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Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
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Today, two former industry analysts (who are now Veeam execs) discuss the trends that are shaping the data protection industry and IT landscape: Jason Buffington @JBuff, former Principal Analyst for Data Protection at ESG Dave Russell @BackupDave, former VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, lead analyst for the Backup MQ This week, we’re talking about how tape … Read more
In the 25+ years that I have been in data protection, much of it has been spent hearing about “better” alternatives to tape as a medium. Certainly, in the earlier days, tape earned its reputation of slowness or unreliability. But nothing else in IT is the same as it was twenty years ago, so why do … Read more
To evolve from backup to data protection is to embrace complementary mechanisms that enable a much broader range of preservation of data, protection of data, and the assurance of productivity through enhanced availability initiatives, as seen in ESG’s Spectrum of Data Protection. To evolve from data protection to data management is to get smarter on all of the iterations … 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
Shortly after VMware announced its EVO Rail initiative, whereby hardware partners could start delivering a very dense compute, storage, and networking solution within a wholly-contained appliance – I started exploring the data protection aspects of an EVO Rail solution. The nice folks in ESG’s video studio have produced a whole series on this … in … Read more