Data Management, Analytics & AI

  • Data Protection Cloud Strategies

    ESG’s Master Survey Results provide the complete output of syndicated research surveys in graphical format. In addition to the data, these documents provide background information on the survey, including respondent profiles at an individual and organizational level. It is important to note that these documents do not contain analysis of the data.

    This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on how organizations utilize cloud services as part of their data protection strategy, as well as how organizations protect public cloud-resident applications and workloads.

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  • Google to Acquire Looker for $2.6 Billion

    aquisitionGoogle has a vision of offering the most complete and comprehensive data platform in the industry. It wants to provide a true end-to-end data platform across clouds, and the last two words there are key. Customers want an end-to-end multi-cloud data platform and Google is committed to delivering just that. As such, Google continues to invest in areas that enable it to further this goal, and this morning Google announced its intentions to buy Looker for $2.6 billion in an all-cash transaction. It’s a natural acquisition for Google as the companies have worked together for years and share hundreds of the same customers.

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  • IT’s Best Kept Secret…or Not…

    One question we often hear at conferences and industry events is whether IT organizations can get more value out of the data copies that they already have. 

    You bet they can. It’s been right there in front of them for a long time. As my colleague Vinny Choinski from the ESG Validation team points out, capacity efficient snapshot technology has been around for decades. It was pioneered in primary storage systems in the late 90s (e.g., EMC, IBM, Hitachi…) and got a capacity savings boost when it was combined with deduplication in data protection appliances (e.g., Data Domain) and purpose-built continuous data protection and data management solutions (e.g., Actifio). IT orgs have primarily been using these solutions for a quick and cost-effective alternative to traditional restores and some have been leveraging them to make copies for test and development. Now, backup solutions with the ability to “instantly” boot virtual machines from a writeable snapshot (e.g., Veeam) and data management solutions (e.g., Cohesity, Rubrik, Datrium) have expanded the value and the potential uses of this powerful technology, but, for most organizations, the value of these powerful technologies is a secret that’s locked up in an organizational silo. This silo is locking the value of data, limiting the return that can be realized by re-using it for additional purposes to serve the organization/business. (more…)

  • Insights from VeeamON 2019

    In this ESG On Location video, my colleague Vinny Choinski and I discuss our impressions of VeeamON 2019 in Miami, Florida. (more…)

  • VeeamON 2019

    VeeamON just started in Miami (about 2000 in attendance) with a number of announcements that will get the industry’s attention – not surprisingly, some might add, because it’s Veeam.  

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  • Going back to Miami…

    GettyImages-142870804…and going back to my Veeam friends to attend VeeamON. I expect to see and talk to the Veeam leadership and product teams about the roadmap and new features they have in store. I will also spend time with end-users to discuss their experience with the solution. It is great to get first-hand feedback. I am very interested in a couple of areas in particular: data compliance and recovery testing…or actual experience dealing with an actual disaster. (more…)

  • In Data Protection News Recently

    reading-newsNever a dull moment in the data protection market. After last week’s announcements at Dell World, Unitrends (a Kaseya company), OdasevaCohesity, HYCU, and Veeam have come out with interesting news.

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  • I had the opportunity to catch up with Alex Almeida at Dell Technologies World 2019 in Las Vegas in the Data Protection booth to discuss the significant new announcements the company made at the event. Don’t miss it! (more…)

  • intelligenceGoing into Dell Technologies World, my greatest expectation was hearing a more unified message between VMware and the rest of the Dell Technologies family, especially Dell EMC. That expectation was absolutely met. Pat Gelsinger and Jeff Clarke on stage together announcing the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform was very well received and I would argue is the most united front between these two organizations that we’ve heard to date.

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  • available-dataDell just announced new data protection solutions at Dell Technologies World 2019. While the event is set in Las Vegas, don’t take it as an invitation to gamble with your data!  Our research shows that 57% of organizations state that their tolerance for high-priority application downtime
    is less than 15 minutes or 15 minutes to less than one hour. In other words, no time for downtime…data protection is clearly a great business to be in!

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  • HYCU Doubles Down on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

    cloud-announcementThe HYCU team has been busy in the past few quarters. A number of updates to its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) backup solution have taken place following the introduction of the innovative BaaS offering, with billing integration and advanced backup controls for example. HYCU has also expanded its reseller network and is actively targeting the enterprise space. 

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  • Data Protection Conversation with Dell EMC

    In this new edition of Data Protection Conversations, I speak with Beth Phalen, President of Dell EMC’s data protection division.

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