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.

DELL’s System Center Essentials solution announced

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    Am really excited to announce that DELL is partnering with Microsoft to deliver a solution around System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 ! From my perspective, this is a great match for SMB customers who often rely on Dell for their hardware and use Microsoft OS’s and applications.  SCE 2010 provides a single solution … Read more

It’s almost here !

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I hope everyone had a great Independence Weekend ! It’s hard to believe that one year ago, I was drafting a table of contents over that weekend – and now I am counting down the days until the book is on the shelves (hopefully yours).  🙂 It is due out on July 26th and is … Read more

Why don’t you back up? (well)

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Barbara Imbert at Seagate recently blogged about Symantec’s 2010 SMB information security survey.  As a summary of the findings: 74% are Somewhat/Extremely concerned about information protection 42% lost confidential/proprietary information in the past 12 months 100% saw losses – lost revenue & direct financial costs In the past year, 62% lost devices and 73% saw … Read more

Congratulations DPM MVPs

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  Am very excited to announce three new Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP’s) that have been awarded for their work with System Center Data Protection Manager.   These folks have passionately tweeted, blogged, spoken and otherwise educated folks on DPM (2007 and 2010). Fatih Karaalioglu – FaKaOnline.com Islam Gomaa – Islam’s blog Mike Resseler – DPM-blog   … Read more

Thinking of building a DPM Appliance? Check out what the Moose did

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One of the most exciting things for me to see is when partners start building service and product offerings around the products that I am blessed to manage.  Having come from a reseller/integrator background before joining data protection vendors, I am always particularly excited when a regional partner makes such a commitment.  This is the … Read more