EMC Culture Talk: "Visual Radio" -- Live!

Pictured:  EMC's Steve Todd, founder of EMC's CLARiiON product and author of The Information Playground blog  (CLARiiON is the world's first as well as the world's market-share leading modular information storage product based on RAID technology), Monya Keane, EMC's Editor-in-Chief of our award-winning, Global employee news magazine EMC.now, and me, during EMC's first Culture Talk Visual Radio show broadcast in the EMC sound studio.  Our other guest, dialing in from Cork, Ireland, was Mark Twomey, aka "Storagezilla," from the title of his famous 'Zilla blog.  Mark knows information back-up, recovery and archiving like no other. 

The program was a blast to host. Mark and Steve kept the laughs rolling. Everything was unscripted and very real.  We talked about what it was like to work at EMC, what was cool about EMC and what was challenging. We learned that Steve was the first engineer on the planet (we think) to productize a 1987 white paper out of Berkeley on the RAID technology concept.  We also learned he met his wife while washing dishes at a camp in his teenage years.

We learned that Mark started his blog when the editor of the EMC Cork newsletter rejected a movie review he submitted. He figured, "I'll show them," and published the review on the Internet. Ha! Mark is one of the first people to have a blog at EMC (maybe THE first?) and, most likely, one of the first in the information storage industry. He knows his technology cold, and has a killer streak of fun (and funny) running inside of him.

We also heard first hand from these EMC folks, in real term, what keeps them at EMC and what inspires them about working here.  Good stuff.

We took questions from EMCers around the globe, either live or via text. While EMCers listened to the program, they were also able to see a photo show of sorts on their PC of our guests in their natural habitats -- both at work and in their personal lives.

Today, we're hosting our second program. Our guests will be from the legendary EMC sales group -- the organization that has been a HUGE contributor to EMC's phenomenal growth. Just this morning, EMC announced our financial results ... marking a half decade of double-digit growth.  We'll talk about what it is really like in 'New EMC' sales (a lot different than you might think!) and what makes them successful.

For all EMCers, register for today's program -- happening at 12:12 EST via the front page of ChannelEMC.  If you miss it, we'll be chatting about it and will post a replay within the EMC Culture Talk community on EMC ONE (our internal social network).

This next program will have fewer questions from Monya and me -- we want to hear from you right off the bat!

My apologies for non-EMCers reading this post.  At some point, we'll likely share these broadcasts with the world, but for now, we thought we'd get everyone at EMC comfortable with this new medium and the level of sharing we're encouraging behind the firewall first.