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  • 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…

  • What if your backup solution understood the rest of your IT?

    What if your backup solution understood the rest of your IT?

    What if your backup software understood your business organization and what data mattered to your employees before it ever did a backup? Most cyber resilience solutions don’t. Most are grounded in the foundational backups of your data, but they’re limited by the administrator who points them at the workloads and the policies that that instruct…

  • Kaseya Connect 2026 – Day 2

    Kaseya Connect 2026 – Day 2

    As Kaseya Connect 26 winds down, here are some of my favorite takeaway quotes from Kaseya’s attendees and senior leadership. DPM’s coverage of Connect 2026 includes:Day 1: What I am listening for: https://lnkd.in/gFKSi2HYDay 2: Announcements in Cyber Resilience: https://lnkd.in/gPfidYg8Day 3: Favorite takeaway quotes: https://lnkd.in/gFnvyk3q

  • Kaseya Connect 2026 – Day 1

    Kaseya Connect 2026 – Day 1

    Kaseya’s CEO kicked off Kaseya Connect 26 talking about all the data that each of their products individually deal with on behalf of each customer and partner — and then announced Kaseya Intelligence and its one API as the foundation on which every product will exchange information for a truly better together story that unlocks…

  • Kaseya Connect 2026 – Day 0

    Kaseya Connect 2026 – Day 0

    Nearly every one of my conversations with or about MSPs focuses on either solution stacks for backup/DR/cyber — and/or — how MSPs grow predictable, scalable businesses that deliver data protection services alongside cybersecurity, networking, and IT operations via management frameworks So, I’m at Kaseya Connect 26 to hear the latest on Unitrends, Datto, and Spanning…

  • What’s New in Data Protection from EMC World 2015 – and Why It Matters

    What’s New in Data Protection from EMC World 2015 – and Why It Matters

    Today, at EMC World 2015, EMC announced a significant number of new offerings and updates; starting from their core technologies (storage) and then quite literally wrapping it with a layer of “Data Protection Everywhere.” With that in mind, here are the Data Protection announcements (click here for EMC press release), with the first being that…

  • SaaS Backup … Hunger Games style

    SaaS Backup … Hunger Games style

    There is a great scene in the first Hunger Games movie where the 24 combatants are just about to start fighting. In front of them are a small stash of weapons. Some of the combatants charge towards the weapons, knowing that if they get one, they will gain a huge advantage – but if they…

  • EMC’s Data Protection portfolio now “spans” even more workloads

    EMC’s Data Protection portfolio now “spans” even more workloads

    There are several “disruptive” trends in IT. And when vendors talk about disruptive, its usually in regard to some new feature/service that does things differently. But from my perspective, one of the most disruptive trends in Data Protection is that traditional workloads are leaving the data center. According to ESG’s IT Spending Intentions 2014 report,…

  • Backing up SaaS : an interview with Spanning

    Backing up SaaS : an interview with Spanning

    One of the more frequent topics that I get asked about is “How do you back up production workloads, after they go to the cloud?” A few months ago, I blogged on that – essentially saying that history is repeating itself (again). As new platforms usurp the old way of doing things (NetWare to Windows…