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Tech Talks are sponsored conversations between industry leading analysts and influential companies. These posts explore the pressing issues in IT, examine fascinating use cases, and facilitate larger conversations.

These posts are written by our network of independent IT influencers according to topics selected by the sponsoring companies. Gestalt IT and these writers are paid by the company indicated in the header and sidebar.

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Cloud Isn’t Your Key To Compliance

The challenge of the cloud is more than just operational models. What about data growth? How about protecting that data, both from loss and from exposure? Stephen Foskett sits down with David Hill of Veeam to discuss these challenges and how Veeam has solutions designed to make data protection in the cloud easier.

Connecting the Dots with Pure Storage

At Cisco Live Europe 2020, Gestalt IT’s Joep Piscaer was joined by Patrick Smith, Field CTO for Pure Storage. They discussed how Europe and the EMEA region are driving Pure Storage’s product and company direction, and how that affects products like FlashStack.

Hadoop is Dead – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

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Big data is on everyone’s mind across IT, and the storage industry is no exception. For a while, Hadoop seemed ready to conquer the world with its promise of reliable, scalable, distributed computing. However the tide has seemingly turned away from the once ubiquitous yellow pachyderm. Big data is very much alive, but the roundtable discusses if the complexities inherent in the Hadoop stack mean it’s fated for an untimely demise. Or will the still increasing investments in Hadoop by some customers keep it in the big data discussion for some time to come? And if Hadoop really is dead, are there any pieces that can find some new life in IT? Listen and find out. This episode is sponsored by Pure Storage.

Operations as Usual

In this Pure Storage Tech Talk, Justin Warren examines the value of IT operations and how successful businesses strike a balance between preserving what is working while simultaneously changing and improving things.

Pure Storage’s Modern Data Experience

What does “Modern Data Experience” mean, and what does delivering on this promise looks like? Analyst, Beck Elliott, discusses the Pure Storage difference.

Ensuring Unified Communications Success with NETSCOUT

Modern UC solutions have to be ready to serve your customers and users in a variety of ways. NETSCOUT has the talent, the tools, and the experience to help you ensure your services are online when they need to be running and available for your customers and users to access.

Building on Cloud Infrastructure

Pure Storage has taken a novel approach to provide its software products in the cloud with Cloud Block Store. Chief Analyst, Justin Warren, explores the customer benefits of Pure’s cloud solution.

The Promise of the Cloud Cannot Be Achieved – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

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We know that The Cloud is a real thing. But of the many things called The Cloud, each of them is remarkablly different. Features, capabilities, functions are vary wildly between them. Every organization is scrambling to figure out how to use the cloud, but is the promise of the cloud simply unachievable? Does the pursuit of multi-cloud mean that organizations must ignore whatever makes a cloud special, and turn it into simply someone else’s infrastructure? The roundtable discusses in this episode. Thanks to NetApp for sponsoring this episode.