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While at IBM Pulse 2014, I was invited to sit in at ‘the Cube’ to talk about what’s new in Data Protection. We had the chance to talk about: Virtualization Protection Endpoint Protection How the Cloud is changing Data Protection Options And how IBM is evolving its data protection offerings to meet those demands. My … Read more
Last year, I blogged that a modern “Data Protection Strategy” is more than just backup – instead including also snapshots, replication, archiving, etc. (see also bit.ly/jbSpectrum1) And while some would then call this a hybrid architecture, others prefer to think about “hybrid” as being disk plus tape or cloud. If we dig into where those … Read more
As a “data protection dude”, I have the best job in the world – I have the opportunity to talk to hundreds of IT Pro’s on what they are doing (or are thinking about doing) in data protection, and then survey thousands more on the same ideas. So, for all of the IT Pro’s who … Read more
I don’t often re-post vendor marketing content – but since they let me be a small part of simulating a hurricane/flood of a datacenter … Symantec rented out a 6-story hurricane (100mph) simulator in South Carolina … and then flooded a working datacenter server-stack with 35,000 gallons of water: Most folks know me as a … Read more
Maybe not “every” – but certainly more than “most” – data protection architecture should be “hybrid,” meaning that it should include disk-, cloud-, and yes tape-based recovery components. Why? Because each has a legitimate set of use-case scenarios and attributes that lend each medium type to different data protection goals. I previously blogged that every … Read more