Centralized Backup ... aka Jason's Blog
Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
Today, at EMC World 2015, EMC announced a significant number of new offerings and updates; starting from their core technologies (storage) and then quite literally wrapping it with a layer of “Data Protection Everywhere.” With that in mind, here are the Data Protection announcements (click here for EMC press release), with the first being that … 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 deduplication storage appliances – those wonderful storage devices that drop in existing (or new) backup and archival infrastructures and automagically and radically reduce storage consumption through optimized protection storage. In case you missed … Read more
In March 2015, ESG published its research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances. In ESG’s taxonomy, there are four types of DPAs in market today. For the next four Fridays, I’ll be releasing videos (about 4 minutes long each), detailing why each type of DPA is interesting, current and anticipated usage trends, etc. … Read more
When developing a data protection plan, IT teams should take a hybrid approach to on-site and off-site protection that uses disk, cloud and tape in almost every scenario. Sure, some organizations can go without tape due to a lack of long-term retention requirements, while others will never be able touse the cloud for one security … Read more
You can’t have a conversation about IT transformation or data protection modernization that doesn’t include “the cloud” somewhere in it. And today, there are a wide range of cloud services that offer data protection capabilities: Backing up SaaS offerings like Office365, Google Apps for Work, or Salesforce – see my earlier blog about SaaS backup. … Read more