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  • BaaS is Nearly Inevitable for Most Organizations

    As part four in our deep dive coverage of the 2024 Data Protection Trends report, we’re going to take a closer look at cloud-powered data protection. The analysis below is based on the 1,200 unbiased IT leaders and implementers responsible for… Read more

    BaaS and DRaaS, BC-DR, Cloud-powered, Research Findings, Tape
    February 13, 2024
  • Tape is (not) dead

    Today, two former industry analysts (who are now Veeam execs) discuss the trends that are shaping the data protection industry and IT landscape: Jason Buffington @JBuff, former Principal Analyst for Data Protection at ESG Dave Russell @BackupDave, former VP and Distinguished Analyst… Read more

    Tape, Veeam, Videos and Webcasts
    February 19, 2019
  • Long Term Data Retention is Evolving – Are You? (Video)

    It seems like every few months, a new regulation or mandate pops up to remind people to 1) keep their data longer and/or 2) delete it as soon as necessary. Those two edicts are not contrary to each other as… Read more

    Archive, Tape
    July 10, 2017
  • “Tape” is not a four-letter word

    In the 25+ years that I have been in data protection, much of it has been spent hearing about “better” alternatives to tape as a medium. Certainly, in the earlier days, tape earned its reputation of slowness or unreliability. But nothing… Read more

    Tape
    July 22, 2016
  • “Tape” is not a four-letter word

    In the 25+ years that I have been in data protection, much of it has been spent hearing about “better” alternatives to tape as a medium. Certainly, in the earlier days, tape earned its reputation of slowness or unreliability. But nothing… Read more

    Tape, Videos and Webcasts
    June 22, 2016
  • vBlog: Every Data Protection Architecture should be “Hybrid”

    Maybe not “every” – but certainly more than “most” – data protection architecture should be “hybrid,” meaning that it should include disk-, cloud-, and yes tape-based recovery components. Why? Because each has a legitimate set of use-case scenarios and attributes… Read more

    BaaS and DRaaS, Backup-to-Disk, Cloud-powered, Hybrid-Cloud, Tape, Videos and Webcasts
    December 4, 2013
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