VIDEO: What to plan for in a Data Protection Spectrum

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Continuing on the theme that we started last year that “Data Protection” is the umbrella theme that encompasses a broad range (spectrum) of IT behaviors, including “Backup, Snapshots, Replication, etc.”:      Here is a video that gives some color to those ideas (pun intended):      1. Start with a fresh understanding of your business units’ … Read more

JBuff on the Cube at IBM Pulse 2014

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While at IBM Pulse 2014, I was invited to sit in at ‘the Cube’ to talk about what’s new in Data Protection. We had the chance to talk about: Virtualization Protection Endpoint Protection How the Cloud is changing Data Protection Options And how IBM is evolving its data protection offerings to meet those demands. My … Read more

D2D2C is like 1 box of Legos and 2 manuals

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Last year, I blogged that a modern “Data Protection Strategy” is more than just backup – instead including also snapshots, replication, archiving, etc.  (see also bit.ly/jbSpectrum1) And while some would then call this a hybrid architecture, others prefer to think about “hybrid” as being disk plus tape or cloud.  If we dig into where those … Read more