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  • Hyperconverged Systems Don’t Preclude the Need for Data Protection (Video)

    Hyperconverged Systems Don’t Preclude the Need for Data Protection (Video)

    During VMworld US, I had the chance to visit with my colleague Terri McClure, who covers HyperConverged and Converged Infrastructure (HCI). Many HCI offerings boast “built-in” data protection capabilities, which prompted her and I to talk about the broader strategies of data protection within these all-in-one solution stacks. In fact, “Integrated Data Protection” was on…

  • Y Evolve Your Data Protection Strategy in 2017 (Video)

    Y Evolve Your Data Protection Strategy in 2017 (Video)

    Today’s message is brought to you by the letter “Y” and the numbers “1” and “7.” Most data protection conversations are evolving from “backup” to “recovery” – and to do that, you need to evolve from simply using backup mechanisms to a combination of backups, snapshots, and replicas. And some vendors are there (YAY)! But…

  • Is Your Data Protection Strategy Suffering a Civil War?

    Is Your Data Protection Strategy Suffering a Civil War?

    I am a huge fan of the Marvel movies. Each of the individual hero movies has done an awesome job contributing to the greater albeit fictional universe. Each of the heroes has their unique role to play within the Avengers team. And yet, in the latest movie that released on Blu-Ray today, it appears as…

  • Why you still need backup … and beyond

    Why you still need backup … and beyond

    The foundation of any data protection, preservation, and availability strategy is grounded in “backup,” period. Yes, a majority of organizations supplement backups with snapshots, or replicas, or archives, as shown in what ESG refers to as the Data Protection Spectrum. And as much as some of those other colors (approaches to data protection) can add…

  • A case study in how to #EpicFail at a product launch

    A case study in how to #EpicFail at a product launch

    Last week provided a case study in how to #EpicFail at a product launch. The vendor in question took a fresh look at the market and then created a completely new offering, built on a trusted brand, but stretching in a new and intriguing direction. And then, it completely failed in its first days in…

  • Hyperconverged Infrastructure for BCDR using EVO RAIL

    Hyperconverged Infrastructure for BCDR using EVO RAIL

    Shortly after VMware announced its EVO Rail initiative, whereby hardware partners could start delivering a very dense compute, storage, and networking solution within a wholly-contained appliance – I started exploring the data protection aspects of an EVO Rail solution. The nice folks in ESG’s video studio have produced a whole series on this … in…

  • Better Catalogs Make for Better Data Restores (video)

    Better Catalogs Make for Better Data Restores (video)

    It really is just that simple: backup products without robust catalogs are just that, backup products – not restore products. There are lots of reasons that just maintaining a browse-able file list is not enough today, including not only a lack of search-ability but also because the catalog is the key to really leveraging primary…

  • How to Protect an EVO RAIL (video series)

    How to Protect an EVO RAIL (video series)

    VMware’s EVO RAIL is an architecture for a hyper-converged, software-defined data center in a single appliance form-factor … to be delivered by various hardware partners. But how do you protect that all-in-one solution? For the next several weeks, ESG will be releasing a seven-part series of ESG Capsules, 2 minute video segments, where I’ll talk…

  • Data Protection Appliances are better than PBBAs

    Data Protection Appliances are better than PBBAs

    Too many folks categorize every blinky-light box that can be part of a data protection solution as a “Purpose Built Backup Appliance” or PBBA. But the market isn’t just a bunch of apples with an orange or two mixed in, data protection appliances (DPAs) can be apples, oranges, bananas and cherries — but if you…

  • vBlog: Everyone Should Archive (period)

    vBlog: Everyone Should Archive (period)

    Even if you aren’t in a highly regulated industry. Even if you aren’t a Fortune 500 enterprise. Even if you don’t keep data over five years. Everyone should archive, as a means of data management – because storage (both primary and secondary) are growing faster than storage budgets, so you can’t keep doing what you…

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