Why Kasten Matters to the Data Protection Industry – and to Veeam

This week, Veeam announced its purchase of Kasten. To appreciate the importance of that, you have to look back at how IT data protection cyclically evolves. The Data Protection (and IT) Evolutionary Cycle About every ten years, a few elements of IT history typically repeat themselves: PHASE 1: The production platform of choice for IT fundamentally and … Read more

EMC’s Data Protection portfolio now “spans” even more workloads

There are several “disruptive” trends in IT.  And when vendors talk about disruptive, its usually in regard to some new feature/service that does things differently. But from my perspective, one of the most disruptive trends in Data Protection is that traditional workloads are leaving the data center.  According to ESG’s IT Spending Intentions 2014 report, … Read more

CommVault announces “You Can Have It Your Way”

There is a famous hamburger chain that used to tout, “You can have it your way,” whereby instead of getting your burger fully-loaded (with all the fixin’s), you can choose whether you wanted pickles, tomatoes, or anything else. For the last two decades, CommVault has been offering a fully-loaded data protection solution that encompassed backup, … Read more

A Look at the Amazon AWS Storage Gateway

Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance.  On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being stored in the Amazon S3 cloud-storage environment. This announcement coincides with the publishing of ESG’s … Read more