Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
Continuous data protection (CDP) seems attractive for people who want to speed backup and recovery times, but are you seeing any increase in adoption? It depends on your definition of CDP. If you are asking about the textbook (SNIA) definition for CDP, I really have not seen it take off the way that it could … Read more
Virtual data protection is hard, but could be easier if you had a better view into what’s going on. Learn how to increase visibility into your virtualization protection solution. According to a recent Enterprise Strategy Group report on Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments, virtualization rates as one of the top (or top) challenges in … Read more
Easily one of the most revolutionary changes to IT over the past few years has been server virtualization. If I wasn’t a backup-dude (23 years), then I would be a virtualization-guy (10+) – so I was very excited to conduct a research project at ESG specifically around the Trends for Protecting Highly Virtualized and Private … Read more
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