vBlog: You Too Can be a Data Protection Super Hero

The awesome folks in the ESG Video team recently let me sit down and record a few podcasts that I will be releasing over the next few weeks. In this one, I started thinking about the challenges of midsized organizations and ensuring adequate data protection and recovery. While enterprises often have experts that are ready … Read more

You have one less way to recover your data – and you probably didn’t realize it

BE AWARE that today’s laptop and mobile devices have one less recovery option than they used to.  This particular customer service announcement is targeted mostly at business executives and the IT professionals who support them.   -  Those folks presume that device theft never happens and that they are too responsible to ever leave their … Read more

New BC/DR Infographic from ESG

Does Virtualization + Cloud = BC/DR?  YES! In June 2013, ESG published its “Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments” report. In September, ESG published its “Data Protection-as-a-Service Trends” report. And for many people, when you virtualize your infrastructure (so that the servers are portable) and then you provide a cost-effective secondary location (the cloud) … … Read more

New ESG Research on BaaS, DRaaS and Tertiary

These days, you can’t have a discussion on modernizing your IT infrastructure without talking about “cloud” … but when it comes to Data Protection, there isn’t just one kind of Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS). In fact, most folks are considering up to three different DPaaS capability sets, including:   -  BaaS – Backup … Read more

Which backup products should I test?

An open letter to my IT Pro friends: It’s been several months since I last set up my Dallas test lab for playing with the various Data Protection products in market. I used to change one of the backup tools every few months, but it’s been a busy year, so I am going to refresh … Read more