Joe Tucci to quit as EMC’s CEO

Sep 26

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News of Joe Tucci quitting EMC at the end of 2012 is abuzz tonight. Here’s one from The Register.

He is one of the longest serving CEO in the storage industry and since he took over the helm in 2001, he has brought EMC to where it is today. Like him or loathe him, you cannot deny that he is one of the best out there. Having gone thru at least 3 economic downturns, he has turned EMC into an industry giant, a juggernaut.

The next question is who will succeed him? There are many candidates from long-serving senior staff to the new ones that EMC has recruited in the recent years. It will only be end of 2012 when Joe finally leaves EMC but the search for his successor will be an interesting one. We shall soon know.

About cfheoh

I am a technology blogger with 20 years of IT experience. I write heavily on technologies related to storage networking and data management because that is my area of interest and expertise. I introduce technologies with the objectives to get readers to *know the facts*, and use that knowledge to cut through the marketing hypes, FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and other fancy stuff. Only then, there will be progress. I am involved in SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) and presently the Chairman of SNIA Malaysia. My day job is to run 2 companies - Storage Networking Academy and ZedFS Systems. Storage Networking Academy provides open-technology courses in storage networking (foundation to advanced) as well as Cloud Computing. We strives to ensure vendor-neutrality as much as we can in our offerings. At ZedFS Systems, we offer both storage infrastructure and software solution called Zed OpenStorage. We developed Zed OpenStorage based on the Solaris kernel, ZFS file system and DTrace storage analytics.

Posted on September 26, 2011, in EMC and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.

  1. terencekumar | September 28, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    I think he is to EMC, what Lou Gerstner was to IBM. Tough act to follow, for whoever comes next!

    Reply
    • cfheoh | September 28, 2011 at 3:30 pm

      Hello Terence!

      Great to hear from you! Thanks for sending in your comments.

      Yup, Joe Tucci will be tough to replace. Any chance of joining us for SNIA Malaysia monthly meetings? HP guys are usually there and EMC guys as well. 😀

      Cheers and thanks again
      /Chin Fah

      Reply
  2. terencekumar | September 29, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    6th October hmmmm….lets see la. 🙂

    Reply

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