Videos and Webcasts

Videos, Webcasts, Podcasts, and other digital media

vBlog: What to look for in Virtualization Protection in 2014

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I spend a lot of time talking about protecting highly virtualized environments because so many people still struggle with it. In fact, ESG published a whole report on it earlier in 2013: ESG Report: Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments Server virtualization solves a lot of challenges for IT. And if I wasn’t a “backup … Read more

vBlog: You Too Can be a Data Protection Super Hero

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The awesome folks in the ESG Video team recently let me sit down and record a few podcasts that I will be releasing over the next few weeks. In this one, I started thinking about the challenges of midsized organizations and ensuring adequate data protection and recovery. While enterprises often have experts that are ready … Read more

Video: Separate VM backups or Unified Protection?

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As many in the IT industry are getting ready for VMworld, my mind always wanders back to what seems to be the perennial question – “Use a separate backup solution for protecting VMs … or a single solution for physical and virtual servers?” It used to be that the Virtualization-specific solutions did an inarguably better … Read more

vBlog: What if you paid for backups, like you pay for insurance?

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Many people in the Data Protection field talk about “backups” like “insurance” – where you pay a little (cost and effort) so that you won’t have to pay a lot (lost data/productivity) when calamity strikes. If that is how backup/recovery works, then what if you paid for it like insurance?  Insurance wouldn’t be affordable if … Read more

From EMC World 2013: Backup/Archive (video)

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This week, I sat down to do a short video for TechTarget on what I was finding interesting at EMC World 2013: EMC’s Data Protection Suite, as a new way to acquire and consume the range of EMC backup software The differences between Backup and Archiving, and what EMC’s solutions are doing about it And … Read more