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  • Data Protection Perspectives from Dell Analyst Conference 2015

    Data Protection Perspectives from Dell Analyst Conference 2015

    Is ‘Backup’ a four-letter word at Dell? Maybe, depending on who you talk to. If you watched my video summary from Dell’s Analyst Conference in 2014, I was initially excited about their four pillar story being around three platforms [Transform], [Connect], and [Inform] being underpinned by [Protect] that are expanded as Security and Data Protection.…

  • What’s New in Data Protection from IBM Interconnect 2015

    What’s New in Data Protection from IBM Interconnect 2015

    Every time that I take a close look at IBM’s data protection portfolio, veiled under its Storage solutions umbrella, I am happy surprised by the technology – and my guess is that you would be too. Among the announcements and reveals of the week were a few important data protection nuggets: A convergence of IBM’s…

  • Could VeeamON be the next MMS?

    Could VeeamON be the next MMS?

    This week is the first VeeamON, Availability for the Modern Data Center, conference in Las Vegas. As I listened to the side conversations and such, I was reminded of the special-ness of Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). Not MMS 2010+, when Microsoft started shoe-horning everything in the Server & Tools line-up, before eventually killing it and…

  • Event Marketing Folks Don’t Get Enough Credit

    Event Marketing Folks Don’t Get Enough Credit

    With 25 years of attending tradeshows and launch events, I can attest that the Marketing/Events team does not get enough credit. Of course, not all marketing events are awesome (or memorable) – but I wanted to highlight a few recent examples of how to really do a marketing event well: Launch Event: EMC ProtectPoint in…

  • What I am looking for at VMworld 2014 … a Data Protection Perspective

    What I am looking for at VMworld 2014 … a Data Protection Perspective

    For the past few years, the big data protection trend in virtual environments was simply to ensure reliable backups (and restores) of VMs. That alone hasn’t always been easy, but with the newer Data Protection APIs from VMware (VADP), that is becoming table-stakes – and the real differentiation coming from the agility to restore (speed…

  • Data Protection Impressions from the Dell Analyst Conference 2014

    Data Protection Impressions from the Dell Analyst Conference 2014

    I recently had the opportunity to attend the Dell Annual Analyst Conference (DAAC), where Michael Dell and the senior leadership team gave updates on their businesses and cast a very clear strategy around four core pillars: Transform — to the Cloud Connect — with mobility Inform — through Big Data Protect Protect?! YAY!! As a…

  • vBlog: Wrap-up on Backup from EMC World 2014 – part 2, strategy

    vBlog: Wrap-up on Backup from EMC World 2014 – part 2, strategy

    Last week, I published a video summary of the data protection product news from EMC World 2014, with the help of some of my EMC Data Protection friends. To follow that up, I asked EMC’s Rob Emsley to knit the pieces together around the Data Protection strategy from EMC: Essentially, what I call the Data…

  • vBlog: Wrap-up on Backup from EMC World 2014 – part 1, products

    vBlog: Wrap-up on Backup from EMC World 2014 – part 1, products

    During EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas last month, I had the chance to visit with several EMC product managers on what was announced from a product perspective, as well as overall data protection strategy. Enjoy the video: For such a broad range of products within the EMC DP portfolio, it is impressive that while…

  • VMworld 2012 Wrap-up on Backup

    VMworld 2012 Wrap-up on Backup

    As much as I like virtualization, and systems management, and private cloud … most folks know that I am a backup guy, first and foremost. So, you should definitely look to some of the ESG peers for the other parts of the story, including a nice video from ESG’s Mr. Virtualization, Mark Bowker. In the…

  • VMworld 2012 video on VMware backup

    VMworld 2012 video on VMware backup

    Had the chance to do an interview on ‘The Cube’ … on VDP, VMware backup and other stuff from VMworld. Thanks for watching. Originally posted on my personal self-managed blog while at ESG (TechnicalOptimist.com), reposted on DPM for archival reference. Broken links are likely due to ESG content being dropped between its acquisition by TechTarget…

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