Canvassing data protection technology for noteworthy musings. 
The east coast of United States took another beating over the weekend, with record-breaking October snowfall which caused widespread power outages. Sometimes it takes “disasters” like this to instigate action for companies without an IT continuity plan. In what would seem like a perfectly timed announcement, Axcient, a backup/recovery (and now business continuity) service provider, [...]
Virtualization is an abstraction of reality; turning physical assets into a pool of independent logical assets or de-coupling utilities and services from physical infrastructure. Today, we virtualize everything from servers, to storage, to networks. Heck, we virtualize people when you think about it … removing the physical limitations of location to deliver services. Who knew [...]
This week has been tumultuous for me and for many others whose lives and careers were impacted by one individual. ReiJane Huai, former CEO of FalconStor, my former colleague and often mentor passed this week. The circumstances surrounding his death are well documented and, rather than dwell on the tragic end to his life, I [...]
I’m a klutz. In one of my more embarrassing moments, I tumbled down the steps at a Manhattan eatery last week. In high heels. Luckily I didn’t fall too far before grabbing the handrail, but the damage was done. My feet and ankles got twisted and turned in the process. My fall resulted in my [...]
What’s the expression … success breeds envy? Veeam is on a hot streak right now. The company has been rapidly growing—posting impressive revenue growth and expanding its coverage—and introducing new features, including support for Hyper-V in its Veeam Backup & Replication solution as well as announcing upcoming support for vSphere 5, and improvements in scale [...]
I should be at VMworld right now. Unfortunately, Hurricane Irene hit the East coast, pounding my home outside of Boston with wind and rain. The damage? A few downed tree limbs in my yard and loss of power—both at home and at the office. No problem. I can re-book my flight to Vegas and find [...]
In spite of survey results that point to greater IT centralization in ESG’s Remote Office/Branch Office Trends research report, most companies perform local backup at the remote office/branch office (ROBO). However, that doesn’t mean that centralizing backup/recovery won’t catch up. The report indicates that the majority of IT services and applications are centrally hosted, with [...]
With VMworld in Las Vegas just around the corner, many IT practitioners and solution providers may be thinking infrastructure, including solutions for improving application service levels and virtual infrastructure availability. If data protection is top of mind, then the recently published ESG market landscape report, Navigating VMware Backup and Recovery Approaches and Solutions, may be [...]
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