The Decentralization of Data Protection Continues

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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

Wrap-up on Backup from VeeamON 2015 (Video)

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Wrap-up on Backup from VeeamON 2015 If your Director of IT came and told you that you needed to “Look for a backup/replication product that was built-for VMs,” you’d obviously look at Veeam. But what if your Director of IT asked you for ‘more,’ like: Recovery from hardware snapshots Basic protection for physical Windows endpoints … Read more

More data protection thoughts on Dell and EMC [video]

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Last week, I blogged on the combined Data Protection portfolios of Dell and EMC. It was certainly what many folks wanted to talk about last week, so here is a short video summarizing the data protection considerations of the announced acquisition: As always, thanks for watching. [Originally blogged via ESG’s Technical Optimist.com]

Your Data Is a Strategic Asset – Treat It That Way!

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Improving data backup and recovery was the second most commonly cited IT priority for 2015 among respondents surveyed by ESG for its 2015 IT spending intentions report (see Figure 1). But as important as backup and recovery are, the survey tells another story, too. The most frequently mentioned priority was information security. What that finding … Read more

Wrap-up on Backup from NetApp Insight 2015 (Video)

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Candidly, whenever I spend a good bit of time looking closely at the breadth of NetApp data protection capabilities, I usually leave with the same two impressions: Wow, I forgot that they do all of those ‘Data Protection’ things, based on what is built-in Why don’t they talk about it more?!? The latter was addressed by … Read more