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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Improving data backup and recovery was the second most commonly cited IT priority for 2015 among respondents surveyed by ESG for its 2015 IT spending intentions report (see Figure 1). But as important as backup and recovery are, the survey tells another story, too. The most frequently mentioned priority was information security. What that finding…
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Candidly, whenever I spend a good bit of time looking closely at the breadth of NetApp data protection capabilities, I usually leave with the same two impressions: Wow, I forgot that they do all of those ‘Data Protection’ things, based on what is built-in Why don’t they talk about it more?!? The latter was addressed by…
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Earlier today, Dell announced it was acquiring EMC. While there is still much to be decided and most of this will not substantively occur until mid-2016, the scenario raises several interesting ramifications regarding data protection as each of the vendors already had an interesting road ahead into next year: Dell Dell continues to evolve, particularly…
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There was some great marketing execution at VMworld 2015. As a sequel to my blog last year that “Event Marketing Doesn’t Get Enough Credit,” here is my tip of the hat to some of the unsung heroes of tradeshows: the events planners and marketing leaders that ensure that the technology experts and sales folks have…
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It’s taken me a while to catch up after VMworld, but I did want to share some observations on what was interesting at the show from a data protection perspective. Thankfully, nearly gone are the days of asking “How do I get a good backup of my VMs?” With the prevalent usage of VMware’s vSphere…
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Today, VMware announced enhancements to both its vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. In both cases, VMware is essentially asking, “Why just BaaS when you can DRaaS?” Over the past three VMworld events: In 2013, VMware was talking about vSphere Data Protection (VDP/VDPA). In 2014, VMware discussed maturations and enhancements in…
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