Centralized Backup ... aka Jason's Blog

Earlier this month, Dell announced enhancements to its DR seriesof deduplication appliances.  Deduplication appliances continue to be a common method of improving one’s overall data protection infrastructure since they can typically be added to whatever backup/archive software or method that you already have, while near immediately reducing the storage consumed in secondary copies. Check out … Read more

Disclaimer: I am not one of the ESG analysts who specializes in “mobility” or cloud-based file services … I’m “the backup guy” covering data protection. But as a twenty-five-year hands-on technologist, I’m sharing a personal experience for your consideration. This weekend, I decided to fully embrace the cloud by getting rid of my last “production … Read more

Each year, ESG publishes its annual IT Spending Intentions report – and each year, I look at the research from a “Data Protection Guy’s” perspective. I’ve already shared my 2015 Data Protection Predictions that were in part based on that research, but my friends in the ESG video studio let me share my data protection … Read more

The last installment in our four-Friday video series, based on the recent ESG research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances, Part four covers what might be the most interesting, albeit nascent category –failover or BC/DR appliances. While the other three categories are predominantly based on or designed for the same “backup/restore” type methodology, … Read more

As I mentioned in my Data Protection Predictions for 2015 video, SaaS backup should be on the top of anyone’s mind who is running for the clouds: namely Office 365, SalesForce, or GoogleApps. According to ESG’s 2015 IT Spending Intentions Survey‘s five-year outlook for SaaS, over half of IT organizations will move from on-premises Exchange servers … Read more