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’s impossible to have an IT-, business-, or digital-transformation discussion without considering cloud services as part of your strategy; and certainly that is true for data protection endeavors. So each Wednesday in June, I’ll be exploring an aspect of this through a series of videos and blogs – based on ESG’s Data Protection Cloud Strategies…
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I’ve had the honor to participate in three very different events in the last three weeks. Each gave me the opportunity to serve, share ideas, and hopefully contribute value to the attendees. If you’d like to read more about the events, check out these blog posts:
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Last week, I sat down with the folks at The Cube at VeeamON 2017 to talk about a range of topics including Veeam, the evolutions in the broader data protection market, and more.
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I had pre-blogged before this event about looking for the unified narrative that knits together a breadth of DP products in a more focused way via the newly (re)formed Data Protection Division within the Dell EMC institution.
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This week, I had the privilege of being part of Veritas’ global Sales Conference (VSC), which Veritas themed as ‘Right Now FY18.’ Much of my early career was in pre-sales engineering and field enablement, so I always enjoy “internal” conferences, as much if not more than “external” trade shows, because:
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Data Management, meaning the maturation of data protection and data preservation that adds contextual insight based on the data and the enablement of re-use of the data for other purposes, is a journey that all of us are on – whether we know it or not. Maybe you’re just trying to get “good” data protection…
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