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There are many fundamental debates in data protection: Disk vs. tape vs. cloud Backups vs. snapshots vs. replication Centralized backup of ROBO’s vs. autonomous backups vs. cloud-BaaS solutions Unified data protection vs. workload-specific (e.g. VM/database) methods On any given day, I could argue on either side of any one of them (for fun) in which I … Read more

More and more folks are first protecting their data (backups, archives, etc.) to disk — for several good reasons, including SLAs for data retrieval/restoration/recovery, deduplication efficiencies, etc. But as definitively as disk is the preferred “protection storage” as a second tier, the third tier is far less defined. For some, the deterministic factors are BC/DR … Read more

For 2016, one of my hopes for IT professionals is that you’ll talk with a wider variety of stakeholders within your organizations about data protection and the myriad methods for data retention and recovery that should be part ofone holistic strategy in ensuring the protection and preservation of corporate data, regardless of where the data resides or … Read more

For the past few years, we’ve continued to watch workload-administrators and IT Operations folks raise their influence in regard to which data protection product(s) are in use today. It’s actually quite reasonable: those IT professionals are responsible for the usability of their platforms and have unique understandings of how and which data should be protected … Read more