Jeffry Molanus, Chief Technology Officer at MayaData discusses how applications have changed but storage hasn’t, some of the hardware changes around NVMe and NVMe-oF and some programming language best practices.

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.