Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Data Protection

#219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

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This week Chris chats to Tony Mendoza, Senior Director of IT at Spectra Logic. The conversation covers the ransomware attack experienced by Spectra in May 2020 and the subsequent response to deal with the problem. On 7th May 2020, the company detected a ransomware exploit was encrypting files across application servers. In their place was a plain text file, demanding money … [Read more...] about #219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

#218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored)

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This week, Chris is in conversation with Don Foster, Global Head of Sales Engineering for Commvault. The discussion covers the experiences of customers as IT continues to evolve into public, hybrid and multi-clouds. Don runs the global Sales Engineering teams, tasked with helping customers protect their data in a world that now includes on-premises deployments, the public … [Read more...] about #218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored)

#213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection

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With KubeCon North America 2021 looming, Chris and Martin spend this week looking at data protection for Kubernetes-native environments. Vendors have started to introduce backup solutions, some working within the container environment itself, some outside as part of existing products. Exactly what should be backed up and how should these products work? Are we right to … [Read more...] about #213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection

#205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored)

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In this week's episode, Chris and Martin have a great conversation with David Ngo, CTO for Metallic at Commvault, and Ranga Rajagopalan, VP Product Management for Commvault and Metallic. Commvault is celebrating 25 years in data protection, while Metallic, a SaaS data protection solution from Commvault has been available for nearly two years. In this discussion, David and … [Read more...] about #205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored)

#197 – Prioritising Disaster Recovery Planning

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The ongoing saga at OVH highlights the need to have solid disaster recovery plans that reflect the risk and impact of systems failure on the business. In this episode, Chris and Martin dig into the issues at OVH and how they represent a wake-up call for businesses in general. High profile failures have been apparent over many years, so does DR get the investment and respect … [Read more...] about #197 – Prioritising Disaster Recovery Planning

#193 – HYCU Protégé Office 365 Backup as a Service

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This week, Chris and Martin are talking to a podcast repeat offender, Subbiah Sundaram, VP of Products at HYCU. HYCU has recently announced the availability of Protégé for Microsoft Office 365, delivered as SaaS or Backup as a Service (BaaS). This continues an expansion of the HYCU and Protégé backup offerings that started with Nutanix data protection and has expanded past on- … [Read more...] about #193 – HYCU Protégé Office 365 Backup as a Service

#183 – Magnetic Tape AMA (Ask Matt Anything)

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This week Chris and Martin take the opportunity to grill (not broil) Matt Starr from Spectralogic to learn everything about magnetic tape. This episode came out of a discussion with Chris Mellor (episode #176) in which we asked the question why tape media doesn't wear out. The answer is obviously within the podcast so you'll need to listen to find out! In this conversation, … [Read more...] about #183 – Magnetic Tape AMA (Ask Matt Anything)

#165 – Homogeneous Data Protection with HYCU (Sponsored)

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As we move to a hybrid and multi-cloud world, IT organisations need standardisation in operational processes. This is particularly true for data protection, where consistent policies and compliance are essential. This week, Chris chats to Subbiah Sundaram from HYCU about data protection in public clouds and the ability to bring a consistent reporting model with HYCU … [Read more...] about #165 – Homogeneous Data Protection with HYCU (Sponsored)

#155 – Introduction to Clumio with Chadd Kenney

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In this edition of the podcast, Chris chats to Chadd Kenney, VP and Chief Technologist at Clumio. Clumio is a SaaS data protection company that has recently expanded to support Office 365 environments. This discussion covers background on Clumio, how data protection for cloud should work and some specifics of the Clumio implementation. Looking deeper at the way in which the … [Read more...] about #155 – Introduction to Clumio with Chadd Kenney

#144 – Introduction to Storage as a Service

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This week, Chris and Martin chat to Gary Breder (Director of Cloud and Services Product Marketing) and Diane Clay (Sr Manager of Cloud and Services Product Marketing) from Hitachi Vantara about storage as a service. While we've had different consumption models in the past, does StaaS offer anything different? Perhaps the key takeaway from this conversation is the use of … [Read more...] about #144 – Introduction to Storage as a Service