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The Best Way to Manage Future IT Data Growth is to Follow These Three Steps – (3/3)

This series of posts was originally going to be about the easiest data architecture and management steps to take, but no, none of these are easy. They are hard. Very hard in fact. But quite possible necessary. Let me know what

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The Best Way to Manage Future IT Data Growth is to Follow These Three Steps – (2/3)

This series of posts was originally going to be about the easiest data architecture and management steps to take, but no, none of these are easy. They are hard. Very hard in fact. But quite possible necessary. Let me know what

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The Best Way to Manage Future IT Data Growth is to Follow These Three Steps – (1/3)

This series of posts was originally going to be about the easiest data architecture and management steps to take, but no, none of these are easy. They are hard. Very hard in fact. But quite possible necessary. Let me know what

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Put Some Vendor ESG In Your RFP

I’ve noticed a lot of enterprise vendor marketing around ESG efforts lately – those steps a large global company might take to strengthen their Environmental, Sustainability and Corporate Governance stance. As an industry analyst, I primarily wonder about two things …

Can You Really Afford Reliable Data Protection?

Part 2 in a series of posts about Data Protection as a Service… (Also posted on Cobalt Iron’s blog)

Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

In IT there are well-known (and never 100% avoidable) risks that justify rock solid …

Protecting All Data in a Complex World

   …(Also posted on Cobalt Iron’s blog)

Are you actually protecting all your important data today? Not “almost,” “just about”, or “we have plans,” but all of it?

And I don’t mean just your most mission-critical data sets, but any …