DRaaS

Why ‘cloud’ & ‘reliability’ are driving IT changes into 2020

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For the last three weeks, we covered “the problem” which is a reality gap between what business units are expecting and what IT is able to deliver in terms of IT systems’ uptime and assurance against data loss. We covered that from both a technical solutions perspective and a business perspective. For the next two weeks, … Read more

VeeamON 2019: Innovation happens here

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If you aren’t in Miami this week, you are missing a lot of fun — and that doesn’t include the famous Veeam Party planned for this evening. Building on what happened yesterday: Veeam announced the general availability of Veeam Availability Orchestrator version 2. I’ve preached for quite a while that there are two distinct differences between … Read more

VMware DRaaS Announcements are a Good Thing!

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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

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

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