Jason Buffington

20-year subject-matter expert in Windows infrastructure, with additional deep specialization in data protection, high availability and disaster recovery/business continuity scenarios. Experienced in product marketing and management, channel readiness and enablement, and enterprise-direct technical sales – across three resellers, two ISVs, and Microsoft.

Discussing Data Protection with IBM

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Last week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Tom Hughes and Todd Watson from IBM.  We talked about three IT trends that are disrupting traditional data protection strategies and legacy approaches: Highly Virtualized / Private Cloud Infrastructures Cloud-based Solutions for backup & storage Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) for endpoint protection Here is … Read more

Windows IT Pro article – Understanding DPM2012

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The nice folks at Windows IT Pro magazine recently published an article that I wrote on Data Protection Manager within Microsoft System Center 2012. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research, the number-one IT spending priority in 2012 was improving data backup and recovery, tied with increased use of server virtualization. Interestingly enough, improving business … Read more

Trends in Virtualization Protection (video)

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Easily one of the most discussed topics with me in 2012 is how virtualization is changing data protection strategies. Virtualization solves so many problems for IT that it continues to become more mainstream every day.  But the more that you virtualize, the more that your legacy backup methods will likely dissappoint you.  So, here is … Read more

I am headed to the System Center Universe

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On January 31st, in Irving, Texas … or a simulcast location near you … you have the opportunity to learn more (a lot more) about Microsoft’s management platform – System Center. For those of you who don’t know of my past lives, I used to be the product manager for two SysCtr products, Operations Manager … Read more