DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 AWS S3 Alternatives – Enterprise Edition Report. This report provides enterprises with guidance on the best AWS S3 alternatives for them to choose from today.
Rarely does it happen during a conversation or interview about a topic that the headline for a blog entry presents itself. Yet that occurred earlier this week in a conversation I had with HYCU’s CEO, Simon Taylor. In it, he was updating me on HYCU’s newly announced, enhanced support for Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE). In describing this integration, he succinctly summarized it by stating, “HYCU is bringing Data Domain into the SaaS world.”
Many organizations now share a vision of how they want to manage data and applications across their modern IT infrastructure. No longer do organizations expect them to reside indefinitely in one location – whether on-premises or in the cloud. Rather, four pain points now drive organizations toward adopting modern data mobility to address them.
DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Modern SDS Block Storage Solutions Report. This report provides guidance on the DCIG TOP 5 software-defined storage (SDS) block storage solutions that organizations with modern IT infrastructures should consider for deployment into these environments.
AWS includes at least three (3) data protection capabilities that organizations can and often should use to protect their data. Each one offers distinct benefits for any organization that uses them. However, to account for each one’s limitations, organizations may need a third-party solution to best meet their AWS data protection requirements.
Most organizations already use general-purpose clouds in some form. Microsoft represents one such cloud provider that has taken a market leading position in providing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. Its IaaS offering, Microsoft Azure, now represents one of the top three general-purpose clouds while Microsoft 365 may well be the #1 SaaS offering used by organizations worldwide. Yet as enterprises utilize these cloud offerings, they still must protect the applications and/or data they host in these Microsoft clouds.
Nasuni recently hosted Nasuni CloudBound22, a two-day virtual conference. This article summarizes key takeaways from the event.
Perhaps nothing dominated the conversation at this year’s VMware Explore more than Broadcom’s pending acquisition of VMware. Whether I spoke with other analysts or end-users and vendors on the show floor, the topic inevitably came up. In almost every case, they expressed concerns about the counterproductive actions that Broadcom may take that would derail VMware’s future.
Many data protection and data storage providers highlight and promote their products’ hybrid cloud capabilities. However, their products continue to evolve to deliver more robust cloud functionality. As they do, the term ‘hybrid cloud’ fails to fully capture their increased functionality. Many have become hybrid multi-cloud offerings that manage, support, and work across multiple different providers’ clouds.
In order for organizations to get the benefits of both cloud and on-premises data centers, more implement a hybrid data center. Running their workloads in one or the other or both gives them the choice they seek. In addition to these practical reasons, recent events and trends have reinforced the move to a hybrid data center. However, when adopting a hybrid data center, organizations must examine how well operations such as backup work in it.
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