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  • Noise to Signal in the AI era

    Noise to Signal in the AI era

    ‘Noise to signal’ isn’t just a tooling problem; it’s a charter problem. Cyber resilience is broader than ransomware; therefore, the signals we care about are broader than security events, and the team that owns the SIEM might not be the team that owns the resilience and governance outcomes. Especially when you add identity, along with…

  • Hunger Games: Cloud Infrastructure Edition

    Hunger Games: Cloud Infrastructure Edition

    Welcome to Hunger Games 2026 Edition! Each decade, there are new Data Protection problems that are often first addressed by startups. Established vendors face the build-or-buy (or partner) choices of grabbing from the cornucopia or developing their own. 20yrs ago, Virtualization: Veeam, PHD Virtual, vRanger 10yrs ago, SaaS-Backup: Spanning & Backupify (both now Kaseya) Today,…

  • Cloud-Powered Resilience is exciting, and not just for the tech stacks

    Cloud-Powered Resilience is exciting, and not just for the tech stacks

    At a recent AMA, was asked what excites me most about Managed Services (MSPs) delivering Data Protection. I said there are three categories, each with disruptive innovation: There isn’t a single best scenario or vendor; what matters is zeroing in on what the customer needs, not only in resilience but in overall IT agility. This…

  • Are you thinking about Q1 SKO’s? We are

    Are you thinking about Q1 SKO’s? We are

    Are you thinking about Q1 SKO’s? We are. If you want to rebuild Q1 pipeline or fuel new narratives through Thought Leadership for a February SKO, then work backwards and the math gets uncomfortable really fast; content creation in December … narratives and GTM strategy in October … data alignment in September … and here…

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

    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

    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

    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’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 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.

  • How are you backing up your AI?

    How are you backing up your AI?

    Watching the NVIDIA AI Factory devices at Dell Technologies World (and traveling with a device that couldn’t run my usual AI tools) got me asking a question most IT leaders haven’t found great answers for yet: how are you ensuring the resilience of the infrastructure that fuels your AI-enhanced productivity? DPM will be exploring that…

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