as a Savior (QCaaS)

Malik Radwan
Senior Presales Solution Architect
Dell Technologies

Aly Hussein
Business Operations Analyst
Dell Technologies

In this Knowledge Sharing article, awarded Best of Quantum Computing in the 2021 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Malik Radwan and Aly Hussein introduce the ‘Quantum Computing as a Service’ (QCaaS) model along with its various use cases currently open to the public.

Bridging classical computing and the vast possibilities of the quantum computing realm, the authors examine the principles of QCaaS and its underlying infrastructure, unveil the current progress of hardware, algorithms and ‘as a Service’ offerings currently in use, and discuss current challenges and stumbling blocks.

2021 Articles selected for publishing
July
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
Impact of 5G and Digital Transformation on Storage	5G / Storage	Likith P, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Sanna Meer, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article provides an overview of how modern businesses and technologies are or will use 5G to transform user experience. Topics such as digital transformation with 5G, various 5G industrial use-cases, taking 5G to the cloud and the impact of 5G on the economy are discussed and examined.
Occupational Safety with AI	Artificial Intelligence	Dhriva Kumar, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies Aruna Kolluru, Chief Technologist Artificial Intelligence, APJ Dell Technologies Hari Narayanan S, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Rahul Joseph, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article examines how AI can help improve occupational safety in a number of industries. It focuses on using AI technology to analyze data in real-time and provide meaningful output, such as a system of warnings to ensure workplace or occupational safety. Implementation methods of this technology in various industries and advantages and disadvantages of using AI to ensure Occupational Safety are also discussed.
Dell EMC PowerScale with Superna for Healthcare	Cybersecurity	Sai Ganesh, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies Nidhi Shree, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Akshay U, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article explores threats faced by healthcare organizations, the current status, and best practices that can help healthcare organizations defend against ransomware. Also discussed is how Dell EMC PowerScale's layered cybersecurity approach along with Superna offerings such as Superna Ransomware Defender, Superna Easy Audit, and Superna Gold Copy Virtual AirGap offers simplified and automated solutions to healthcare customers to ensure business continuity and protection against ransomware.

August
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
Securing Industries with Cyber Recovery	Cybersecurity	Sindhu Hedge Systems Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Varun Christian Systems Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	Protecting data and being able to recover it correctly whenever required is a top priority of businesses across all industries – financial, healthcare, education, and more. This article provides an overview of Dell Technologies' Power Protect Cyber Recovery air-gapped, vault solution and how it differs from having a backup/replicated copy.
Infrastructure as Code	DevOps	Rahul Joseph Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Rani Priya S Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) is the DevOps tactic of managing and provisioning infrastructure through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. This article explores how customers adopt and develop IaC, which support is currently available, i.e. typically used tools and their advantages/disadvantages, and the practitioner's needs when dealing with IaC development, maintenance, and evolution.
DataIQ – Empowering Data-first Strategy	Storage	Prateek Bhat Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article explains how Dell EMC’s DataIQ software addresses today’s data asset management needs, helping data asset managers and stakeholders discover all their unstructured data anywhere, across billions of files and objects throughout the enterprise in 3 simple steps.
Eliminate Risk through Data Protection Monitoring	Data Protection	Mike van der Steen Principal Systems Engineer Dell Technologies	Data Protection Advisor (DPA) is more than just basic backup reporting; it includes an analytic engine which can inspect data protection activities, run them against a set of predefined rules and enable compliance-based reporting to help organisations determine data protection risk exposure. This article offers a deeper understanding of the power of DPA, how reports are created – Including, a section on how reports can be customized to meet the specific requirements – and what business insights can be gleaned from them.

September
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
Get Ready for Edge Computing	Edge	Victor Wu Senior Solution Expert, Business Consultation, BoardWare Information System Limited and Joe Yip Solution Architect	A distributed computing architecture, edge computing brings computation, data storage and enterprise applications closer to data sources such as IoT devices or local edge servers. This article introduces the strategy and technology of edge computing to perform consistent operation and management on infrastructure, data, applications and security. Recommendations for planning edge computing are featured to help readers successfully deploy edge environments, develop management strategies, create new business opportunities and successfully innovate and transform.
Application Modernization using VMware Tanzu	Applications	Sathish Kumar and Shilpa Bhasker	The switch to microservices architecture is on as major organizations recognize that it allows them to become more agile and responsive to consumer demands; two key aspects for success in the modern economy. This article provides a high-level overview of “Microservices”, how it differs from traditional monolithic services architecture and the advantages of adopting a microservices approach.

October
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
So, You Want to be a Principal Systems Engineer?	Career Development	Brian Dehn Principal Systems Engineer Dell Technologies	While this article does not address the specific ‘check box’ requirements that a technology vendor may mandate for achieving Principal – normally documented as part of a formal Principal program – it does provide the author’s advice, suggestions, and recommendations based on his personal experience as a Principal Systems Engineer and addresses how you might achieve the same or greater success in your career.
Ease Operations with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid	Containers	Amal D Nair Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies Anitha Rosely Specialist 2, Inside Product Dell Technologies and Anirudh Sandur Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) facilitates deployment and operation of Kubernetes clusters, enabling containers to be run and managed at scale on private and public clouds. This article provides an overview of how TKGI deployment eases day one and day two operations, and ensures consistency across data center, public cloud, and edge. How Dell Technologies PowerStore is compatible with this deployment and further eases operability and management is also discussed.
Unravel Customer Landscape with Asset Discovery	Data Analytics	Divya Jyothi V Specialist 2, Inside Product Dell Technologies and Karishma R Manager, Customer eXperience Engineer Dell Technologies	Asset discovery and management is used to plan, optimize, execute, and track the needed tech refreshes, maintenance renewal activities or digital transformation with the correlated information, budget, priorities, skills, trainings and anything pertaining to drive a business or opportunity. This article discusses asset discovery and asset management using various Dell EMC tools, the need to understand the basis of having a strong “must-have” aspects of asset discovery, and what to do with the information you’ve discovered.

November
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
IoT Security: Challenges and Future Trends	Cybersecurity	Ranjisha R Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Sowmya S Gowda Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	IoT is now mainstream and represents a significant opportunity for the global economy, society and business. With this expansion, security becomes a major concern. Adopting a security-focused mind-set helps IoT product and service providers mitigate risks ranging from cybersecurity threats to regulatory action. This artilce provides insights on cybersecurity of IoT devices, along with some major applications in industries, research challenges and trends.
Importance of Data Integration in the Data Decade	Data / Storage / Business Intelligence	Bhavana Sayiram Customer eXperience Engineer \| Central Corp NA Dell Technologies	This article discusses the need and benefits of proper data integration, its impact on the business and how the principles of Modern Data Integration resolve bottlenecks created with the Extraction, Transform, Load (ETL) process. It addresses key areas of concern and provides foundational knowledge of an often overlooked aspect of being a data-driven organization; assembling an organization’s data into a usable structure. The detailed ETL process is very helpful and concise.
Intelligent Spaces	Artificial Intelligence	Amal D Nair Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and B Ranjeeth Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article provides an overview of how sensors and logics can be used to make a surrounding environment smarter and more efficient. The authors explore deployment of Smart Spaces using sensor tables and how automation eases operability of the space. Also discussed are operational challenges and how they can be addressed by tweaking some of the logic to improve system performance and efficiency.

December
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
NetWorker Clone Optimization	Data Protection	Anay Pathak Advisory Technology Consultant CTO Ambassador – Office of the CTO Dell Technologies and Deepak Verma Software Senior Principal Engineer Dell Technologies	The need to clone data is normally driven by a requirement for additional protection or the need to move data to a specific media type or location. In both cases, the priority is to secure the data as quickly as possible. Cloning and staging enables more effective use of storage devices by moving data between different types of devices. This article explains how to achieve two backup copies without Clone Controlled Replication (CCR).
Connected Vehicle Cloud Platform	Cloud	Jithin Raj Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Vaishnavi Adiyodi Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	Convergence of autonomous, connected, electric and shared mobility technologies is radically altering how people and goods move, presenting a vast opportunity for the automobile industry. This article discusses how the automobile industry can leverage a cloud paltform to efficiently collect, process, analyze, and store valuable data assets to realize a number of positive business outcomes.
Microservices: Independently Deployable Services	Applications	Swati Sinha, Inside Product Specialist Dell Technologies Anirudh Sandur Inside Product Specialist Dell Technologies and Anuj Seth Inside Product Specialist Dell Technologies	Microservices is a highly scalable architecture for developing software applications, enabling organizations to become more agile and responsive to consumer demands. This article serves as a reference document for anyone looking to understand Microservices and its architecture and will also provide a starting point for considering Microservices best practices. How Microservice architecture is optimized for development of cloud-native applications is also discussed along with a use-case to explore boundaries and advantages of Microservices.

January
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
Microsegmentation: Defense in Depth	Cybersecurity	Sathish Kumar Systems Engineer Analyst Dell EMC and Varun M Systems Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	Organizations use microsegmentation – a method of creating zones in data centers and cloud environments to isolate workloads from one another and secure them individually – to reduce the network attack surface, improve breach containment and strengthen regulatory compliance. This article explores microsegmentation technology and techniques, traditional models of VM security and why the future of virtualization security is microsegmentation, with a focus on VMware NSX.
Autodiscovery Proxy To Protect Cloud Resources	Data Protection	Pablo Calvo Delivery Specialist Dell Technologies Rex Torti Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer Uniqs S.A Claudio Jeniec Data Protection & Storage Engineer Uniqs S.A and Norman Arteaga DevOps Implementation Specialist Uniqs S.A	Data protection in the cloud has become more challenging and complex, as data may be geographically dispersed over multiple data centers in public, private and hybrid cloud environments as well as on-premises locations. This article discusses how to use Dell Technologies data protection products to protect any set of cloud data, discovering them dynamically through "Autodiscovery Proxy To Protect Cloud Resources", an effective, integrable, easy to deploy and low-cost solution that covers the gap in current cloud backup solutions.
Beginner’s Guide To Storage	Storage	Chetan Gowda Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	When customers purchase capacity for their Storage system, they may not get to use the entire capacity that they purchase; in most cases, raw capacity does not equal usable capacity. This article explains the basics of storage capacity in a Storage Area Network (SAN) environment. The article is especially helpful for non-technical people working as an analyst to understand the basic concepts around capacity in a SAN world, which will help them design technical storage solutions.

February
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
Digital Twins – Promises and Concerns	Virtualization	Akshay A G Customer Experience Engineer Dell EMC and Srishma HS	A Digital Twin – a digital representation of a physical object or system – is at the core of the fourth industrial revolution (or Industry 4.0) which embraces automation, data exchange and manufacturing technologies. This article discusses the significance, concerns and unlimited possibilities surrounding this nascent technology, highlighting distinct applications including Manufacturing, Automotive, Healthcare, and Space Research.
Being Black in Tech	Business Strategy / Diversity	Kevin Moore Senior Systems Development Engineer Dell Technologies	This article offers insight on the unique challenges Black professionals encounter in IT and suggests a framework to help companies move from promoting diversity and inclusion, to practicing it. The author explores recommendations that include tangible steps to help companies transform their stated ideals into reality.
The Data Center of the Future	Data Center	Sai Ganesh Specialist 2, Inside Product Dell Technologies	This article evaluates various technologies that increase efficiency and decrease energy consumption in data centers. A variety of issues faced by data centers, the current status, and future technologies that can make data centers sustainable are detailed. Data center architecture design best practices are presented for consideration. The author also looks at what the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) program is and how manufacturers can use the EPEAT Registry to build sustainable hardware that goes into the data centers.

March
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
How To Recover Backup Application With The Cyber Recovery software (Video)	Cybersecurity	Kurt Rybczyk	A cyber event is no time to be looking for a runbook or searching for procedures on how to recover the backup application. This video shows how fast and simple it is to perform an automated recovery of Dell Technologies NetWorker with the Cyber Recovery software. With just a couple of clicks, the application is ready to perform restores in the vault, hastening your ability to begin to recover from a cyber event.
Guidelines to Size DD in a Cyber Recovery Vault	Cybersecurity	Yashaswini N Manager1, Inside Sales Management Dell Technologies Abhijith M Specialist 2, Inside Product Dell Technologies and Shrishti Shetty Specialist 2, Inside Product Dell Technologies	Destructive attacks like ransomware are on the rise. Beyond the production environment, the latest enticing target for an attacker is backup and disaster recovery data. The first step toward protecting these assets is to plan how to efficiently recover from cyber-attacks by having backups that don’t get encrypted by ransomware. This article presents guidelines on how to size Dell Technologies Cyber Recovery Vault Data Domain to achieve unparalleled protection against debilitating and costly ransomware.
Video Surveillance Options in a Smart City	Storage	Varun Christian Inside Product Specialist Dell Technologies and Sindhu Hegde Inside Product Specialist Dell Technologies	This article provides an overview of how Dell Technologies product portfolio plays a vital role in Video Surveillance (VS) incorporated in a smart city. Good, Better, and Best options are presented for implementing VS depending upon the scale of the smart city, along with the benefits and challenges.

April
Title	Category	Author(s)	Summary
Data Domain Sizing Best Practices	Backup	Pragathi R S, Specialist 2, Inside Product Dell Technologies Mohammed Moueen Wahab, Specialist 2, Inside Product Dell Technologies and Shilpa Bhasker Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article covers key factors that affect capacity requirements of Data Domain, how the solution builder sizing toolcan be used to calculate usable capacity of Data Domain and how to avoid sizing for incorrect usable capacity and the importance of Blue-Green charts for sizing.
Fine-Tuning Replication Using DSP	Data Protection	Mohammed Moueen and Anamika Kumari	This article is intended for Dell Technologies sales, presales and post-sales personnel interested in acquiring high-level understanding of the Distributed Segment Processing (DSP) architecture to fine-tune customer’s current backup and replication process and making it more efficient.
Urban Edge Computing: Server-less, Better, Cheaper	Edge Computing	Shadaab Mohiuddin Senior Principal Systems Development Engineer Boomi and Tabraiz Amman Senior Principal Systems Development Engineer Boomi	The concept of Serverless Computing at the edge is still in its infancy. This article analyzes function execution times in cloudlets, edge and micro datacenter and explores integration support and scalability cost constraints associated with serverless services provided by various vendors: Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda@Edge , AWS Greengrass, edjx.io and Azure Functions.

2020 Knowledge Sharing Winners and Articles

The 2020 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards at the ceremony.

2020 Competition First Place Winner

How 5G Transforms Cloud Computing

Mikhail Gloukhovtsev

Sr. Solutions Architect

Digital Solutions, Cloud & IoT

Orange Business Services

In this article, awarded 1^st Place in the 2020 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Mikhail Gloukhovtsev explores the emerging concept of 5G and cloud computing symbiosis and how it transforms cloud computing. This transformation results in new cloud computing architectures, affects various businesses using cloud services, and enables new business opportunities. Mikhail reviews key challenges in 5G-cloud solutions and provides insight on how to develop cloud-services strategies in the era of 5G.

2020 Competition Second Place Winner

Project Alvarium: The Future of Edge Data

Steve Todd
Dell Technologies Fellow
Dell Technologies

In this article, awarded 2^nd Place in the 2020 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Steve Todd explores the future of edge data and how the Project Alvarium community can advance the adoption of Data Confidence Fabrics (DCF), a proposed industry standard which allows business applications to measure the "confidence" or "trustworthiness" of data created on the farthest reaches of IoT and edge deployments. Steve provides an overview of Project Alvarium, what problems it solves, and how it will be implemented.

2020 Competition Third Place Winner

Distributed Intelligent Security Agents for IoT

Sandra Mamdouh Sidhom
Sales Engineer Analyst
Dell Technologies

In this article, awarded 3^rd Place in the 2020 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Sandra Mamdouh Sidhom examines an intelligent-based approach to detecting abnormal behavior in IoT systems. Sandra discusses the existing paradigms of distributed intelligent agents as well as the security threats taking place in the IoT domain, then examines whether it is feasible to utilize the distributed intelligent agents to detect abnormal behaviors in the IoT environment.

