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  • How JFK predicted data management

    How JFK predicted data management

    In 1962, JFK gave his famous moonshot speech to put an astronaut on the moon using a rocket “made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented”. They knew the outcome and the method years in advance – they also recognized a foundational component was missing even if they didn’t know…

  • Cohesity is acquiring Veritas

    Cohesity is acquiring Veritas

    This week, Cohesity announced it would acquire components of Veritas. It would be easy to misjudge this from the outside, but most Veritas customers are unlikely to have much angst about this; most will see this as a good thing. CIOs and IT leaders don’t like switching; they supplement until it becomes untenable. It does…

  • Data Management Is Undeniably the Future of Data Protection

    Data Management Is Undeniably the Future of Data Protection

    ESG has historically referred to “data protection” as a spectrum of activities that include backup, snapshots, and replication, as shown here:

  • Data Protection Is (or Should Be) Increasingly Part of a Systems Management Strategy (Video)

    Data Protection Is (or Should Be) Increasingly Part of a Systems Management Strategy (Video)

    Think about it. If I’m an IT Operations team member: I provision new servers (usually VMs), but some physical and some cloud-based. I patch and maintain those servers. I provide or rescind access to the applications on those servers. I monitor those servers for performance and uptime. And when those servers go down, I am…

  • Looking towards Data Management and Enablement in 2018 (Video)

    Looking towards Data Management and Enablement in 2018 (Video)

    Copy Data Management (CDM) and all the permutations of “Copy” “Data” “Management” with or without additional terms like “Active” “Enterprise” “Virtualization,” etc., seems to be the rage these days. A few years ago, there was only one visionary company talking about CDM. Today, we see a range of vendors now claiming to be CDM, even…

  • Do you still need a VM-specific backup solution?

    Do you still need a VM-specific backup solution?

    Probably not … but not for the reasons that you think. As most folks are getting ready for VMworld next week, ESG has published a brief, Is a VM-specific Approach to Backup & Recovery Still Necessary in 2017?

  • HOW to Ensure Security when Using Clouds Within your Data Protection Strategy – Part 3 in Series (Video)

    HOW to Ensure Security when Using Clouds Within your Data Protection Strategy – Part 3 in Series (Video)

    Each Wednesday in June, I’ll be exploring an aspect of this through a series of videos and blogs – based on ESG’s Data Protection Cloud Strategies research report. Part 1 – WHY use clouds as part of your data protection strategy … June 7 Part 2 – WHICH clouds to use within your data protection…

  • WHICH Clouds to Use Within your Data Protection Strategy – Part 2 in Series

    WHICH Clouds to Use Within your Data Protection Strategy – Part 2 in Series

    Each Wednesday in June, I’ll be exploring an aspect of this through a series of videos and blogs – based on ESG’s Data Protection Cloud Strategies research report. Part 1 – WHY use clouds as part of your data protection strategy … June 7 Part 2 – WHICH clouds to use within your data protection…

  • WHY Use Clouds as Part of your Data Protection Strategy – Part 1 in Series (Video)

    WHY Use Clouds as Part of your Data Protection Strategy – Part 1 in Series (Video)

    It’s impossible to have an IT-, business-, or digital-transformation discussion without considering cloud services as part of your strategy; and certainly that is true for data protection endeavors. So each Wednesday in June, I’ll be exploring an aspect of this through a series of videos and blogs – based on ESG’s Data Protection Cloud Strategies…

  • Thank You, Analyst Relations

    Thank You, Analyst Relations

    I’ve had the honor to participate in three very different events in the last three weeks. Each gave me the opportunity to serve, share ideas, and hopefully contribute value to the attendees. If you’d like to read more about the events, check out these blog posts:

11-11 Systems Acronis AI-ML Amazon Azure BaaS and DRaaS Business Continuity Cloud-powered Cohesity Commvault Connectwise Cyber Resilience Data Management Dell Disaster Recovery DRJ Druva Endpoints Events Firefly Google Hitachi Vantara HPE HYCU IaaS Infrastructure as-a-Service IBM Infrastructure Jason (personal) Kaseya Managed Service Providers Microsoft NetApp Orchestration Organizational Resilience Protection Storage Research Resilience Architectures Rubrik SaaS Tape Veeam Veritas Virtualization VMware Wrap-up on Backup

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