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  • The Resilient Journey Podcast – Organizational Resilience

    The Resilient Journey Podcast – Organizational Resilience

    Was delighted to join Mark Hoffman’s podcast to start 2026 by discussing findings from DPM’s Organizational Resilience Trends research from last fall. We took the top ten takeaways and split them between episodes 216 & 217. Episode 216 January 5, 2026 First four takeaways : methods and metrics Episode 217 January 12, 2026 Six More…

  • DRJ article – your organization isn’t as resilient as you would like to believe

    DRJ article – your organization isn’t as resilient as you would like to believe

    According to your BC/DR professionals, 2/5 of your business processes are not resilient. One of the most revealing statistics came when survey respondents were asked, “What percentage of your organization’s key business processes do you believe to actually be resilient in alignment with your resilience goals?” Figure 1 reveals a fairly consistent distribution from worst…

  • Don’t believe every statistic

    Don’t believe every statistic

    Did you know that “85% of homeowners believe that they would have a better looking lawn if they used a red, rechargeable lawnmower”? Let’s talk about why you should not believe every statistic that is published.

  • 2026-H1 research

    2026-H1 research

    A new multi-client, co-sponsored research project is coming to kick off 2026. The research project will sample over 1,000 IT leaders and implementers on various aspects of their data protection strategies for 2026.  Survey respondents will predominantly be enterprise organizations, with some midsized organizations (>500 employees) represented, coming from at least: What is a ‘co-sponsored’…

  • 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…

  • Midyear Check-in on Data Protection Initiatives in 2017 (Animated Infographic)

    Midyear Check-in on Data Protection Initiatives in 2017 (Animated Infographic)

    At the halfway point in 2017, it seems appropriate to revisit the continued momentum around investing in better, more agile, more reliable, likely cloud-enhanced data protection. Early each year, ESG publishes its IT Spending Intentions report, where we look at where organizations are intending to invest their budgets. In each of the six years that…

  • Long Term Data Retention is Evolving – Are You? (Video)

    Long Term Data Retention is Evolving – Are You? (Video)

    It seems like every few months, a new regulation or mandate pops up to remind people to 1) keep their data longer and/or 2) delete it as soon as necessary. Those two edicts are not contrary to each other as long as you do them in that sequence; first, understand your retention requirements and then…

  • WHAT Products or Services Might you Consider when Using Clouds Within your Data Protection Strategy – Part 4 in Series

    WHAT Products or Services Might you Consider when Using Clouds Within your Data Protection Strategy – Part 4 in Series

    Each Wednesday in June, I explored an aspect of utilizing cloud services as part of your data protection strategy 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 –…

  • Do we still need VM-specific backup tools? [video]

    Do we still need VM-specific backup tools? [video]

    This is one of the big questions in 2016 (and each of the past few years as well). Have the “traditional” unified data protection solutions caught up in reliability and agility to the degree that the need for “point products” that only protect VMs are no longer necessary? To help answer the question, I’ve recorded…

  • Plan for Hybrid Data Protection Media in 2016

    Plan for Hybrid Data Protection Media in 2016

    More and more folks are first protecting their data (backups, archives, etc.) to disk — for several good reasons, including SLAs for data retrieval/restoration/recovery, deduplication efficiencies, etc. But as definitively as disk is the preferred “protection storage” as a second tier, the third tier is far less defined. For some, the deterministic factors are BC/DR…

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