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  • Long Term Data Retention is Evolving – Are You? (Video)

    Long Term Data Retention is Evolving – Are You? (Video)

    It seems like every few months, a new regulation or mandate pops up to remind people to 1) keep their data longer and/or 2) delete it as soon as necessary. Those two edicts are not contrary to each other as long as you do them in that sequence; first, understand your retention requirements and then…

  • 2017 Data Protection Predictions (Video)

    2017 Data Protection Predictions (Video)

    We’re already into 2017, so here are three topics that really ought to be reconsidered and/or focused on in order to ensure that as you modernize production, your protection strategies are up to the tasks at hand: Cloud – While many organizations continue to investigate where cloud will fit within their data protection strategy, it…

  • “Tape” is not a four-letter word

    “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…