Best Of Data Storage

The Evolution of Enterprise Storage

Bruce Yellin

Over the last two decades, the world of enterprise storage has gone through revolutionary changes. Concepts of performance, cost, capability, and features have taken on new meanings. Now, computer storage is on the cusp of yet another shift. Moore’s Law is being kept alive with new types of storage that doubles the performance while halving the cost. In this article, awarded Best of Data Storage in the 2020 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Bruce Yellin explores the dramatic changes in enterprise storage happening this decade through easy-to-follow explanations and examples of these developments.

Best of Data Protection

Immutable Data Protection for Any Application

Please Read: Customers who apply the set of Avamar Immutable Backup hotfixes on either Avamar 19.4.0-124 or Avamar 19.7.0-82, or who are upgrading to Avamar 19.8 or later releases, should not use the procedures in this document. This document is being retained for archival reasons, and should only be referenced by customers who implemented it on earlier releases of Avamar.

Mike van der Steen
Principal Systems Engineer
Dell Technologies

In this article, awarded Best of Data Protection in the 2020 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Mike van der Steen provides an overview of the fundamental Data Domain features leveraged to create immutable copies of backup data, the process of creating them, the recovery process and a sample script to automate the daily tasks of creating these immutable copies. While the primary focus of Mike’s article is based on backup applications, it can be extended to incorporate any application storing data on Data Domain, hence providing immutable data protection for any application.

Best of Quantum Computing

Harnessing Uncertainty

Terence Johny
Solutions Engineering Specialist
Dell Technologies

The world has been steadily pacing toward the goal of Quantum supremacy. Will it improve the quality of the human life experience, or will it add another layer of complexity to our existence? In this article, awarded Best of Quantum Computing in the 2020 Knowledge Sharing Competition, Terence Johny explores the quantum world and deciphers some of the core phenomena that govern the quantum realms, while trying to bind those concepts to modern quantum computing architecture.

2020 Articles selected for publishing
August
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Factors Influencing Anatomy of Digital Future	Transformation	Sabyasachi Panda Manager, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	Transformation does not simply happen out of the box nor is it something that will be enabled if you adopt a cloud strategy. This aricle examines the digital revolution currently underway and explores key markers – the '12 C's' – that identify with and are poised to change the anatomy of the digital future.
NVMe THE FUTURE	Storage	Abhijith M Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies \| PSS and Naga Koduru Senior Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies \| PSS	This article offers guidance to strengthen tenant confidentiality by finding smart alternatives for storing the salt values in the database of vCenter Server or similar administration tools of other hypervisors. The article identifies a security concern that either limits the use of a resource optimization technique or puts it as a vulnerability and defines vendor-neutral alternatives for a more effective application of memory sharing.
Securing Memory Sharing for Cloud Tenants	Cloud	Sameh Talaat Senior Advisor, Customer/Technical Training Dell Technologies and Hussein Baligh Senior Advisor, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article enables readers to learn a breadth of topics in unstructured data, learning more about how object storage solutions can change their business, the inner workings of such solutions and how they are evolving businesses who use them. Readers will gain a strong understanding in what blockchain is, how it functions in its many different forms, and how it, along with other emerging technologies like machine learning, can be used to improve these types of deployments.
An Objective Use of Blockchain in Object Storage	Blockchain	Anthony Dutra, Systems Engineer Dell Technologies William Lupo Senior Software Engineer Thomson Reuters and Varshith Anil Kumar Senior Software Engineer Wayfair LLC	This article introduces NVMe and a brief background of protocols currently used. This paper provides an overview of the types of approaches used by NVMe in the SAN environment to increase performance and reduce bottlenecks. Benefits of using NVMe in the data center and the advantages of using NVMe over other protocols is also discussed.

September
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Customer Sentiment Analysis	Data Science	Sucheta Dhar and Prafful Kumar	This article focuses on analyzing customer’s reviews on certain products using natural language processing (NLP) and describes how to build a machine learning model to classify these customers into returning customers or if the customers are happy, neutral or not satisfied with the product.
Manual Storage Sizing	Storage	Poorna Prashanth, Manager Dell Technologies	Understanding storage performance KPI’s is important when initiating presales conversation with customers and to identify root cause of performance issues which would help improve product positioning.This article describes different performance and capacity metrics that would impact overall storage performance behavior and provides a methodology to perform storage sizing manually without use of any tools while considering performance and capacity metrics.
Fine-Tuning Deep Neural Networks	Deep Learning	Rajasekhar Nannapaneni, Sr Principal Engineer, Solutions Architect Dell EMC	Applied to many key problems in various applications, Deep Neural Networks has emerged as one of the significant ideas of machine learning in the last decade. In this article, several tuning techniques of deep neural networks are discussed which enhance performance of the overall deep network. Also, a novel deep neural network is developed and applied on a benchmark dataset “CIFAR-10” to showcase the results and working of these tuning techniques.
Bridging Digital Transformations Through RPA	Automation	Mohammed Hashim, Head of Technology Innovations - Digital Infrastructure Brillio	Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can bridge the gap of co-existence between Legacy and Cloud applications, by retaining the usefulness of the legacy system and adding the efficiencies of the cloud. This article discusses the adoption strategy of Intelligent automation continuum, the global automation market, tactical RPA transformation use cases, deployment methodologies, keys to a successful implementation, phased ROI planning and future enhancements.

October
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Data in Driver Seat of Modern Vehicles	Data Science	Shankar R Solutions Architect Dell Technologies	This article describes a framework that can provide effective performance for achieving data center energy efficiency through intelligent resource allocation. How this framework can prevent violating Service Level Agreements (SLA) with the aim of green cloud resource deployment is also discussecd. Deployment using the proposed framework is achieved using Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy Logic for green solutions.
SecureMLM - Privacy Aware Machine Learning Model	Machine Learning	Shikha Pandey Advisor, Customer/Technical Training Dell Technologies	This article looks at the role that data plays in Autonomous vehicles and Micro Mobilty vehicles, exploring how data is contributing to these two different modes of transport. It begins with a deep dive into how a Driverless Car manufacturer is collecting, storing, processing, analyzing and leveraging machine learning on data gathered from different sources (cameras and sensors) of their cars. The author then discusses how data collection and data processing is boosting the Bike-Sharing program which is enabling greater use of "Green Vehicles".
Resource Allocation Using Reinforcement Learning	Cloud	Chethan Nagaraj and Manu Joshi	This article emphasizes the importance of Machine Learning in modern technologies such as multi-cloud. A framework known as “SecureMLM – a novel privacy-aware machine learning model used to design and develop end-to-end security solution during data migration – is also proposed.
Enhanced NetWorker(AI) to WOW Customer Experience	Storage	Arvind Kumar A R Customer Support Associate - Frontline Commvault	This article explains how the NetWorker Application can be enhanced to make the it more AI/ML-enabled and ease the process and convenience to get information typically required by a Technical Engineer/ Analyst as part of troubleshooting. This enhancement improves the Customer Support Experience and reduces time to Resolution/Fixing.

November
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Study of the Use of Anonymity Models	Security	Carmen Marcano, Director, Business Process Management Dell	How can a data holder release data without compromising the identity of the subjects while maintaining its utility? This article explores analyze k-anonymity, t-closeness and l-diversity as frameworks that can be implemented to reinforce the privacy levels of the Personal Identifiers.
Use Dell Technologies to Solve Your Dark Data Challenges	Data Science	Sonali Singh	Growth of dark data, the data genreated during various computer network operations, could seriously impact buisness models. This article will discuss how the Dell Technologies solution helps customer manage dark data and use it as smart data. Architecture of converged platforms is also explained.
AI and ML Workloads Platform: Cloud or On Edge	Machine Learning	Harshit Dixit, Senior Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Rani Priya S, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article looks at why, with emerging technologies and 5G, public cloud is not the only place to host your ML, AI, and Intensive data applications. The authors discuss how to identify the best place to host these workloads depending upon the organization’s requirements, reduce cost and staff time to deliver them, and optimize outcomes for the business.
Optimal Path Routing Using Reinforcement Learning	Storage	Rajasekhar Nannapaneni, Sr Principal Engineer, Solutions Architect Dell EMC	To obtain optimal path for an I/O between source and target nodes, an effective path finding mechanism among a set of given nodes is desired. This article describes development of a novel optimal path routing algorithm using reinforcement learning techniques from AI. The algorithm can be easily extended to software defined networks (SDNs), storage area networks (SANs), backup infrastructure management and other applications where optimal path behavior is required.

December
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Innovating with Lean Six Sigma	Process Improvement	Animesh Gupta	Massive data sets collected by industries should be mined with powerful data analysis methods that produce meaningful results from the provided data. It is possible to make effective decisions by utilizing these analysis methods in each step of Lean Six Sigma cycles.This article provides a guide that can help apply Lean Six Sigma to make faster, more reliable decisions with the data.
Data Protection for Containers	Data Protection	Naveen Chandrashekar, Director Business Process Management	Though it may seem that data protection is not needed for containers, critical parts of the Containers infrastructure must be backed up to protect against disaster in the data center. This article examines how traditional data protection methods using a backup server and backup storage are changing to software-defined solutions, wherein data protected in the virtualized environment is protected in the cloud.
Future of Container Native Storage	Containers	Sarthak Sharma, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell and Abhisek Sharma, Senior Sales Engineer Analyst Dell	Almost any application can be containerized, but it is important to understand the amount of effort required to ensure that the transition to containers preserves performance and maintains or improves security. This article examines the utility of CaaS (Container as a Service) and its implementation in two major cluster management vendors; Kubernetes by Google (open source) and EC2 by Amazon (closed source).
Faction with Isilon	Isilon	Sai Ganesh, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Presales Solution Services Hari Narayanan S, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Presales Solution Services and Dhriva Kumar Urajala, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Presales Solution Services	Faction can help transform your on-prem storage platform into a multi-cloud-ready data footprint. This leading multi-cloud Platform-as-a-Service enables you to leverage your Isilon footprint from multiple public clouds at once, facilitated over high-speed, low-latency connections. This article discusses how organizations can leverage Faction with Isilon to undergo efficient, effective IT Transformation.

January
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Whole Genome Sequencing in Life Science	Isilon	Gangadhara N and Lenin Ponnappa	This article discusses the vital role Isilon and ECS Storage play to store all the data that will be sequenced from the genome. The process of how the data (Genome) is sequenced and the way it would be stored and secured is the focus of this article.
VMware Cloud Foundations: Re-defining Hybrid Cloud	VMware	Anuj Sharma Sr. Principal Engineer Dell and Benedikt Mayer Sr. Principal Engineer Dell	VMware Cloud Foundation combines VMware’s leading technologies to deliver a standardized software defined datacenter platform to environments of any size. This article discusses VMware Cloud Foundation architecture followed by deployment scenarios including NSX-V & T integration, Stretched Cluster and Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Design and sizing considerations are also covered along with aspects of troubleshooting.
Pass the Hash	Security	Nikhil Gowda Dell Technologies	A Pass the Hash attack exploits an implementation weakness in the authentication protocol where password Hash remain static from session to session until password modification is done. This article provides awareness of the technique, ways to control Pass the Hash, and consolidates all the information from finding a Pass the Hash threat to controlling it.
Y NOT VMware Cloud on Dell EMC - A one-Stop Shop	Cloud	Vinayak Coimbatore Sivanand	The shift from CapEx to OpEx is one of the main things that companies like about public cloud. The right Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) will help in reduce cost and Operational Overhead to the Organization. This article discusses how best to leverage a VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Storage.

February
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Security Reshaped in the Digital Transformation Era	Security	Mohamed Sohail, Senior Engineer Solutions Architecture Dell Technologies and Nour Mahmoud, Assistant Professor of Information Technology Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence Cairo University Nourmahmoud@cu.edu.eg and Robert Lincourt, and Mohamed Hamed, Assistant Professor of Information Technology Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence Cairo University	The imminent threat of cybercrime grows alongside digital transformation. As a result, new techniques in cybersecurity are being developed to mitigate the increased levels of risks. This article provides security best practices that don't slow your business down. Rather, they speed it up.
Three Use Cases for Storage Class Memory (SCM)	Storage	Hussein Baligh, Senior Advisor, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Lina Eissa, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Ebrahim Serag, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Abdelrahman El Nakeeb, Data Center Account Manager Dell Technologies	An exciting new technology arose in the last few years to bridge the gap between DRAM and SSD: Storage Class Memory, (SCM). With its unique combination of speed, low cost, and high performance, SCM promises a transformation in how to handle read-intensive emerging applications such as AI workloads, bio-informatics, big data analytics, IOT analytics, in-memory databases, and high-performance computing. This article provides a brief history of memory and storage, the concept of SCM, SCM technologies, and SCM use cases.
Convolutional Neural Network	Deep Learning	Shwetha Lokesh, Associate Sales Engineer AnalystDell Technologies	Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a feed-forword neural network generally used to analyze visual images by processing data with grid-like topology. This article examines what CNN is, how it recognizes an image, CNNs internal layers, and use cases that explain what CNN exactly is.
Isilon Sizing: Sizing For Accurate Capacity	Isilon	Bhupendra Singh, Manager Presales Solution Services Dell EMC	Multiple factors affect usable capacity of the Isilon cluster such as protection scheme, number of small files, and more. This article looks at how small file affects storage efficiency of the Isilon cluster, how Isilon sizing tool calculates usable capacity of the cluster and how considering small file efficiency can help avoid incorrectly sizing usable capacity. How to use available tools to calculate the capacity overhead due to small files and then utilize the same information to size an Isilon solution with accurate capacity is also explored.

March
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Operation "Olympic Games"	Security	Kshitij Yadav, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC and Abhiram T.S, Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This article focuses on how AI/ML is being and will be used in media and entertainment to generate profits. This author outlines some challenges presented by our modern culture and how businesses are adapting to a dynamic marketplace in media and entertainment using statistics from specific sources to support the thesis.
Implementation of AI/ML in M&E Vertical	Artificial Intelligence	Saif Al Rehman, Manager Remote System Engineering Dell Technologies	Stuxnet-based malware attacks are a major threat to a number of industries, including power production plants, electrical grids, and defense organizations. This article examines the history of the Stuxnet system, its motivation, and its impact on the world political stage.
Solving FSI Challenges with Dell EMC UDS	Isilon	Bhupendra Singh and Sai Ganesh	This article explores the Financial Service Industry (FSI), covering the different workloads in FSI, and the challenges faced in dealing with these workloads. The authors consider the different operational challenges that can arise and how Dell EMC Isilon and Dell EMC ECS can help overcome these challenges.
Multiple Active Data Centers Solution	Storage	Victor Wu, Senior Solution Expert, Business Consultation BoardWare Information System Limited	This article describes how to plan and build a multiple active Data Centers solution. It explores how to plan and design the hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) as multiple active Data Centers solution across three separate locations and discusses a sample solution for multiple active Datacenters based on different SLA requirements and application tiers conditions. This solution includes software-defined storage (SDS) and Active-Active-Passive (AAP) infrastructure.

April
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Long-Term Retention and Archiving Digital Files	Storage	Vinicius Assis Alliance Lead Dell Technologies	This article analyzes actions taken for long-term storage of electronic files, including entities responsible for standardization, hardware and software technologies and storage processes. Preliminary analysis is also conducted between groups of software that generate and do not generate files, in addition to highlighting real cases that occurred to solve the lack of standardization in extensions and nomenclature. Physical storage technologies are highlighted and an explanation of the view of technology professionals.
PowerChain – Based on Blockchain 3.0	Blockchain	Rajasekhar Nannapaneni Sr Principal Engineer, Solutions Architect Dell EMC	This article discusses the concepts and internals of blockchain technology, applications of blockchain in several domains, types of blockchain – public and permissioned – along with concepts of distributed storage which facilitates next generation blockchain 3.0 technology. This article emphasizes Private Blockchain solution, termed “PowerChain” for Enterprises. This solution is formulated using various Dell Technologies products and solutions in combination with some of the leading technologies that could pave way for Hybrid Blockchain solution thereby addressing some unique use cases.
Validation of Isilon F800 for EDA workload	Isilon	Xiao-Jing Coroel Zhu Senior System Engineer Dell EMC	Electronic Design Automation (EDA) design is storage I/O intensive. As designs move to smaller physical silicon geometries, design complexity and storage requirements for the corresponding EDA tool flow grows exponentially. This article presents methods and front end/back end tools that can be used to achieve realistic benchmarking and deeper understanding of EDA workflow.
Evolution of 5G & Engineering SLA for Scalable XaaS	Automation	Shadaab Mohiuddin Principal Systems Development Engineer Dell Technologies and Tabraiz Amman Principal Systems Development Engineer Dell Technologies	Fifth Generation Mobile technology (5G) has revolutionized how wireless networks and operations are handled. Because 5G has high error tolerance, it can enable high-quality services to be offered, causing ramifications such as how Servive Level Agreements will be engineered. This article provides information on moving from a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to a Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) architecture, discussing micro data centers and autonomous hardware.

