Data Protection Gumbo

Caitlin Halferty, Director, AI Accelerator and Client Success at IBM Global Chief Data Office discusses the differences between DataOps and DevOps, details on how artificial intelligence is a key component to gathering analytics, and her view of the Data Protection industry from the lens of Digital Transformation.

Nitzan Shapira, Co-Founder and CEO at Epsagon discusses why microservices and containers are hot, how to analyze trends or spikes automatically, and some other cool ways to troubleshoot and dig through your logs faster with less effort.

Eric Bassier, Sr. Director of Products at Quantum breaks down one of the most exciting topics happening in the Backup/Recovery market right now and that’s the ability to archive data forever and how to recover that data utilizing erasure coding, AI/ML, and analytics.

Sathya Sankaran, Chief Operating Officer at Catalogic Software provides details on the Data Protection market, why the single pane of glass proverb is still relevant, and why building data protection ecosystems are accelerating fast.

Adrian Kunzle, Head of Product and Strategy at OwnBackup provides details on how to protect your Salesforce data the correct way and some key trends around integrating Data Protection into the CI/CD pipeline.

Tim Williams, Founder and CEO at Index Engines lays out a solid ransomware recovery plan to help your CISO sleep better at night with several steps that include scanning, analytics, analysis, repetition, and investigation.

Joe Ferguson, Cloud Sales Engineer at Clumio provides some data hygiene tips for 2021 and why SaaS is a great first move for organizations going to the cloud.

Eric Herzog, CMO and VP of Worldwide Storage Channels at IBM Storage discusses the role of data protection, some of the challenges associated with cybersecurity, and the impact of not modernizing your data protection solution.

Brian White, Sr. Principal Product Manager at Veritas discusses the effects of ransomware since the pandemic, the importance of a solid backup strategy, and the essentials of sending data to the cloud in 2021.

Oussama El-Hilali, Co-Founder and Board Member provides his view on the Backup and Recovery industry, where it’s headed, emerging technologies on the horizon, and how blockchain enhances data protection.

Steven Umbehocker, Founder and CEO of OSNEXUS Corp.discusses his software defined storage predictions for 2021, which storage technologies are on their way out, and the new ones that are on the horizon.

Keith Townsend, Principal and Founder of The CTO Advisor discusses his experience across the Backup and Recovery industry, some data protection predictions, and the relevancy of backup in today’s modern data center.

Gou Rao - CTO, Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage formerly Portworx discusses how the digital transformation is accelerating and why data center workflows are evolving into 1st class application citizens and what’s the best way to protect Kubernetes containers.

Subbiah Sundaram - VP of Product and Marketing @ HYCU discusses multi-cloud data protection, cloud-native, hyperconverged infrastructure, ransomware and provides insight into what's happening in the cloud.

Eran Farajun - Executive VP @ Asigra elegantly discusses eradicating our false sense of security around ransomware attacks, what immutability really means, and the latest innovation around Deep MFA.

Jayden Bartram - CEO @ Couchdrop provides details around the complexities of data migrations, data sovereignty, GDPR, and the rise of S3 and object storage competitors.

Jamal Raees, Director of Business Development @ BitPay, Inc. discusses the inner workings of the Blockchain industry, the storage technology behind the scenes, and tons of interesting details about what’s going on in the cryptocurrency and bitcoin industry.

Pawel Maczka, CTO, VP @ Storware, CEO @ SocialCube provides his philosophy on the importance of protecting data in the midst of the pandemic, protecting your Office 365 data, ransomware, and some nuggets on backing up Open-Source Hypervisors.

Mike Wilson, Principal Architect @ NetApp provides details around hyperconverged infrastructure, virtual desktop infrastructure, and data protection.

Ahin Thomas, VP of Marketing @ Backblaze provides tons of cloud cost containment tips, the most efficient ways to migrate data to the public cloud, and some of the other tools that would be needed for personal or business backup.