Am kicking off some independent research and consulting topics, which will be covered under the banner of Data Protection Matters, starting July 2025.
Here is an archive of my blogs and articles related to Data Protection.
502 BC/DR leaders told DPM that their orgs average 3.4 tiers of IT workloads to recover in a crisis — here are the two things most of them forgot to count.
The difference between ‘okay’ marketing content and ‘great’ thought leadership assets determines whether you’ll build credibility … replenish your Q1 pipeline … or enable differentiated conversations for your sellers. The key often comes down to the quality of the research that fueled it. We’ll design your survey, develop the analysis, and equip not just your…
Are you thinking about Q1 SKO’s? We are. If you want to rebuild Q1 pipeline or fuel new narratives through Thought Leadership for a February SKO, then work backwards and the math gets uncomfortable really fast; content creation in December … narratives and GTM strategy in October … data alignment in September … and here…
Can you rebuild the house, or just recover the furniture? Assume you discovered a breach, stood up a clean room, and were ready to restore … and then realized your cloud tenant itself is wrecked. Where does the data even go? Most data protection technologies still think server-by-server and most BC/DR planners underestimate what it…
Business Resilience stakeholders and their IT teams are often disconnected because they’re not grasping how their IT strategies are creating or affecting their risk posture, often because they don’t share taxonomy or metrics. Here’s 10 hard questions from a workshop I ran at MIT and am paring down for customer events, roadshows, CABs, PACs, SKOs,…
We are officially out of the vSphere monopoly era. Nearly three years since Broadcom’s licensing shake-up, and organizations chose among three distinct paths: hyperscale cloud, alternative hypervisors, or staying put (though likely with new partners or channels). What most didn’t see coming was that the real cost wasn’t just the platform licensing; it was how…