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.

Teaching the three P’s in School

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Zack Whittaker at ZDnet wrote a good post (zd.net/nWEATt) on how schools may be teaching Word and PowerPoint, but kids are unaware of data privacy and protection issues. I would go one ‘P’ further.  Along with Protection (of data) and Privacy (of information), add Piracy (of software and media). Last year, I took the opportunity … Read more

Announcing DPM 2012 Beta

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Today, Microsoft released its public beta for System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012. Of course, in full disclosure, most of my readers know that I am not just an ESG guy who loves data protection, but was the senior product manager for DPM from its v1 initial release in market through its v4 pre-beta … Read more

Windows 8 – ISO and VHD support!

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Am not sure whether to shout “Woo Hoo” or “Finally" … but am going with “Woooo Hooo”. ISO and VHD files are a wonderful container for files, until you actually need just one.   Prior to Windows 8, you could risk downloading shareware (with and without malware) to mount ISOs, which was really risky because most … Read more

What I did last Summer

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Do you remember when you were a kid, and during the first day of school, the teacher would ask you to write an essay on what you did over the summer? Looking back, I presume the teacher really wanted to get a sense of your writing skills, but also learn a little about you and … Read more