Analysis & briefs
Vendor-honest intelligence across our seven coverage areas.
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Cyber Recovery Vaults Compared: FortKnox, Rubrik Vault, Cleanroom
A neutral head-to-head of the cyber recovery vault category: Cohesity FortKnox, Rubrik Cloud Vault, Commvault Cleanroom Recovery, and Veeam Vault compared on isolation model, recovery rehearsal, and the egress economics of a real 100 TB restore.
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Negotiating Your Broadcom VMware Renewal: A 12-Month Playbook
Broadcom’s opening VCF renewal quote is a starting bid, not a price. A month-by-month playbook — core inventory, the 16-core minimum, audit defense, and the costed Nutanix landing zone that moves the number.
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Immutable Backup Storage: Ootbi vs ARTESCA vs Cloud Object Lock
Veeam’s acquisition of Object First made immutable target appliances first-party strategy. We compare Ootbi, Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam HA, and cloud object lock via Wasabi and Veeam Vault.
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VMware Alternatives in 2026: The Realistic Shortlist
86% of organizations are shrinking their VMware footprint but only 4% have fully replaced it. The realistic 2026 shortlist — Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VergeIO, and OpenShift Virtualization — matched to estate size and risk.
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RTO and RPO Targets by Recovery Tier: What’s Realistic?
Four recovery tiers mapped to the RTO and RPO ranges AWS publishes for its disaster recovery strategies, which technology delivers each tier, and why an RTO that has never been tested is a hypothesis.
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vSphere 8 Support Ends October 2027: Your Decision Timeline
vSphere 8 hits End of General Support on October 11, 2027 — and with migrations running 18 to 48 months, the pay-or-leave decision is due in 2026. The three options, with a quarter-by-quarter timeline.
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Rubrik vs Cohesity in 2026: Two Cyber-Resilience Playbooks
Cohesity is now a portfolio, not a product — and Rubrik is running a different race entirely. Where each platform wins, where each frustrates, and what NetBackup customers should do at renewal.
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The 3-2-1-1-0 Backup Rule: How to Actually Implement It
What the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule actually requires in 2026: an immutable copy attackers cannot delete, a real distinction from air gaps, and zero-error recovery verification, with Veeam, Object First, Wasabi and Rubrik compared.
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Microsoft 365 Backup: What Microsoft Covers, and What It Won’t
Microsoft now sells its own M365 backup — but native copies share the tenant’s fate. How Veeam, Druva, Keepit, and AvePoint differ, and how to decide by threat model.
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DRaaS Pricing in 2026: What Disaster Recovery Really Costs
DRaaS providers hide pricing behind discovery calls. Here are the real 2026 benchmarks — per-VM rates, what a 30-VM environment costs, and how Expedient, Zerto, 11:11 Systems, and Cohesity structure the bill.