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Why BaaS when you can DRaaS?

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The question isn’t as simple as it might seem: There are lots of great reasons to embrace modern Backup as a Service (BaaS) solutions, including governance, extended data preservation, IT oversight of endpoint and ROBO backups, etc. There is also one overwhelmingly great reason to utilize Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) — enhanced availability of servers. … Read more

Wrap-up on backup from EMC World 2016 — day two keynote

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There are a lot of things to like about EMC World this year, especially if data protection is important to you. Kudos on the day two general session with Jeremy Burton and Guy Churchward. Some notes from the event: It is hard to imagine doing an inside-an-appliance component-level tour from main stage, but the Fantastic Voyage miniaturization … Read more

How to evolve from “data protection” to “data management”

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To evolve from backup to data protection is to embrace complementary mechanisms that enable a much broader range of preservation of data, protection of data, and the assurance of productivity through enhanced availability initiatives, as seen in ESG’s Spectrum of Data Protection. To evolve from data protection to data management is to get smarter on all of the iterations … Read more

Do we still need VM-specific backup tools? [video]

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This is one of the big questions in 2016 (and each of the past few years as well). Have the “traditional” unified data protection solutions caught up in reliability and agility to the degree that the need for “point products” that only protect VMs are no longer necessary? To help answer the question, I’ve recorded a short … Read more