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Jay Livens

I am a technology enthusiast with an interest in all things tech-related. By day, I work in marketing for SEPATON a data protection and deduplication vendor and by night I tinker with technology. I am interested in many topics including data backup/recovery, data storage, PDAs, sports, digital photography and social media.

When not blogging here, you can also find me blogging on at Aboutrestore.com or on Twitter. You can also contact me directly. Comments are not moderated on this blog and alternative perspectives are welcome.

Latest from Jay Livens

Four Questions to Consider When Choosing a Home Generator

NEWS By JAY LIVENS15 YEARS AGO

A business colleague recent tweeted a question about choosing a home generator. He was concerned about recent power outages in New England and worried that they would continue in the upcoming months and years. He was looking at options to protect his …

Google+: The Elephant in the Room or the Ugly Stepchild?

NEWS By JAY LIVENS15 YEARS AGO

The Twittersphere was abuzz when Google announced their new Google + social networking functionality.  For me it was déjà vu as I remembered similar enthusiasm over Google’s ill-fated Wave service.  Thanks to Greg Knierieman I have been playing with G+, and at …

Living with a Motorola Atrix – The Good and Bad

NEWS By JAY LIVENS15 YEARS AGO

Frequent readers of this blog will know that I am an avid smartphone user. For years, my primary platform was RIM’s Blackberry and I appreciated the phone’s highly functional physical keyboard. When I changed jobs, my new company did not support Blackberry …

NetApp and Engenio – Part 2 – A Hypothesis

NEWS By JAY LIVENS15 YEARS AGO

In my previous post, I discussed why I thought that NetApp’s acquisition of Engenio was a difficult one and why I question the value of the combined entity.  Simply put, there seems to be redundancy in the product line and it makes …

3 Things I Like and Dislike About the Palm Pre Plus

NEWS By JAY LIVENS16 YEARS AGO

I have blogged on numerous occasions about cellphones and historically, I have been an unabashed Blackberry user.  So it was with a sense of shock when I realized that my new employer would not support Blackberry phones.  I had two options: Windows …

AT&T Data Woes

NEWS By JAY LIVENS16 YEARS AGO

I started a new job back in November and it has been a whirlwind.  As part of the transition, I have changed cell phones and added an aircard.  In a future piece, I will discuss my new Palm Pre. My employer offered …

Perspectives on Quest Acquiring BakBone

NEWS By JAY LIVENS16 YEARS AGO

About four months ago, I published a blog post discussing the future of dedicated VMware backup solutions.  The post ignited a bigger discussion and included additional blog entries from W. Curtis Preston, me, Jon Toigo, Virtual Tacit, Veeam and Quest software.  I …

Logitech Launches the Revue – The First GoogleTV Device

NEWS By JAY LIVENS16 YEARS AGO

Logitech launched the Revue which is their set-top box powered by GoogleTV.  This is the first of many future devices that will use GoogleTV and will initially be sold for $299.99.  I have not had any hands-on experience with the unit yet, …

The criticality of RTO and RPO

NEWS By JAY LIVENS16 YEARS AGO

Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with data protection in general and data restoration specifically.  Obviously these two elements are critical for today’s data-intensive businesses and there are a multitude of vendors providing solutions to address these challenges.  …

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