Endpoints

The avg org runs 2.8 Backup Products

2026-09-08

How many backup products does your org actually run? Only 7% of orgs run a single backup and recovery stack; the avg org runs 2.8 data protection solutions. It’s not because IT teams enjoy tool sprawl; it’s because most need to supplement their primary solution to cover the breadth of their IT, especially due to…
How are you backing up your AI?

2026-06-02

Watching the NVIDIA AI Factory devices at Dell Technologies World (and traveling with a device that couldn’t run my usual AI tools) got me asking a question most IT leaders haven’t found great answers for yet: how are you ensuring the resilience of the infrastructure that fuels your AI-enhanced productivity? DPM will be exploring that…
When isolation protocols activate, your endpoints become a problem

2026-04-21

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)

2026-04-06

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
JBuff’s Data Protection Predictions for 2015

2015-02-04

Last month, I sat down with my colleague, John McKnight, to give my predictions on how Data Protection will or should change in 2015 … in five minutes or less: My top areas of interest for this year include: Hope you enjoy the video – thanks for watching. Originally posted on my personal self-managed blog…
Why Doesn’t IT back up BYOD!?

2014-09-17

ESG recently started offering TechTruths … single nuggets of data and the analyst perspectives of why they matter. Check out all of them via the link above, but here is my favorite so far on BYOD data protection: So, why doesn’t IT back up BYOD endpoints?! It isn’t a rhetorical question. I have always been…
You have one less way to recover your data – and you probably didn’t realize it

2013-09-12

BE AWARE that today’s laptop and mobile devices have one less recovery option than they used to. This particular customer service announcement is targeted mostly at business executives and the IT professionals who support them. – Those folks presume that device theft never happens and that they are too responsible to ever leave their device…
Mobile Device Backup may be Impossible

2013-06-11

Doing a selective mobile device backup that separates work data and personal data can’t be done, says analyst Jason Buffington, but perhaps not for the reasons you think. Before I get started, let me define the two basic types of endpoint devices: consumption devices and creation devices. Consumption devices are like e-readers that fetch data…
Data Protection in a BYOD World

2012-12-17

One of the most complicated areas of data protection in IT today has to be around securing the data on endpoint devices (laptops & tablets). Frankly, most IT organizations weren’t able to do an effective job of protecting that data when the devices were corporate-owned, but with the myriad devices that are now in use,…
What I am thankful for – as a backup guy

2012-11-21

First and foremost, I am so thankful for the job that I have and the ESG family members that I share it with. It has been an amazing year that I cannot say “thank you” enough times for. I am also very thankful to the ESG family of data protection companies that have welcomed me…

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