The Backup Wrap-Up

We continue our series of how Hollywood Picks backup products, discussing vendor selection and proofs of concepts. Jeff Rochlin returns as a guest, hosted by W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi.

We talk to Jeff Rochlin, a veteran of many Hollywood studios and related businesses, about how he would go about picking a backup product in that environment. W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi hosting.

Prasanna Malaiyandi and W. Curtis Preston discuss an article that says that backups are worthless for DR. Are they? Some are, some aren't. Have a listen and see if you agree!

If you've ever wondered about whether or not drive recovery services are a good option, then this is the podcast for you. W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss whether or not they're a viable alternative to backup.

Is it appropriate to backup your data to the cloud? Which workloads work well to be backed up to the cloud? Even more importantly, which workloads don't backup to the cloud well? These are the questions we answer in this episode of Restore it All, with W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi.

W. Curtis Preston & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the reality of egress charges (AKA data transfer charges) in the cloud, and how they are the digital equivalent of the fees we all used to pay to Iron Mountain.

There are backup & disaster recovery lessons to be learned from Netflix's The Tiger King, and HBO's Westworld. The 3-2-1 rule rules!

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss free services that vendors are offering during the Coronavirus lockdown, as well as an interesting discussion about how this might change how we work for the long haul.

Special guest Christopher Kusek ( @cxi )talks about #masks4all, why he was always a fan of the idea, and the current logic behind it now.

Lindsey Shultz, MD/MPH (Masters in Public Health) gives us hope for the future in this part of our three-part interview with her. If you haven't heard parts 1 and 2, please do so. They focus on defining the problem: what is COVID-19 and why is it so scary. This episode focuses primarily on hope for the future.

We continue our three-part interview with Lindsey Shultz, MD/MPH about the Coronavirus. In this second part, we focus on the reaction to COVID-19, and why it's so much more extreme than our reactions to other diseases of the past.

Lindsey Shultz MD/MPH (M.D. and Masters in Public Health) joins us to answer all our Coronavirus/COVID-19 questions. This is the first in a three-part interview with her, as she was so helpful we talked to her for almost two hours. You won't want to miss this one!

Enrico Signoretti (@esignoretti) joins us from Italy to discuss how the Coronavirus/Covid-19 quarantine is going. We also get a first-hand report about what it's like for a company that didn't have anyone working remotely to suddenly have hundreds doing so.

Prasanna Malaiyandi and W. Curtis Preston discuss week 2 of the Coronavirus scare. We dispense some helpful advice, both technical and non-technical.

@wcpreston and @pmalaiyandi discuss Coronavirus and how it's going to affect the IT community, as well as your backup and recovery system. We discuss remote employees, cloud data protection, and disaster recovery.

Brian Biles (@BrianBiles), Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Datrium, is our special guest. He explains their offerings, with a focus on how they use VMware Cloud on AWS to do DR.

W. Curtis Preston & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss how to create a backup plan, including discovering what can harm your data, gathering requirements, and looking at design options.

Special guest Chris Mellor (@chris_mellor) joins us on the podcast, and he asks some very good questions about the future of backup for Kubernetes, including a discussion about Portworx.

Our special guest this week is Preethi Srinivasan, Technical Product Architect at Druva. We talk about Machine Learning, analytics, and how they relate to Data Protection.

We discuss how Salesforce.com has reversed their position on their "recovery service" that costs $10,000 and takes 6-8 weeks.

We have a special guest this week! None other than the author of "Knative in Action," Jacques Chester is joining Prasanna and Curtis to help us understand the interesting world of Kubernetes, Docker, Knative, and how it all relates to backup and storage.

Due to the popularity of last week's podcast (An investor's perspective on Veem's Acquisiton), Prasanna and I decided to discuss this topic further. We used the article "The 6 things a private equity firm will do after they buy your business" from inc.com as a reference: https://www.inc.com/jim-schleckser/the-6-things-a-private-equity-firm-will-do-after-they-buy-your-business.html

One of the most successful investors in technology stocks is our special guest this first podcast of the new year! Matt Feshbach has managed billions in tech stocks, and he lends his brain to answer questions such as: - What does it mean that a private equity company just bought Veeam? - Why would they do that? - What's next? It's a great podcast where I learned a lot. Hope you like it!

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the various ways to back up IaaS, PaaS and SaaS data.

W. Curtis Preston & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the announcements of re:Invent 2019, and how Curtis fought zombies and lost.