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Last year, I made the decision to leave Greenplum (Pre-Pivotal) and join the ESG Office of the CTO to work with Bala Ganeshan.  Less than 3 months later, EMC reconfigured itself, and we were moved to the Corporate Office of the CTO.   If you have worked at EMC,  or been around it for any length of time you might have heard people refer to the EMC acronym actually standing for Everything Must Change.   That's actually a pretty fair description, but within all that change is always a purpose. So, if I look back at the company I joined almost 14 years ago....I don't ever recognize it...and that's a GREAT thing. This Corporate Office of the CTO (OCTO) was actually a great move for me as it opened up the entire EMC organization for me to interact with and I have built unique and new relationships with ViPR and Isilon Engineering.  It also allowed me to work under yet another EMC Distinguished Engineer, John Cardente, who in a very short period of time taught me A LOT and was