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Midyear Check-in on Data Protection Initiatives in 2017 (Animated Infographic)
At the halfway point in 2017, it seems appropriate to revisit the continued momentum around investing in better, more agile, more reliable, likely cloud-enhanced data protection. Early each year, ESG publishes its IT Spending Intentions report, where we look at… Read more
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Y Evolve Your Data Protection Strategy in 2017 (Video)
Today’s message is brought to you by the letter “Y” and the numbers “1” and “7.” Most data protection conversations are evolving from “backup” to “recovery” – and to do that, you need to evolve from simply using backup mechanisms… Read more
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2017 Data Protection Predictions (Video)
We’re already into 2017, so here are three topics that really ought to be reconsidered and/or focused on in order to ensure that as you modernize production, your protection strategies are up to the tasks at hand: Cloud – While… Read more
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New Blog on Fiduciary Class Data Recovery
Check out this new blog post that I co-wrote with Mark Peters in which we lay out our ideas about a new data protection requirement: fiduciary class data recovery. Read more
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The gold standard for data protection keeps evolving
Yes, of course, data protection has to evolve to keep up with how production platforms are evolving, but I would offer that the presumptive ‘gold standard’ for what is the norm for those on the front lines of proactive data… Read more
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Do we still need VM-specific backup tools? [video]
This is one of the big questions in 2016 (and each of the past few years as well). Have the “traditional” unified data protection solutions caught up in reliability and agility to the degree that the need for “point products” that… Read more