Commentaries
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Single Control Plane: Innovation or Illusion?
“Single control plane” — real differentiator or marketecture? The answer determines whether your vendor stays relevant as AI and Cyber Resilience reshapes the market. Here’s how’s to tell the difference.
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AI-Enhanced Resilience
Everything seems to be ‘AI-Enhanced’ these days. So, here are the six questions that I ask Data Protection vendors when we talk about where AI fits within their solution stacks; today or in their roadmap.
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When isolation protocols activate, your endpoints become a problem
IGEL might be the most interesting business continuity technology you haven’t considered yet. When isolation protocols activate, endpoint access for the people who need it most becomes an immediate problem. Your IR team. Your senior leadership. Your recovery coordinators. Most BC/DR plans recognize it; very few solve it elegantly. That gap is what drew my…
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What to look for as the Data Protection Market evolves
The more time I spend with investors, consultants, and business stakeholders, the conversation keeps circling back to the same questions: “Who are the likely Data Protection leaders for the enterprise over the next few years, and why is the market shifting the way it is?“
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Don’t sacrifice protection while you’re modernizing production
Don’t sacrifice protection while you’re modernizing production. Two years after Broadcom changed the vSphere licensing and the fervor of an exodus started, let’s revisit how it turned out and what it means for Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience depending on your hypervisors and hyperscale clouds.
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Protection Storage
Most resilience conversations focus on backup software. But what if the more consequential architectural decision is the storage layers beneath the software? In my next Forbes article, I examine the evolving role of protection storage — and why it may matter more than many organizations realize. If you’re considering how your resilience architecture — not…
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Why I love DRaaS – and you should too
There are several reasons that I love DRaaS for Disaster Recovery using Managed Services – especially when it’s part of your Cyber Resilience plan. Let’s talk about a few of them and why you should love DRaaS too.
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If you aren’t testing, then you don’t have a plan
If you aren’t testing, then you don’t have a plan … you have a hope (and not much of one). One of the most consistent complaints I hear among BC/DR professionals is the lack of support from senior leaders to enable more testing for Cyber Resilience or Disaster Recovery. Here are some hard truths…
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IDC MarketScape for SaaS Protection
IDC recently published its MarketScape on SaaS data protection for 2026. If you’re an IDC client, you’ll want to read the entire report. Else, there’s a lot that you can glean from their chart that ought to raise some hard questions and fresh ideas for your overall Data Protection strategy.
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Third parties & resilience are a double-edged sword
More than half of all organizations suffered a disruption of a business process due to an issue with one of their third-party suppliers and providers. Not all outages are IT nor is ransomware the only event that can disrupt your operations – according to 502 BC/DR leaders.
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