2019 Knowledge Sharing Winners and Articles

The 2019 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards at the ceremony.

L – R: Amr Shaheen, Mikhail Gloukhovtsev, Howard Elias, Trichy Premkumar, Mohamed Sohail, Christina Crowley, Cindy Etherington, Michael Apigian.

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2019 Competition Third Place Winner

Redefining Workplace Paradigms through Autonomous Ops

Mohammed Hashim,
Head - Technology Innovation Council
Digital Infrastructure
Brillio

This Knowledge Sharing article takes an in-depth look at the application of Autonomous Ops primarily leveraging Big Data Mining, Deep Learning and Cross-platform data processing platforms to drive auto-remediation, self-optimization and self-healing. It is also a helpful guide for enterprises adopting AO into mainstream business to increase productivity and enhance business performance while changing the skills required of human personnel.

2019 Competition First Place Winner

Why You Need Multi-cloud and How to Manage IT

Author Interview

Mikhail Gloukhovtsev

Sr. Solutions Architect

Digital Solutions, Cloud & IoT

Orange Business Services

This Knowledge Sharing article provides an overview of key aspects of multi-cloud computing that will help enable successful multi-cloud implementation. Topics discussed include the emerging multi-cloud concept, benefits of multi-cloud computing, architecture of multi-cloud solutions, implementation of multi-cloud strategy, cloud services brokerage, unified management of multi-cloud services, application and data portability across different clouds, and other aspects of multi-cloud services.

2019 Competition Second Place Winner

Redesign Backup Strategies for Next-Gen Data Centers

Author Interviews - Sohail and Shaheen

Mohamed Sohail
Senior Solutions Architect
Dell Technologies

Amr Shaheen
Partner Technology Strategist
Microsoft

and

George Crump
Founder, Lead Analyst
Storage Switzerland

This Knowledge Sharing article presents a real use case of a modern backup strategy in a next-gen data center, exploring the changes, challenges, and solutions. Multiple scenarios are provided to help design a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy that leverages robust backup and recovery methodologies with solutions and objectives introduced, shown, and discussed.

Best Of Data Protection

Protecting Oracle VLDB with Data Domain BoostFS

Author Interview

Trichy Premkumar,
Chief Technical Architect, Data Protection Solutions
Dell EMC – Asia Pacific and Japan

This Knowledge Sharing article introduces an efficient architecture to perform Oracle Incremental Merge (OIM) backups with Dell EMC Data Domain BoostFS. The BoostFS-based OIM backups discussed provide a simple, fast and efficient backup for any large Oracle database. The solution can be deployed in private or public cloud using either physical or virtual Data Domain.

2019 Articles selected for publishing
July
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Automating Install of Solutions Enabler using Ansible	Big Data	Ramani Malathy, Consultant, IT Infrastructure Dell Technologies	New Solutions Enabler releases require storage administrators to perform upgrades by transferring the code to the servers using a tool like Winscp and then manually installing or upgrading it on the servers. A great deal of manpower and time can be saved by using a tool like Ansible. This article describes a fast and efficient way to achieve Solutions Enabler install or upgrade by leveraging the Ansible provisioning tool and automating it.
Machine Learning-based Object Tracking	Machine Learning	Rajasekhar Nannapaneni, Sr Principal Engineer, Solutions Architect Dell EMC	Several approaches exist for tracking object. In this article, a new machine learning algorithm is developed which aims to achieve higher accuracies for object tracking. The author discusses how classical machine learning techniques such as PCA, HOG, SVM and Naïve Bayes are used to perform object tracking which do not require as much compute as deep learning does and still perform reasonably well for object tracking.

August
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Unmatched Availability Solution for VxRail	Converged Infrastructure	Victor Wu Senior Solution Expert, Business Consultation BoardWare Information System Limited and Samson Tu, Senior Service Engineer, Professional Services BoardWare Information System Limited	This article describes how to plan and build the Active-Active (AA) Infrastructure, Active-Active-Passive (AAP) Infrastructure, and Point-in-time Recovery (PITR) Solution on VxRail Appliance.
Optimal mechanism of load balancing in multicloud: A JSQLW approach	Cloud	Shikha Pandey, Advisor, Learning Design & Development Dell Technologies \| Education Services	Many organizations have begun to adopt a multi-cloud approach to meet business demands and overcome the challenges of public and private cloud. This article focuses on the importance of multi-cloud in today’s technological world. Also presented is JSQLW (Join Shortest Queue with Left Work), an optimal mechanism of resource allocation and load balancing for heterogeneous cloud environments.

September
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Game Theory on Storage Systems	Data Science/Storage	Abdulkadir Özdamar Field Service Engineer 2 Dell Technologies	Game theory is widely used in financial aspects to model rivalry between companies and countries. Recently, it has been connected to systems administration issues, i.e. control of power, spectrum allocation, medium access control and routing in a heavy traffic environment within computer science. This article briefly explores game theory, its theoretical applications to storage systems, and its potential for improving future storage systems and easing a storage administrator’s job.
Open Architectures for IoT Data Monetization	Internet of Things	Steve Todd Dell Technologies Fellow Dell Technologies	The Internet of Things is driving the rise of a new paradigm: data brokers that allow data producers to sell their IoT data to consumers. This article explores the emergence of data brokers and data exchange platforms, presents open architectures that will enable data producers to package and sell their data, and describes the best approaches for packaging, storing, analyzing, valuing, and selling data.

October
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Moving towards DevOps with Vagrant	DevOps	Malathy Ramani Consultant, IT Infrastructure Dell Technologies	Vagrant is a powerful tool that can ease an organization’s transition to DevOps and Infrastructure-as-code solutions. This article discusses the process of setting up a simple Vagrant environment on top of Oracle VirtualBox on a laptop as well as setting up Ansible, a provisioning tool on top of a Vagrant host.
Saving The Future of Moore’s Law	Server/Storage	Bruce Yellin	This article explores the computing world from the end of World War II and traces the observations of one of the industry’s true visionaries, Gordon Moore, over the last few decades. The central issue is whether Moore’s original predictions still hold and if they do, will they continue for another five, ten or twenty years as technology continues to evolve. The article reviews the engineering know-how that aided his predictions and future technologies that have yet to make it to the market.

November
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Serverless by Design: The Hybrid Cloud	Cloud	AnthonyDutra Systems Engineer Dell Technologies WilliamLupo Senior Developer Thomson Reuters Varshith Hakkithimmanahalli Anilkumar Senior Developer Wayfair	This article captures the importance of serverless technology to the future of IT infrastructure. It provides an overview of serverless technology, along with an examination of the available serverless public cloud technologies, and a description of the skills required to take advantage of it. The authors discuss where and how serverless can be used in existing infrastructures to enable hybrid cloud-like functionalities and touch on the future of how technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and Blockchain can be empowered further by serverless.

December
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Human Emotion Recognition using Machine Learning	Machine Learning	Rajasekhar Nannapaneni Sr Principal Engineer, Solutions Architect Dell EMC	Emotion recognition, one of the crucial non-verbal means by which communication occurs, helps identify the mood and state of the person. This article discusses development of a novel machine learning algorithm that uses human facial expressions for emotion recognition and a comparative study is made with existing algorithms.
On Premises Infrastructure for Serverless Computing	Server	Chethan Nagaraj Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC and Ravi Sriramulu Manager 2, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This article examines how serverless architecture combines Function as a Service (FaaS) and Backend as a Service (BaaS), among other things and the business sectors it caters to. The authors discuss current implementation of the service from Public cloud providers, the issues that arise from it, i.e. vendor lock-in, security, optimization, and drawbacks from the serverless architecture such as start-up latency, testing, deployment, versioning, and migration.

January
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Journey to Multi Cloud Demystified and Simplified	Cloud	Anuj Sharma and Benedikt Mayer	This article provides insight to how enterprises can overcome the myriad challenges they face to realize the full potential of their multi-cloud strategy and transform how they do business. Topics include: • An overview of multi-cloud and current adoption data • A framework for moving toward a multi-cloud environment • Best practices in a multi-cloud environment • Dell Technologies’ unique multi-cloud advantage

February
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Towards Standardization of Backup Methods	Backup	Umit Dericioglu Backup Operations Delivery Team Lead Dell EMC	This article reviews backup methods and definitions, proposals which might pave way to a possible standardization, and suggestions and new ideas to improve backup services.
Human Fetus Health Prediction using Decision Tree	Machine Learning	Rajasekhar Nannapaneni Sr Principal Engineer, Solutions Architect Dell EMC	Inference achieved from analyzing human unborn baby health cardiotocographic data indicates whether the fetus is normal, suspect with action needed, or pathologic with immediate action needed. It is critical to make this inference quickly as any delay could be a risk to both fetal and mother. This article details the development of a machine learning-based decision tree algorithm that will classify fetus health into normal, suspect and pathologic based on the given cardiotocographic data.

March
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Flummox around Osmotic Computing with Dell Technologies	Edge Computing	Shadaab Mohiuddin Principal Systems, Development Engineer, Dell Technologies Tabraiz Amman Principal Systems Development Engineer, Dell Technologies and Sreedevi Katabattuni Senior Systems Development Engineer, Dell Technologies	This article explores the promise of osmotic computing to provide better services on unreliable computing nodes, i.e. mobiles, smart watches, and other power- and resource-constrained devices – coupled with limited scalability and unreliable network availability options, to interact with services hosted on cloud computing (especially Infrastructure-as-a-service [IaaS]) that support deployment of reliable services across several application domains.

2018 Knowledge Sharing Winners and Articles

The 2018 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards at the ceremony.

L – R: Asha Saini, Bill Lupo, Mike Apigian, Sr. Director Dell EMC Education Services, Marina Levina, Charles Atkins, Vice President Dell EMC Education Services, Umit Dericioglu, Nelson Jiao, Rajasekhar Nannapanneni, Wei Lin, Anthony Dutra, Steve Todd, Varshith Anilkumar, Ravinder Singh.

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Title	Author	Overview
2018 Competition First Place Winner Rock Around the Blockchain with Dell Technologies Author Interview	Steve Todd, Dell Technologies Fellow, DELL EMC	This article explores all the system issues that need to be considered when supporting new blockchain applications. Steve compares and contrasts leading blockchain implementations, guides us through a full spectrum of integration issues, and outlines best practices for tackling those issues.

2018 Competition Second Place Winner

Prediction using Artificial Neural Networks

Author Interview

Rajasekhar Nannapaneni,
Senior Advisor, Solutions Architect, Dell EMC

This article details how the benchmark called Mackey-Glass chaotic time series model is predicted using feed forward multi-layer perceptron neural network with error back propagation algorithm. The architecture and algorithm developed in this article can easily be extended to any real world time-series prediction requirements.

2018 Competition Third Place Winner

Conceptual Framework using DL for Airport CEP

Author Interview

Wei Lin, Ph.D.
Chief Data Scientist, Senior Manager,
Americas Consulting Practice
Application and Big Data/IoT Transformation, Dell EMC

Bill Schmarzo,
CTO, Big Data Analytics Consulting Practice, Dell EMC

This article presents a simplified airport complex event processing (CEP) scenario with an airliner on fire on the tarmac. In this conceptual framework, Deep Learning (DL) techniques are leveraged to simplify the processing by encapsulating the events sequence and responses by recognizing an event and then, generating logical responses via supervised learning.

Best of Big Data

Using Open Data to Predict Market Movements

Author Interview

Ravinder Singh, Director of Analytics, Dell EMC

Marina Levina, Data Scientist, Dell EMC

Nelson Jiao, Data Architect, Dell EMC

Asha Saini, Data Architect, Dell EMC

An IT firms’ ability to predict the movement of market players provides competitive benefits. This article explores how the archive of billions of web pages, captured monthly since 2008 and available for free analysis on AWS, can be used to mimic and predict IT trends reflected in industry-standard consulting reports.

Best of Data Protection

Optimization of VM Image Backups with Right Proxies

Author Interview

Umit Dericioglu, Senior Advisor, Delivery Specialist, Dell EMC

This article explains the importance of using the right proxy and what it means. It discusses a suggested method to determine the appropriate proxy to use for backups, development of a simple Perl program using VMware Perl SDK, how to perform a periodical proxy health check and posits ideas to incorporate into Avamar or any other backup system which does not perform automatic proxy optimization.

Best of IT Transformation

Transformation in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Author Interview

Anthony Dutra, Presales Systems Engineer, Dell EMC

William Lupo, Technical Strategist, Club Benchmarking LLC.

Varshith Hakkithimmanahalli
Anilkumar, Software Engineer, Boston University

This article explores the history of technologies’ influence on humanity, beginning with the first Industrial Revolution to how e-commerce has reshaped the way we do business. The authors discuss the influence of technologies such as virtualization, Cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), cryptocurrencies, and VR/AR in shifting social consciousness.

2018 Articles selected for publishing
July
Title	Category	Author	Summary
IoT Security: Challenges, Solutions & Future Prospects	Internet of Things	Mikhail Gloukhovtsev Sr. Solutions Architect Digital Solutions, Cloud & IoT Orange Business Services	IoT attack vectors can target devices, gateways, SIM/Cell, transceivers, wearables and take advantage of weak passwords, lack of encryption, backdoors, and more. This article explores IoT security challenges, security requirements for IoT architecture, current security solutions and new evolving technologies. A great resource for those involved in selecting secure IoT technologies for their businesses.
Solving Educational Pitfalls with Big Data	Big Data	Zeehasham Rasheed Principal Software Engineer Data Science Verizon Adjunct Professor - George Mason University	This article discusses the need for educational institutions to utilize more data to improve their performance. The author highlights the opportunity that adoption of data science and big data technologies presents to improve data gathering and analysis in education.
NVMe over Fabrics: New Class of Storage	Emerging Technologies	Ravi Kumar Sriramulu Manager Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Chethan Nagaraj Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Narendra Nekkanti Senior Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	Non-volatile memory (NVMe) devices have a limitation of being local to the host over its PCIe bus which makes it difficult to extend its potential to different use cases. This article discusses ‘NVMe over Fabrics’, a new technology that alleviates this limitation by enabling the use of alternate transports to PCIe and acts as alternative to SCSI standards.

August
Title	Category	Author	Summary
Blockchain Enabling IT Transformation	Blockchain	Dahab Shafik Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Abdelrahman Elnakeeb Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Ahmed Abdelaal Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Mohamed Sohail Advisor, Delivery Specialist Dell EMC	Blockchain technology is clearly impacting many industries. This article examine three of the biggest – FinTech, supply chain management and distributed cloud – where applying Blockchain is ground breaking or has the potential to be ground breaking in the future. The authors conclude their article with a discussion on how the Dell Technologies portfolio can help leverage the recent prominence of Blockchain.
EEG Report to Recordings Matching and Text Mining	Machine Learning	Tony Ku, Ph.D. Advisory Consultant Dell EMC Consulting Services Yu-Ping Shao Data Scientist Massachusetts General Hospital M. Brandon Westover, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Clinical Data Animation Center (CDAC) Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Manohar Ghanta Data Engineer Massachusetts General Hospital	To take advantage of advanced machine learning and deep learning techniques to accelerate clinical diagnoses such as Electroencephalography (EEG), supervised learning is typically the most time-consuming, expensive, and least scalable process. This article examines how to streamline the data pipeline of curating labeled data sets of neurological events to patient waveform files.
Data Access Technologies for Java – General Study	DevOps	Manzar Chaudhary Principal Software Engineer RSA	Persistence layer is required in almost every project. As data access technologies rapidly evolve, new frameworks are being written to make development of persistence layer easier and faster. This article classifies database access technologies (for Java) into various generation as per the chronological order as they evolve. It also highlights the features and presents a comparative study of each generation.

