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I am at VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas this week attending the event in person. I had the great opportunity to spend time with a few key executives from Veeam and discuss their latest release and plans for the future.

With 2022 in full swing, I got a chance to sit down with my colleague Vinny Choinski to discuss what we expect to see from the data protection/intelligent data management market this year. Our predictions include:

Last week I had the pleasure of (virtually) joining Commvault Connections 2021, along with colleagues Vinny Choinski and Kevin Rhone. In this video, we collectively share our insight on what we all agree was a very complete—but also concise—event.

In this Data Protection Conversations video, I talk with Matt Waxman of Cohesity about:

• The latest and greatest from Cohesity
• How customers can "unlock value" from data through intelligent data management
• What topics are top-of-mind for customers and partners

In this video, I talk data protection with Joe Noonan of Unitrends. Our topics of discussion included:

• Recent changes to the data protection landscape
• How the Unitrends strategy has adapted
• Recommendations for end-users

For more from my Data Protection Conversations series, please visit: https://www.esg-global.com/coverage/data-protection-conversations. 

In this video, I share my perspectives on VeeamON 2021. 

Commvault is celebrating its 25^th birthday and what a ride it has been so far! I have to admit that Commvault has a special place in my heart because I pretty much started in this space at the same time and have known the company as a partner and then as a (fringe) competitor for many years when I was on the vendor side.

The past couple of years are really the most important, in my view, as they totally changed the game for the company. I blogged about this a few times in the past. (Check out my blogs here.)

Commvault’s strategy was revisited by CEO Sanjay Mirchandani, with the effect of fundamentally changing the company’s portfolio, but more importantly its future prospects for many years to come in line with what I see as the fundamental market trend of intelligent data management.

I have been tracking the progress and success of HYCU for the past 3 years or so. The company has consistently delivered on its roadmap and expanded its platform well beyond the original focus on Nutanix. Its leadership team with Simon Taylor at the helm resisted the (I am safely guessing) many temptations for an equity event these past few years—until recently with last week's announcement of an $87.5m series A round. This is significant.

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote about Veeam's V10 and how it was positioning the company to better compete in the very contested enterprise space. It was a strong release and a turning point. 

V11 is the release that places Veeam more squarely in the coveted enterprise space. The product team has executed on their strategy and roadmap (although there is always more work ahead) to beef up the platform in several areas: snapshots, backup, replication, and continuous data protection. 

I 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.