SharePoint Conference and New EMC Products

Next week is the annual SharePoint love fest – this year it is in Vegas. Unfortunately, although I’ll be at the conference my understanding is that I will not be able to Blog or Twitter on what I see/hear…something to do with ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”. Seems like it makes the entire trip a bit of a waste of time ;-)

Seriously though, I will try to post some highlights although they may be Twitters rather than full blown blog entries. It looks like a huge proportion of the week is given over to SharePoint 2010 which is not great surprise I guess. You can follow me @chapmaa if you have nothing better to do.

The big news for me next week also includes the release of two new SharePoint-related products. I don’t normally Blog about my role at EMC and our specific technologies but this is a particularly big event for us and not surprisingly the products deal with some of the specific ‘opportunities for excellence’ that I’ve discussed in my Blog.

For those of you that are interested, here’s what we will be announcing at the conference:

• ‘My Documentum for Microsoft SharePoint’ is a SharePoint emulator for Documentum users. It allows end users to interact with content in a Documentum system without leaving the familiar look-and-feel of SharePoint. The key feature of this solution is that it is very faithful to the native SharePoint look and feel…in fact it is about as close as we can make it without breaching any legal agreements that we have with our friends in Redmond.
• Slightly more interesting from a technology perspective is ‘Documentum Repository Services for Microsoft SharePoint’[1]. This product makes use of EBS and will support RBS moving forward. The solution makes Documentum into a back-end storage and ECM system for SharePoint. This is especially useful for companies that want SharePoint’s ECM to play nicely with their broader corporate ECM backbone. It is a solution that leverages the concepts that I’ve rambled on about for the last 18 months or so – creating a model where content is stored in a back-end repository rather than SQL Server but in such a way that it is 100% transparent to SharePoint. Apart from just being damn cool this solution really unites two core enterprise solutions in a way that takes no value away from either system. I’m very proud of the fact that we developed the entire product in 13 months which is amazing for a full-blown enterprise strength solution. It has been in limited release for 6 months and is now available to all and sundry.

If you care you can come to the EMC booth and see more…I’m attending the conference as an attendee and will be attending sessions but we will have people much more personable and presentable manning the booth.

If you’ll be there then have fun, if you are not there then congratulations on having a life.

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[1] You have to include ‘Microsoft’ before SharePoint in product names making this a sweet 55 characters long!

Comments

[twitter.com/gkumaran]

I think there should be a push for EMC Replication Manager for SharePoint, there shall be a good reach for the DR Solution for SharePoint.

Wrote a note about EMC RM and NetApp SnapMirror DR Solutions for SharePoint - http://bit.ly/1stZsm