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  • To Broadcom or not to Broadcom

    To Broadcom or not to Broadcom

    We are officially out of the vSphere monopoly era. Nearly three years since Broadcom’s licensing shake-up, and organizations chose among three distinct paths: hyperscale cloud, alternative hypervisors, or staying put (though likely with new partners or channels). What most didn’t see coming was that the real cost wasn’t just the platform licensing; it was how…

  • Don’t sacrifice protection while you’re modernizing production

    Don’t sacrifice protection while you’re modernizing production

    Don’t sacrifice protection while you’re modernizing production. Two years after Broadcom changed the vSphere licensing and the fervor of an exodus started, let’s revisit how it turned out and what it means for Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience depending on your hypervisors and hyperscale clouds.

  • Data Protection Is (or Should Be) Increasingly Part of a Systems Management Strategy (Video)

    Data Protection Is (or Should Be) Increasingly Part of a Systems Management Strategy (Video)

    Think about it. If I’m an IT Operations team member: I provision new servers (usually VMs), but some physical and some cloud-based. I patch and maintain those servers. I provide or rescind access to the applications on those servers. I monitor those servers for performance and uptime. And when those servers go down, I am…

  • Hyperconverged Systems Don’t Preclude the Need for Data Protection (Video)

    Hyperconverged Systems Don’t Preclude the Need for Data Protection (Video)

    During VMworld US, I had the chance to visit with my colleague Terri McClure, who covers HyperConverged and Converged Infrastructure (HCI). Many HCI offerings boast “built-in” data protection capabilities, which prompted her and I to talk about the broader strategies of data protection within these all-in-one solution stacks. In fact, “Integrated Data Protection” was on…

  • Wrap-up on Backup from VMworld US 2017

    Wrap-up on Backup from VMworld US 2017

    VMworld is still “the place to be” for discussing data center modernization—and that means that there were several data protection vendors in attendance, each with something to say.But what was most interesting is the general shift in VMware’s tone from a hypervisor or data center-centric vision to a cloud-first vision, particularly with its announcements around…

  • Do you still need a VM-specific backup solution?

    Do you still need a VM-specific backup solution?

    Probably not … but not for the reasons that you think. As most folks are getting ready for VMworld next week, ESG has published a brief, Is a VM-specific Approach to Backup & Recovery Still Necessary in 2017?

  • Do we still need VM-specific backup tools? [video]

    Do we still need VM-specific backup tools? [video]

    This is one of the big questions in 2016 (and each of the past few years as well). Have the “traditional” unified data protection solutions caught up in reliability and agility to the degree that the need for “point products” that only protect VMs are no longer necessary? To help answer the question, I’ve recorded…

  • Data Protection Predictions for 2016

    Data Protection Predictions for 2016

    ‘Tis the time of year to re-think how you did things before and what you might want to do differently in the future — in life, in IT and in Data Protection. To help you with those considerations, I’d like to share a short video on what we expect the more interesting trends will be…

  • Wrap-up on Backup from VeeamON 2015 (Video)

    Wrap-up on Backup from VeeamON 2015 (Video)

    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…

  • Wrapup on Backup from VMworld 2015

    Wrapup on Backup from VMworld 2015

    It’s taken me a while to catch up after VMworld, but I did want to share some observations on what was interesting at the show from a data protection perspective. Thankfully, nearly gone are the days of asking “How do I get a good backup of my VMs?” With the prevalent usage of VMware’s vSphere…

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