I served as a VP of Strategy within the Office of the CTO at Veeam Software from 2018 to 2025.
- Primary responsibilies included leading our Strategic Research (unbiased market insights) for product strategy, go-to-market fortification, field enablement, and thought leadership/evangelism.
- Was also the exec sponsor for the Veeam Innovation Awards and led several vTeams for special projects.
Here is an archive of my blogs, articles, and projects as part of my role at Veeam. Most common topics include Research reports and insights, Innovation Awards, BaaS & DRaaS, BC/DR, Hybrid-Clouds, and Cyber Resiliency.
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Today, two former industry analysts (who are now Veeam execs) discuss the trends that are shaping the data protection industry and IT landscape: Dave Russell @BackupDave, former VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, lead analyst for the Backup MQ Jason Buffington @JBuff, former Principal Analyst for Data Protection at ESG This week, we’re talking about using “the…
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Today, two former industry analysts (who are now Veeam execs) discuss the trends that are shaping the data protection industry and IT landscape: Jason Buffington @JBuff, former Principal Analyst for Data Protection at ESG Dave Russell @BackupDave, former VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, lead analyst for the Backup MQ This week, we’re talking about how tape…
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For the next few weeks, two former industry analysts (who are now Veeam execs) discuss the trends that are shaping the data protection industry and IT landscape: Dave Russell @BackupDave, former VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, lead analyst for the Backup MQ Jason Buffington @JBuff, former Principal Analyst for Data Protection at ESG This week, we’re…
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In 225 BC, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Archimedes wrote, “Give me a lever and a fulcrum, and I will move the world.” Today at VeeamON, we celebrated a few organizations that aren’t just using Veeam Software as a solution for their own sake, but as the fulcrum and lever by which they are changing the worlds of…
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VeeamON is expanding! As you’ve probably noticed, Veeam continues to grow from “just” the world’s best protection for virtual environments to delivering similar outcomes for physical servers, endpoints, Infrastructure as a Service-hosted (IaaS) servers and Microsoft Office 365. Those capabilities are the foundation for our protection, recovery, enablement and Availability solutions. In addition to that,…
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I love data protection within IT— so much so that I am starting my 30th year focused on DP by leaving the analyst world and going back to the vendor world at Veeam. Here’s why: The state of the data protection industry After seven blessed years as the Principal Analyst at ESG covering data protection,…
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