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vBlog: You Too Can be a Data Protection Super Hero
The awesome folks in the ESG Video team recently let me sit down and record a few podcasts that I will be releasing over the next few weeks. In this one, I started thinking about the challenges of midsized organizations… Read more
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The Spectrum of Data Protection
It is interesting to me how marketing folks and technical purists banter IT terms around, in hopes of sounding fresh and compelling to their customers. While “backup” is often thought of as passé or the bane of IT operations, “data… Read more
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The term PBBA is overused and often incorrect
There are some who would refer to optimized disk-based target devices that are optimized for as Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBAs), but that term is actually misleading. When one refers to a “backup server,” the implication is that the server performs… Read more
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From EMC World 2013: Backup/Archive (video)
This week, I sat down to do a short video for TechTarget on what I was finding interesting at EMC World 2013: EMC’s Data Protection Suite, as a new way to acquire and consume the range of EMC backup software… Read more
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How do you back up Saas? I’d like to know
You can’t have an IT “modernization” discussion without bringing up the cloud. And in the realm of data protection, that comes in a few obvious flavors: Backup as a Service (BaaS) – where your data is backed up either directly… Read more
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Snapshots vs. Backup – a great debate, no longer
It wasn’t that many years ago that “snapshotting vs. backup” had the same kind of fervor in IT debates that some American political discussions have today, or religion, or any other media-infused divisive issue. Sidenote: my favorite of these incite-ful… Read more