Alex Truax

Each year, ESG publishes its annual IT Spending Intentions report – and each year, I look at the research from a “Data Protection Guy’s” perspective. I’ve already shared my 2015 Data Protection Predictions that were in part based on that research, but my friends in the ESG video studio let me share my data protection … Read more

The last installment in our four-Friday video series, based on the recent ESG research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances, Part four covers what might be the most interesting, albeit nascent category –failover or BC/DR appliances. While the other three categories are predominantly based on or designed for the same “backup/restore” type methodology, … Read more

As I mentioned in my Data Protection Predictions for 2015 video, SaaS backup should be on the top of anyone’s mind who is running for the clouds: namely Office 365, SalesForce, or GoogleApps. According to ESG’s 2015 IT Spending Intentions Survey‘s five-year outlook for SaaS, over half of IT organizations will move from on-premises Exchange servers … Read more

Today, CommVault announced four new offerings to take its Simpana platform to the clouds in two directions: Backup to the Cloud – enhancing how the CommVault data protection platform can store data within public cloud storage from its Simpana software (via the new Cloud Replication option) or from a CommVault appliance (via the new Cloud … Read more

Continuing our four-Friday video series, based on the recent ESG research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances, This installment covers cloud gateway appliances that are designed to be part of a data protection strategy. Early DP cloud gateways have a similar value-proposition as mainstream deduplication storage appliances in that they can be added … Read more