Welcome to Hunger Games 2026 Edition! Each decade, there are new Data Protection problems that are often first addressed by startups. Established vendors face the build-or-buy (or partner) choices of grabbing from the cornucopia or developing their own. 20yrs ago, Virtualization: Veeam, PHD Virtual, vRanger 10yrs ago, SaaS-Backup: Spanning & Backupify (both now Kaseya) Today,…
At a recent AMA, was asked what excites me most about Managed Services (MSPs) delivering Data Protection. I said there are three categories, each with disruptive innovation: There isn’t a single best scenario or vendor; what matters is zeroing in on what the customer needs, not only in resilience but in overall IT agility. This…
The Official Cybersecurity Summit is one of my favorite single-stage conference series, especially this year with four Data Protection vendors showing on the expo floor – with special kudos to Rubrik and Commvault for some really interesting discussions on Cyber Resilience and more.
Last week, I sat down with the folks at The Cube at VeeamON 2017 to talk about a range of topics including Veeam, the evolutions in the broader data protection market, and more. The Veeam Availability Report 2017, produced by ESG, covers over 1,000 unbiased enterprises around the world and looks at the gaps between…
Wrap-up on Backup from VeeamON 2015 If your Director of IT came and told you that you needed to “Look for a backup/replication product that was built-for VMs,” you’d obviously look at Veeam. But what if your Director of IT asked you for ‘more,’ like: Recovery from hardware snapshots Basic protection for physical Windows endpoints…
There was some great marketing execution at VMworld 2015. As a sequel to my blog last year that “Event Marketing Doesn’t Get Enough Credit,” here is my tip of the hat to some of the unsung heroes of tradeshows: the events planners and marketing leaders that ensure that the technology experts and sales folks have…
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…
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