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Looking Forward to Backing Up — at Dell EMC World 2017

The Dell acquisition of EMC is complete. Most of the leadership shifts and organizational realignments have happened. The previously Dell Software data protection solution components have moved on under the Quest banner. In short, now that the dust has settled,… Read more

Dell-EMC, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

April 24, 2017
Wrap-Up on Backup from Microsoft Ignite (with Video)

As ESG often tries to do, here is a short summary video of ESG’s impressions from a major industry event – Microsoft Ignite, held in Atlanta over September 26-29, 2016 – from a backup perspective. In the video, I suggested… Read more

Microsoft, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

September 30, 2016
New Veritas = New Vision

This week, the newly unencumbered Veritas (from Symantec) relaunched its premier user event – Veritas Vision. There was a palpable energy that resonated around “we’re back and ready to resume our leadership mantle,” starting with an impressive day one from… Read more

Cohesity-Veritas, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

September 15, 2016
Wrap-up on backup from EMC World 2016 — day two keynote

There are a lot of things to like about EMC World this year, especially if data protection is important to you. Kudos on the day two general session with Jeremy Burton and Guy Churchward. Some notes from the event: It is hard… Read more

Dell-EMC, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

May 3, 2016
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
More data protection thoughts on Dell and EMC [video]

Last week, I blogged on the combined Data Protection portfolios of Dell and EMC. It was certainly what many folks wanted to talk about last week, so here is a short video summarizing the data protection considerations of the announced acquisition:… Read more

Dell-EMC, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

October 21, 2015