Jason Buffington .com

Data Protection Matters .com

Am kicking off some independent research and consulting topics, which will be covered under the banner of Data Protection Matters, starting July 2025.

  • Unbiased industry research and analysis
  • Consulting and speaking sessions
  • Content development

Here is an archive of my blogs and articles related to Data Protection. 

  • Let’s talk about the Server-to-Server Data Gap

    When Certes dropped their announcement last week, it got me thinking about a gap that most data protection and cyber resilience teams haven’t fully reckoned with yet — and it’s not the one you’re probably thinking of. Server-to-server data flows are largely unprotected in most environments; and sophisticated adversaries are already harvesting that traffic today…

  • Run Windows on the good days, Run IGEL on the bad days (part one)

    Here’s a Cyber Resilience isolation mechanism that you may not have heard about yet but really ought to consider as part of your Business vContinuity strategy. HINT: Run Windows on the good days, run IGEL on the bad days

  • DRJ Spring 2026 Wrap-up on Backup

    Not all conferences are created equal. Here’s what DRJ Spring 2026 gets right—and why it matters.

  • Don’t sacrifice protection while you’re modernizing production

    Don’t sacrifice protection while you’re modernizing production. Two years after Broadcom changed the vSphere licensing and the fervor of an exodus started, let’s revisit how it turned out and what it means for Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience depending on your hypervisors and hyperscale clouds.

  • Cybersecurity Summit 2026

    The Official Cybersecurity Summit is one of my favorite single-stage conference series, especially this year with four Data Protection vendors showing on the expo floor – with special kudos to Rubrik and Commvault for some really interesting discussions on Cyber Resilience and more.

  • The fate of the wounded rests in your hands

    The fate of your organization rests in the hands of your technical ‘first responders’ for Cyber Resilience and Disaster Recovery. Do they all know the plan?

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