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  • Can you rebuild the house, or just recover the furniture?

    Assume you discovered a breach, stood up a clean room, and were ready to restore … and then realized your cloud tenant itself is wrecked. Where does the data even go? Most data protection technologies still think server-by-server and most BC/DR planners underestimate what it would take to recreate their infrastructure. Let’s talk about that

  • 10 Hard Questions to ask IT — 2026 edition

    Business Resilience stakeholders and their IT teams are often disconnected because they’re not grasping how their IT strategies are creating or affecting their risk posture, often because they don’t share taxonomy or metrics. Here’s 10 hard questions from a workshop I ran at MIT and am paring down for customer events, roadshows, CABs, PACs, SKOs,…

  • To Broadcom or not to Broadcom

    We are officially out of the vSphere monopoly era. Nearly three years since Broadcom’s licensing shake-up, and organizations chose among three distinct paths: hyperscale cloud, alternative hypervisors, or staying put (though likely with new partners or channels). What most didn’t see coming was that the real cost wasn’t just the platform licensing; it was how…

  • Commvault’s latest Azure announcement

    Commvault just became the first cyber resilience vendor embedded natively in the Microsoft Azure fabric. If that doesn’t sound like a big deal, give me two minutes — because twenty years ago, something very similar changed the entire data protection industry.

  • Gartner’s 2026 MQ for Data Protection

    Gartner’s latest MQ for Data Protection just dropped; go pull up the chart. The trio now appears as a quartet, but that isn’t the most interesting or actionable part of the story. Let’s talk about it.