10 On Tech

It’s not just about keeping the lights on anymore. IT today must create value for the business, and that means changing how you see your data center, including storage.

Ellen Rubin, CEO & Co-founder of ClearSky Data, expounds on those themes in this “10 on Tech” podcast with ActualTech Media’s James Green. She says that those companies that don’t make the move to digital transformation risk being left behind in this ever-more-competitive environment. Ellen also provides an overview of ClearSky and how their pay-as-you-go cloud storage model works.

Highlights of the show include:

* The changing nature of storage through the cloud era and into the edge era

* The major current concerns that CIOs have about their data and storage

* How ClearSky upends the traditional storage paradigm

* How you can get low-latency and high-performance storage, even at the network edge

Resource links from the show:

* ClearSky Data -- https://www.clearskydata.com/

* Free ClearSky Data Trial -- https://www.clearskydata.com/product-trial-request

* Learn About Backup Independence -- https://www.clearskydata.com/declare-your-backup-independence

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Tom Koulopoulos believes it’s time to change your thinking about the value and role of data in the enterprise. Data is driving the revolution in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the more data you have, the better your AI is going to be.

But what is the “bottomless cloud?” That’s what Tom dives into with ActualTech Media’s James Green in this episode of “10 on Tech.” Among the things they discuss is how the idea of the bottomless cloud is helping drive the AI revolution.

Show highlights include:

* The reason AI is so hot right now

* The importance to business of getting a handle on AI and machine learning

* How to store the expanding amount of data economically. Is it even possible?

* Next steps for leveraging AI for your company

Resource Links:

The Bottomless Cloud—Free ebook -- https://wasabi.com/bottomless-cloud/

The Bottomless Cloud—Audiobook -- https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Bottomless-Cloud-Audiobook/B07MQS18GL

Wasabi -- https://wasabi.com/

Free Trial -- https://wasabi.com/sign-up/

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There’s a belief that everyone’s moving to the public cloud these days. The reality, though, is different, as studies show that few enterprises have made the leap.

It doesn’t have to be scary, though. There are many concerns companies have, but the public cloud has so many advantages that every responsible business needs to be exploring its options.

That’s where this episode of “10 on Tech” comes in. Wasabi SVP, Global Sales & Alliances Marty Falaro chats with ActualTech Media’s James Green about those benefits, and how your company can save a ton of money over partnering up with the brand-name could providers—up to 80 percent in some cases. Sound too good to be true? Listen in and find out.

Show highlights include:

* Why so few enterprise companies have moved data to the cloud

* Easy ways to start moving to the cloud

* Top use cases for the cloud, including backup/disaster recovery

* Whether it makes sense to move your entire data center to the cloud

* The “sticker shock” of cloud egress charges

Resource Links:

Wasabi -- https://wasabi.com/

Free Trial -- https://wasabi.com/sign-up/

What Is Wasabi? -- https://wasabi.com/what-is-wasabi/

Wasabi Pricing -- https://wasabi.com/pricing/

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Chances are, when you think of public cloud storage, you think of the “big dogs” like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Public Cloud. It’s Wasabi’s mission to get you to break out of that narrow mindset and think of them as well.

Those providers have drawbacks—serious ones—for organizations. You need to understand, going in, what you're getting yourself into.

But there are alternatives, and one of those is Wasabi, which calls itself the “Hot Cloud Storage” company. They claim to be up to six times faster and 80 percent cheaper than AWS. Those are bold claims. In this episode, Wasabi CEO and Co-Founder David Friend unpacks those claims and explains why you could be saving huge amounts of time and money by expanding your choices.

Show highlights include:

* What cloud backup used to be like

* How Wasabi got its start

* The company’s explosive growth curve

* What makes Wasabi different

* How Wasabi manages to keep prices so much lower than the public cloud storage giants

* How unlimited free data egress changes the game

* How you can run an app on Amazon and still use Wasabi for the storage part

Resource Links:

Wasabi -- https://wasabi.com/

Free Trial -- https://wasabi.com/sign-up/

Wasabi Case Studies -- https://wasabi.com/resources/?case-study#

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If you’re like most companies, you still probably keep the majority of your data on-premises. But that’s changing rapidly, as more and more data is breaking out of the traditional boundaries and moving to the cloud.

What do you do then? How do you corral that data, keep an eye on it, make sure it’s safe and, if the worst should happen, make sure you can restore it? Those are the topics ActualTech Media’s James Green discusses with Michael Cade, Global Technologist for Veeam Software.

Show highlights include:

* The 3 pillars of cloud data management:

* Criticality of data – keeping it secure and safe

* Growth of data – the amount of data being produced is skyrocketing, leading to new storage methodologies

* Data sprawl - data can literally be anywhere these days. How do you control and manage it?

