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SD-WAN – not all solutions are created equal (or fully integrated)!

Jon Selway, Aryaka’s Vice President of Channel Sales – EMEA, discusses the SD-WAN, and not unrelated SASE and ZTNA, opportunities, both for small and medium sized enterprises and, therefore, the Channel organisations which serve them. He explains the various SD-WAN solutions available, advising end users, VARs and MSPs to ensure that when they do evaluate both networking and security solutions, there are no hidden surprises – with native and fully integrated stack solutions offering perhaps the best way forward.

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Database modernisation – time for a migration?

David Walker, Field CTO, EMEA, Yugabyte, the leading open source distributed SQL database company, warns of the problems associated with legacy databases, discusses the importance of database modernisation - covering the requirements, benefits and potential pitfalls of the migration process - and outlines the many advantages of migrating to open source cloud native databases.

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Redefining risk

David Tattam, Chief Research and Content Officer and Co-Founder, Protecht, discusses the company’s mission ‘to redefine the way the world thinks about risk’, with some engaging and informative insights as to how organisations can develop and grow an effective, dynamic risk management framework, with the people-related aspect – culture and conduct – at its core.

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How best to survive a ransomware attack

Dan Middleton, Vice President UK & Ireland, Veeam, discusses the company’s recent 2023 Ransomware Trends Report, which provides some fascinating insights into how companies deal with the inevitable attack. He covers the importance of backups that ‘must survive’ (not quite the same as immutable storage!), implementing wider risk management and cyber resilience strategies, and the need for increased collaboration within the enterprise – most obviously between the cybersecurity and storage teams. Digitalisation World

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Anti-ransomware focus, combined with expanded data recovery scope

Veniamin Simonov, VP of Product Management at NAKIVO, explains the new features included in NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.9, which include Bare Metal Recovery, Direct Recovery from Tape and Backup Malware Scan, as well as outlining a couple of recent customer success stories.

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Storage innovation in the spotlight

Krzysztof Franek, Open-E’s CEO and President, outlines the latest Open-E JovianDSS software updates, which won the company the DCS Award for ICT Storage Innovation, explains the company’s new online course for Data Storage +ZFS, and also discusses the recent Post Bellum customer win and the work Open-E has been doing with both ATTO and Wester Digital. He ends by revealing that, celebrating its 25th anniversary, Open-E will be introducing a brand new release of the Open-E JovianDSS solution.

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Delivering data management and storage solutions for the digital age

Spectra Logic's CTO, Matt Starr, and Arcitecta COO Graham Beasley discuss the data management and storage challenges facing today’s data-driven organisations, going on to outline two jointly developed solutions which seek to address these pain points.

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A Myriad of reasons to invest in modern storage

Stephane Cardot, Director of Pre-Sales EMEA at Quantum, describes the problems with legacy NAS systems, explains how the company’s Myriad storage solution has been designed to address them, and also shares updates on the latest version of the Unified Surveillance Platform, as well as some future plans.

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Award-winning RMM solution highlights NinjaOne’s MSP expertise

David Protzmann, NinjaOne’s Senior Director of Marketing EMEA, explains how the company’s Unified IT platform provided major benefits to customer Focus IT Managed Services, before detailing the technology solutions and comprehensive support programme that NinjaOne provides all of its MSP customers.

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Addressing the challenges of storage for high performance applications

Jeff Whitaker, VP, Marketing and Product Strategy at Panasas, discusses the findings of a recent survey which highlights the challenges associated with storage for high performance applications (both ‘traditional’ HPC and newer AI and ML-related ones). Skill levels, scalability, versatility, cost concerns – both CAPEX and OPEX – and storage management come under the spotlight.

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Ebstar relies on Arcserve’s rapid and reliable backup and recovery

Nick Beeby, Owner and IT Consultant, Ebstar and Florian Malecki, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Arcserve, discuss how the MSP is relying on Arcserve storage solutions to provide a core backup and recovery service to many of its customers. They outline the many benefits it brings to SMBs as they seek to implement an optimised cyber resilience strategy.

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Storage futures – it’s all about the data

Dr. J Metz, Chair SNIA Board of Directors and Scott Shadley, Chair SNIA Communications Steering Committee, discuss the association’s plans for the coming year, which include work on SDXI, computational storage, DNA data storage, SNIA Swordfish™, SNIA Emerald™ and sustainability. They also provide some fascinating insight into how they see the industry developing over time.

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Sustainable storage – time for IT teams to step up

Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.

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Tiers of (storage) joy for the Channel

Bill Andrews, President and CEO at ExaGrid, explains the many benefits of both the ExaGrid tiered backup storage solution – with some impressive speeds and feeds; and the company’s Reseller Partner Program, with equally notable features – a high win rate, a large installed, global customer base and a host of major reseller support initiatives.

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The HEAT is on when it comes to cybersecurity

Mark Guntrip, Senior Director, Cybersecurity Strategy at Menlo Security, discusses his company’s recent ransomware research report, highlighting the ways in which the cybercriminals are getting smarter, and outlining some of the ways in which end users can optimise a multi-layered cyber-defence strategy.

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