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  • A Quick Thought on Data Protection Economics (vBlog)

    A Quick Thought on Data Protection Economics (vBlog)

    Organizations of all sizes continue to seek better ways to protect their data. Its not just because their existing backup solutions are broken (some are broken, some are antiquated/cumbersome, and others just aren’t scaling as their production systems evolve) – but that’s not all of them. In many cases, folks are just trying to improve…

  • Virtualization Protection re-cap for 2013

    Virtualization Protection re-cap for 2013

    “Backing up and recovering VMs” is not solved. There are lots of options in market, and the dynamics seem to shift by the day: The unified (physical plus virtual) backup solutions are trying to take back share from the virtualization-specific folks, now that some of them are catching up (or passing) on VM protection methods…

  • New BC/DR Infographic from ESG

    New BC/DR Infographic from ESG

    Does Virtualization + Cloud = BC/DR? YES! In June 2013, ESG published its “Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments” report. In September, ESG published its “Data Protection-as-a-Service Trends” report. And for many people, when you virtualize your infrastructure (so that the servers are portable) and then you provide a cost-effective secondary location (the cloud) ……

  • New ESG Infographic on Data Protection Budgets

    New ESG Infographic on Data Protection Budgets

    One of the reasons that I have stayed in the Data Protection area within IT is that it never seems to be solved. Not that the technologies don’t keep getting better, but the workloads to be protected keep evolving and IT users’ requirements for faster and more agile recoveries continues to evolve. Even today, Data…

  • Virtual data protection: Seeing is believing

    Virtual data protection: Seeing is believing

    Virtual data protection is hard, but could be easier if you had a better view into what’s going on. Learn how to increase visibility into your virtualization protection solution. According to a recent Enterprise Strategy Group report on Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments, virtualization rates as one of the top (or top) challenges in…

  • ESG reviews DPM 2010 appliance from i365

    ESG reviews DPM 2010 appliance from i365

    Don’t ya love it when some of your friends connect with your other friends – and you didn’t even know until they were already connected ?! Well – some of my friends at i365 make a very cool DPM appliance that combines DPM 2010 and i365’s EVAULT software to deliver “Best for Windows” and “Heterogeneous”…

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