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Events

  • Run Windows on the good days, Run IGEL on the bad days  (part one)

    Run Windows on the good days, Run IGEL on the bad days  (part one)

    Here’s a Cyber Resilience isolation mechanism that you may not have heard about yet but really ought to consider as part of your Business Continuity strategy. HINT: Run Windows on the good days, run IGEL on the bad days

  • DRJ Spring 2026 Wrap-up on Backup

    DRJ Spring 2026 Wrap-up on Backup

    Not all conferences are created equal. Here’s what DRJ Spring 2026 gets right—and why it matters.

  • Cybersecurity Summit 2026

    Cybersecurity Summit 2026

    The Official Cybersecurity Summit is one of my favorite single-stage conference series, especially this year with four Data Protection vendors showing on the expo floor – with special kudos to Rubrik and Commvault for some really interesting discussions on Cyber Resilience and more.

  • wrapup of IT Nation 2025

    wrapup of IT Nation 2025

    Attended IT Nation’s Global Connect conference intending to learn about their Data Protection and Cyber Resilience features. I did hear about some interesting tech, but I also took away some clearer understandings on what matters to MSPs delivering BaaS and DRaaS.

  • Is that how it happened

    Is that how it happened

    This week, my friend Van Flowers was kind enough to invite me on his Is That How It Happened podcast to talk about Cyber Resilience, why I launched Data Protection Matters, and what really matters to me (hint: it isn’t backup). Welcome back to Is That How It Happened? — the show where we explore the real…

  • Wrap-up on Backup — 11:11 Elite Event

    Wrap-up on Backup — 11:11 Elite Event

    Thank you 11:11 Systems for inviting DPM to be part of your event this week; spending time with customers and partners and discussing recent trends and considerations for Private Clouds, Cyber Resilience, and Disaster Recovery.

  • Disaster Recovery Journal Fall 2025 — Wrapup on Backup

    Disaster Recovery Journal Fall 2025 — Wrapup on Backup

    One of my favorite conferences of the year is Disaster Recovery Journal. They do two per year in different parts of the US to enable Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Crisis Management leaders to learn not just from experts, but from each other.

  • DRJ 2025

    DRJ 2025

    Excited to be speaking at Disaster Recovery Journal’s 2025 Fall event … in Dallas, Texas This will serve as the ‘debut’ of not only Data Protection Matters as an analyst firm, but also our first research project under the DPM brand — surveying on how Organziational Resilience is aligned and facilitated within institutions with insights…

  • Wrap-Up on Backup from Veritas Vision 2017

    Wrap-Up on Backup from Veritas Vision 2017

    It would be easy to assume that because the Veritas name has been around for more than 20 years, its products are all legacy and no longer suitable to modern data centers or IT scenarios; you would be wrong. Veritas is “back” after its divestiture from Symantec—with a laser focus on data management that very…

  • Wrap-up on Backup – from Veritas Sales Conference FY18

    Wrap-up on Backup – from Veritas Sales Conference FY18

    This week, I had the privilege of being part of Veritas’ global Sales Conference (VSC), which Veritas themed as ‘Right Now FY18.’  Much of my early career was in pre-sales engineering and field enablement, so I always enjoy “internal” conferences, as much if not more than “external” trade shows, because: Internal events, whether sales kickoffs…