Rest in Peace, Ruud Baars
Over the weekend, the DPM community lost one of its best – Ruud Baars. While you may be familiar with some of the DPM voices and faces, Ruud was one of the quiet and sometimes unseen, true innovators...
View ArticleJason on Talk TechNet Radio – discussing DPM 2012
Good morning, all. Keith Combs and Chris Henley run a weekly ‘radio call-in show’ called Talk TechNet – and this week, they asked me to talk about DPM (2010 and 2012). You can listen in, live or...
View ArticleJBuff leaving Microsoft
After 5.5 years, I am leaving Microsoft. When I first joined, it was after 15 years in the backup/recovery and high availability market. I joined to be part of DPM v1, which had been in market for...
View ArticleJason joins ESG
Today, I begin my next adventure – as an “Analyst & Lab Engineer” for ESG, the Enterprise Strategy Group. For those that don’t know ESG, they are mostly known for their industry research and...
View ArticleAnnouncing DPM 2012 Beta
Today, Microsoft released its public beta for System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012. Of course, in full disclosure, most of my readers know that I am not just an ESG guy who loves data...
View ArticleVideo Interview on DPM 2012
First and Foremost – CONGRATS to my Microsoft friends for the recent release of the beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 !!! Its amazing for me to remember back to joining the DPM team...
View ArticleSome things aren’t solved by just cutting a check
Every week, during the Spring and Summer, my lawn gets mowed. Specifically, it happens every Thursday morning, while I am working. Some guys come by my home and pick up the check from my wife, and then...
View ArticleSpeaking at System Center Universe 2012
Tuesday, January 17 — Microsoft held a webcast on their Private Cloud offerings and announced the Release Candidate of their System Center 2012 management tools. Thursday, January 19 – the System...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ups its Backup Game in System Center 2012
[Cross-posted from my ESG blog – Technical Optimist .com] Data protection processes and technologies are vital to ensuring an organization’s operational, regulatory, and financial health. As a result,...
View ArticleWindows IT Pro article – Understanding DPM2012
The nice folks at Windows IT Pro magazine recently published an article that I wrote on Data Protection Manager within Microsoft System Center 2012. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)...
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