September
Human-Computer Interaction and the User Interface	Emerging Technologies	Bruce Yellin Data Center Architect	This Knowledge Sharing article examines the world of user interfaces and innovations that have allowed us to more fully benefit from the computing world around us. Readers will be taken on a fascinating adventure, touching on the beginning of the user interface, and diving into the world of voice, gesture and brain control of technology.
Storage Migration – Hybrid Array to All-Flash Array	Core Technologies	Victor Wu Solution Architect, Storage & Virtualization BoardWare Information System Limited	This article discusses how to migrate data from Dell EMC VNX storage into Dell EMC Unity All-Flash storage. A sample of the environment is presented that includes Microsoft Windows platform and VMware Hypervisor which are running on Cisco UCS Unified Computing System. Determining the best migration methodology and how to prepare for data migration is also discussed.
Encroachment and Advancement of IOT	Internet of Things	Varuni Rv Associate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This article explores IoT in industry segments that are interesting as well as those that are sensitive and need improvement to ease the common problems that occur in daily life. Topics covered include healthcare, agriculture, advertising, transportation, and more.

October
Electronic Voting System using Blockchain	Blockchain	Raghavendra Ganji Consultant Dell EMC Yatish BN Consultant Dell EMC	This article explains how blockchain can be securely employed in mass electoral procedures without the need of a central authority body. The authors examine a voting system using blockchain that is robust, tamper proof and cost effective. Blockchain technologies available to use in the voting system such as Ethereum, Multichain, etc. are reviewed along with a discussion on the architecture, design and design constraints and implementation implications of such voting mechanism in our society.
Isilon SWIFT Made Easy! (OneFS 8.x and later)	Emerging Technologies	Akshay Kumar	This article describes the best practices for setting up and managing Isilon SWIFT services on Dell EMC Isilon cluster as object storage interface compatible with the OpenStack Swift 1.0 application programming interface (API).
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring for Smart Grid Decision Support	Big Data	William Schneider Sr. Data Scientist Dell EMC Fernanda Campello de Souza Sr. Data Scientist Dell EMC	Unsupervised Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) disaggregates high-level aggregate measurements to contributions of individual appliances, based on a single metering point (smart meter at main breaker level). This offers a cheaper method of implementation through its low setup cost and short training phase. This article examines sub-metering data collected over one year for 20 houses in the UK, to evaluate the potential of NILM techniques in supporting smart grid analytics.

November
Fidelity of the Digital Twin	Internet of Things	Marina Levina Sr. Competitive Intelligence Advisor Dell EMC Bryan Duerk Dell EMC	This article describes the origins and types of Digital Twins, explores specifications for data type and amount of data needed based on the industry verticals and use cases, discusses the need for new economic and business models; analyzes limitations and requirements (including data sources, tools, and technologies) for accurate modeling of a high fidelity Digital Twin.
AI Web Engine Project	Big Data	Phil Hummel Technical Marketing Consultant Machine Learning and AI Dell EMC Gene Chesser Dell EMC	This article describes a project currently underway to develop an intelligent application to support a community of employees, customers, partners and researchers with interest in machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation for how ML/DL/AI can be used in a real-world business scenario.
Are We Coding Our Way to Extinction?	Machine Learning	Krishna Kant	This article traces the development of compute power over the years and extrapolates it to the future. It deciphers the key elements which constitute AI and also explores from a technical standpoint whether human beings have the potential to achieve singularity, and if singularity is achieved, what lies beyond it.

December
Exchange, NetWorking & Repair	Core Technologies	Sinan Caliskan Technical Solutions Consultant HPE	This troubleshooting/how-to article provides a restore alternative when the primary restore with NetWorker does not work.
Threats and Challenges in Machine Learning	Big Data	Dayne Sorvisto Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This article explores vulnerabilities in a few machine learning algorithms used in software applications today. The author describes how to mitigate many common security vulnerabilities in the age of big data with a simple common sense approach.
Distributed Cloud Model through Blockchain Technology	Blockchain	Kanishk Kumar Advisory Delivery Specialist Dell EMC	This article takes a deep look at blockchain technology and how it can be used to implement a successful Distributed Cloud model to store and protect user data.
The IT Managed Services Transition Process	Business Process	Charles Weeks Advisory Delivery Specialist Dell EMC	In any IT Managed Services (MS) organization, the success of the "transition" engagement depends upon an MS group’s ability to follow a methodology of activities and tasks. This article describes the steps and activities that are essential to attain a successful IT MS transition.

January
Artificial Intelligence (AI): New Face of IT	Machine Learning	Sandesh Sudhakaran K S	This article provides an overview of AI, and explains how it can be used to build smart apps that help organizations be more efficient and enrich people’s lives.
graphR. - Analyzing VMware Environments Made Easy	Virtualization	Stephan Michard	RVTools is a VMware utility that connects to a vCenter and gathers detailed information on the VMware environment Analyzing RVTool exports manually can be time-consuming, error-prone and cumbersome. This Knowledge Sharing video illustrates how a webapp called graphR. simplifies and automates analysis of RV-Tool exports.
IoT & Block Chain - a Wallet of Secrets	Blockchain	Mohamed Sohail Advisory Solutions Architect Dell EMC Waseem Mohammad Fayed Advisory Consultant Dell EMC Fidel Kaldas Advisor, Service Delivery Dell EMC	Architecting an IoT ecosystem is often a complex undertaking. This article examines the challenges to keeping the IoT secure, and ensuring that a particular instance of the IoT cannot be used as a jumping off point to attack another enterprise.

February
Epilepsy Prediction using Deep Learning in HPC	Machine Learning	Ronaldo Lopes Ronaldo.braga@dell.com Mauro Damo Senior Data Scientist / Advisory Consultant Dell EMC Mauro.damo2@gmail.com Srinivasan Sivaramakrishnan Data Scientist / Consultant Dell EMC Srinivasan.sivaramakrishnan@dell.com Wei Lin wlin001@gmail.com	This article explores how automating detection and prediction of seizures based on various key indicators or patterns can revolutionize the physicians’ approach to diagnose and understand seizures and epilepsies.
Unleash Customer challenges with Isilon Gen 6	Emerging Technologies	Bhupendra Singh Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Bhupendra.singh@dell.com Sriram Chandrasekar Manager 2, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Sriram.chandrasekar@emc.com Ravi Sriramulu Manager 1, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Ravi.sriramulu@emc.com Vivek Dharmalingam Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Vivek.dharmalingam@emc.com	This article provides a technical overview and positioning of new generation Gen 6 Isilon hardware products; its design purpose, advantages of using Gen 6 nodes, its value proposition, and how it differs from Gen 5 product family and use cases for each of the Gen 6 node types.
ECS, Hortonworks & Kerberos; a Big Data Solution	Big Data	Cristina Alvarez Denis Jannot	This article describes how to perform the complex configuration and integration among Kerberos, Hortonworks and ECS, how to run functional tests (including Distcp, Hive, Spark, HBase and Sqoop frameworks, using ECS as internal or external file system in the Hadoop cluster), and how to run benchmarks that demonstrate that ECS is a good fit for Hadoop frameworks where latency is not critical, like Hive or Spark.

March
VMware vSAN and NSX: Design & Deploy Guidelines	Virtualization	Anuj Sharma Principal Engineer Solutions Architecture Dell EMC	This article serves as quick reference for Enterprise Architects to understand the core concepts of VMware vSAN and NSX.
Decrypting Practical AI: Empowering or Enslaving Humans	Machine Learning	Mohammed Hashim Digital Infrastructure – Automation & Tools Head Brillio	This article will help organizations, business consultants, technology partners, solution architects, futurists and the education community understand AI and its complex ecosystem, its practical applications; discover newer AI-based business opportunities, design DAI solutions and adopt AI at large without fear of killer bots dominating mankind in the upcoming AI revolution.
Swarm Intelligence & EC- based Image Segmentation	Big Data	Rajasekhar Nannapaneni Consultant Solutions Architect Dell EMC	Computational Intelligence-based genetic algorithm from evolutionary computing paradigm and particle swarm optimization algorithm from swarm intelligence paradigms are newer approaches to address multidimensional optimization problems. In this article, a hybrid approach is developed using these algorithms which improves the way to tackle the multilevel thresholding-based image segmentation problem when the dimensionality of thresholding increases in image processing and analytics.
Starting a DevOps Journey in a Telco in Brazil	DevOps	Julio Pereira Advisory Consultant Dell EMC Felipe Miziara Senior Project Manager Dell EMC Gerson Graciani Senior Solutions Architect Dell EMC Ricardo Herrmann Data Scientist Dell EMC	This article shares the authors’ experiences and accumulated knowledge about establishing a healthy strategic and technical relationship with a big client who faces internal resistance from legacy software development models, and how they help them move forward using modern DevOps practices.

April
The Importance of Hardware Raising All Boats	Core Technologies	Paul Brant Principal Internet Sales Consultant	New hardware technologies, architectures and processes are providing new influential approaches in catering to the ravenous appetite of new applications. This article discusses the opportunities and approaches that new hardware solutions provide in sustaining the appetite of software as it continues trying to eat the world.
The Power of Proactive Log Analysis with ELK & ECS	Big Data	Cristina Alvarez Denis Jannot	This article covers deployment and use of ELK with ECS, including several scenarios depending on the customer needs. From manually collecting the logs, to automatically doing it with a tool specifically created to enhance the content of the logs, to configuring syslog to collect the ECS data in real-time, followed by ways to use the logs once they are collected.
Isilon Gen6 and Comparison with Gen5 (for Newbies)	Emerging Technologies	Akshay Kumar Principal Engineer, Solutions Architect Dell EMC	This article provides a high level comparison of Isilon Gen5 and Gen6. The author highlights new design and architecture changes in Gen6 and explains how it works.

2017

The 2017 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards at the ceremony.

L-R: Carlos Freire, Wei Lin, Mikhail Gloukhovtsev, Ronaldo Lopes, Mauro Damo, Charles Atkins, Steve Todd, Luiz Pissinatti, Joe Milardo, Mohammed Hashim, William Schneider

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Title	Author(s)	Thumbnail Summary
2017 Competition First Place Winner Containers: IT Management and Operation Aspects	Mikhail Gloukhovtsev Sr. Solutions Architect Orange Business Services	This article reviews possible solutions for the challenges IT operations teams face when adopting containerized applications along with other aspects of container management and operation support. The article presents an IT management and operation practitioner view that will help readers in using container technologies for their businesses.
2017 Competition Second Place Winner The Blockchain Opportunity: Last Call	Carlos Freire Account Systems Engineer Dell EMC Luiz Pissinatti Account Executive Dell EMC	This article lists actionable steps that individuals and organizations might want follow to take advantage of the Blockchain opportunity. Interesting use cases – smart contracts, distributed cloud storage, electronic voting, among others – are presented, preceded by a brief technical introduction to blockchain itself, a quick history of its unconventional beginnings and current development.
2017 Competition Third Place Winner Data's Value: Digital Transformation's Dirty Secret	Steve Todd Dell Technologies Fellow Dell EMC	This article highlights "Five Steps to Data Value" that will result in new business processes and IT touch points that enable knowing how to establish the purchase price of a data set and which data sets are "most monetizable", how to create new data products and services, and establishing the value of analytic models that, when implemented, will greatly increase an organization’s ability to monetize their data.
Best of Applied Data Analytics Medical Image Recognition Using Deep Learning	Ronaldo Lopes Data Scientist Dell EMC Mauro Damo Data Scientist Dell EMC William Schneider Data Scientist Dell EMC Wei Lin Chief Data Scientist Dell EMC	This article reviews Computer Aided Tumor diagnosis methods using Deep Learning techniques, use of these techniques in a study over a dataset of human body images; and application of the mentioned machine learning techniques using open source tools.
Best of Emerging Technology Transforming Lives through Augmented Reality	Mohammed Hashim Senior Architect, Digital Engineering Brillio Technologies	This article discusses market trends, fundamentals and working of Augmented reality (AR) and Milgram’s Reality-Virtuality Continuum. Further, it guides enterprises for adopting AR into mainstream business, catalysts and challenges and solution implementation with Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA).

