Research Coverage
Data Protection: Backup, BC/DR, DRaaS, GDPR, Ransomware
Senior Analyst Christophe Bertrand covers data protection at ESG. Christophe has 25 years of experience in services, software, and high-end storage systems as well as a passion for the product marketing discipline and product launches.
Christophe has spent most of his career in the data storage and data protection space with companies such as Legato Systems (now EMC), VERITAS, Maxtor, Hitachi Data Systems, DataDirect Networks, and most recently Arcserve.
At Arcserve, Christophe was part of the executive team that carved out the company from CA Technologies in 2014. As the VP of Product Marketing/AR, he spearheaded many product launches including its award-winning UDP software, appliances, and cloud services.
He has acquired an extensive global experience built on many hours in the field with customers, channel and alliance partners, and industry influencers. He has also spoken publicly at many customer and industry events in English, French, and Spanish.
Christophe earned an MBA from Bradford University (England), a BA in European Business Administration from Middlesex University (England), and a Maitrise degree from the ESC Reims Business School (France).
The world of data protection is changing rapidly. After many years witnessing these changes as a vendor, and now as an analyst, I have developed a maturity model: the backup data transformation model. This model will help both end-users and vendors evaluate their current position and their journey from data backup to autonomous data intelligence and whether they can cross the data management chasm.
The data protection market is going through many transitions and has never been more active. This video series consists of short interviews with executives from the vendor community, who share their views on a market that has customers facing new challenges every day.
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