You don’t need to be told by now about the dangers of ransomware. But despite the huge interest in the topic, it can be surprising to find out how little companies know about protecting themselves from ransomware.Jon Toor, CMO of Cloudian, sa

101 — The New Business Model of Ransomware

Nov 1st, 2021 13m 19s

PDI Software CTO Chris Berry says that it’s a matter of “when,” not “if,” your organization will be hit by a ransomware attack. And she’s right.On this episode of “10 on Tech,” Berry and ActualTech Media Partner James Green dive into the hott

100 – Ransomware Is All About the Recovery Time

Sep 27th, 2021 17m 52s

Here’s a fact you probably didn’t know: it’s not uncommon at all for a ransomware payment to be only a small portion of the overall financial impact of an attack. The bigger part, quite often, is the income lost by the business downtime.Mihir

099 — Cloud-Native Application Observability with Chronosphere

Jul 19th, 2021 17m 11s

We are now in the era of cloud-native application development. And while this new paradigm has incredible benefits in terms of time to market, efficiency, and more, it ramps up the complexity factor significantly.With dozens, hundreds, or tho

098 – Databases in the Public Cloud? Yes, You Can!

Jun 7th, 2021 18m 40s

Believe it or not, there was a time when virtualizing servers was hard. Not so much anymore. In a way, that’s where we are with databases in the public cloud. It’s hard, and it can be intimidating to make the switch.When we look back in a few

097 – Why ‘Boring’ Is Good at the Edge

May 24th, 2021 23m 31s

“The computing edge” is a sexy buzzword right now. But is that really what you want as an IT admin? No—what you want, what you need, is infrastructure that just works, whether it’s on-premises or at the edge.That means your edge infrastructur

096 – How Scality Helps Drive Cloud-Native Development with Object Storage

May 10th, 2021 11m 38s

If there’s one word that describes the modern IT era, that word is “complexity.” Applications, data, and its associated infrastructure has broken through its on-premises boundaries and moved to the cloud and the edge.This has massive implicat

095 – The Next Revolution: Networking at the Edge

Jan 18th, 2021 13m 51s

IT infrastructure has broken through. It’s no longer in an on-premises walled garden—data, applications, and hardware can live anywhere. That means new opportunities for business, but it also brings new challenges, especially when it comes to t

094 – Stateful Apps with Kubernetes Is No Longer Just a Dream

Oct 26th, 2020 13m 20s

Ionir CEO Jacob Cherian calls his company a “container-native, enterprise software-defined storage and data management platform for Kubernetes.” That’s a mouthful! And it might be hard to even grasp what all that means.That’s why Cherian had

093 – The Supreme Importance Of Understanding Your Data

Oct 19th, 2020 17m 53s

You’re an IT admin. You’ve been tasked with expanding your storage infrastructure. You know that the cloud is the way to go. But there’s a big question facing you: what data do you have, and how do you sort out the most important data from the

092 – Prepare Yourself for ‘Phishing 2.0’

Oct 12th, 2020 20m 27s

Phishing is evolving. The bad guys are getting better at tricking end users and getting their information, and they’re starting to use more sophisticated techniques, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), to find and

091 – Minimizing Cloud ‘Sticker Shock’

Sep 14th, 2020 16m 33s

It’s becoming an increasingly common story: a company moves some operations and data to the cloud, figuring all its problems will be solved.Then the bill comes. Heart attacks ensue. And just as swiftly, the company pulls back from the cloud.

090 – Blurring the Memory/Storage Lines

Jun 29th, 2020 15m 55s

It’s the age-old IT tradeoff: the speed of memory, with its lack of persistence, vs. storage, which is slower but persistent. More and more, however, this tradeoff is being minimized, with new technologies offering the promise of both speed and

089 – The Cloud and the Pandemic

Jun 22nd, 2020 13m 41s

Coronavirus has taken a terrible toll on the world, and changed everything. On the IT side, one of the most obvious ways things have changed is the “new normal” of cloud computing moving to the center of operations.Even when business starts t

088 – Moore’s Law Is Dead: What It Means for Storage

Jun 15th, 2020 22m 18s

Moore’s Law, which held that processor speeds would double every 18 months to 2 years, is dead, according to Pliops President/CBO Steve Fingerhut. Because of that, the burden now falls on storage to provide the kind of performance that the curr

087 – Tech Conferences Ain’t Dead!

Jun 1st, 2020 13m 13s

COVID-19 has changed everything, and hit every area of life. That’s also true for the tech industry, and no part of our industry has been hit harder than tech conferences. What’s their future?That’s what ActualTech Media Partner James Green a

086 – Kubernetes Grows Up

May 25th, 2020 17m 59s

How is Kubernetes like the virtualization industry? They both got their start as niche technologies, but as their usefulness became evident, they started to get more mainstream adoption. That led to more development of the technology, extending

085 – Don’t be Scared of Security

May 18th, 2020 19m 32s

There are many things to be worried about these days when it comes to IT security. There’s so much to know that it can be difficult to even know how to get started. As ActualTech Media Partner James Green says in this edition of “10 on Tech” wi

083 – The ‘Keys’ to Proper Key Management

May 12th, 2020 18m 27s

It may seem odd at first glance for a traditional storage company like StorMagic to branch out into the area of security—specifically, key management.But as StorMagic Chief Marketing and Product Officer Bruce Kornfeld explains, it’s actually

084 – Proper Cybersecurity Starts With Getting Back To Basics

Apr 20th, 2020 18m 47s

You know you need to implement proper cybersecurity in your environment. But how do you do that? Where do you even start? That’s the topic of this episode of “10 on Tech,” featuring Liam Downward and Michael Hogue of Data Spotlite.They discus

082 – It’s Been 34 Days: Do You Still Have the Boss’s Email?

Dec 30th, 2019 17m 5s

It’s the nightmare scenario for every admin: the CEO has deleted an email related to a multi-million dollar project, and needs it back. The hitch: he deleted it 34 days ago, and your Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider only provides 30 days’

081 – A Question of Data Sovereignty

Dec 23rd, 2019 17m 32s

Thanks to regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organizations are more aware than ever of the need to protect the privacy of customer data. And the GDPR is just the beginning: the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

080 – Remove All the Bottlenecks!

Dec 16th, 2019 16m 46s

Data center storage is evolving constantly, and one of the most crucial areas is in lower latency. Latency, after all, impacts everything in your operations. And cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (

079 – Joe’s Cat Pictures Shouldn’t Be on Primary Storage

Dec 9th, 2019 14m 50s

If you’re like most companies, you’re leaving the wrong data on the wrong storage. Data that isn’t touched often—like Joe’s cat pictures—doesn't need to be stored on expensive primary storage. But moving that data to much less costly secondary

078 – Ditching AWS for Render

Dec 2nd, 2019 17m 21s

You may think of the public cloud as an “easy” button, something that takes the pain out of application development, for example. The reality is that it can make things harder—much harder.That was the experience of Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of