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Wrap-up on Backup from VeeamON 2015 (Video)

Wrap-up on Backup from VeeamON 2015 If your Director of IT came and told you that you needed to “Look for a backup/replication product that was built-for VMs,” you’d obviously look at Veeam. But what if your Director of IT… Read more

Veeam, Virtualization, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

November 2, 2015
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

Events, Marketing, Predictions-and-Trends, Veeam, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

September 23, 2015
The Challenges and Benefits of Virtualization-Protection

Last week, my article in Windows IT Pro on “Virtualize Everything” stimulated a rather wide range of banter: · A few folks pointed out that some servers should not be virtualized, such as some DNS, Active Directory domain controllers and… Read more

Veeam, Virtualization

February 10, 2015
Could VeeamON be the next MMS?

This week is the first VeeamON, Availability for the Modern Data Center, conference in Las Vegas. As I listened to the side conversations and such, I was reminded of the special-ness of Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). Not MMS 2010+, when… Read more

Events, Microsoft, Veeam, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

October 6, 2014
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

Big Data, Predictions-and-Trends, Spanning, Veeam

April 18, 2014