In his 20-year career, Brian has experienced many different perspectives of the IT industry. He has worked as a value-added reseller, vendor and service provider in roles in web development, system administration, post-sales deployment, pre-sales architecting, public cloud design and technical marketing. Currently, Brian is the Director of Cloud Market Intelligence at iland. He enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids. He is also heavily involved with the Destination Imagination program and has been a long-time member of the VMware community, notably starting the Omaha VMUG and putting on VMunderground at VMworld. You can find him online occasionally blogging at http://knudt.net/vblog and tweeting at @bknudtson.
Not all data is created equal. That is to say, not all data is equally important to your business. This is why we must carefully consider the criticality of each category of data, and then protect it in a way that reflects its importance. This evaluation shouldn’t change when our data moves to the cloud.…
iland has a long and successful record of helping customers protect their data through Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). With the recent acquisition by 11:11 Systems, we now have the ability to help customers not only recover their data after a security incident, but also to provide services…
There are many reasons customers choose to move to the cloud, but there are also a number of reasons customers are concerned about moving to the cloud. Back in 2019, we sponsored a number of VMware User Group meetings, and as a part of those meetings I conducted live polling to see which concerns…
Countdown to Liftoff — Are you ready to rocket your business into the cloud? Most journeys start with deciding where to go. When a business decides to migrate their IT workloads to the cloud, they invest a lot of time and resources to determine why they want to move to the cloud, and which cloud…
Protecting an IT environment is a non-stop game of whack-a-mole where the board continuously gets larger and the moles tend to get faster and smaller. Two recent vulnerabilities show how quickly a mature and widely distributed software package can turn into a major security hole. First, Microsoft announced CVE-2019-0708, a flaw in Remote Desktop Services…
With over 140 million users last year, it is undeniable how popular Microsoft’s Office 365 service has become. It provides companies the ability to get out of the business of managing email servers and allows them to put more focus on true business differentiators. Unfortunately, one thing Office 365 doesn’t provide, though, is freedom from…
iland has built a large customer base across all of our products. Thanks to great partners like Veeam, we’ve developed great products to help customers with the protection and recovery of their data in the cloud from just about anywhere. Improving the Underlying Technology Veeam recently released Update 4 to their already successful Veeam 9.5…
Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses and, consequently, the protection of data is critical. Protection from loss isn’t the only protection data needs these days. The theft and leakage of data can cause massive damage to a company and its customers, and has unfortunately become all too common. With so many reports of data…
Veeam is an amazing company to partner with when building services for our joint customers. With a strong focus on providing a robust data protection product, and an equally strong focus on enabling service providers, Veeam makes it easy to provide their solutions. iland’s customers are able to create very easy remote cloud backups to…
It is almost cliche to start a blog stating that data is growing fast and that managing this growth is difficult, but, the truth of the matter is, that it is a challenge for many businesses today. The storage industry is responding quickly, which explains why we’ve seen so much innovation in data storage systems…
