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From the System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), AVIcode and Operations Manager (OpsMgr) dude
also a Husband, Father, Gamer, Geek, Scout leader, Christ follower and Microsoft marketeer.
Are getting excited about TechEd this week.
TechEd (in any country) is my favorite event – partly because I have been coming to them since I think 1994, and partly because this is the best event to meet IT Pros and really talk about the products, how they work, when they apply, etc.
If you are headed down to the Big Easy, please come by and say HI.
Here is my schedule for the week:
Tuesday, June 8
Wednesday, June 9
Thursday, June 10
In May, I am happy to hang out with my friends from Iron Mountain in two events:
Tomorrow, May 20, I will be at the Minneapolis Iron Mountain facility. Similar to last month, when I went spoke at their Chicago event (see blog post DPM in Chicago), we will be talking about DPM 2010 and IRM’s CloudRecovery offering. If you are a DPM customer in Minneapolis, ping me or tweet me @JBuff – to maybe meet for coffee.
Tomorrow, May 20, I will be at the Minneapolis Iron Mountain facility. Similar to last month, when I went spoke at their Chicago event (see blog post DPM in Chicago), we will be talking about DPM 2010 and IRM’s CloudRecovery offering.
If you are a DPM customer in Minneapolis, ping me or tweet me @JBuff – to maybe meet for coffee.
I have been in data protection, backup, and disaster recovery for nearly 20 years, but had never been to an IRM facility before. This truly opened my eyes and changed some of my presumptions about tape vaulting. The IRM process and procedures were really interesting. I have certainly met some other folks out there that I wouldn’t trust with a roll of cellophane tape, much less with tapes that are magnetically encoded and hold my computer data, but the IRM folks really seem have it down.
If an IRM person offers to take you on a tour of a facility, GO !! It’ll be cool !
That being said, one of my primary passion areas for over a decade has been around electronically replicating data between sites, instead of (or perhaps in addition to) moving tapes around – so I am always excited to talk about the CloudRecovery service offering that Iron Mountain offers. So, we are doing a webcast, as well.
Webcast On May 26 at 11AM Pacific, I will be partnering with Redmond Magazine and Iron Mountain Digital for a webcast around Cloud, Tape, Hybrid? 2010 Best Practices. As organizations are increasingly relying on non-tape based backup solutions, some are looking further into adopting cloud solutions to enhance their backups and streamline their disaster recovery operations. This hybrid approach is growing in adoption, as it combines the best of both options — on-premises data protection with secure offsite cloud storage. This webcast explores best practices for offsite and on-premise protection of your data that will enable you to reduce costs and mitigate risk. Join this webinar and learn: Best practices for offsite data protection How a hybrid data protection solution manages cost and risk How Microsoft DPM can protect your data efficiently Is a hybrid approach to data protection right for your organization? Find out in this webcast.
On May 26 at 11AM Pacific, I will be partnering with Redmond Magazine and Iron Mountain Digital for a webcast around Cloud, Tape, Hybrid? 2010 Best Practices.
As organizations are increasingly relying on non-tape based backup solutions, some are looking further into adopting cloud solutions to enhance their backups and streamline their disaster recovery operations. This hybrid approach is growing in adoption, as it combines the best of both options — on-premises data protection with secure offsite cloud storage.
This webcast explores best practices for offsite and on-premise protection of your data that will enable you to reduce costs and mitigate risk. Join this webinar and learn:
Is a hybrid approach to data protection right for your organization? Find out in this webcast.
Lots of good stuff around replicating DPM 2010 data to the Iron Mountain cloud – so I hope that you’ll check it out or learn more at www.microsoft.com/DPM/cloud.
Join Forrester’s Stephanie Balaouras, Microsoft’s Jason Buffington and i365’s Brandon Farris for an enlightening discussion on how Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) can plan an effective strategy for addressing today’s complex storage, backup and disaster recovery challenges. This webinar will discuss the challenges facing SMBs today, the opportunity and benefits of cloud storage, hybrid onsite/offsite strategies, and mastering data protection for Microsoft and other platforms.
