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Wrap-up on Backup from Microsoft Ignite (with Video)
As ESG often tries to do, here is a short summary video of ESG’s impressions from a major industry event – Microsoft Ignite, held in Atlanta over September 26-29, 2016 – from a backup perspective. In the video, I suggested that Microsoft is a leader in Windows data protection. Certainly, this is not to disparage…
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A ‘File Server in the Cloud’ is hard to find!
Disclaimer: I am not one of the ESG analysts who specializes in “mobility” or cloud-based file services … I’m “the backup guy” covering data protection. But as a twenty-five-year hands-on technologist, I’m sharing a personal experience for your consideration. This weekend, I decided to fully embrace the cloud by getting rid of my last “production…
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Could VeeamON be the next MMS?
This week is the first VeeamON, Availability for the Modern Data Center, conference in Las Vegas. As I listened to the side conversations and such, I was reminded of the special-ness of Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). Not MMS 2010+, when Microsoft started shoe-horning everything in the Server & Tools line-up, before eventually killing it and…
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How do you back up Big Data? Or SaaS? Who will be the next Veeam?
It seems that every time that a new major IT platform is delivered, backing it up is an afterthought – often exacerbated by the fact that the platform vendor didn’t create the APIs or plumbing to enable a backup ecosystem. Each time, there is a gap where the legacy folks aren’t able to adapt quickly…
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Thinking about Xbox Home Server
My friend Mark Bowker recently blogged about the hypothetical potential of a Microsoft Surface Server. Since he covers Virtualization for ESG, he has a lot of opportunities to think about converged infrastructure, as well as the impressive hardware stacks of converged infrastructure that are powering today’s data centers. At the same time, another friend, Rod…
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My newest Storage Appliance for under $2,000
After 22+ years in backup, I have become something of a storage geek on the side (or at least pretend to be one). Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing with a new storage solution in my Dallas lab: The device has two gigabit NICs in it – one offering CIFS/SMB 3.0 shares and…
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Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track at MMS 2012
The Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track program puts the best practices and private cloud experience of Microsoft into an IT architecture that provides consistency and flexibility in the Microsoft stack, while still enabling its hardware partners to bring their own expertise and differentiated components together for customers benefit. While at MMS 2012, I had the…
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Stuff I saw at SNW 2012 Dallas
It’s been a few years since I came to SNW – and while, the number of end-users appears to be dropping (my perception vs. recollection), the types of end-users appear to be exactly the right kind of audience that SNW was built for: storage savvy IT stakeholders looking for education on technology evolutions. I do…
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Microsoft Ups its Backup Game in System Center 2012
[Cross-posted from my ESG blog – TechnicalOptimist.com] Data protection processes and technologies are vital to ensuring an organization’s operational, regulatory, and financial health. As a result, data protection infrastructure is included in every IT budget and is top of mind for data center staff. However, due to the complexity and often high cost of backup,…
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Stop Shipping Tapes – please!
Last week, I saw the latest disclosure on what is still too common – “backup tapes are lost and the amount of disclosure is under investigation” . This time, it was 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients – click to read original article. The slightly abridged version is: The lost data was stored on…
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