He commented on the irony that DSL was supposed to be a copper solution, but to provide it to many people they need a fiber link to nodes and only use copper for the last 15K feet. The main speaker at the meeting was Michael Roettgers, CEO of EMC Corporation , an information storage infrastructure system builder. John Keane introduced Michael, noting that EMC is a great example of a company that dealt with the Innovator's Dilemma popularized by Clayton Christensen's book. The graveyard of the defunct minicomputer companies in eastern Massachusetts haunted them and taught them not to be complacent. EMC's Roettgers and his slide of reminders of yesterday Michael sees Massachusetts today as coming back with diverse leaders in networking infrastructure and content management.
Technology changes .
But information lives. You used to boast of the size of your processors, now you don't. The revenue growth in storage is 2.5 times that of network communications equipment which itself is greater than servers or PCs, he claims. Islands of information , such as the customer's information vs. your supplier's vs. headquarters' vs. your department. Information centrality increases value .