Protection Storage
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The avg org runs 2.8 Backup Products
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…
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What is Dell PowerProtect’s Superpower?
What’s Dell PowerProtect’s Superpower? I went to Dell Technologies World expecting to hear about what’s new in Data Domain and to dig into PP DM and PP1 as a backup or Data Protection solution — that was the wrong lens. Usually, a vendor’s Cyber Resilience superpower is wrapped around its backup software. That’s not entirely…
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Dell Technologies World 2026
The average org uses 2.8 backup products — which is one of many reasons why centralized purpose-built Protection Storage is critical to many Cyber Resilience strategies. Headed to Dell Tech World next week to hear the latest about Dell Technologies’ Power Protect portfolio and to engage the ecosystem built around Data Domain, including Commvault, Druva,…
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Protection Storage
Most resilience conversations focus on backup software. But what if the more consequential architectural decision is the storage layers beneath the software? In my next Forbes article, I examine the evolving role of protection storage — and why it may matter more than many organizations realize. If you’re considering how your resilience architecture — not…
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Every Data Protection Strategy Should be Cloud-Powered
I’ve worked in IT backup and recovery for more than 30 years, and one thing has remained clear: purpose-built protection storage consistently delivers more effective protection than generic or hyperscale storage.
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“Tape” is not a four-letter word
In the 25+ years that I have been in data protection, much of it has been spent hearing about “better” alternatives to tape as a medium. Certainly, in the earlier days, tape earned its reputation of slowness or unreliability. But nothing else in IT is the same as it was twenty years ago, so why…
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Plan for Hybrid Data Protection Media in 2016
More and more folks are first protecting their data (backups, archives, etc.) to disk — for several good reasons, including SLAs for data retrieval/restoration/recovery, deduplication efficiencies, etc. But as definitively as disk is the preferred “protection storage” as a second tier, the third tier is far less defined. For some, the deterministic factors are BC/DR…
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Video Series on Data Protection Appliances – Part 2, Deduplication Appliances
Continuing our four-Friday video series, based on the recent ESG research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances, This installment covers deduplication storage appliances – those wonderful storage devices that drop in existing (or new) backup and archival infrastructures and automagically and radically reduce storage consumption through optimized protection storage. In case you missed…
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Video Series on Data Protection Appliances – Part 1, Backup Appliances
In March 2015, ESG published its research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances. In ESG’s taxonomy, there are four types of DPAs in market today. For the next four Fridays, I’ll be releasing videos (about 4 minutes long each), detailing why each type of DPA is interesting, current and anticipated usage trends, etc.…
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Why Google Cloud Storage Nearline is Super Interesting for Data Protection
You can’t have a conversation about IT transformation or data protection modernization that doesn’t include “the cloud” somewhere in it. And today, there are a wide range of cloud services that offer data protection capabilities: Backing up SaaS offerings like Office365, Google Apps for Work, or Salesforce – see my earlier blog about SaaS backup.…
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