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ESG Senior Analyst Jason Buffington discusses some of the major data protection issues a small or medium-sized business must overcome while planning a data backup strategy in this podcast. What are the major differences between enterprise and SMB backup? In a nutshell, the biggest difference is obviously scale. The good news is that a lot … Read more

Doing a selective mobile device backup that separates work data and personal data can’t be done, says analyst Jason Buffington, but perhaps not for the reasons you think. Before I get started, let me define the two basic types of endpoint devices: consumption devices and creation devices. Consumption devices are like e-readers that fetch data … Read more

Although the role of tape in traditional backup operations might be diminishing, it still has a place in long-term data retention and even cloud storage services. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group’s Trends in Data Protection Modernization, tape is in use in 56% of data protection strategies today. That represents a lot of tape users, … Read more

As backup data deduplication matures, it’s still very much a proprietary technology. We need standardization to eliminate some of today’s software-hardware headaches. Just about everyone who works with disk-based backup understands the need for data deduplication. For many, that includes the use of a deduplication storage appliance as a data backup target. Most backup software … Read more