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Why the Kyndryl-Veeam Partnership is Significant
I am admittedly biased in favor of the Kyndryl and Veeam Software partnership announced today: To be clear, I’m not referring to Kyndryl’s spinoff from IBM Cloud. Rather, to the 20+ year pedigree of IBM Business Continuity Resiliency Services (BCRS).… Read more
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Why Kasten Matters to the Data Protection Industry – and to Veeam
This week, Veeam announced its purchase of Kasten. To appreciate the importance of that, you have to look back at how IT data protection cyclically evolves. The Data Protection (and IT) Evolutionary Cycle About every ten years, a few elements of IT… 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
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HDS bought Sepaton – now what?
Have you ever known two people that seemed to tell the same stories and have the same ideas, but just weren’t that in to each other? And then one day, BAM, they are besties. Sepaton was (and is) a deduplication… Read more
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CommVault announces “You Can Have It Your Way”
There is a famous hamburger chain that used to tout, “You can have it your way,” whereby instead of getting your burger fully-loaded (with all the fixin’s), you can choose whether you wanted pickles, tomatoes, or anything else. For the… Read more
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A Look at the Amazon AWS Storage Gateway
Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance. On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being… Read more