The Challenges and Benefits of Virtualization-Protection

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Last week, my article in Windows IT Pro on “Virtualize Everything” stimulated a rather wide range of banter: · A few folks pointed out that some servers should not be virtualized, such as some DNS, Active Directory domain controllers and perhaps the management system that controls your hypervisor infrastructure. Those folks are correct – there … Read more

JBuff’s Data Protection Predictions for 2015

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Last month, I sat down with my colleague, John McKnight, to give my predictions on how Data Protection will or should change in 2015 … in five minutes or less: My top areas of interest for this year include: Protecting SaaS applications, such as Office365, GoogleApps and SalesForce Protecting corporate data on endpoint devices Disaster … Read more

Welcome Back, Veritas! The Truth is still the Truth

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Today, Symantec announced that the Information Management (Data Protection) side of Symantec will be called Veritas Technologies Corporation – (press release). Frankly, if they had chosen anything else, I would have been disappointed. The Truth is Still the Truth “Veritas” actually means “Truth,” hence the original name as a way to imply the reliability and … Read more

You can prepare for tomorrow’s disaster today

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This week, many of my colleagues are preparing for Winter Storm Juno. One of my compatriots actually warned his friends on Facebook that he was going to run around supermarket aisles telling folks “We’re all going to die!!” But seriously, it wasn’t that many years ago that IT folks would shrug their shoulders with the … Read more