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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‘Tis the time of year to re-think how you did things before and what you might want to do differently in the future — in life, in IT and in Data Protection. To help you with those considerations, I’d like to share a short video on what we expect the more interesting trends will be in Data…
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More and more folks are first protecting their data (backups, archives, etc.) to disk — for several good reasons, including SLAs for data retrieval/restoration/recovery, deduplication efficiencies, etc. But as definitively as disk is the preferred “protection storage” as a second tier, the third tier is far less defined. For some, the deterministic factors are BC/DR…
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For 2016, one of my hopes for IT professionals is that you’ll talk with a wider variety of stakeholders within your organizations about data protection and the myriad methods for data retention and recovery that should be part ofone holistic strategy in ensuring the protection and preservation of corporate data, regardless of where the data resides or…
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For the past few years, we’ve continued to watch workload-administrators and IT Operations folks raise their influence in regard to which data protection product(s) are in use today. It’s actually quite reasonable: those IT professionals are responsible for the usability of their platforms and have unique understandings of how and which data should be protected…
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Wrap-up on Backup from VeeamON 2015 If your Director of IT came and told you that you needed to “Look for a backup/replication product that was built-for VMs,” you’d obviously look at Veeam. But what if your Director of IT asked you for ‘more,’ like: Recovery from hardware snapshots Basic protection for physical Windows endpoints…
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Last week, I blogged on the combined Data Protection portfolios of Dell and EMC. It was certainly what many folks wanted to talk about last week, so here is a short video summarizing the data protection considerations of the announced acquisition: As always, thanks for watching. [Originally blogged via ESG’s Technical Optimist.com]
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