2017 Articles Selected for Publishing
	Title	Category	Author(s)	Thumbnail
July	Disaster Recovery Using NetWorker and Data Domain	Core Tech (Avamar, NW, DD, DPA, SourceOne)	Michael Dick Principal Solutions Architect Dell EMC	This article is a useful guide to Disaster Recovery of clients using NetWorker and Data Domain in a remote site. It demonstrates how to execute effective DR of a NetWorker client using NetWorker clones and Data Domain fast copy to an existing or new NetWorker server without the need to recover this NetWorker server using a bootstrap backup.
	Unmasking Delusions Of CI/HCI Converge And Conquer	Hyper Converged Infrastructure	Shashank Shekhar SE Analyst Dell EMC	This article examines what Converged/Hyper-Converged Infrastructure actually is and how marketing myths can be unmasked while highlighting reality. An analysis is provided of the benefits of CI/HCI, challenges in developing this technology, and future trends.
	Big Data Fuels Autonomous Cars	Big Data	Jumana Bayoumy Associate System Engineer Analyst Dell EMC and Moustafa Hisham System Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	The idea of autonomous cars will restructure every industry that depends on the vehicle, from taxis to car manufacturing, buses and trucking. This article explains how Big Data is essential to self-driving cars, exposing readers to the world of autonomous cars, illustrating their architecture, and how they work.
August	Elastic Cloud Storage Sizing	Isilon	Poorna Chandra Prashanth C Senior Systems Engineer Analyst Dell EMC – Presales Shared Services	Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) provides a complete software defined object storage platform designed for today’s cloud scale storage requirements. This article provides a high level overview of the basic steps in sizing the ECS Appliance using Dell EMC best practices.
	Going Green with Micro Data Centers	Open	Anthony Dutra Sr. Analyst, Sales Operations Dell EMC	This article discusses the emergence of micro data centers, what expectations are beginning to develop within the interested community which turns the idea into a viable industry, and how such data centers are (or have the potential) to contribute to “green data center” company initiatives.
	2 TIER is the Future	Open	Samuel Thomas Associate System Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies Vijayakumar Ravindran Sr Advisor, IT Infrastructure Dell Technologies Ananya Das Associate System Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies and Swetha Sounder Associate System Engineer Analyst Dell Technologies	This article discusses features of 2 TIER and explains why Dell EMC believes this is designed for Third Platform.
September	The Miraculous World of Solid-State Drive	Open	Bruce Yellin Data Center Architect	This article explains the intricacies of solid-state storage. Readers will learn about the popular interfaces and form factors available, gain an understanding of IOPs and latencies, how to evaluate SSD TCO, and examine the art of SSD benchmarking. Future innovations such as storing data by heating molecules in Phase-Change Memory and the radical idea of saving multiple values using resistance in a device called the Memristor are also discussed.
	Big Data Etymology and Enough of the ETL Already	Big Data	Curtis Breville Advisory Systems Engineer Dell EMC	Extract-transform-load (ETL) remains a tedious and time-consuming process in the world of predictive analytics. This article draws attention to the concerns around ETL for data transformation software vendors to address and provide insight to today’s alternatives to ETL.
	NFV: Instigation of Telecom Transformation	Cloud Open/Open	Sara Nouh Systems Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Mariam Kiryakos Associate Systems Engineer Analyst Dell EMC Reem Mansour, Systems Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This article discusses business needs that have emerged for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and how the transformation in industry is in need of agile yet efficient infrastructures. The Provider Cloud System (PCS) architecture is explained along with examples of POC proposals showing how flexible and customizable PCS can be, general benefits of PCS, and its effect on CapEx/OpEx.
October	Cloud-Native: The Gate to Transforming the Platform	Cloud Solutions	Jumana Bayoumy, Reem Mansour, Omar El-Tawil, and Nayera Soliman	This article explains Native Hybrid Cloud (NHC) and introduces Platform as a Service (PaaS) along with its architecture and components and describes how such a model is effective in application development for many of the most powerful companies in the IT industry.
	Security of IoT: Challenges,Concern, and Solutions	Open	Rakshith R	This article explores security challenges, security concerns, and privacy considerations that arise with Internet of Things technology, and what can and should be done to protect from being attacked by hackers.
	Preliminaries Of Data Science	Big Data	Vinay Kothamasi Manager 1, SE Analyst, Dell EMC Aroun Kesavaraj Senior SE Analyst	This article discusses fundamentals of data science including methods to formalize the data science process, probability and statistics, data cleansing and manipulation, and data visualization and hypothesis testing. A sample case study concludes the article.
November	Exploratory Data Analysis – Playing with the Data	Big Data	Shreegowri M B SE Analyst Dell EMC	This article examines exploratory data analysis (EDA) and how it is used in Big Data Analytics. Also discussed are methods for EDA and how those techniques are used to summarize the data to discover insights from the data sets.
	Software-defined Hyperconvergence through DevOps	Open	Ravi Kumar SriramuluSenior Advisor, SE Analyst Dell EMC and Sriram Chandrasekar Senior Advisor, SE Analyst Dell EMC	This article describes how Dell EMC's Hyperconverged platform and DevOps' Continuous Delivery approach can help organizations deliver quality services to their customers in less time - enabling organizations more time to innovate and serve their customers better.
	Using News Articles to Predict Stock Price Returns	Big Data	Ricardo Herrmann, Luciano Tozato, Rodrigo Togneri, and Wei Lin	This article outlines a proposal to predict the changes in stock market prices from both structured (stock price time series) and unstructured (news articles) data. Both soiurces of information combined are analyzed so that the combined approach can be compared to the purely quantitative approach and understand the relationship between news' inferred sentiments and the prices of stocks they refer to.
	Artificial Intelligence To Redefine Business	Open	Raksha Nayak Software Engineer Dell EMC	This article describes how, by relying on Artificial intelligence, retailers can employ in-depth techniques to gain a deep understanding of consumers and their buying trends through sources such as social media, browsing habits and purchase history, can maximize customers’ spending , encourage customer loyalty and gain enormous values.
December	Central Traffic Management Platform	Big Data	Priya Chandramohan Software Principal Engineer Dell EMC Savitha Bijoy Software Principal Engineer Dell EMC and Shwetha Ravoor Software Principal Engineer Dell EMC	This article discusses various existing road traffic management solutions and an approach to create a smart Centralized Traffic Management Platform (CTMP) by combining existing and new technology.
	IoT - Healer for the Homecare Health Services	Open	Ravikant Kannur Sr. Advisor, SE Analyst Dell EMC – Presales Solution Services	This article discusses the needs, benefits, and effective ways of implementing IoT technology by homecare services providers. Topics include major challenges faced by homecare service providers, how IoT is an inevitable business solution for them, IoT solutions offered by Dell Technologies, and case studies explaining IoT implementation in the homecare industry.
	Managing Unity Arrays with New Generation Tools	Core Tech (Avamar, NW, DD, DPA, SourceOne)	Samuel Thomas and Vijayakumar Ravindran	This article deals with the utilization of PowerShell modules to manage Unity arrays and VSA using REST API. Unity VSA is used in the experiment to illustrate key research findings, with the ultimate goal of managing Unity arrays using PowerShell modules.
	Image Analytics To Detect Green Vegetation	Open	Srinivasan Sivaramakrishnan Data Scientist, Big Data Transformation Dell EMC \| Professional Services Jose Cassio dos Santos, Data Scientist Diego Gallo Data Scientist, Application and Big Data Transformation Dell EMC Services and Wei Lin Sr. Manager and Chief Data Scientist Application and Big Data Transformation Dell EMC Services	Image Analytics focuses on leveraging data science techniques to effectively detect changes between two images which are generally not possible with a naked eye. This article details how Image Analytics will help climate and environmental scientists carry out green land degradation warnings more effectively.
January	Data Warehouse Modernization with Big Data	Big Data	Julio Pereira Advisory Consultant Dell EMC Ricardo Sugawara Advisory Consultant Dell EMC and Juliano Carniel Advisory Consultant Dell EMC	Putting in place a datalake where source data will land and a sandbox to business users can minimize complexity and costs. This article draws attention to the concerns around Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) for data transformation software vendors to address and provide insight into the alternatives to ETL today.
	Data Domain Cloud Tier For Modernized Data Center	Core Tech (Avamar, NW, DD, DPA, SourceOne)	Manasa M Assoc. SE Analyst Dell EMC and MADHAVI LATHA H Assoc. SE Analyst Dell EMC	This article explores the cloud migration process of moving an organization’s onsite business components to the cloud or from one cloud to another. The article offers a synopsis of Data Domain cloud tier features along with use cases, supported systems, replication methodologies, and Data Domain cloud tier policies that enable customers to pay less for cloud storage.
	Counting Sheep in the Datacentre	Big Data	Faisal Choudry	Cloud robotics focuses on robots using technologies within the cloud for access to computational, storage and communication resources. This article discusses in greater detail and by way of practical demonstration, how a robot can utilize cloud computing to process and execute tasks.
	Analytics Driven Smart Community Framework	Open	Wei Lin Chief Data Scientist Application and Big Data/IoT Transformation Dell EMC Services Josh Siegel Director Application and Big Data/IoT Transformation Dell EMC Global Services William Schmarzo CTO Dell EMC Big Data Consulting and Albert Turano Director Application and Big Data/IoT Transformation Dell EMC Global Services	This article discusses a minimum viable IoT analytics framework to establish a proof of value (POV) laboratory. A transportation scenario is presented to showcase the implications of IoT and discuss a work-in-progress demonstration and its setup to be deployed in a POV lab.
February	Journey From Docker To Kubernetes	Open	Eshwar Chandra	This article focuses on container technology and how it's emerging as an important part of the cloud computing infrastructure. It looks at Docker, an open source project that automates the faster deployment of Linux applications, and Kubernetes, an open source cluster manager for Docker containers.
	NetWorker integration a world of surprises	Core Tech (Avamar, NW, DD, DPA, SourceOne)	Mohamed Sohail Solutions Architect Dell EMC Bobby Cogan NetWorker Support - Subject Matter Expert Dell EMC - Cork, Ireland and Shareef Bassiouny Senior Advisor - NetWorker support Dell EMC	This article offers a roadmap toward NetWorker integration that is easy for customers and community experts to understand.
	Movement Analytics: Concepts and Opportunities	Big Data	Paulo Salem Data Scientist Dell EMC Anthony Dutra NY/NJ Mid-Market Project Accountant Dell EMC Grayson Vanderlinde Senior Consultant, Dell EMC and Wei Lin Sr. Manager and Chief Data Scientist Dell EMC	The technology to measure and influence movement is already available, and yet our theoretical understanding is just beginning. This article will help the reader gain a better understanding of movement analytics and, in this way, be better positioned for further and deeper explorations.
	Data Visualization – Thinking With Your Eyes	Big Data	Kavyashree H V Software Senior Engineer Dell EMC Ramachandra Thejasvi Software Principal Engineer Dell EMC and Shwetabh Srijan Associate Software Principal Engineer Dell EMC	Data visualization is a general technique of using graphs/maps to display trends, patterns and exceptions in data to uncover the underlying information. This article discusses the significance of data visualization, different forms/techniques of visualizations, when to use what, and how to arrive at the choice.
March	IT Infrastructure Endgame	Open	Ravi Kumar Sriramulu Senior Advisor, Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This articles explores the charecteristics of an open infrastructure platform defined by software, which can take various forms and shapes at the click of a button, can scale rapidly to meet demands, supports various platforms, consumes less resources to manage/provision and is designed as a lights-out environment.
	Customer Prospecting for a Biotech Company	Big Data	Tony Ku Advisory Consultant Dell EMC Fernanda Campello DeSouza Senior Consultant Dell EMC Marie Breton Senior Solutions Principal Dell EMC and Wei Lin Senior Manager, Chief Data Scientist Dell EMC	This article describes the development of an analytical framework for biotech customer identification and prospecting that makes use of publicly available information.
	Cloud drive	Cloud Open	Suhas BK Software Engineer Dell EMC Sudeep Mathew Director, Software Engineering Dell EMC and Krishna Gudipudi Software Senior Principal Engineer Dell EMC	Normally a Storage Array constitutes of 3 Drive types – Flash, SAS, NL-SAS. This paper describe how a new tier (Cloud) can be provided to already constructed storage pools by adding a new drive which helps to tier the coldest data to Cloud. On Unity VSA it can be achieved with the help of LX Fusion Driver.
	R-Tree & Its Variants In Spatial Analysis	Big Data	Raksha Nayak Software Engineer Dell EMC	R-Tree (Rectangle-tree) has undergone numerous experiments and modifications over the years to make it more efficient, resulting in a number of variants such as R* tree, R+ tree, and Priority & Hilbert R-Tree. This article provides detailed Rectangle-tree (R-Tree) and variants’ data structures, their efficiency study and in depth understanding of how they can be applied to the real world.
April	Spintronic Memories: A Revolution To Data Storage	Open	Duniya Dechamma K N Sales Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This article provides insight to how Spin Transistors can be used to create Magnetoresistive Random-Access Memory (MRAM) which will be Non-Volatile. The article highlights how chips built out of spin transistors would be faster and more powerful than traditional transistors.
	The Internet of Things and Us \| How to Sustain our Domain	Open	Paul Brant Senior Education Consultant Dell EMC and Josh Lavnder	This article discusses the technologies, infrastructure requirements, processes and approaches in making the world a better and safer place. It describes how the world will benefit from combining security, trust and communication going beyond IoT to enable sustainable growth and longevity.
	Demystifying Software Defined Datacentre	Cloud Open/Open	Anuj Sharma Advisor Solutions Architecture Dell EMC	This article discusses a recommended approach to transforming and building a software-defined data center (SDDC), focusing on the analysis and thought process required when choosing SDDC components. Best practices for various layers and topology of SDDC are also included.

2016

The 2016 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards at the ceremony.

L-R Joe Milardo, Sr. Director, EMC Education Services; Joshua Siegel, Wei Lin, Brian Dehn, Mikhail Gloukhovtsev, Terence Johny, Bill Schmarzo. Anthony Dutra, William Lupo, Jennifer St. Hill, Vice President. EMC Education Services.

Title	Author(s)	Thumbnail Summary
2016 Competition First Place Winner Bringing the Cloud to the Edge	Terence Johny Solutions Architect EMC	This article examines the existing Cloud Computing landscape and contemplates its place in the “Things to Come” era of computing. The idea of extending the cloud and bringing it to the edge of the compute endpoints – something that is now being called “The Fog” – is introduced and discussed in-depth.
2016 Competition Second Place Winner How Technology is Changing Finance	Anthony Dutra and Bill Delmont Lupo	This article explores the diverse tech opportunities within finance, and offers insight to how today’s emerging tools will evolve the long-standing relationship of finance and technology.
2016 Competition Third Place Winner Object Storage Chargeback	Brian Dehn Principal Systems Engineer EMC	This article provides an overview of object storage, differentiates it from more traditional types of storage, introduces EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), and explains how ViPR SRM can be used to meet reporting requirements through built-in reports and powerful customization features.
2016 Competition Best of Big Data Cardholder Attrition Analysis and Treatments Framework	Wei Lin Sr Manager, Chief Data Scientist and Principal Consultant EMC Joshua Siegel Director EMC William D. Schmarzo Principal Solutions Architect EMC	This article explores how to use a Big Data approach to perform Individualized Cardholder Attrition Analysis to maximize profit by Churn Reduction. The article focuses on Issuer Processors who process transactions for Issuing Banks.
2016 Competition Best Migration Cloud Migration and Inter-cloud Mobility Aspects	Mikhail Gloukhovtsev Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect Orange Business Services	This article considers challenges and solutions associated with cloud migrations, focusing on the technology and methodology of the application and related data migration solutions from the practitioner’s point of view.

