Jason Buffington

Jason Buffington was Microsoft’s senior technical product manager for System Center Data Protection Manager from its initial 2006 release through the 2012 beta. He's now the senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), covering all data protection technologies. He's the author of Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers (Sybex).

Jason’s Recent activity

A Retrospective on Microsoft VSS and System Center Data Protection Manager

Jun 08, 2015

For the first ten or so years that Windows Server was backed up, most backup vendors had to figure out their own ways to access the SQL databases, the Exchange mail stores, and the Windows file system. And then came...

How will you back up Office 365?

Mar 02, 2015

There are a lot of great reasons to embrace SaaS, including not only Office365 but also GoogleApps, SalesForce, etc. but something that many folks don’t realize until too late is that those platforms do NOT...