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  • The avg org runs 2.8 Backup Products

    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…

  • HYCU’s aiR Announcement

    HYCU’s aiR Announcement

    Every ten years, the Data Protection industry (what we’re mostly calling Cyber Resilience these days) rediscovers two truths and asks the same question: what else can I do with my backup data? HYCU, Inc. aiR might finally give us an answer — here’s why. press release: https://lnkd.in/ghJ-HJcU Congrats to Simon Taylor, Andy Fernandez, and the…

  • What to look for as the Data Protection Market evolves

    What to look for as the Data Protection Market evolves

    The more time I spend with investors, consultants, and business stakeholders, the conversation keeps circling back to the same questions: “Who are the likely Data Protection leaders for the enterprise over the next few years, and why is the market shifting the way it is?“

  • IDC MarketScape for SaaS Protection

    IDC MarketScape for SaaS Protection

    IDC recently published its MarketScape on SaaS data protection for 2026. If you’re an IDC client, you’ll want to read the entire report. Else, there’s a lot that you can glean from their chart that ought to raise some hard questions and fresh ideas for your overall Data Protection strategy.

  • 3 reasons why you still have to back up your SaaS

    3 reasons why you still have to back up your SaaS

    Too many folks still confuse the durability of SaaS platforms with the reasons why we still have to back up SaaS data.

  • WHICH Clouds to Use Within your Data Protection Strategy – Part 2 in Series

    WHICH Clouds to Use Within your Data Protection Strategy – Part 2 in Series

    Each Wednesday in June, I’ll be exploring an aspect of this through a series of videos and blogs – based on ESG’s Data Protection Cloud Strategies research report. Part 1 – WHY use clouds as part of your data protection strategy … June 7 Part 2 – WHICH clouds to use within your data protection…

  • Cloud-Powered Data Protection — Definitions and Clarifications

    Cloud-Powered Data Protection — Definitions and Clarifications

    We continue to see a great amount of interest in combining “data protection” and “the cloud” – but also a great deal of confusion, in that there isn’t such thing as “the cloud.” It is a misnomer to discuss data protection media as having three choices (tape, disk or cloud) because cloud services are not…

  • A ‘File Server in the Cloud’ is hard to find!

    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…

  • Your SaaS Application needs to be Backed Up!

    Your SaaS Application needs to be Backed Up!

    As I mentioned in my Data Protection Predictions for 2015 video, SaaS backup should be on the top of anyone’s mind who is running for the clouds: namely Office 365, SalesForce, or GoogleApps. According to ESG’s 2015 IT Spending Intentions Survey‘s five-year outlook for SaaS, over half of IT organizations will move from on-premises Exchange…

  • JBuff’s Data Protection Predictions for 2015

    JBuff’s Data Protection Predictions for 2015

    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…

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