We're joined this week by Preethi Srinivasan, Druva's Director of Innovation, to talk about how to innovate in today's digital world. She talks about the importance about building a strategy based on a customer-centric view, rather than one based on what your competitor is doing. Also look for areas of functionality adjacent to what you already do, versus trying to invent an entirely different wheel. Join us this week for this interesting discussion.

Drew Daniels, Druva's CISO and CIO, joins us again on the podcast to discuss how to manage the security risk that third parties pose to your organization. We talk contractors, service providers, and SaaS products your company may be using. One of the key concepts covered is transparency between vendor and customer, to ensure that everyone is following modern security best practices.

Druva's CISO and CIO Drew Daniels joins us on this episode to discuss how ransomware is really only a symptom of a bigger problem in your environment. Drew talks about how Druva fights cyber attacks, especially how we train and test our own people to recognize phishing attacks. He then gives advice on what you can do in you environment to combat these growing threats.

Stephen Manley and W. Curtis Preston pay a World Backup Day tribute to the people keeping us safe from oblivion: backup admins. We also pay tribute to those who aren't backup admins, but always keep backups in mind. Thank you to both groups. This day's for you!

Three amazing women in technology join this episode of No Hardware Required, dedicated to women's history month. Lisa Martin hosts, with guests Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions and Vanessa Toves of Druva. They celebrate women's history month by discussing their histories: how they got to this point in their career, and women that inspired them along the way. Join us for this special episode!

After our previous predictions episode, we thought we'd do a non-predictions podcast! Stephen Manley and Prasanna Malaiyandi join W. Curtis Preston to talk about all the things we don't think are going to happen this year. We talk about doing everything in Kubernetes, running apps in multiple clouds, in-person conferences, and more. We have a little fun, but we also will give you a few things to think about.

Stephen Manley and W. Curtis wax philosophical, pull out their crystal ball, and try to predict what's going to happen in the data protection space in 2021. We talk about ransomware, the cloud, the proliferation of SaaS, and a few other things we think are going to happen this year. We hope you enjoy the episode

Russ Cantwell, CTO of SHI International, joins us on the episode to discuss Kubernetes (K8s), persistent storage, and how all of that affects data protection. He explains the evolving nature of persistent storage, which currently culminates in the Container Storage Interface (CSI). He explains how things have coalesced around this idea, but there are still others in the works. Finally, we talk about how data protection is affected by K8s.

Russ Cantwell, CTO of SHI international, joins W. Curtis Preston and Stephen Manley of Druva to explain how SHI's customers have been adjusting to the pandemic. He first talks about how they have adjusted their security posture out of necessity, allowing for some companies to have more modern security practices, methods, products and services. He also talks about how companies are using more and more SaaS services such as Microsoft365. We then discuss the idea of data-centric security (vs the traditional datacenter-centric model), and what that actually means. We finish the podcast with a discussion about what modern resiliency practices look like, where companies have gone from designing to avoid failure to design to expect failure – which is a perfect dovetail into the discussion on our next podcast on Kubernetes.

Vanessa Toves joins us again to talk about advanced uses of Microsoft 365, and how SharePoint is much more than just a document repository. She also explains how using the advanced features of Microsoft365 actually increases your need for data protection. She gives us a detailed look at PowerBI, a tool to help automate things in Microsoft 365. Finally, we wax philisophical about why not everyone thinks they need to backup cloud and SaaS-based data – and why that opinion is misguided.