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  • Microsoft Ups its Backup Game in System Center 2012

    [Cross-posted from my ESG blog – Technical Optimist .com] Data protection processes and technologies are vital to ensuring an organization’s operational, regulatory, and financial health. As a result, data protection infrastructure is included in every IT budget and is top… Read more

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  • Some things aren’t solved by just cutting a check

    Every week, during the Spring and Summer, my lawn gets mowed. Specifically, it happens every Thursday morning, while I am working. Some guys come by my home and pick up the check from my wife, and then my lawn gets… Read more

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  • Video Interview on DPM 2012

    First and Foremost – CONGRATS to my Microsoft friends for the recent release of the beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 !!! Its amazing for me to remember back to joining the DPM team as v1 was releasing… Read more

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  • Announcing DPM 2012 Beta

    Today, Microsoft released its public beta for System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012. Of course, in full disclosure, most of my readers know that I am not just an ESG guy who loves data protection, but was the senior… Read more

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  • Jason joins ESG

    Today, I begin my next adventure – as an “Analyst & Lab Engineer” for ESG, the Enterprise Strategy Group. For those that don’t know ESG, they are mostly known for their industry research and analysis of IT, particularly around Storage,… Read more

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  • JBuff leaving Microsoft

    After 5.5 years, I am leaving Microsoft. When I first joined, it was after 15 years in the backup/recovery and high availability market.  I joined to be part of DPM v1, which had been in market for about a month,… Read more

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