Backup-to-Disk

vBlog: What to look for in Virtualization Protection in 2014

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I spend a lot of time talking about protecting highly virtualized environments because so many people still struggle with it. In fact, ESG published a whole report on it earlier in 2013: ESG Report: Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments Server virtualization solves a lot of challenges for IT. And if I wasn’t a “backup … Read more

vBlog: You Too Can be a Data Protection Super Hero

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The awesome folks in the ESG Video team recently let me sit down and record a few podcasts that I will be releasing over the next few weeks. In this one, I started thinking about the challenges of midsized organizations and ensuring adequate data protection and recovery. While enterprises often have experts that are ready … Read more

The Spectrum of Data Protection

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It is interesting to me how marketing folks and technical purists banter IT terms around, in hopes of sounding fresh and compelling to their customers. While “backup” is often thought of as passé or the bane of IT operations, “data protection” is perceived as more strategic, with other lofty terms such as “business continuity” and … Read more

The term PBBA is overused and often incorrect

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There are some who would refer to optimized disk-based target devices that are optimized for as Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBAs), but that term is actually misleading. When one refers to a “backup server,” the implication is that the server performs backups—and in fact, those servers do perform backups. When one refers to a “storage controller,” … Read more

From EMC World 2013: Backup/Archive (video)

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This week, I sat down to do a short video for TechTarget on what I was finding interesting at EMC World 2013: EMC’s Data Protection Suite, as a new way to acquire and consume the range of EMC backup software The differences between Backup and Archiving, and what EMC’s solutions are doing about it And … Read more