Research
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What Makes a Good Backup Appliance – Part 1 of 3
In general, I am a fan of data protection appliances (DPAs), noting that purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) are just one of four categories of DPAs that are in market today. Read more about the four categories of DPAs in my earlier blog. ESG is in fact just finishing up some research on the various DPAs…
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New Math: Virtualization plus DPaaS = BC/DR!
Maybe that is overly-simplified, but not by much. Virtualization makes servers (and their associated storage) portable, while Data Protection Services provide alternate locations and expertise that many organizations of all sizes have been desperate for. In 2013, ESG published complete research reports on both of these topics: Research Report: Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments…
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New ESG Research on BaaS, DRaaS and Tertiary
These days, you can’t have a discussion on modernizing your IT infrastructure without talking about “cloud” … but when it comes to Data Protection, there isn’t just one kind of Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS). In fact, most folks are considering up to three different DPaaS capability sets, including: – BaaS – Backup as…
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Channel and Service Provider Opportunities in Protecting Virtualized Environments
As VMworld kicks off, I wanted to share some insights from ESG’s recently published “Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments” report. In a new research brief that ESG published this morning, we look at the ‘skills gap’ for data protection and virtualization. Click Here to check it out. As IT organizations move from 20% to…
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Video: Separate VM backups or Unified Protection?
As many in the IT industry are getting ready for VMworld, my mind always wanders back to what seems to be the perennial question – “Use a separate backup solution for protecting VMs … or a single solution for physical and virtual servers?” It used to be that the Virtualization-specific solutions did an inarguably better…
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Video summary of Disk-Based Backup Target Systems
A few months ago, ESG completed its research on Disk-Based Backup Target Systems – the storage platforms that data protection solutions are often built upon. The nice folks in ESG’s video team were kind enough to help me record some of our findings, as well as what made the research compelling. CLICK HERE to read…
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New Insights on the Trends for Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments
Easily one of the most revolutionary changes to IT over the past few years has been server virtualization. If I wasn’t a backup-dude (23 years), then I would be a virtualization-guy (10+) – so I was very excited to conduct a research project at ESG specifically around the Trends for Protecting Highly Virtualized and Private…
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Riverbed Granite extends iSCSI in a very cool way
This week, ESG Lab published its Lab Report on the new Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite. It was a privilege to work with two ESG Lab Engineers, Tony Palmer and Ajen Johan, to do some hands-on with the new Riverbed technologies. To me, the really cool part of Granite is how it changes some presumptions…
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Video Blog on Dell Compellent Storage Center Thin Provisioning
Last month, ESG Lab released its Lab Report on Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4. This project was interesting to me not only because of the technology itself, but because it was the first ESG Lab project that I had the opportunity to be part of since joining the team. One of the features I appreciated…
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ESG Lab Validation – EMC VNX Total Protection Pack
One of the coolest parts about going from a single-vendor to ESG has been the chance to see IT from a broader perspective. As a long-time ‘software-guy’, this was a chance to re-discover the power of hardware, particularly as it relates to data protection. This week, the ESG Lab team released its most recent Lab…
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