2016 Articles Selected for Publishing
	Title	Category	Author(s)	Thumbnail Summary
July	Plan a Path to Your Dream Job	Other	Sharon March PMP Manager, Cisco Technical Team, Avnet Technology Solutions	This article discusses how to look at your certification options, what to look for to meet your needs, and how to not only get started, but reach your goal.
	A Journey to a Self-healing IoT-enabled Data Center	Cloud	Mohamed Sohail, Data Protection and Availability Specialist, EMC Sameh Gad, Senior Consultant, EMC Yosef Boray PhD student, Menofya University and Said Tabet IoT and Financial Services Technologist, OCTO, EMC	This article addresses the concept of self-healing data centers, capable of autonomously detecting potential failures before they occur and to adjust its configuration to achieve optimal function at all times.
	Video Content Streaming from Webtop	Document Management	Alvaro de Andres Documentum Technical Consultant, Atos Spain	This article discusses a solution that allows any H.264/MPEG-4 (.mp4 file) to be streamed from Documentum Content Server to Webtop and played by the MediaElments.js video player, which supports HTML5 playback.
	Continuous Application Protection	Data Protection	Shreyas Bhagavath Devasya Systems Engineer Analyst, EMC and Shivasharan NarayanaGowda Software Engineer Developer EMC	This article explore continuous crash-consistent copies, and application consistent copies and discusses how Continuous Application Protection would achieve zero-RTO.
	Emerging Trends in Storage - Evaluating Future Directions	Storage	Antony Jesa Manager, BI and Analytics Operations, EMC and Vijayakumar Ravindran Cloud Infrastructure Admin, EMC	This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the latest developments happening in the field of magnetic storage as well as flash and SSDs and how we may have to arrive at a judicious mix of these technologies in order to deliver the best value proposition to the business.
August	B2B – Social Media Analytic and Life Cycle Management	Big Data and Analytics	Shoukathali Chandrakandi Senior Software Engineer EMC Ajith Gopinath Senior Software Engineer EMC Soorya MG Senior Software Engineer EMC Mubeer Badayil Senior Software Engineer EMC	This article discusses a framework of tools and resources to listen to relevant online social media activity and then perform intelligent analytics on the collected data to convert the insights into actionable product and process strategies.
	“Storage as a Service” - the First Steps	Cloud	Geoff Clarke Senior Storage Specialist ASB Bank Limited	This article demonstrates how to set up a simple “Storage as a Service” capability using Automation and Orchestration plus basic storage provisioning scripts.
	Improve Data Protection (Backup) Success Rate	Data Protection	Mahendranag Jayanthi Systems Architect Tech Mahindra	This article explores how the backup administrator's intuition to automate will reduce effort and improve backup success rate.
	Fostering Innovation through Systemic Diversity	Other	David Silva Salesforce.com Release Manager EMC Matthew Wilson Salesforce.com Sr. Business Systems Analyst EMC Archana Kamath Salesforce.com Application Manager EMC Manasa Udupi Associate IT Generalist EMC	This article focuses on why diversity is important in innovation, how diversity can speed innovation, and how the Diversity Engine and Team Building Algorithm can be used as a method of crowdsourcing innovation within a company.
September	Computer Science Helps Shield Earth From Asteroids	Big Data and Analytics	Bruce Yellin Data Center Architect	This article covers the aspects of computer science fundamental to astronomy, allowing the reader insight into the leading edge approaches to asteroid detection and the actions that could one day lead to the survival of civilization itself.
	Web Services Using OpenStack	Other	George Philip C Associate Professor Department of Information Science & Engineering M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore Manish Kumar Final Year BE Student Department of Information Science & Engineering M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore Pranab Kumar Final Year BE Student Department of Information Science & Engineering M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore Patan Amanullah Khan, Final Year BE Student Department of Information Science & Engineering M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore	This article focuses on setting up a cloud infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS), providing services over the cloud and optimizing storage space, implementing best Security and Network protocols to provide secure and efficient access to the cloud, development of a Web Application to access Swift Object Storage Server, and development of Load Balancer to manage network traffic.
	Invisible Robots	Other	Azhagarasu A Systems Engineer Analyst EMC	This article provides insight to how software is changing the world, the type of infrastructure that is needed for such intellegent sotware-driven services, and what the future may look like.
	Isilon Tunning – L3 Cache Reducing Latencies	Storage	Vinicius Viteri Storage Specialist Locaweb and Luiz Pissinatti Account Manager EMC	This article discusses the steps, concerns, activities, and especially the benefits achieved by using SSDs as L3 Cache for metadata acceleration.
October	Machine Learning Working Towards a Better Future	Other	Ataulla Fareed Pasha System Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This article explores some Machine Learning techniques and how these techniques are used practically.
	Case Study: Data Center Refresh Project	Cloud	Jason Gates Data Center Architect Presidio and Randall Borge Senior Network Architect Presidio	This article presents a case study that focuses on design considerations for a data center refresh project such as advanced concepts, load balancers, iSCSI, virtual port channels, and more.
	Documentum Installation Automation using Chef	Document Management	Sushant Sonker, Gonzalo Hernandez Casaseca, and Jason Sanghi	This article provides detailed insight to how the Documentum Content Server(D7), Webpublisher, D2, Integrated Delivery Services (IDS) Target, xPlore, etc. can be installed using Chef recipes.
	Improving Customer Prospecting in Wealth Management	Other	John Vide Engagement Lead, Big Data Dell EMC Wei Lin Sr. Manager & Chief Data Scientist - Big Data Dell EMC Fernanda Campello de Souza Sr. Data Scientist Dell EMC Martin Costa Advisory Consultant Dell EMC and Mauro Damo Sr. Data Scientist Dell EMC	This article proposes a model that can be utilized by wealth management firms and senior advisors prospecting for more lucrative clients as well as for junior advisors looking to grow their book of business through more clients.
November	High Availbility as a Service	Cloud	Mohamed Sohail Data Protection and Availability Specialist Dell EMC Emanuela Caramagna System Engineer Pure Storage Sameh Gad Senior Consultant Dell EMC	This article focuses on EMC High Availability stack in virtualized environments, pointing out the basic concepts of VMware high availability model and how that can be applied to provide strict service level agreements on applications availability.
	The Art of Digital Jujutsu	Other	Mohammed Hashim Practice Manager Cognizant Technology Solutions	This article discusses the crucial role of Digital artisans, Data democratization, various drivers and barriers, business impact of digitization, and the future of digital transformation is explored.
	Vblock Sizing	Converged Infrastructure	Poorna Chandra Prashanth C Senior Systems Engineer Analyst Dell EMC	This article provides a high-level overview of the basic steps in sizing the infrastructure, and best practices for all layers in Vblock.
	Welcome to NoSQL	Big Data and Analytics	Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Dell	This article provides a summary of research into the four main categories of NoSQL databases and when to use each type, the relationship between Hadoop and NoSQL technologies, and Big Data Analytic platform support for NoSQL.
	Reporting Next Level - Easy Reports with xCP	Infrastructure Management	Doina Derevciuc and Serghei Derevciuc	This article is aimed at those who are using xCP to build systems or have systems based on xCP and want to transform and ease the Report Design process.
December	AMI Treatment Cost & Predictive Mortality Analysis	Big Data and Analytics	Shilang (Victor) Wang Advisory Consultant Dell EMC and Steve Steklenski Principal Data Scientist HCL America Inc.	This article takes a close look at the key factors affecting in-patient mortality and compares treatment cost on the basis of risk standardization and regional cost variation.
	Improving Read Rates from Captiva Extraction	Other	James Kave Sr. Architect Dell EMC	This article discusses methods for improving read percentage and thereby reduce the manual effort (People Hours) to data complete the forms in Captiva Completion.
	Availability and Network Capacity	Infrastructure Management	Jeffery Jimes Advisory Consultant Dell EMC Ricardo Herrmann Advisory Consultant, Data Scientist Dell EMC Wei Lin Sr. Manager and Chief Data Scientist – Big Data Dell EMC Kiranmai Sarabu Senior Forensic Technology Associate PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC	This article proposes a methodology to identify available sections in a network that present cost saving opportunities for telecommunications carriers in a way that is not overwhelmed by choices that may not be the lowest cost option.
	Telecom Data Monetization via Big Data Analytics	Big Data and Analytics	Mona Fahmy Business Systems Analyst, Enterprise Analytics - Global IT Dell EMC Mohamed Alaa Senior IT Business Partner, Global IT Dell EMC Nashwa AbolFettouh Senior IT Business Partner, Global IT Dell EMC	This article emphasizes how descriptive and predictive big data analytics can drive the competitiveness of Telecom operators and present more monetization opportunities and new revenue streams from capitalizing on their data.
	Future of Enterprise Mobility with SPDY & Multipath TCP	Infrastructure Management	Ashish Bijawat Principal Architect Dell Technologies and Barun Pandey Principal Architect Dell Technologies	This article explains SPDY and Multipath TCP protocol followed by a case of how it can fit with existing Enterprise Mobility infrastructure (MDM/MAM) to provide a future- proof solution for different Enterprise Mobility solutions.
January	Data Lake White Board Pitch	Big Data and Analytics	Evan Shelley Dell	The whiteboard presented in this Knowledge Sharing video submission provides a different way to present the idea of a Data Lake to a customer.
	Storage Sizing for SAP HANA TDI on VMAX3	Infrastructure Management	Sriram Chandrasekar Advisory Systems Engineer Analyst Dell	This article provides a high level understanding of the HANA components and helps pre-sales system engineers who do not have prior knowledge on SAP HANA to arrive at a baseline solution with relatively fewer steps.
	Set-Top Box Analytics	Big Data and Analytics	Srinivasan Sivaramakrishnan Dell EMC Amarendra Tummala, Dell EMC Luciano Tozato Dell EMC and Wei Lin Dell EMC	This article provides a methodology for various analytics models that can be used in analyzing a set-top box’s second-by-second clicking behavior from millions of households and help TV Broadcasters change their business models from broad audiences to individual/localized content consumers.
	New Way of Planning - Graphical Test Planning	Other	Jitesh Anand Dell EMC	As Agile methodology and QA becomes embedded into teams, testing time is being reduced. This article proposes a solution – Graphical Test Planning – as a way of creating a test plan without writing the entire documents.
February	Method for Throttling Backup Agent’s Save Process	Data Protection	Sathyamoorthy Viswanathan Staff Engineer Gigamon Ajith Gopinath Senior Software Quality Engineer Dell EMC and Gurrraj Kulkarni Consultant Software Quality Engineer Dell EMC	This article focuses on how to efficiently back up data using the backup application and also enhance server resource efficiency and network bandwidth utilization.
	Data Analytics for Cancer Survival and Treatment	Big Data and Analytics	Sara He Associate Consultant Dell EMC Diego Gallo Data Scientist – Big Data Dell EMC William Schneider Data Scientist Dell EMC and Wei Lin Chief Data Scientist – Big Data Dell EMC	This article discusses the methodology and analysis of genetic information for a specific use case sample of patients suffering from Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, a slow progressing blood cancer.
	Storage Path Optimization for Internet of Things	Infrastructure Management	Mohamed Sohail Data Protection and Availability Expert Dell EMC and Mohamed Esam Solutions Architect Dell EMC	This article discusses ways to address the challenges that IoT bottlenecks present through lab exercises and real world scenarios that aim to reduce dependence on the Internet to upload data generated by IoT devices, which minimizes upload delay.
	What Big Data Can Do For An Entire Nation	Big Data and Analytics	Robson Serafin Technical Support Engineer III Dell EMC	This article describes the main information streams administration members face on daily routines and directs them on how Big Data can be used to help the administration.
March	Automate Your Path to the Cloud with vCO	Cloud	Sudeerpavan Kumar Delivery Specialist Dell EMC \| Professional Services – India COE	This article discusses how customers can automate their complex workload environment by vCenter Orchestrator workflows, saving time, cost, and resources without compromising performance or service quality while gaining better visibility into resource utilization.
	Take Back Control of Your Oracle Database Backups	Data Protection	Chris Mavromatis SME, Data Protection & Availability Solutions Dell EMC \| Technical Support Services	This article describes how with the use of EMC Database App Agent, Oracle DBA’s can easily and efficiently control their database backups, and store it onto a Data Domain array.
	Path to Cloud Migration	Cloud	Chethan Nagaraj Dell EMC	This article explains the motivating factor for cloud migrations, possible benefits, risks involved in cloud migrations, cloud security, identifying and determining if an application is a candidate for cloud migration, and guidelines for selecting the right cloud provider.
April	Target Compound Identification	Other	William Sheerin, Wei Lin, Ronaldo Braga, and Shriya Chintada	This article discusses present work underway to develop a framework that will identify drug compounds that have a greater go-to-market potential.
	OneFS Unified Security Model	Storage	Steffen Thuemmel Advisory Systems Engineer Dell EMC	This article is broken down into a four-part series which explain AIMA (Authentication, Authorisation, and Identity Management), with the focus on practical usage.
	The Vblock, the IoT Gateway and the Sensors	Converged Infrastructure	Sherif Mohsen Services Proposal Consultant Dell EMC	This article examines the potential of providing IT capabilities, not only in the datacenter via Vblocks, but also extending this to include sensor devices and IoT Gateways.
	A Deep Learning Odyssey: How AI Can Help the World	Other	Paul Brant Senior Tech. Ed. Consultant Dell EMC \| Education Services	This article explains and discusses the importance of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data and how they are changing the world.
	DatArt	Big Data and Analytics	Rene Vogt-Lowell Senior Technical Education Consultant Dell EMC	This article examines how the create-consume balance empowers more individuals to be co-creators of our world and how data visualization platforms will continue to flourish, evolve, and beget new platforms.

2015

The 2015 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards at the ceremony.

L-R: David Reiner accepting for Sumit Nigam, Christopher Kusek, Rene Vogt-Lowell, Paul Brant, Vasily Pantyukhin, Bruce Yellin, Mohammed Hashim.

Title	Category	Author(s)
2015 Competition First Place Winner How Computer Science Helps Feed the World	Big Data and Analytics	Bruce Yellin & Stephen Yellin
2015 Competition Second Place Winner A Day in the Life of an Application Developer	Application Development	Rene Vogt-Lowell & Paul Brant
2015 Competition Third Place Winner Software-defined Planet with Internet of Things	Internet of Things	Sumit Nigam
2015 Competition Best of Architecture Principles of Design Diagramming	ViPR, Design Diagramming	Vasily Pantyukhin
2015 Competition Best of IT Transformation Ten Ways To Reduce Cost While Modernizing Your IT	Infrastructure Management	Christopher Kusek
2015 Competition Best of Internet of Things Demystifying Code Halos Through the Lens of IoT	Big Data and Analytics	Mohammed Hashim

2015 Knowledge Sharing Publishing Schedule
July 2015	Protecting IT with NetWorker	Backup Recovery	Aaron Kleinsmith
	ITaaS – Using EHC and VCE to Build your Data Center	Cloud	Sherif Mohsen and Fadi Elhamy
	A Journey into Data Science: Earning the White Coat	Big Data and Analytics	Anthony Dutra
	Project Management: Leadership and Communications	Other - Project Management	Mark Herzog
	The Qualities of an EMC Proven Professional	Other - Professional Development	Charles Weeks
August 2015	Asking the Hard Questions: Reporting in ViPR SRM	Infrastructure Management	Daniel Stafford
	Triple The Bacon’s Data Center of the Future	Other - Vblock Systems	Craig Kensey
	Software-defined Storage: What can it do for you?	Virtualization	Mikhail Gloukhovtsev
	Challenges and Best Practices in KBA Schemes	Security	Prasoon Dwivedi and Geoffrey Thomas
	Big Data & Internet Of Things	Big Data and Analytics	Roudaina Mawy, Ahmed Fahmy, and Hussam Refaat
September 2015	A Language Translation Service for Documentum	Document Management	Scott Roth
	Real-Time Push Notifications using Hybrid Cloud	Cloud	Aneesh Pulukkul
	Unstructured Data – Growth and Challenge	Other - Storage	Shankar Rathinasamy
	Big Data: Terms, Definitions and Applications	Big Data and Analytics	Anuj Mediratta
	VMAX – Performance Boons – ‘The FAST BEA(S)T’	Other - Symmetrix VMAX	Siva Shankari Chandrasekraan
	Efficient Avamar backups over WAN and sizing Links	Backup Recovery	Balaji Panchanathan, Jayalakshmi Suresh, and Pravin AshokKumar
October 2015	Online Migration – Cost Benefits to EMC & Clients	Data Migration	Diwakar Kumar and Jerry Ryan
	Companies Compatible with 3rd Platform	Big Data and Analytics	Mohamed Gombolaty
	Avamar Solutions for Virtualized Infrastructure	Backup Recovery	Balaji Panchanathan, Satchidananda Patra, and Pravin AshokKumar
	VNX Integrations for Optimal Performance	Other - Storage	Omar Aboulfotoh, Mohammed Hashem, Wessam Seleem, and Maha Atef
	7 Steps to Quantify a Converged Solution Opportunity	Other - Converged Solutions Pre-Sales activity	Sharon March
November 2015	Third Platform and e-Learning Ecosystem	Other - Third Platform	Haitham El-Ghareeb
	VADP and VMware Backup Appliance (VBA) Gap Analysis	Virtualization	Mahipat Kulkarni and Preeti Sharma
	Storage Refresh: Commercial Gain Or Cost Drain	Data Migration	Russell Easter
	VDI in BYOD – Boon or Bane?	Virtualization & Security	Vinayak Sivanand
	DPaaS-Factors to Determine Right Architecture	Backup Recovery	Balaji Panchanathan, Pravin Kumar, and Satchidananda Patra
	IoT Data Flood: Is Your Data Center Ready?	Big Data and Analytics	Denis Canty
December 2015	How to Boost SQL Server Backups with Data Domain	Backup Recovery	David Muegge
	LUSTRE HPC FileSystem Deployment Method	Other - High Performance Computing	Upanshu Singhal and Tarun Mathur
	Analytical Case Study of Casino and Resort	Big Data and Analytics	Wei Lin, Bill Schmarzo, and Pedro Desouza
	Generating Value from Big Data	Big Data and Analytics	Babu Analakkat
	Avamar EM to Backup Recovery Manager Transition	Backup Recovery	Vrinda Gopakumar, Mahantesh Ambaljeri, and Prasad Raghuprasad
January 2016	Big Data Analytics for Cyber Security	Big Data and Analytics	Bharath Krishnappa
	Security Patching for Linux Based Appliances	Security	Aditya Lad
	Smart Wearable Glasses – Future Data Center Management	Infrastructure Management	Gnanasoundari Soundarajan and Radhakrishna Vijayan
	IoT - Security & Privacy Perspective	Security	Parameswaran Thangavel
	RecoverPoint Inside VMware Environments	Backup Recovery	Mohamed Gombolaty
February 2016	Big Data Processing Beyond Hadoop and MapReduce	Big Data and Analytics	Ravi Sharda
	Backup consistency - a game of challenges	Backup Recovery	Mohamed Sohail, Emanuela Caramagna, Sameh Gad, and Denis Canty
	Classification of Java Performance Tuning Methods	Other - Application performance tuning techniques	Manzar Chaudhary, Narendra Sharma, and Mudit Verma
	EMC for Cinder and Swift	Cloud	Azhagarasu A
	Data Migration Dashboard – Reporting & Cost Analysis	Data Migration	Diwakar Kumar and Jerry Ryan
March 2016	Co$t effective cloud application architectures	Cloud	Sumit Nigam
	Key Practices for A Healthy NAS on Cloud	Infrastructure Management	Sujith Kumar and Krishna Prasad
	EBR Appliance – Restore from clone	Backup Recovery	Alessio Casagrande
	SSL/TLS Security and Troubleshooting	Security	Aditya Lad and Prasoon Dwivedi
	Real Time Analysis for Aircraft using EMC Labs	Other - Merging Current Infrastructure to Process Exascale Data using Virtual Layer	Youseff Essa, Ayman Elsayed, Sayed ElDawy, and Gamal Mahrouce
	A Digital Strategy for Leveraging ECM in Public Transit	Other - ECM, cloud and digital strategy	Derrick Lau
April 2016	Enterprise Reliability Test for Backup Application	Backup Recovery	Yogesh Suresh, Gururaj Kulkarni, and Ravikumar Madhappan
	VMware Virtual SAN integration with EMC AppSync	Infrastructure Management	Akash Patel
	Deploying x86 and SAPA HANA Environments on VBLOCK	Cloud	Anuj Sharma and Sajid Iqubal
	Mobile Application Security with Open-Source Tools	Security	Sakthivel Rajendran
	Data Protection Technologies for Microsoft Private Cloud	Backup Recovery	Anupam Chakraborty, Sunil Yadav, Soumen Acharya, and Tushar Dethe

2014

The 2014 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards at the ceremony.

