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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Maybe that is overly-simplified, but not by much. Virtualization makes servers (and their associated storage) portable, while Data Protection Services provide alternate locations and expertise that many organizations of all sizes have been desperate for. In 2013, ESG published complete research reports on both of these topics: Research Report: Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments…
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I don’t often re-post vendor marketing content – but since they let me be a small part of simulating a hurricane/flood of a datacenter … Symantec rented out a 6-story hurricane (100mph) simulator in South Carolina … and then flooded a working datacenter server-stack with 35,000 gallons of water: Most folks know me as a…
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Maybe not “every” – but certainly more than “most” – data protection architecture should be “hybrid,” meaning that it should include disk-, cloud-, and yes tape-based recovery components. Why? Because each has a legitimate set of use-case scenarios and attributes that lend each medium type to different data protection goals. I previously blogged that every…
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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…
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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…
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BE AWARE that today’s laptop and mobile devices have one less recovery option than they used to. This particular customer service announcement is targeted mostly at business executives and the IT professionals who support them. - Those folks presume that device theft never happens and that they are too responsible to ever leave their…
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