The Spectra Current

Join us for this weeks episode as we interview Spectra’s founder and CEO Nathan Thompson. During this conversation we explore the early days of Spectra, the process of building a thriving technology company, as well as what it took to pivot and stay innovative over the lifespan of Spectra Logic

Join us for this week's pre-holiday edition of The Spectra Current, as we follow the journey from intern to full time with some of Spectra’s newer faces. Specifically, we are interviewing Kristen Coats, our Graphic Designer and Videographer, Mariana Menge Schuett, our Marketing Programs Manager, and Keaton Day, our Digital Marketing Manager, all three of whom have unique onboarding stories, and have been a joy to bring into the Spectra family.

Join us for this week's episode of The Spectra Current, as we jump into an exciting conversation with Spectra Logic's Chief Technology Officer, Matt Starr. Matt has exciting stories from his travels around the world, seeing the cool things our customers do, as well as a unique set of hobbies like winemaking that he loves to "rub some math on". We hope you'll enjoy this installment of the Spectra Current, and thanks for joining.

Join us with One Technology founder Mat Brown as we explore what it was like founding a company with the mission of data center modernization and cloud enablement. Mat dives into their pirate ship philosophy, and how they keep One Technology flexible to always enable their business to provide valuable solutions for their customers.

Join us this week with guest Tony Mendoza, Spectra's Senior Director of IT. We will cover all facets of the ransomware attack that Spectra Logic underwent in May of 2020, and how we overcame that obstacle. In this episode, we uncover all of the details of our experience, what we learned, what we have improved from this experience, and how we as a company are using this as an opportunity to improve our products to help customers if they ever were to face a similar situation.

Welcome back for episode four of The Spectra Current, where we have a great conversation with industry analyst Fred Moore. Listen as we explore his time as a semi-professional basketball player, learn what it was like building out the foundation for what we know today as the storage pyramid, as well as why security is no longer just a problem of the data center. Discover how tape can be a major benefactor of the growing secondary storage space, and how hyperscale data centers need tape to support their growing data footprints. Fred was a delight to have on, and we hope that you will enjoy this insightful conversation today.

Join us for a unique conversation with Spectra's Senior Vice President of Organizational Development, Mike Sausa. Hear how the Spectra culture has been formed over the decades, learn about Mike's "ten-year attention span" and how the desire to always be learning and trying new things has kept Spectra at the cutting edge of the data storage and data management industry.

What does it mean to have a truly resilient data storage strategy? Listen in to this short conversation with Spectra's Eric Polet, as we explore and define things such as air gap, data resiliency, and more.

Welcome to The Spectra Current, today we have the first episode of our new podcast series. In this conversation, hear from Spectra's Jeff Biley as we explore what it was like to be at Spectra in the early days, as well as follow the progression of Spectra to becoming a leader in the data storage and data management industry.