Join us on Thursday, May 13, 2010 from 8:30 – 9:30 am PDT.
You should attend if you:.
Register now.
If you have read my blog, then you may know that I am a Gamer and a Dad (hence my other blog -- XboxDad.com). What you may not know is that I am also a Cubmaster for one of my son’s Cub Scout Pack and an Assistant Scoutmaster for my other son’s Boy Scout Troop, and I was a scout growing up in the late 70’s when game consoles were just getting started.
There were 13 new loops added for 2010:
Credit: MeritBadge.org for the list and supporting info
For my thoughts on the Video Game belt loop – check out the rest of this post on my other blog.
As always, thanks for reading…
My friends at Redmond Channel Partner have recently produced a "Microsoft Partners’ Guide to System Center” paper.
It covers some interviews related to SCE 2010 and DPM 2010 from me, David Mills (@dmills_ms) and one of our general managers, Zane Adam.
Having grown up in this industry as a ‘channel guy’ from an SE at a small reseller to now being at Microsoft … it was particularly a thrill to work with the folks at RCP.
Non-partners can probably read the guide too. :-)
As always, thanks for reading.
One of the announcements made at MMS 2010 last week was from i365, a Seagate company, who announced a DPM 2010 appliance.
The i365 appliance, called the EVault for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager or EDPM for short.
Here are few cool things about the EDPM appliance:
1) Take it out of the box and start protecting your data. Often, first-time users of DPM ask me “what kind of machine should I use for DPM 2010?” A data protection appliance solves that customer need by delivering a pre-configured device that already has the right metal (this one from Dell) … and the Windows OS … and the backup software (DPM 2010) preinstalled. 2) It offers protection for heterogeneous environments. Yes, you heard me right. This appliance not only includes DPM 2010 for protecting Windows platforms, but also the EVault technology for protecting non-Windows platforms. And as a very cool aside, the smart folks at i365 are delivering a unified console so that you can monitor both protection solution components from a single UI. That is cool !! 3) Your data is not only protected on-premise with the EDPM appliance… but also off-site to the i365 cloud.
1) Take it out of the box and start protecting your data. Often, first-time users of DPM ask me “what kind of machine should I use for DPM 2010?” A data protection appliance solves that customer need by delivering a pre-configured device that already has the right metal (this one from Dell) … and the Windows OS … and the backup software (DPM 2010) preinstalled.
2) It offers protection for heterogeneous environments. Yes, you heard me right. This appliance not only includes DPM 2010 for protecting Windows platforms, but also the EVault technology for protecting non-Windows platforms. And as a very cool aside, the smart folks at i365 are delivering a unified console so that you can monitor both protection solution components from a single UI. That is cool !!
3) Your data is not only protected on-premise with the EDPM appliance… but also off-site to the i365 cloud.
So, there are lots of things to be excited about with the DPM 2010 appliance from i365.
Lauren Whitehouse, over at the Enterprise Storage Group, recently blogged about the DPM 2010 release and the i365 partnership. You can read Lauren's blog post on DPM 2010, but an excerpt includes:
i365 is delivering an all-in-one hardware-software-cloud solution: EVault for System Center Data Protection Manager (EDPM). The Dell server ships with both Microsoft DPM and Evault backup software accessed via a single user interface and with a unified policy engine. Why both? Since DPM is limited to protecting Microsoft’s operating system, hypervisor, and applications, EDPM allows Microsoft to address a wider audience—including Linux, UNIX, NetWare, IBM i, VMware, and Oracle users. Optionally, the EDPM storage can be replicated to the i365 cloud—creating a more economically-feasible DR copy for mid-market and small enterprise companies.
And if that wasn’t enough goodness … or if you just want to start your day with a smile, check out this clever i365 video about Premise-based and Cloud-based protection.
Thanks for reading