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Free – and Nice! – Enterprise Data Protection Maturity Assessment
Too many enterprises deploy data protection technologies and processes thinking they can now withstand a cyberattack attack. Only after a ransomware attack occurs do they find these technologies and processes fail them at the most critical moment. To avoid this, enterprises must objectively assess the effectiveness of their existing data protection infrastructure. To help, Cobalt Iron and DCIG have partnered to create a free survey that nicely assesses their data protection maturity.

Webinar – Software-Defined Infrastructure: Transform & Secure IoT & Big Data Environments
Join DCIG analysts Ken Clipperton and Todd Dorsey, and Tanya Loughlin, Director of Hitachi Content Platform Portfolio Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara, on Thursday, December 15th, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time, to discuss the benefits of ‘Software-Defined Infrastructure: Transform & Secure IoT & Big Data Environments.”

Tintri Analytics Makes the Invisible Visible
Tintri’s focus on using analytics to optimize application performance is fundamentally better than the break-fix focus of many other vendors.

2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 SME AWS Cloud Backup Solutions Report Now Available
DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its 2022-23 TOP 5 report on AWS Cloud Backup Solutions. This TOP 5 report provides small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) guidance on the best backup solutions for backing up and recovering applications, data, and workloads they host in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 SME AWS Cloud Backup Solutions Report
DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 SME AWS Cloud Backup Solution report. This DCIG report evaluates the features of twelve solutions across five different categories that provide backup for AWS. This report provides guidance on the TOP 5 solutions that small and midsized enterprises (SME) should consider for protecting applications, data, and workloads hosted in AWS. The report is available at no charge with registration by following this link.

Tintri Predictive Analytics Yield Astonishing Simplicity
Predictive analytics applied to enterprise storage is delivering a lot of value. Tintri focuses its analytics on optimizing application performance, not break/fix support. This focus is a fundamentally better approach to applying analytics to enterprise storage than many other vendors offer.

DCIG Moderating “The Active Archiving Ecosystem” Virtual Conference
Attend the “The Active Archiving Ecosystem” virtual conference to learn how active archiving enables organizations to manage and monetize data at scale while reducing overall storage costs and enhancing cyber resilience. DCIG is moderating this virtual conference on September 22, 2022.

Counterproductive Actions Broadcom Can Take to Derail VMware’s Future
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.

2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 AWS Cloud Backup Solutions Large Enterprise Edition Report
OMAHA, Neb., (August 30th, 2022) – DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 AWS Cloud Backup Solution Large Enterprise Edition report. This DCIG report evaluated the features of fifteen solutions across five different categories that provide backup for AWS. This report provides guidance on the TOP 5 solutions organizations should consider for protecting applications, data, and workloads hosted in AWS. The report is available at no charge with registration

2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 AWS Cloud Backup Solutions Large Enterprise Edition Report Now Available
DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its 2022-23 TOP 5 report on Large Enterprise AWS Cloud Backup Solutions. This TOP 5 report provides large enterprises guidance on the best backup solutions for backing up and recovering applications, data, and workloads they host in Amazon Web Services (AWS).