Centralized Backup ... aka Jason's Blog
Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Today, VMware announced enhancements to both its vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. In both cases, VMware is essentially asking, “Why just BaaS when you can DRaaS?” Over the past three VMworld events: In 2013, VMware was talking about vSphere Data Protection (VDP/VDPA). In 2014, VMware discussed maturations and enhancements in … Read more
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
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
A few years ago, I blogged that “Your Replication is not my Disaster Recovery” where I lamented that real BC/DR is much more about people/process than it is about technology. To be clear, I am not bashing replication technologies or the marketing folks at those vendors … because without your data, you don’t have BC/DR, … Read more
Maybe that is overly-simplified, but not by much. Virtualization makes servers (and their associated storage) portable, while Data Protection Services provide alternate locations and expertise that many organizations of all sizes have been desperate for. In 2013, ESG published complete research reports on both of these topics: Research Report: Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments … Read more