Doron Pinhaus, CTO of Continuity Software discusses some of the ramifications of hackers gaining control of your storage system, interesting findings from the NIST Guide for Storage Security, and the best way for listeners to be prepared for a cyberattack.

Mark Chuang, Head of Product Marketing at VMware discusses the sophistication of ransomware and protection mechanisms, breaking the kill chain, and advice on implementing disaster recovery.

George Crump, Chief Marketing Officer at StorONE discusses the evolution of the Backup and Storage industry, why ransomware protection is key to protecting your data and backup infrastructure, and debunking some of the theories around all-flash backups.

Kashish Gupta, Co-Founder of Hightouch discusses reverse ETL, some reasons for moving data out of a data warehouse, and the critical role that APIs play in the data analytics industry.

Michael Haase, CEO of Plant Jammer discusses the creation and evolution of Plant Jammer, details about the cloud architecture, the use of artificial Intelligence and Gastronomic algorithms including how to gather actionable insights about your diet and nutrition.

Doug Soltesz, Director of Product Solutions at Storage Made Easy discusses how to protect data in the cloud from ransomware, the role of APIs in data protection, and two kinds of automation.

Kevin Campbell, CEO of Syniti discusses the importance of data in all businesses today, the current state of data management, and some steps business leaders can take to create more mature data management strategies.

Steven Umbehocker, Founder and CEO of OSNEXUS explains why object storage has the scalability required for companies to manage petabytes of backup data, his views on the open-source Ceph technology, and when to use the public cloud object storage vs private cloud.

Kim Wienzierl, Director of Data at Radio Systems Corp. provides details on how to implement a data governance strategy, some of the challenges of deploying data governance, and how to measure the success of a data governance program.

Marc Crespi, Director of Product Marketing at Exagrid dives into the state of backup appliances, some details on data deduplication, his view of the security landscape, and some of the limitations of storing data in the cloud.