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  • ‘First Look’ at DPM’s AI-Enhanced Resilience

    ‘First Look’ at DPM’s AI-Enhanced Resilience

    It’s finally here! DPM’s AI-Enhanced Resilience research gets its first public look this week at Disaster Recovery Journal, before it’s seen anywhere else. To do some mythbusting, we asked IT leaders whether the AI in their backup, DR, and cyber tools is “mostly marketing” or “actually transformative” (or somewhere in between), and their answers could…

  • Cohesity Cyber Resilience Report 2026

    Cohesity Cyber Resilience Report 2026

    IT folks will already want to download Cohesity‘s new 2026 Report on Cyber Resilience, but here’s why Business Continuity and Risk Management folks ought to also. The report measured what those of us in resilience have known for a while: (1) the importance of building your plan around your MVC and (2) quantifying the gap…

  • MSP Affinity for DPaaS

    MSP Affinity for DPaaS

    Retention is the new growth, especially if you’re an MSP selling BaaS or DRaaS. DPM’s latest research shows just how sticky Data Protection relationships really are, and the two things that actually make a customer walk (or stay).

  • The avg org runs 2.8 Backup Products

    The avg org runs 2.8 Backup Products

    How many backup products does your org actually run? Only 7% of orgs run a single backup and recovery stack; the avg org runs 2.8 data protection solutions. It’s not because IT teams enjoy tool sprawl; it’s because most need to supplement their primary solution to cover the breadth of their IT, especially due to…

  • September is BaaS-DRaaS-CRaaS month for DPM

    September is BaaS-DRaaS-CRaaS month for DPM

    For the next five Mondays, DPM is digging into the BaaS -> DRaaS -> CRaaS continuum. We surveyed 440 IT decision makers on how they’re using cloud-powered backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience services, and one of the key themes that keeps resurfacing is that expertise (as-a-service) matters as much as the delivery models that…

  • Four tiers isn’t enough

    Four tiers isn’t enough

    502 BC/DR leaders told DPM that their orgs average 3.4 tiers of IT workloads to recover in a crisis — here are the two things most of them forgot to count.

  • How does DPM Custom Research work?

    How does DPM Custom Research work?

    The difference between ‘okay’ marketing content and ‘great’ thought leadership assets determines whether you’ll build credibility … replenish your Q1 pipeline … or enable differentiated conversations for your sellers. The key often comes down to the quality of the research that fueled it. We’ll design your survey, develop the analysis, and equip not just your…

  • Third parties & resilience are a double-edged sword

    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.

  • Making the case for resilience service providers

    Making the case for resilience service providers

    If you are trying to improve your org’s resilience, you likely will need third-party service providers – according to 502 BC/DR leaders. Let’s talk a look at which kinds of MSPs are most frequently utilized to improve Cyber Resilience and Disaster Recovery.

  • How to improve research-powered Thought Leadership content

    How to improve research-powered Thought Leadership content

    If you’re thinking about developing research-powered Thought Leadership marketing content … here are 6 steps in 4 minutes that can make the difference between GOOD content that might create marketing leads … and GREAT content which delivers value to the reader and influence for the vendor/provider.

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