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  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 10 Hard Questions to ask IT — 2026 edition

    10 Hard Questions to ask IT — 2026 edition

    Business Resilience stakeholders and their IT teams are often disconnected because they’re not grasping how their IT strategies are creating or affecting their risk posture, often because they don’t share taxonomy or metrics. Here’s 10 hard questions from a workshop I ran at MIT and am paring down for customer events, roadshows, CABs, PACs, SKOs,…

  • When isolation protocols activate, your endpoints become a problem

    When isolation protocols activate, your endpoints become a problem

    IGEL might be the most interesting business continuity technology you haven’t considered yet. When isolation protocols activate, endpoint access for the people who need it most becomes an immediate problem. Your IR team. Your senior leadership. Your recovery coordinators. Most BC/DR plans recognize it; very few solve it elegantly. That gap is what drew my…

  • 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

  • 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.

  • There is more than just People, Process, Technology

    There is more than just People, Process, Technology

    If you’re focusing on “People Process Technology” in any IT modernization initiative then you’ve likely got two gaps in your plan. For organizations looking to bolster their Business Continuity, and by extension their IT, Data, or Cyber Resilience, understanding where vision ends and culture begins is likely the difference between success or failure.

  • 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…

  • The first thing to agree on in data protection modernization

    The first thing to agree on in data protection modernization

    There are many fundamental debates in data protection: Disk vs. tape vs. cloud Backups vs. snapshots vs. replication Centralized backup of ROBO’s vs. autonomous backups vs. cloud-BaaS solutions Unified data protection vs. workload-specific (e.g. VM/database) methods On any given day, I could argue on either side of any one of them (for fun) in which…

  • World Backup Day

    World Backup Day

    Every day should be Backup Day, just like every day should be Mothers’ Day. Yes, there is one day per year when we absolutely have to say “thank you” to our moms, but they’ve done so much for us that we really should be that thankful and sentimental with them every day. Similarly, while our…

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