L-R: Tom Clancy, Vice President, EMC Education Services, Kalman accepting for Justin Beardsman, Daniel Stafford, Mohammad Hashim, Sumit Nigam, Bharath Krishnappa, Ravi Sharda, Alok Shrivistava, Sr. director, EMC Education Services.

May 2014	Title	Category	Author
	2014 Competition First Place Winner! VDI and The Fast Access to Patient Data Challenge	Business Process	Justin Beardsmore
	2014 Competition Second Place Winner! Anatomy of Business Impact Management using SMAC	Business Process	Mohammed Hashim
	2014 Competition Third Place Winner! Service-Oriented Storage Tiering: A 2014 Approach to a 2004 Problem	Storage	Daniel Stafford
	2014 Competition Best of Big Data Winner! Implications of CAP Theorem on NoSQL Databases	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Ravi Sharda and Bharath Krishnappa
	2014 Competition Best of Troubleshooting! Troubleshooting Java on Linux	Infrastructure Management	Sumit Nigam
	2014 Competition Elite Article! The IT Avengers – Driving Service Solutions to the Third Platform	Relevant Industry Topics	Paul Brant
	2014 Competition Elite Article! A Whole New Ballgame: Leveraging Big Data in Baseball	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Bruce Yellin

2014 Knowledge Sharing Publishing Schedule
July 2014	Storage Security Design - A Method to Help Embrace Cloud Computing	Relevant Industry Topics	Brian Dehn
	Backup optimization “DD Boost” - NetWorker inside	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Shareef Bassiouny, Mohamed Sohail, and Giovanni Gobbo
	Embedded QA in Scrum	Relevant Industry Topics	Jitesh Anand, Chaithra Thimmappa, Vishwanath Channaveerappa, Varun AdemaneMutug uppe, and Neil O’Toole
	Cloud-Optimized REST API Automation Framework	Cloud	Shoukathali C K, Shelesh Chopra, and Gururaj Kulkarni
	NetWorker 8.1 Enterprise Backup Protection for Virtualized Data Center	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Gururaj Kulkarni, Anupam Sharma, and Naveen Rao
	Predictive and Self-healing Data Center Management	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Gnanasoundari Soundarajan, Vijay Gadwal, and Radhakrishna Vijayan
August 2014	Secured Cloud Computing	Security	Gnanendra Reddy
	Avamar Integration with VMware	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Nadine Francis
	2014: An SDS Odyssey	Storage	Jody Goncalves, Rodrigo Alves, and Raphael Soeiro
	Data Domain-Optimized Backup using Networker 8.1	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Gururaj Kulkarni and Soumya Gupta
	Envisioning Precise Risk Models Through Big Data Analytics	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Pranali Humne
	Automation of VPLEX Replication Using REST API	Storage	Vijay Gadwal and Terence Johmy
September 2014	Disk Usage and Trend Analysis of Multiple Symmetrix Arrays Configured with FAST/VP	Storage	Mumshad Mannambeth and Nasia Ullas
	A Journey to Power Intelligent IT	Relevant Industry Topics	Mohamed Sohail, Omar Aboulfotoh, and Denis Canty
	Finding Similar Documents in Documentum Without Using a Full Text Index	Document Management	M. Scott Roth
	Data Structures of Big Data: How They Scale	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Dibyendu Bhattacharya and Manidipa Mitra
	Managing Data Protection for a Better Night’s Sleep	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Gareth Eagar
	NetWorker 8.1: The Next Big Thing	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Anuj Sharma
October 2014	An Approach Toward Security Learning	Security	Aditya Lad
	Simplified Storage Optimization Techniques	Storage	Janarthanan Palanichamy and Akilesh Nagarajan
	Eliminating Level 1 Human Support from IT Management	Infrastructure Management	Amit Athawale and Venkata Jonnavithula
	Installing EMC Control Center on a Windows 2008 Cluster	Infrastructure Management	Kevin Atkin
	Configure NetWorker NDMA Backup for Oracle RAC using Oracle SCAN	Backup Recovery/ Archive	(Arthur) Zhuang- Song Jiang
	Big Data Analytics Modelled Customer Feedback Portal	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Shoukathali Chandrakandi, Shelesh Chopra, and Gururaj Kulkarni
November 2014	What is the Power of RecoverPoint?	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Roy Mikes
	Incorporating Storage with an Open Source Cloud Platform	Cloud	Ganpat Agarwal
	Deciphering the Virtual Data Center	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Andrew Bartley and Rich Elkins
	Illustration of Virtual Provisioning on Symmetrix	Storage	Joanna Liu
	Design and Architecture of Oracle RAC/ASM Clustered Solution	Storage	Armando Rodriguez
	Keep the needed. Archive the rest!	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Kobi Shamama
December 2014	NAS Storage Optimization Using Cloud Tiering Appliance	Cloud	Brijesh Das Mangadan Kamnat
	Impact of Cloud Computing on IT Governance	Cloud	Declan McGrath
	Intelligent QoS for EMC Storage by Leveraging Big Data Analytics	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Yangbo Jiang
	How Analytics Can Help Backup Administrators	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Balaji Panchanathan
	DD Boost Implementation with NetWorker	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Crescenzo Oliviero
	Does Big Data Mean Big Storage?	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Mikhail Gloukhovtsev
January 2015	Health Check and Capacity Reporting for Heterogeneous SAN Environments	Relevant Industry Topics	Mumshad Mannambeth and Sampath Salem
	Detailed Application Migration Process	Relevant Industry Topics	Randeep Singh and Dr. Narendra Singh Bhati
	How Implementing VNX File System Features Can Save Your Life	Storage	Piotr Bizior
	Protecting Your Data Lake: Strategic Or Business As Usual?	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Russell Easter
	The IT Department Becomes a Data Broker	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Nick Bakker and Paul Wu
	How He and She Use CMC	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	A. B. Nicole Parfinovics
February 2015	Securely Enabling Mobility & BYOD in Organizations	Security	Sakthivel Rajendran
	Understanding How I/O Workload Profiles Relate to Performance	Relevant Industry Topics	Stan Lanning
	How I Survived Escalations	Storage	Mumshad Mannambeth and Nasia Ullas
	Cloud-Based Dashboard Provides Analytics to Service Providers	Document Management	Shalini Sharma and Priyali Patra
	Overcoming Challenges in Migrating to a Converged Infrastructure Solution	Storage	Suhas D. Joshi
	Enabling Symmetrix for FAST with FTS for 3rd Party Storage	Storage	Gaurav Roy
March 2015	A New Era for Virtualization team and Storage team Collaboration	Cloud	Moshe Karabelnik
	Storage Performance from the Practical Lens	Storage	Anil C. Sedha and Tommy Trogden
	Smart Talent Acquisition	Business Process	Trupti Kalakari
	TCE @ iCOE GPS	Business Process	Pradeep Mathew, Ranajoy Dutta, Jayasurya Tadiparthi, Gayathri Shenoy, and Athul Jayakumar
	Patterns of Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications	Cloud	Ravi Sharda, Rajesh Pillai, Srinivasa Gururao, and Manzar Chaudhary
	Conceptual Data Mining Framework for Mortgage Default Propensity	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Wei Lin and Pedro Desouza
April 2015	NetWorker Delegation Model for ROBO Environment	Backup Recovery/ Archive	Puneet Goyal
	Connecting the Scattered Pieces for Storage Reporting	Storage	Hok Pui Chan
	New Opportunities @ the Crossroads of M2M & Big Data	Big Data/Predictive Analytics	Prakash Hiremath
	Rethinking Storage for Virtualized Infrastructures	Cloud	Alexey Polkovnikov
	SystemTap for Linux Platforms	Relevant Industry Topics	Mohamed Sohail, Shareef Bassiouny, and Khaled Ahmed
	Storage Security Design - A Method to Help Embrace Cloud Computing	Security	Ahmed Abdel- Aziz

2013

The 2013 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards.

L-R: Tom Clancy, Vice President EMC Education Services, Dibyendu Bhattachary, Manidipa Mitra, Moshe Karabelnik, Shareef Bassiouny, Anand Subramanian, Aditya Lad, Paul Brant, Bruce Yellin, Alok Shrivistava, Sr. Director, EMC Education Services.

Months	Title	Category	Author
May	Security hardening of a Linux-based appliance	Security	Aditya Lad and Anand Subramanian
	NetWorker integration for optimal performance	NetWorker	Mohamed Sohail and Shareef Bassiouny
	Analytics on Big FAST Data using a Real Time Stream Data Processing Architecture	Predictive Analytics	Dibyendu Bhattacharya and Manidipa Mitra
	Building better Management Storage Reports for unified storage systems	Storage Management	Moshe Karabelnik
	The Software-defined Data Center - The three Caballeros finally have their cloudy day	Data Center	Paul Brant
	Leveraging Big Data to Battle Cyber Threats – A New Security Paradigm	Big Data/Security	Bruce Yellin

2013 Knowledge Sharing Publishing Schedule
July	Optimizing Solutions for Atmos	Atmos	Krasimir Miloshev
	The Personal Cloud Goes to the Dogs	Cloud	Chad DeMatteis
	Understanding VMware Infrastructure needs: Save Money	VMware	Kobi Shamama
	Rapid VPLEX Capacity Planner with XML/Perl/Sqlite	VPLEX	Mintulal Debnath and Salem Sampath
August	Big Data Backup Considerations and Best Practices	Backup	Emanuela Caramagna
	Agile Data Center Virtualization and Consolidation	Data Center	Suhas D. Joshi
	A Bare-metal Perspective – The Mobile Hypervisor	Mobile	Amit Wadhwa
	Effectively Managing Large IT Infrastructure Projects	Project Management	Glenn Dunnington
September	Cloud Computing – Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices	Cloud	Lokesh Seramalanna
	The Business Should Care About Digital E-waste	Data Management	Nick Bakker
	Think Like an Entrepreneur: Recognizing Opportunities for IT Transformation	Innovation	Joseph A. Llano, Brian T. Brew, Kevin D. Feller, John P. Klinck
	Preventing a VMAX VP Pool Full Condition Through Proper Monitoring and Configuration	Symmetrix	Eric Williams
October	Demystifying Avamar Key Concepts and Features	Avamar	Arun Velumani and Anay Pathak
	Does Cloud Storage Portend “Creation by Destruction” of Traditional Storage?	Cloud	Mikhail Gloukhovtsev
	Transforming Storage Resource Management	Storage Management	Russell Easter
	The Key to Successfully Sizing a VDI Project	Virtualization	Housna Hamadet
November	Backup Appliance Deduplication Efficiencies and Capacity Planning Demystified	Deduplication	Peter Marelas
	Backing Up SAP MaxDB/Lifecache Using NetWorker 8.0	NetWorker	Michael Dick
	Self-Assessment in your RecoverPoint Installation	RecoverPoint	Alexandre Zancope
	Configuration and Implementation of EMC VNX Storage	VNX	Octavio Guerra
December	LaaS: Enabling On-Demand Lab Services	Cloud	Andrew Bartley, Jochen De Smet, and Jonathan Hayden
	Cyber Warfare-How to Fight the Electronic War	Security	Smitha Mave
	Design, Build, and Management of Planned Big Data Environments	Data Center	Alan Senior
	Storage Array Management with Mobile Apps	Storage Management	Vincenzo Orlando
January	The Importance of Opportunity Recognition Within Innovation	Innovation	David J. Silva
	Best of Vs and Troubleshooting Methodologies	VPLEX, VMAX, VNX	Anuj Sharma
	Improved NetWorker JobsDB Performance with NetWorker 8.0	NetWorker	Gururaj Kulkarni and Soumya Gupta
February	Capacity: The Key Ingredient of an Agile Cloud Infrastructure	Cloud	Amrith Raj Radhakrishnan
	Strengthening Evidence Through Smarter Infrastructure Design	Data Center	Jason E. Ventresco
	NetWorker Gears Up for Cloud Transformation and Multi-Tenancy	NetWorker	Anuj Sharma
March	What, Why, and How of Cloud Storage Gateway	Cloud	Balaji Panchanathan
	Flash Gordon: Saving the Data Center Universe	Flash	Paul Brant
	EMC Data Domain Efficiency Evaluation	Data Domain	Erico Silva
April	Data Center Upgrade-The Backbone of the Business	Data Center	Puneet Goyal
	NDMP Index processing Overhead: A Performance Case Study for NetWorker	NetWorker	Gururaj Kulkarni
	Cloud-based Mobile Notification System	Mobile	George Philip C, Abhijeet Das, Abhilash Chandra, Bhavin Vadalia, and Bidusha Agarwal

2012

The 2012 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards at the ceremony.

L-R: Alok Shrivastava Sr. Director, EMC Education Services, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, John Bowling, Ghenadie Starsii, John Klinck, Joseph Llano, Kevin Feller, Brian Brew, Vasily Pantyukhin, Bruce Yellin, Tom Clancy, Vice President, EMC Education Services.

Month	Title	Category	Author(s)
May 2012	Implementing Effective Transformation: The Human Factor	Transformation	Joseph Llano Kevin Feller John P. Klinck Brian T. Brew
	Infrastructure Assessments Cookbook: Ingredients, Techniques, and Secret Sauces	Infrastructure	Vasily Pantyukhin
	"V" to the Max	VMax	John Bowling
	Introducing GRACE 2020 - A Cloud Computing Blueprint	Cloud	Bruce Yellin
	Real Time Searching of Big Data Using Hadoop, Lucene, and Solr	Big Data	Dibyendu Bhattacharya
	A New Approach to Sending Mail in Documentum	Content Management	Ghenadie Starsii

2012 Knowledge Sharing Publishing Schedule
July 2012	GREENPLUM: Data Protection and High Availability	Greenplum	Sumit Gupta Puneet Goyal
	Rapid Performance Analysis Using SQLite Weight Methodology	Data Analysis	Salem Sampath Santhosh Peter
	IOPS Requirements for EMC NetWorker	NetWorker	Gururaj Kulkarni Vladimir Mandic
August 2012	Big Data & Analytics MapReduce/Hadoop – A programmer’s perspective	Hadoop	Tushar Telichari
	Combining Best-of-Breed Infrastructure Solutions To a Cloud Platform for Service Providers	Cloud	Timo Drews
	Use of Metrics to Achieve Information Value	Data Analysis	Daniel Borba
September 2012	Backup Strategy definition & control	Backup	Emanuela Caramagna
	A new method for Automated Pools Rebalancing	Virtual Provisioning	Krasimir Miloshev
	Integrating VMware Site Recovery Manager with VNX MirrorView/A	VMware	Jason Gates
October 2012	Storage Service Levels – Chargeback and Capacity Planning In a FAST World	Service Levels	Brian Dehn
October 2012	Atomizing Cloud Service Delivery with Analytics & Mobility	Analytics	Mohammed Hashim
November 2012	Big Data: The big challenge	Isilon	Puneet Goyal
	Creating & Implementing Performance-Transparent Pools for FLARE-based arrays	CLARiiON	James Cordes
	EMC NetWorker Script based backup	NetWorker	Upanshu Singhal
December 2012	Information Footprint and Challenges in 21st Century	Sustainability	Shruit Agrawal
	Can RAID Technology Continue to Protect Our Data in the Year 2020?	Cloud	Bruce Yellin
	Necessity of Information Governance and Cloud	Information Governance	Sonali Bhavsar
January 2013	xCP – Bridge to an Intelligent World!	Documentum	Mouli Ponnupandy
January 2013	Physical To Virtual: A Reclamation Story	Virtualization	Aaron Baldie
February 2013	VNX – The Storage [R]evolution - A Comparative Approach with Other Storage Platforms	VNX	Siva Shankari Chandrasekaran
February 2013	The Power of Cloud Computing Comes To Smart Phones	Mobile	Neeraj Bharwani
March 2013	Information Intelligence for Microsoft SharePoint	Documentum	Mercy Ponnupandy
	Meeting Big Data Challenges with EMC ISILON Storage Systems	Isilon	Anuj Sharma
	Enterprise D2D Backup Implementation Made Easy	Data Domain	Olumide Ademidun
April 2013	EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint Connectors Comparison	Documentum	Pablo Pilon Felipe Schimith Batista
	ROI and TCO- Two Winning Factors for Any Deal!	ROI/TCO	Randeep Singh
	Virtualized Creativity Applied concepts on VMware & VNXe Storage	VMware	Ramiro Canovas

2011

The 2011 Knowledge Sharing Winners accept their awards.

