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Data Protection Predictions for 2016
‘Tis the time of year to re-think how you did things before and what you might want to do differently in the future — in life, in IT and in Data Protection. To help you with those considerations, I’d like… Read more
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VMworld 2015 Had Some Great Marketing
There was some great marketing execution at VMworld 2015. As a sequel to my blog last year that “Event Marketing Doesn’t Get Enough Credit,” here is my tip of the hat to some of the unsung heroes of tradeshows: the… Read more
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How do you back up Big Data? Or SaaS? Who will be the next Veeam?
It seems that every time that a new major IT platform is delivered, backing it up is an afterthought – often exacerbated by the fact that the platform vendor didn’t create the APIs or plumbing to enable a backup ecosystem.… Read more
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D2D2C is like 1 box of Legos and 2 manuals
Last year, I blogged that a modern “Data Protection Strategy” is more than just backup – instead including also snapshots, replication, archiving, etc. (see also bit.ly/jbSpectrum1) And while some would then call this a hybrid architecture, others prefer to think… Read more
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8 Suggestions that Every Data Protection Strategy should have
As a “data protection dude”, I have the best job in the world – I have the opportunity to talk to hundreds of IT Pro’s on what they are doing (or are thinking about doing) in data protection, and then… Read more
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Virtualization Protection re-cap for 2013
“Backing up and recovering VMs” is not solved. There are lots of options in market, and the dynamics seem to shift by the day: The unified (physical plus virtual) backup solutions are trying to take back share from the virtualization-specific… Read more