I served as the Principal Analyst covering the Data Protection market and its vendors from 2011 to 2017. Here is an archive of my blogs, articles, and projects as part of my role at ESG.
- Most common topics include BaaS & DRaaS, BC/DR, Cloud-Powered IT, Hybrid-Clouds, Storage, and Virtualization.
- Vendors covered include Commvault, Dell-EMC, HPE, IBM, Veeam, Veritas, VMware, etc.
- I published several articles throughout my industry coverage.
- I also did several ‘Wrap-up on Backup‘ event retrospectives.
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It seems that every time that a new major IT platform is delivered, backing it up is an afterthought – often exacerbated by the fact that the platform vendor didn’t create the APIs or plumbing to enable a backup ecosystem. Each time, there is a gap where the legacy folks aren’t able to adapt quickly…
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Continuing on the theme that we started last year that “Data Protection” is the umbrella theme that encompasses a broad range (spectrum) of IT behaviors, including “Backup, Snapshots, Replication, etc.”: Here is a video that gives some color to those ideas (pun intended): 1. Start with a fresh understanding of your business units’…
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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…
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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…
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“Backing up and recovering VMs” is not solved. There are lots of options in market, and the dynamics seem to shift by the day: The unified (physical plus virtual) backup solutions are trying to take back share from the virtualization-specific folks, now that some of them are catching up (or passing) on VM protection methods…
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At first glance, the services can be easily confused: Yes, it’s very easy to see how OFS and BaaS are similar. And for individual users and their consumer data, one might use either service for both goals – but they are NOT the same. Maybe individual consumers can blur the lines on these, but IT…
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