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  • Object First introduces mini’s

    Object First recently announced the upcoming Ootbi mini — as a small formfactor repository that’s built to be part of an SMB’s Cyber Resilience strategy. Frankly, DPM is as excited about they Honeypot feature as the new appliance. Read more

    Appliances, Immutability, News, Object First, Storage
    October 15, 2025
  • An appliance by any other name

    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… Read more

    Appliances, Veeam, Videos and Webcasts
    March 5, 2019
  • Hyperconverged Infrastructure for BCDR using EVO RAIL

    Shortly after VMware announced its EVO Rail initiative, whereby hardware partners could start delivering a very dense compute, storage, and networking solution within a wholly-contained appliance – I started exploring the data protection aspects of an EVO Rail solution.  The… Read more

    Appliances, Converged-Hyperconverged, Dell-EMC, HPE, Videos and Webcasts, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld
    November 26, 2014
  • How to Protect an EVO RAIL (video series)

    VMware’s EVO RAIL is an architecture for a hyper-converged, software-defined data center in a single appliance form-factor … to be delivered by various hardware partners.  But how do you protect that all-in-one solution? For the next several weeks, ESG will… Read more

    Appliances, Converged-Hyperconverged, Dell-EMC, HPE, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld
    October 13, 2014
  • Data Protection Appliances are better than PBBAs

    Too many folks categorize every blinky-light box that can be part of a data protection solution as a "Purpose Built Backup Appliance" or PBBA. But the market isn’t just a bunch of apples with an orange or two mixed in,… Read more

    Appliances, Backup-to-Disk
    October 6, 2014
  • Riverbed Announces the End to Excuses in Trying D2D2C

    For several months, I’ve been talking about the inevitability of D2D2C (meaning that data is goes from primary/production storage to secondary protection storage and then to a tertiary cloud). In fact, I blogged a few months ago that iit s… Read more

    Appliances, Cloud-powered, Riverbed
    September 9, 2014
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