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  • Noise to Signal in the AI era

    Noise to Signal in the AI era

    ‘Noise to signal’ isn’t just a tooling problem; it’s a charter problem. Cyber resilience is broader than ransomware; therefore, the signals we care about are broader than security events, and the team that owns the SIEM might not be the team that owns the resilience and governance outcomes. Especially when you add identity, along with…

  • Hunger Games: Cloud Infrastructure Edition

    Hunger Games: Cloud Infrastructure Edition

    Welcome to Hunger Games 2026 Edition! Each decade, there are new Data Protection problems that are often first addressed by startups. Established vendors face the build-or-buy (or partner) choices of grabbing from the cornucopia or developing their own. 20yrs ago, Virtualization: Veeam, PHD Virtual, vRanger 10yrs ago, SaaS-Backup: Spanning & Backupify (both now Kaseya) Today,…

  • Cloud-Powered Resilience is exciting, and not just for the tech stacks

    Cloud-Powered Resilience is exciting, and not just for the tech stacks

    At a recent AMA, was asked what excites me most about Managed Services (MSPs) delivering Data Protection. I said there are three categories, each with disruptive innovation: There isn’t a single best scenario or vendor; what matters is zeroing in on what the customer needs, not only in resilience but in overall IT agility. This…

  • Commvault’s latest Azure announcement

    Commvault’s latest Azure announcement

    Commvault just became the first cyber resilience vendor embedded natively in the Microsoft Azure fabric. If that doesn’t sound like a big deal, give me two minutes — because twenty years ago, something very similar changed the entire data protection industry.

  • Gartner’s 2026 MQ for Data Protection

    Gartner’s 2026 MQ for Data Protection

    Gartner‘s latest MQ for Data Protection just dropped; go pull up the chart. The trio now appears as a quartet, but that isn’t the most interesting or actionable part of the story. Let’s talk about it.

  • Cybersecurity Summit 2026

    Cybersecurity Summit 2026

    The Official Cybersecurity Summit is one of my favorite single-stage conference series, especially this year with four Data Protection vendors showing on the expo floor – with special kudos to Rubrik and Commvault for some really interesting discussions on Cyber Resilience and more.

  • IDC MarketScape for SaaS Protection

    IDC MarketScape for SaaS Protection

    IDC recently published its MarketScape on SaaS data protection for 2026. If you’re an IDC client, you’ll want to read the entire report. Else, there’s a lot that you can glean from their chart that ought to raise some hard questions and fresh ideas for your overall Data Protection strategy.

  • VMworld 2015 Had Some Great Marketing

    VMworld 2015 Had Some Great Marketing

    There was some great marketing execution at VMworld 2015. As a sequel to my blog last year that “Event Marketing Doesn’t Get Enough Credit,” here is my tip of the hat to some of the unsung heroes of tradeshows: the events planners and marketing leaders that ensure that the technology experts and sales folks have…

  • CommVault’s Future Just Became ‘Cloudy’ – In a Good Way

    CommVault’s Future Just Became ‘Cloudy’ – In a Good Way

    Today, CommVault announced four new offerings to take its Simpana platform to the clouds in two directions: Backup to the Cloud – enhancing how the CommVault data protection platform can store data within public cloud storage from its Simpana software (via the new Cloud Replication option) or from a CommVault appliance (via the new Cloud…

  • CommVault announces “You Can Have It Your Way”

    CommVault announces “You Can Have It Your Way”

    There is a famous hamburger chain that used to tout, “You can have it your way,” whereby instead of getting your burger fully-loaded (with all the fixin’s), you can choose whether you wanted pickles, tomatoes, or anything else. For the last two decades, CommVault has been offering a fully-loaded data protection solution that encompassed backup,…

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