Today we are going to be talking about leadership and how to align a company to rapidly changing market conditions and building to where the ball is going to be rather than where it is today.
All in Data Protection
Advancing Women in Tech with Nancy Wang - #70
Today we are talking about Advancing Women in Tech as both a goal and as an organization. We are going to be talking with the Founder and Board Chair of AWIT which works to empower women and members of other underrepresented groups to the highest levels of tech leadership.
You gotta stay focused! - Clumio's VP of product, Chadd Kenney on listening to your customers - #62
One of the great things about being a lean, agile startup is the ability to move and change quickly as the market shifts Most of the time, it is how the company adapts to shifting market conditions that determines its success. Today, we are talking with a company that Went through a major effort to refocus the company on solving the problems their customers were struggling with.
#47: Ransomware Is Everywhere, with Pure Storage's Ransomware expert, Andrew Miller
The number one security risk right now is Ransowmware. The amount of breaches we have seen recently has been alarming, and the number continues to grow. Ransomeware is big business, so we are going to talk about how to survive an attack.
Today we are talking with Andrew Miller, who is a subject matter expert on Ransomware for Pure Storage. He has been on the front lines helping companies put meaningful protections in place to address these threats. We are going to talk about what he is seeing in the wild and what strategies can work to help companies weather this storm.
#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.
#24: Talking Data Management and Sales With Cohesity's Joe Tarantino
Hi everybody, welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. The audio version of the podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most of the others or you can find it at FUTR.buzzsprout.com.
Cohesity started out as a disrupter in the data protection market, but quickly expanded their vision to become a leader in the hyper converged secondary storage space, and now in the data management market.
#19: The Wisdom Of Bipul Sinha
I am really excited about today’s guest, as he has been a friend and advisor to Sandesh and I for a while now and I can’t tell you how much I genuinely value his guidance and wisdom.
Bipul Sinha is an entrepreneur, engineer and venture capitalist with more than 20 years of experience building billion-dollar companies - including his current company Rubrik where he is CEO. In addition, Bipul is the Board Chairman & Co-Founder of Confluera as well as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed.
#8: SaaS & Clumio with Joe Ferguson
Hey everybody welcome back. Today I have with me Joe Ferguson, who has made an appearance here before demonstrating Clumio. With the Coronavirus outbreak, SaaS has become incredibly important. I thought it would be great to catch up with Joe and get an update on what is going on with Clumio, a born in the cloud pure play SaaS data protection product, to talk about the importance of SaaS while companies rapidly transform their to adapt to the new environment we find ourselves in.
#7: The Sales Machine with Phil Johanet - Part 2
Welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. This is part 2 of our Interview with Phil Johanet where we talk about the world of sales in technology.
I have known phil for some time, and if the topic of all-time greatest sales people in the business comes up, Phil’s name is always at the top. Phil brings a sensibility and intelligence to the game that you rarely see. He is the perfect balance of getting it done and fun. I’m super excited to talk with him, Welcome Phil.
#7: The Sales Machine with Phil Johanet - Part 1
Welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. Today we are going to talk about the world of sales in technology, and we have a great guest that I am very excited to introduce, Phil Johanet.
I have known phil for some time, and if the topic of all-time greatest sales people in the business comes up, Phil’s name is always at the top. Phil brings a sensibility and intelligence to the game that you rarely see. He is the perfect balance of getting it done and fun. I’m super excited to talk with him, Welcome Phil.
VMWorld 2019: Quick Chat with Cohesity CEO and Founder Mohit Aron
Cohesity had a great showing at VMWorld, they had a mini golf course activation at the show and they were there to raise money for Special Olympics. They had Football Hall of Fame receiver, Jerry Rice overseeing the event which featured a couple of Special Olympians going head to head in a game of miniature golf.
Special Olympics has been a long time passion for Cohesity’s President and COO, Rob Salmon and he and CEO Mohit Aron were there to present a large (in size and amount) check to Special Olympics.
VMWorld 2019: Hands On WIth Clumio
There has been a lot of interest in Clumio for some time. When I posted my last video on our dinner with Poojan Kumar, CEO and founder of Clumio, I couldn’t say a whole lot because they were still in stealth.
As I mentioned before, there was a lot of interest because they are back by Sutter Hills Ventures and Mike Speiser who typically invests a lot of time and effort in nurturing young companies in his portfolio. Then there was a lot of buzz in the community because they began hiring some of the best in the field. They hired a lot of people with experience in early stage companies that have been hugely successful.
VMWorld Part 1
My last stop in SanFrancisco was for VMWorld 2019, and let me tell you it was quite a show. Last year my perspective was that it was a show in decline, and that VMWare was trying to stay relevant in a world that is increasingly being dominated by Cloud.
Clearly VMWare’s CEO Pat Gelsinger was on top of it, because they made some impressive and bold moves over the last year or so.
2019 Nutanix .NEXT Conference
Nutanix held its annual .NEXT conference this year at the Anaheim Convention Center. Word was that about 7,000 people were in attendance. There is a lot happening in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure space now as the large legacy vendors look to make a place in this market. The growth of HPE, Dell, and Cisco in this space have legitimized the HCI market and brought new interest to the products.
Rubrik Launches New Open Source Community
Rubrik launched a new Open Source initiative today called Rubrik Build. The idea is to extend their API-First architecture to developers so they can create applications, automation, and integrations that don’t exist today. Rubrik has entrusted this effort to Rebecca Fitzhugh who has released a great blog post about it.