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Unraveling ESG: What Every Company Needs to Know!

Growing out of the UN's corporate social responsibility initiative over the last 20 years, it has grown to represent more that $30 trillion in managed assets. Some have argued that the initiative has failed to truly impact the cost of capital for irresponsible firms, but this has not stalled the initiatives to push companies towards social responsibility.

Keeping Users Safe from The Dark Side of the Internet - Winning with WebPurify

Today we are talking with Josh Buxbaum, co-founder of WebPurify, a content moderation platform. Josh is going to tell us about how they are trying to keep us all safe from dangerous people on the Internet. If you are not policing the content on your site, you are going to change your thinking by the time we are done here.

The Happy Hire - Rich Mendis of Hirelogic #99

Today we are talking with Rich Mendis CMO of Hirelogic a company that is trying to bring machine intelligence to the process of hiring. Helping you find, evaluate and hire the best candidates out there. So we are going to talk with Rich about what is happening in the labor market today and about why it is so important to find and attract the right person, that diamond in the rough, when job seekers have so much opportunity these days.

Keep it confidential with confidential Computing and Fortanix - #67

With an unprecedented number of cyber threats out there, protecting data is top of mind for all businesses. Today we are going to be talking about a way to encrypt data at the source, in transit and at rest. We are going to be talking about confidential computing.

Today we are talking with Fortanix CEO and founder Ambuj Kumar. Fortanix is the industry leader in confidential computing.

#43: Stopping Ransomware Threats with Vectra AI, An Interview with CEO, Hitesh Sheth

Security is top of mind for everyone. With the recent Colonial Pipeline breach, ransomware is at the top of the list for most companies. We are Going to talk security, so get ready.

Today we are talking security with Vectra (AI)’s CEO Hitesh Sheth. Vectra is a leader in the threat detection and response market. They have raised over $350 million and are definitely a Unicorn, and possibly a decacorn. Hitesh has worked with a who’s who of tech companies from Oracle to Cisco and Aruba, so he has a lot of history with this space. Really excited to hear about Vectra.

#29: Chainkit CEO Val Bercovici On What You Need To Know About The Solarwinds Breach

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There have been some very high profile hacks in the news lately. Some of these have even been hacks of security vendors themselves, from Microsoft to FireEye, but perhaps one of the most disturbing was the recent SolarWinds hack that we are just starting to come to grips with. If you are not familiar with the details of this attack, you need to be. Today we are going to talk security so buckle in.

#25: The Evolution of Druva With CFO Mahesh Patel

In 2008, Veritas employees Jaspreet Singh and Milind Borate got together to create the data protection company Druva. Fun Fact: In Sanskrit, "Druva" translates to "North Star".

For years they built the business around endpoint data protection, but the product evolved over into a more enterprise focused cloud data management company. Last year they completed a series E for $130M with a valuation north of a billion dollars.

Tips For Picking a Data Center Facility Part 4: Security, Add-ons, and Negotiating the Contract

Welcome back, This is part 4 and the final episode of my series on picking a data center. If you haven’t seen part 1 through 3, please check them out.

Last time we talked about cooling delivery systems, Fire Suppression systems and network. So let’s jump in and start with Security then we’ll talk about add-ons and finally, negotiating a contract.

Tips for Choosing a Data Center Part 2: Facility, Location, and Power Systems

Are you picking a data center? Unsure of what you should be looking for? Can’t figure out what makes one data center provider better than another? Well, you came to the right place.

In the last video I talked about building your own vs. leasing colo space (spoiler don’t build your own), and we talked about what the different tier levels mean and we talked about redundancy factors as well as some frequently used terms. So, if you didn’t see part 1 of this series, check it out here, I’ll wait.

Tips For Picking A Data Center Part 1: Lease vs Build, Tiers, and Redundancy

As many of you may know, in my past life I was a CTO of a company that built high security mission critical data center facilities as well as owing and operating data center facilities.

I often talk with clients who are struggling with choosing data center space, so I wanted to give you a few tips when you are on the market looking. I have seen companies make a lot of mistakes over the years.

NetApp Insight 2019 Part 2: Interview with Igneous and Cleondris

A lot of the show floor was taken up by NetApp itself. The show floor was divided into different sections. Some for the Partner community, some focusing on their products and some focusing on specific use cases. And there were areas devoted to play and areas to relax.

Like other shows this year, there has been a focus on Social Media, which mostly involves tracking Twitter feeds talking about the company and show. I probably need to get plugged in with these folk a bit more.

SXSW 2019: A Talk With Access Partnership

Every time I go to a website these days, I always have to click on that, "I agree to using cookies",” button. It is fairly silly as pretty much every site I have gone to for the last ten years has used cookies. I would be shocked if I got a pop up that said, “this site doesn’t use any cookies at all,” because then I would be wondering, how do they pull that off? This behavior is being driven by attempts to conform to GDPR requirements.