L-R: Bruce Yellin, Best of Cloud Winner; Luiz Pissinatti; Vasily Pantyukhin, Second Place Winner; Sonail Bhavsar.

Month	Title	Category	Author
May	Data Warehouse Fundamentals for Storage Professionals - What You Need to Know	Data Warehousing	Bruce Yellin
	A Practical Approach to Centralization of Records	Content Management	Sonali Bhavsar
	3D SAN Audit - The Most Effective Methodology to Assess Your Infrastructure	SAN	Vasily Pantyukhin
	Data Protection in a Nutshell - A Tiered Approach	Data Protection	Luiz Pissinatti
	Data Migration - Best Way to Do It?	Data Migration	Randeep Singh

2011 Knowledge Sharing Publishing Schedule
July	NetWorker Data Migration—EDL to Physical Tape	Backup and Recovery	Gurpreet Dhillon
	Optimizing IT Services using Cloud, Data Center, and Adherence to Compliance Standards	Cloud	Amrith Raj Radhakrishnan
	Using SE Configchecker for Checking Software Compatible Pre-requisites for Symmetrix	Symmetrix	Parthasarathi Ilangovan
August	SnapSure Space Management and Performance	Celerra and CLARiiON	Frank Zhao and Kevin Xu
	Using a Building Block Approach for Scaling Enterprise Storage	Storage	Mark Rogov
	VPLEX: Interesting Use Cases	Virtualization	Sandeep Choudhary and Puneet Goyal
September	Synergistic Opportunity Between DiskXtender and PowerPath	Archive	Vinay Parthasarathy
	Global Scale Documentum Implementation—Design Considerations	Content Management	Sameer Patil
	Host integration with EMC Storage Arrays	SAN	Upanshu Singhal and Shelesh Chopra
October	Riding the Clouds—Best Practices in Data Center Transformation into the Next Century	Cloud	Paul Brant
	Architectural Plans for Enabling a Dynamic Data Center for Today and in the Future	Storage	Puneet Goyal
	Automating EMC Ionix ControlCenter Host Agent Deployment and Maintenance Process	Storage Management	Mehmet Ozdemir
November	A System Administrator’s Approach to Monitoring Avamar	Backup and Recovery	Kelly Mills
	Celerra Disk Reconfiguration and Advanced Management	Celerra and CLARiiON	James Ingle
	Information-in-Motion (IiM)	Storage	Lalit Mohan
December	Why Cloud Computing?	Cloud	Bashanta Phukon
December	Fibre Channel over Ethernet for Beginners	Storage Networking	Bruce Yellin
January	Integrating and Troubleshooting VMware with EMC CLARiiON: Deep Dive	Celerra and CLARiiON	Jason L. Gates
January	EMC SAN Copy Migration—A Complete Experience	SAN	Dinesh Pahari
February	Convergenomics of FCoE	Storage Networking	Akshat Sawhney and Sahil Gupta
February	Discovering VIO Relationships for EMC Arrays	Virtualization	Ewa Nowatkowska-Glowacz
March	How to Start Your Disaster Recovery in this "Cloudy" Landscape	Backup and Recovery	Roy Mikes
	Deadly Trio Integration	Cloud	Anuj Sharma
	Storage Capacity Management: Simplicity Is Efficiency	Storage	Olumide Ademidun
April	NetWorker Best Practices with Automation	Backup and Recovery	Ajit Kumar Rath
	A Guide to Enterprise Content Management	Content Management	Mouli Ponnupandy
	Entering Yottabyte Era using Enterprise Flash Drive Technology	Storage	Milan K Mithbaokar

2010

The 2010 Knowledge Sharing Winners at the celebration.

L-R: Sejal Joshi, John Bowling, Ben Dingley, John Shubeck, Denis Guyadeen, Paul Brant, Rajaneesh Sasidharan, Mohammed Hashim, Ken Guest.

Month	Title	Category	Author
May	Above the Clouds - Best Practices in Creating a Sustainable Computing Infrastructure to Achieve Business Calue and Growth	1st place	Paul Brant, EMC
	Applying Composite Data Deduplication to Simplify Hybrid Clouds	2nd place	Mohammed Hashim and Rejaneesh Sasidharan
	SAN Performance - Getting the Most 'Bang' for the Buck	3rd Place	John Bowling, Private Financial Institution
	How to Trust the Cloud - "Be Careful up There"	Best of Cloud	Paul Brant and Denis Guyadeen, EMC
	The Convergence Factor - When IT Service Silos Collide	Best of Skills	Ben Dingley, EMC
	Growing Storage Area Network Consolidation and Migration: Is it for You?	Best of Consolidation	Sejal Joshi and Ken Guest, Large Telecom Company

2010 Knowledge Sharing Publishing Schedule
July	A Practical Approach to Data Loss Prevention to Protect your Company’s Intellectual Assets	Security	Sonali Bhavsar, Paragon Solutions
	Save Costs on Email Infrastructure: Obtain Value-Added Benefits of eMail Retention and Archiving	Archive	Satheesh MC, PMC-Sierra
	The Illusion of Space and the Science of Data Compression and Deduplication	Storage	Bruce Yellin, EMC
	Documentum Disaster Recovery Implementation	Content Management	Narsingarao Mirilaya, EMC
August	Enhancing Throughput with Multi-Homed Feature in NetWorker Storage Mode	Backup and Recovery	Gururaj Kulkarni and Anand Subramanian, EMC
	Building a Knowledge Management System with Documentum	Content Management	Kaiyin Hu, EMC and Hongfeng Sun, PATAC
	How to Shrink a LUN or MetaLUN with CLARiiON CX4	CLARiiON	Markus Langenberg, Fujitsu Technology Solutions
September	Role of EMC Storage in the Media Industry	Storage	Preethi Vasudevan
	EMC PowerSnap Implementation - Challenges & Examples	Backup and Recovery	Hrvoje Crvelin, Orchestra Service
	Zero-Cost Single Sign-On for Documentum Web Applications with Integrated Windows Authentication	Content Management	Fangjian Wu, Booz Allen Hamilton
	RAID! Digital Forensics, SANs, and Virtualization	Security	Charles Brooks, EMC
October	Design Considerations for Block-Based Storage Virtualization Applications	Virtualization	Venugopal Reddy, EMC
	Understanding In-Depth Documentum Security	Content Management	Narsingarao Mirilaya, EMC
	Building a ControlCenter Infrastructure in a Windows 2003 Clustered Environment	Resource Management	Kevin Atkin, Thomson Reuters
	Designing Documentum Applications, A Multi-Dimensional Challenge	Application Integration	Jacob Willig, Lazymen/ Match First
November	Enterprise Content Management: Yesterday's Lessons and Today's Challenges	Content Management	Himakara Pieris, Daedel Constulting
	The Union of Backup-Based Snapshot Technology and Data Deduplication	Backup and Recovery	Chris Mavromatis, EMC
	Failure Points in Storage Configurations: From the Application to the Physical Disk	Storage	Charles Macdonald, TELUS
	Scheduling Operations in NetWorker	Backup and Recovery	Aaron Kleinsmith, EMC
December	EMC Documentum Single Sign-on using Standard Tools	Content Management	Sander Hendriks, Informed Consulting
	The Art and Science of Data Center Migration	Data Center Migration	Michael Breashears
	Unified Storage Computing in the Data Center	Virtualization	Amrith Raj Radhakrishnan, TATA Consultancy Services Limited
January	Working with Documentum Composer and Without it	Content Management	Andrew Fitzpatrick, Capgemini
	Media Asset Management in the Broadcasting Industry using Documentum	Content Management	Derrick Lau, Contractor
	Managing the Cloud - Out of the Fog	Cloud	Brian Dehn, EMC
	Performance - Feeling or Reality in a CLARiiON Environment	CLARiiON	Octavio Palomino and Javier Alvarez Dasnoy, EMC
February	Survey on procedures for migrating data between Storage Arrays	Storage	Alvaro Clemente, EMC
	RecoverPoint Deployment with KDriver on Sun Solaris	RecoverPoint	Arthur Johnson, EMC
	Cost Effective Remote Storage	Storage	Johny Jose, Don Bosco College and Mitchel Valentina D'Souza, National Institute of Technology Karnataka
	Best Practices for Designing, Deploying and Administering SAN using EMC CLARiiON Storage Systems	CLARiiON	Anuj Sharma, EMC
March	WCM with DITA and Documentum	Content Management	Jaimala D. Bondre
	Backup and Recovery of Microsoft SharePoint - A Complete Solution	Backup and Recovery	Douglas Collimore, EMC
	Storage, A Cloud Storm or Not	Storage	Roy Mikes, Mondriaan Zorggroep
	EMC Business Continuity Offerings: Another Differentiator of Midrange and High-end Storage Arrays	Business Continuity	Denis Serov, EMC
April	Integrating SharePoint with Documentum	Content Management	Rami A AlGhanim and Sara AlMansour, Saudi Aramco
	Are you Ready for "AVA" Generation?	Avamar	Randeep Singh, HCL Comnet
	Revisiting Business Information Management Re-engineering: A Never Ending Cycle	Business Process	Eugene Demigillo, EMC

2009

The 2009 Knowledge Sharing Winners at the ceremony
L-R: Alok Shrivastava, Sr. Director, EMC Education Services, Ken Guest, Brian Dehn, Jacob Willig, Bruce Yellin, Faisal Choudry, Sejal Joshi, Anuj Sharma, Tom Clancy,Vice President, EMC Education Services, Frank Hauck, Executive Vice President, EMC.

2009 Knowledge Sharing Publishing Schedule
Category	Title	Author(s)
Backup and Recovery	Best Practices for Implementing and Administering EMC NetWorker	Anuj Sharma
	Using Disks in Backup and Virtual Tape Library	Emin Calikli
	De-duplication of an Oracle Database using EMC NetWorker for Oracle	Chris Mavromatis
	Backing up Applications with NetWorker	Aaron Kleinsmith
	A Load Balancing Algorithm for Deploying Backup Media Servers	Krasimir Miloshev
	NDMP Localization / Internationalization Support for NetWorker	Deranna Jyothi
	DLm v2.1 z/OS Implementation Guide	Mike Smialek
Business Process	Significant Savings are within your Reach when you Understand the True Cost of Storage	Bruce Yellin
	The Efficient Green Data Center	Raza Syed
	Enterprise Standards and Automation for Storage Integration and Installation	Aaron Baldie
Connectivity	Create a Comparative Analysis of an Oracle Database Using NAS and SAN Storage Architectures	Sergio Hirata and Volnys Borges Bernal
	CLARiiON and FCIP - A Practical Intercontinental DR and HA Solution	Jaison K. Jose
	Oracle Performance Hit: A SAN Analysis	Kofi Ampofo Boadi
	Preventative Monitoring in a NAS Environment	Bob Wittig
	Best Practices for Deploying Celerra NAS	Ron Nicholl
Content Management	Architecting an Enterprise Wide Document Management Platform	Jacob Willig
Content Management	Custom Documentum Application Code Review	Christopher Harper
Storage Management	Reclaiming Storage in a SAN Environment, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly	Brian Dehn
Tiered Storage	Real Life Application of Disaster Recovery	Faisal Choudry
	Storage Provisioning using Home Grown Tools	Ken Guest & Sejal Joshi
	Data Storage Performance: Equating Demand & Supply	Lalit Mohan
	Business Continuity Planning in an Organization	Smartha Guha Thakurta
	Data Migration Strategies (SRDF via "Swing Frame")	Sejal Joshi and Ken Guest
	Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA)	Charanya Hariharan and Dr. Brian Cameron
	Integrating Linux and Linux-Based Storage Management Software with RAID System-Based Replication	Diedrich Ehlerding
	Simplifying/Demystifying EMC's TimeFinder Integration with Oracle Flashback	Robert Mosco
	SRDF Software Use and Best Practices	Bill Chilton
	Using EMC ControlCenter NC File Level Reporting on CIFS Shares	Chad DeMatteis and Michael Horvath
Virtualization	Is Cloud Computing the Game Changer your Company Needs in these Tough Times	Bruce Yellin
	Cloud Computing: A New Taxonomy	Laurence A. Huetteman
	Leveraging Cloud Computing for Optimized Storage Management	Mohammed Hashim and Rejaneesh Sasidharan

2008

The 2008 Knowledge Sharing Winners at the ceremony.

L-R: Diedrich Ehlerding, Lalit Mohan, Brian Russell, Paul Brant, Alok Shrivastava, Sr. Director, EMC Education Services, Frank Hauck, Executive Vice President, EMC.

Category	Title	Author(s)
Relevant Industry Topics	2008 Competition Winner! Crossing the Great Divide in Going Green	Paul Brant
	2008 Competition Winner! Design Recommendations for a Highly Available Exchange 2007 Environment	Douglas Collimore
	2008 Competition Winner! EMC CLARiiON CLI Administration and Ruby: A Powerful Combination	Wagner H. Ikeda
	2008 Competition Winner! Genesis of a Disaster Recovery Solution	Lalit Mohan
	2008 Competition Winner! How to Reconfigure Fiber Channel Attached Disk Storage Devices in Solaris	Diedrich Ehlerding
	2008 Competition Winner! Open Replicator Data Migration of File Server Clusters to VMware	Brian Russell and Michael Aldo

2008 Knowledge Sharing Publishing Schedule
Backup, Recovery and Archive	Archiving Cries for a Holistic Architecture	Paul Kingston
CLARiiON	Automated Balancing of I/O Loads across I/O Paths	Andre Rossouw
Network Attached Storage (NAS)	Best Practices for Deploying Automation of NAS Health Check	Cheol Jang
	Best Practices for NetWorker Legato and Firewalls	Pascal de Cock
	Best Practices for Proactive Centera Monitoring	Jakob Holger
	Best Practices in the World of Intermode/ISL	Sanjay Sood
Storage Area Networking (SAN)	Best Practices, Strategies and Benefits for Consolidating Multiple Island SANs	Kofi Ampofo Boadi
Storage Area Networking (SAN)	Block Level Virtualization Technologies: How to fit them in your Environment	Dierckx Guy
Storage Solutions Case Studies	Comparing Apples to Oranges to Bricks: A Pre-Sales Engineers' Guide to Comparing Alernative Storage Proposals	Bruce Yellin
Symmetrix	Creating Baseline Performance Reports for EMC Symmetrix	Charles Macdonald
	Designing and Implementing an Effective Backup Solution	Anuj Mediratta and Neeraj Mediratta
	Fiber Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP)	Joseph Holbrook
	Get to Know your Symmetrix	Alastair Adams
	How we Leveraged CLARiiON, Celerra and Centera Platforms to Consolidate Three Companies Data Systems into a Unified Storage Environment	Christopher Johnson
	Impact of Web 2.0/Web 3.0 Social Networking Tools in R&D Units	Charanya Hariharan
	Is ITIL the Explosive Formula that will Make EMC = 1 EMC	Bartley Corbin
	Mainframe SRDF/A MSC Troubleshooting Guide	Mike Smialek
	Mass Transit and the Evolution of File Virtualization	Craig T. Kensey
	Multi-Path File System over iSCSI (MPFSi) Applied Technology	Ayyaswamy Thangavel
	NetWorker and EDL Capacity on Demand - Library Virtualization Challenges	Erico Correia da Silva
	Practical Guidance: Transitioning from Implementation to Operations in a CLARiiON® Environment	Tim Gibbs
	Real-Life Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with D6	Pawan Kumar
	Reducing the Backup Window for SAN-based Backups Using Graph Models	Krasimir Miloshev
	Restricting Symmetrix Configuration and Preventing Information Disclosure using Symmetrix Access Controls	Jurjen Oskam
	Site Implementation Guide (SIG)	Alexandre Zancope
	Solutions Enabler and its SYMAPI Force: A Pioneer in a Remote Software Revolution	Ramiro A. Canovas
	Training with Celerra Simulator	Andy Harrington
	Visual Basic Program to Create all Relevant Scripts, Tasks and Logs,..	Wolfgang Graf

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