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WHY Use Clouds as Part of your Data Protection Strategy – Part 1 in Series (Video)
It’s impossible to have an IT-, business-, or digital-transformation discussion without considering cloud services as part of your strategy; and certainly that is true for data protection endeavors. So each Wednesday in June, I’ll be exploring an aspect of this… Read more
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You can prepare for tomorrow’s disaster today
This week, many of my colleagues are preparing for Winter Storm Juno. One of my compatriots actually warned his friends on Facebook that he was going to run around supermarket aisles telling folks “We’re all going to die!!” But seriously,… Read more
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SaaS Backup … Hunger Games style
There is a great scene in the first Hunger Games movie where the 24 combatants are just about to start fighting. In front of them are a small stash of weapons. Some of the combatants charge towards the weapons, knowing… Read more
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What not to do in Email Protection – part 2 of 5 (Tuesday) – Why Change Control Matters
All this week (URL to Day 1), I am dissecting an IT horror story from a friend of mine, whose IT team turned on archaic archiving for their cloud-based mail service … and hopefully gleaning lessons from it: “Change Control”… Read more
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What not to do in Email Protection – part 1 of 5 (Monday)
John (not his real name) logged in Monday morning to find that several of his mail folders had far less stuff in them. In fact, in very small font, he discovered his Outlook now showing “Global Retention Policy = 6… Read more
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EMC’s Data Protection portfolio now “spans” even more workloads
There are several “disruptive” trends in IT. And when vendors talk about disruptive, its usually in regard to some new feature/service that does things differently. But from my perspective, one of the most disruptive trends in Data Protection is that… Read more