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Virtual data protection is hard, but could be easier if you had a better view into what’s going on. Learn how to increase visibility into your virtualization protection solution. According to a recent Enterprise Strategy Group report on Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments, virtualization rates as one of the top (or top) challenges in…

ESG Senior Analyst Jason Buffington discusses some of the major data protection issues a small or medium-sized business must overcome while planning a data backup strategy in this podcast. What are the major differences between enterprise and SMB backup? In a nutshell, the biggest difference is obviously scale. The good news is that a lot…

Doing a selective mobile device backup that separates work data and personal data can’t be done, says analyst Jason Buffington, but perhaps not for the reasons you think. Before I get started, let me define the two basic types of endpoint devices: consumption devices and creation devices. Consumption devices are like e-readers that fetch data…

Although the role of tape in traditional backup operations might be diminishing, it still has a place in long-term data retention and even cloud storage services. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group’s Trends in Data Protection Modernization, tape is in use in 56% of data protection strategies today. That represents a lot of tape users,…