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  • 2021 Technology Spending Intentions Survey

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    Enterprise Strategy Group

    This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on 2021 IT budget expectations, technology initiatives and priorities, year over year spending change (overall and by different technologies), cloud adoption/usage trends, as well as an update on the status of COVID-19 driven work from home initiatives and efforts.

    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.

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  • Keep an Eye on IBM Cloud

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    Christophe Bertrand

    GettyImages-1177391988I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with the IBM Cloud team on a couple of projects and met with some great professionals with significant expertise in disaster recovery and data protection in general. The IBM Cloud team leverages a number of partners in its ecosystem and IBM services.  As the title of this short post indicates, keep an eye on IBM Cloud, as they have built and are working on furthering a great platform for BC/DR. 

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  • HYCU Does It Again

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    Christophe Bertrand

    cloud-capabilitiesI wonder when people sleep at HYCU! I have been tracking the company for 2.5 years, and it’s been innovating and introducing new solutions at a very nice clip, demonstrating focused execution.

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  • Real-world SLAs and Availability Requirements

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    Christophe Bertrand

    Data protection technologies and processes mean nothing unless objectives are not only established and aligned with business and IT objectives, but also measured and improved over time. As organizations increasingly shift to more hybrid and data-intelligent infrastructures, understanding real-world data protection and availability SLAs is becoming more critical for both IT practitioners and the vendors that provide supporting technology.

    In order to gain insight into these trends, ESG surveyed 378 IT professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) personally responsible for or involved in data protection technology and process decisions for their organizations, specifically those pertaining to the ability to meet SLAs associated with applications/workloads. This research aimed to understand the current state of end-users’ deployments, identify gaps, and highlight future expectations. Tolerance for downtime, downtime metrics, and real-world SLAs in the context of actual data loss were studied against the backdrop of availability technologies and methods, including hybrid environments.

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  • Happy Birthday Metallic!

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    Christophe Bertrand

    time-passingIt’s hard to believe that almost exactly a year ago, on October 14, 2019, Commvault launched Metallic, which is now an award-winning solution. As a product guy, I know from experience how difficult but rewarding it is to get an award at VMworld for your solution. A one-year old solution with a best in show is very impressive. Well done Metallic team! More importantly: well executed!

    The stakes are high in this vendor space with intense competition (including in the SaaS backup/DR segment) as end-users accelerate their digital transformation and rely on data even more than before. Not to mention the ransomware attacks intensification. The present and future of BC/DR are “cloudy” and, based on our research, we expect to see organizations continuing to adopt data protection as a service moving forward, and an evolution toward intelligent data management and data reuse. These are very favorable trends.

    Let’s look at the execution side of the equation: the addition of Manoj Nair a few months ago as GM built on the original momentum culminating in the recent partnership announcement with Azure, based on a long-standing relationship between Commvault and Microsoft. This is where strategy meets execution, with a meaningful partnership based on years of “dancing” together. It’s something that I firmly believe will in time differentiate this offering from others where everyone dances with everyone.

    Let me summarize some highlights of one quick year. Metallic launched October 14th 2019. Since then:

    • Strategic MSFT Partnership announced.
    • Azure Marketplace launch (Office 365).
    • Feature expansion: Hyper V Support.
    • Manoj Nair becomes GM.
    • Metallic offers free endpoint offer to help with the shift to a remote workforce.
    • CAD Expansion.
    • Metallic partners with Zones (Office 365 Backup and Recovery).
    • Feature expansion: Azure Blob & File Support.
    • Azure Marketplace Launch (Endpoint).
    • New eDiscovery and GDPR compliance features + support for more Microsoft workloads.
    • Awards: SaaS Awards finalist; IT World Awards Winner.
    • ANZ Expansion.
    • Feature expansion: Commvault Command Center Integration.
    • Awards: Gold Stevies Winner.

    I may have missed some milestones, but you get the idea.

    I wrote in other blogs how Commvault has been transforming at a rapid pace, with the acquisition of Hedvig being a move that positioned Commvault ahead of the race in the containers space, many features additions, and of course Metallic, which was designed to be a cloud solution from inception. Both the Hedvig and Metallic moves were what I call “pragmatically visionary.” They were big strategic and market differentiating decisions focused on an informed belief of future market directions (containers, SaaS), and (of course!) they could also be monetized reasonably quickly with the right level of execution and investment. Which takes us to today.

    The Metallic offering is now at what seems like a very desirable inflection point and prime for accelerated growth. It’s making Commvault as a whole more competitive and will clearly get in the way of newer SaaS-focused vendors. One year is a long time in the SaaS space. Let’s take a look at where Metallic is one year from now. In the meantime: Happy Birthday!

  • Things to Think About on the Day of Snowflake’s IPO

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    Mike Leone

    GettyImages-890171140The day has finally arrived. Today, Snowflake will IPO under the ticker SNOW. Many knew this was coming, even before Frank Slootman was brought in as CEO. But I don’t think it was expected to have as much fanfare as we’re seeing. Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway) is on board. Benioff (Salesforce) is on board. It’s being called the hottest tech IPO of the year. So, what’s the draw? Is it the differentiable technology? Not really. The number of customers? Nope. Customer growth? Impressive, but no. What about the total market size? Getting there. What about the value propositions it offers customers? Well yes, but I would argue there are several competitors that offer similar value propositions. So, what is it? The opportunity. The opportunity is simply massive.

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  • Kaseya’s Connect IT Full Of Goodies

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    Christophe Bertrand

    GettyImages-1175885065Kaseya is hosting its Connect IT 2020 conference online this year, as could be expected, and just unveiled a number of new capabilities and integrations following an acquisition announcement yesterday of email security and phishing defense platform Graphus. 

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  • Real-world SLAs and Availability Requirements

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    Christophe Bertrand

    ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between March 20, 2020 and March 28, 2020. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be IT professionals responsible for data protection technology decisions, including those in place to ensure application SLAs are met.

    This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on real-world SLAs and availability requirements, including tolerance for downtime, downtime metrics, and real-world SLAs in the context of actual data loss against the backdrop of availability technologies and methods.

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  • A Data Protection Conversation with The Active Archive Alliance Founder Molly Presley (Video)

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    Christophe Bertrand

    In this new edition of Data Protection Conversations, I speak to Molly Presley, Founder of the Active Archive Alliance.

  • 6 Reasons BigQuery Omni Will Change the Game for Google Cloud

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    Mike Leone

    multi-cloudA couple weeks back, Google Cloud’s multi-week virtual event Next 20: OnAir started. There were a number of announcements, but the biggest was BigQuery Omni. By combining BigQuery and Anthos, BigQuery Omni enables organizations to embrace multi-cloud analytics by cost-effectively bringing Google Cloud’s data warehouse to where the data resides across public cloud environments.

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  • Commvault Reaches A Milestone

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    Christophe Bertrand

    GettyImages-1158544197Execution.  On many fronts.

    This is really what came to mind in the first few minutes of the Commvault FutureReady online event yesterday (7/21).

    First, the event itself was excellent: length, content, delivery, use of customers, and it included primarily live sessions from what I could tell. The platform worked without a hitch. To net it out: as a participant, one benefited from both engaging content, and active engagement through the ability to interact with the speakers. Great job! Great execution.

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  • Commvault Metallic: Pedal to the Metal

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    Christophe Bertrand

    commvault-speedI wrote some months ago that under Sanjay Mirchandani, Commvault was not just changing, it had already changed. Fast forward a few months and we now find ourselves in a totally different world. But one thing that hasn’t changed and stands out is the continued execution and focus of the Commvault team, even through these confusing times.

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