Posts by Dave Russell

CIOs have been tasked with many of the same issues for decades. Cost concerns, generating revenue growth, supporting the digital business, and managing cyberthreats, all while navigating skills shortages, have been a way of life for CIOs. And then 2020 presented additional challenges for data centers. Let’s examine in more detail the top CIO priorities, and examine how Veeam can help. Read more

Gartner has recently published its 2019 Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide research, and with sustained multiyear revenue gains, Veeam has increased in market share to become the 3rd largest provider of backup and recovery software. Veeam grew its revenue 25.9 percent year-over-year (YoY) in a market that Gartner states grew at 2.5 percent, meaning that Veeam’s growth was over 10 times that of the overall market for backup software. Read more

Business today is 24x7x365, with no tolerance for downtime. A robust backup and disaster recovery plan are essential for IT to deliver continuous services. Leveraging Veeam and HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy means that data is delivered where it needs to be faster than ever so that mission-critical applications won’t suffer outages from accidental or malicious threats. Read more

IDC published its software market results for the first half of 2019, and Veeam again achieved market leading growth in data replication and protection software market. Read more

Throughout 2019, technology has continued to have a transformative impact on businesses and communities. Let's discuss some of the key technology trends that businesses will look to take advantage of and prepare for in the year ahead.

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Gartner has just published the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery Solutions and Veeam was named a Leader for the third time. Read more

This week, we’re talking about why and how to do more with your backed-up data: You should do more with your backed up data than restore it after bad things happen; An analysts’ view on Veeam DataLabs and How do you “unlock” more business value out of your data. Read more

This week, we’re talking about an appliance by any other name: Are we really back in 2005?; What is driving the renewed interest in “appliances” and Contrasting “Day One” appliance outcomes vs. the “Power of Choice.” Read more

Let's talk about how tape is NOT dead: A fresh look at the old media; Regulatory considerations for long-term retention and What about the cloud (instead)? Read more

We all know that software and infrastructure don't typically go away in the data center. You very rarely decommission something and bring in all new gear or stop the application to completely transition over to something else. Everyone's in some sort of hybrid state. Some think that they're transitioning, and many hopefully even have a plan for this. Read more