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.
Commvault just became the first cyber resilience vendor embedded natively in the Microsoft Azure fabric. If that doesn’t sound like a big deal, give me two minutes — because twenty years ago, something very similar changed the entire data protection industry.
Gartner’s latest MQ for #DataProtection just dropped; go pull up the chart. The trio now appears as a quartet, but that isn’t the most interesting or actionable part of the story. Let’s talk about it.
Usually the best part of DRJ conferences are the communities that include Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Crisis Management, and Information Security leaders and implementers gathering together; not this Fall. This year, that is only topped by the debut of DPM’s AI-Enhanced Resilience research — we’re so excited to reveal the insights of 600 IT leaders…
Agentic threats require an Agentic solution … that summarizes what was announced from Rubrik Forward 2026. If you wanted to distill the entire day into a single sentence, it would be Bipul’s declaration: “To counter AI-led attacks, we must operate at AI speed.” I wasn’t able to squeeze all the announcements into this 3-minute summary…
I am looking “forward” (pun intended) to Rubrik’s event this week. Bipul recently declared “Cybersecurity is dead. Hello, Agentic Cyber Resilience,” which we’ll likely hear from main stage. No doubt this conference will focus on the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and backup (we still need backups). I’ll be listening to how those main stage promises…
Watching the NVIDIA AI Factory devices at Dell Technologies World (and traveling with a device that couldn’t run my usual AI tools) got me asking a question most IT leaders haven’t found great answers for yet: how are you ensuring the resilience of the infrastructure that fuels your AI-enhanced productivity? DPM will be exploring that…