#218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored)

This week, Chris is in conversation with Don Foster, Global Head of Sales Engineering at Commvault, looking at real-world customer challenges.

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This week, Chris is in conversation with Don Foster, Global Head of Sales Engineering for Commvault. The discussion covers the experiences of customers as IT continues to evolve into public, hybrid and multi-clouds. Don runs the global Sales Engineering teams, tasked with helping customers protect their data in a world that now includes on-premises deployments, the public cloud and SaaS. How do customers protect against the ever present spectre of ransomware, while delivering 100% availability to business users and customers?

Don highlights some interesting aspects of modern data protection solutions, including the ability for Commvault to leverage the “Power of And” by harnessing an extensive amount of internal intellectual property. This is being brought to bear in new solutions like Metallic, while ensuring that “no workload is left behind”. Ultimately, customers want flexibility and data protection partners that can be with them on their journey as IT adopts and adjusts to cloud-like models of operation.

You can find out more about Commvault at commvault.com, check out Metallic at metallic.io and review content on the Commvault YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/commvaultsystems. Also, check out our dedicated microsite covering all things Commvault at https://www.architecting.it/microsites/commvault-microsite/.

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Timeline

00:00:00 – Intros00:03:45 – How has IT evolved since Commvault was established?00:05:20 – Customers want to move away from being technology experts00:06:35 – Public cloud has changed the landscape – from cost model to requirements00:07:10 – Current cloud models are focusing on optimisation00:08:05 – Unstructured data growth continues at a pace00:10:10 – Customers want help with ransomware incident response00:11:30 – IT is moving to ethereal code-based application model00:15:40 – Chris wants everything today!00:17:55 – Customers have to juggle many balls at the same time00:20:30 – Many silos creates challenges for resilient applications00:23:15 – Data protection is now at the core of business00:27:10 – Metallic leverages the “power of and” to provide SaaS backup00:32:10 – Be careful to not let the tail wag the dog00:34:30 – How are customers managing internal data assets?00:37:35 – Data value is no longer based on age00:38:40 – What other technology aspects need to change in data protection?00:41:50 – We need tools for “zero-trust” data00:44:00 – Wrap Up

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