* The importance of data visibility

* Leveraging data in the cloud, including Software-as-a-Service and multi-cloud environments

* How Veeam is tackling these challenges

Resource links from the show:

Veeam - https://www.veeam.com/

Michael Cade’s Veeam blog - https://www.veeam.com/blog/author/michael-cade

Solution Brief: Cisco HyperFlex Systems and Veeam - https://www.veeam.com/wp-cisco-hyperflex-solution-brief-power-of-hyperconvergence.html

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“Risk Management” needs to be more than a slogan, if you want to protect your most valuable assets: it needs to be a mindset. It needs to be a way of life for your organization. To that end, consider the warning of Vijay Chauhan, Sr. Director of Product Marketing for Illumio, that a risk-free environment doesn’t exist.

The conversation then becomes about managing that risk, Chauhan tells ActualTech Media’s James Green in this episode of “10 on Tech.” The nature of risk is also changing in the cloud era, as digital footprints expand. Keeping up is harder than ever, but it can be done. Find out how.

Highlights of the show include:

* The “three buckets” you need to identify to keep your environment safe

* The importance of understanding your adversary

* Why you need to build a “visibility map”

* Practical examples of financial crown jewels that need to be protected

* Growing digital footprints, and how that increases security concerns

Resource links from the show:

Illumio – https://www.illumio.com/

Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 List – https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/illumio-named-to-forbes-2018-cloud-100-list-300712355.html

Another Funding Round Completed – https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/illumio-series-e/

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IT moves fast. That’s not news. But these days, it seems to be moving faster than ever. Where it’s going, and what it means for your career, is a question that needs answers. That’s why this episode of “10 on Tech” features one of the industry’s most knowledgeable analysts, Wikibon’s Stu Miniman.

Stu chats with ActualTech Media Partner James Green about the natural fear that IT employees have when it comes to new technologies possibly obsoleting their jobs. Stu discusses how to make sure that doesn’t happen to you, among other topics.

Highlights of the show include:

* The changing role of IT workers

* How digital transformation will transform jobs

* The importance of getting re-skilled to stay relevant

* Ways that the cloud is changing

* The rise of edge computing

Resource links from the show:

Wikibon – https://wikibon.com/

Stu Miniman bio -- https://wikibon.com/author/stu/

Silicon Angle -- https://siliconangle.com/

Managing the Multicloud -- https://siliconangle.com/tag/multicloud-special-report/

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The central idea behind DevOps is speed: the speed of development, and the speed of delivering and integrating that software into the organization’s operations. This is a good thing.

But of course, it’s not all good. As Joseph Feiman of WhiteHat Security says, “With DevOps, developers are introducing even more vulnerabilities than before.” He says the application security posture isn’t improving, and this calls for action.

Feiman dives into this topic with ActualTech Media’s James Green on this episode of “10 on Tech. ” Find out why Feiman says “We’re not getting better,” and that what’s needed now is “DevSecOps.”

Highlights of the show include:

* The top application vulnerabilities, and why they haven’t changed since 2010

* How long it takes companies to fix critical vulnerabilities like SQL injection attacks

* What DevSecOps means in practice

* The right time in the development cycle to start applying security measures

* What businesses should be focusing on going forward in application security

Resource links from the show:

WhiteHat Security -- https://www.whitehatsec.com/

Joseph Feiman biography -- https://www.whitehatsec.com/company/leadership/joseph-feiman/

DevSecOps Manifesto -- https://www.devsecops.org/

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You probably realize that moving part or all of your IT operations to the public cloud isn’t easy. But even with that understanding, it’s still harder than you think. That’s why Root Level Technology exists, and they’re our guests on this edition of “10 on Tech.”

Root Level Technology CTO Eric Fouarge talks with ActualTech Media’s James Green about the advantages of public cloud, including the reasons you may – or may not, in some cases – make the leap. He also discusses the importance of understanding your infrastructure and applications before making that leap, so you don’t make it into the dark.

Highlights of the show include:

* Some of the reasons companies want to incorporate public cloud

* The specific phases necessary to move applications and infrastructure to public cloud

* The best applications for re-platforming to the cloud

* Trends in security and automation, including Kubernetes and containers

Resource links from the show:

Root Level Technology -- https://rootleveltech.com/

Risc Networks -- https://www.riscnetworks.com/

Kubernetes -- https://kubernetes.io/

The Root Level Blog -- https://rootleveltech.com/blog/

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IT infrastructure has changed dramatically over the years. Data centers are no longer castles surrounded by moats that are entirely self-contained and shut off from the outside world. And that means the ways of securing the castle have to change, too.

Faraz Aladin, Head of Technical Product Marketing at Illumio, talks with ActualTech Media Partner James Green about those changes in this episode of “10 on Tech.” Servers and data is no longer contained – clouds, edge computing, and the Internet of Things have made sure of that. In this new world, can all your stuff even be made safe? The answer might surprise you.

Highlights of the show include:

* Why we’re still experiencing so many massive security breaches

* The reason huge, complex firewalls aren’t enough anymore

* How to get control of your network security by getting down to the workload level

* The security breakthrough powered by adaptive micro-segmentation

Resource links from the show:

Illumio -- https://www.illumio.com/

Take an Illumio test drive -- https://www.illumio.com/test-drive-landing-page

A microsegmentation security primer -- https://www.sdxcentral.com/sdn/network-virtualization/definitions/how-does-micro-segmentation-help-security-explanation/

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