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Smarter, Strategic Thinking

Fortuna Data

19 episodes

Technology is moving faster than most organisations can adapt. The question is can your strategy keep up?

More about the show

Smarter, Strategic Thinking is a podcast for IT leaders, decision-makers, and executives responsible for data, infrastructure, and long-term risk.

Each episode brings practical insight from industry leaders and innovators covering the realities behind ransomware resilience, storage strategy, infrastructure modernisation, and the decisions shaping the future of enterprise IT.

Hosted by Fortuna Data, trusted partners of IBM, Lenovo, Seagate, HYCU, QNAP, Qualstar and many more, this podcast cuts through vendor noise to focus on what actually matters: performance, cost, risk, and scalability.

If you’re responsible for where your data and your business goes next, this is where the right conversations start.

Episodes

  1. IBM FlashSystem: 20PB Density & 60-Second Ransomware Detection

    · 23 min · S1 E19

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Smarter Strategic Thinking, host Ray Quattromini talks to Alex MacIndoe, UK Flash Systems sales lead at IBM, about the newly refreshed FlashSystem range the 5600, 7600 and 9600…

  2. Private GPT: Stop Sharing Company Data

    · 22 min · S1 E18

    Send us Fan Mail Book an AI Workshop Today - https://www.fortunadata.com/ai-workshop/ In this episode of Smarter Strategic Thinking, Ray Quattromini is joined by Nipa Soni, AI and HPC Enablement Lead at FSAS…

  3. IBM CAS Solves Unstructured Data Growth

    · 40 min · S1 E17

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ray Quattromini speaks with Patrick Kay, Product Manager for IBM Content Aware Storage (IBM CAS) at IBM, in one of the most technically detailed conversations on the podcast to date.…

  4. Why Post-Production Studios Are Going Back to Tape

    · 32 min · S1 E16

    Send us Fan Mail Ray Quattromini of Fortuna Data is joined by David Fox from JPY, the UK distributor for Archiware, for a deep dive into one of the most underappreciated areas of IT: data archiving, backup, and…

  5. Why the US Cloud Act Is a Threat to Your Data

    · 30 min · S1 E15

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ray Quattromini speaks with Richard Howson, UK Channel Manager at Impossible Cloud, about one of the most overlooked risks in enterprise storage the US Cloud Act. Richard explains…

  6. What Cost per GB Doesn’t Tell You About Long-Term Costs

    · 34 min · S1 E14

    Send us Fan Mail Is your storage strategy built for the future or setting your business up for failure? In this episode of the Fortuna Data Podcast, Ray Quattromini sits down with Matteo from Kingston Technology to…

  7. Why the World Is Running Out of Data Storage

    · 30 min · S1 E13

    Send us Fan Mail Is your archive built to last 30 years? In this episode, we sit down with Charlie Gale CEO & Founder of HoloMem, the startup building a commercial holographic data storage drive designed to…

  8. Are You Overpaying for Your Storage Stack?

    · 32 min · S1 E12

    Send us Fan Mail How flexible is your storage infrastructure and how resilient is it under pressure? In this episode, we speak David Cayla from DataCore about the role of software-defined storage (SDS) in modern…

  9. 80% of Data Isn’t Being Used But It’s Still Costing Money

    · 19 min · S1 E11

    Send us Fan Mail Is tape storage obsolete or strategically misunderstood? In this episode, we speak with Qualstar about the evolving role of enterprise tape libraries in modern data protection and archive strategies.…

  10. Data Leaders Are Sleepwalking Into Disaster Titan Warns Why

    · 48 min · S1 E10

    Send us Fan Mail Cyber risk has changed, has your strategy? In this episode, Ray Quattromini from Fortuna Data sits down with Keith Maskell, Head of Cybersecurity Sales at Titan Data Solutions, to break down what…

  11. Why Enterprises Are Moving Petabytes Off The Cloud Qstar Explains

    · 20 min · S1 E9

    Send us Fan Mail Enterprise data is exploding but most organisations are still paying premium storage prices for information they rarely access. In this episode of Smarter Strategic Thinking, Ray Quattromini sits…

  12. How Modern Cyber Resilience Really Works With Panzura

    · 27 min · S1 E8

    Send us Fan Mail Relying on reactive backup alone is no longer enough. In this episode of Smarter Strategic Thinking, we sit down with Panzura’s CTO to explore how their hybrid cloud file and data services platform…

  13. Why Multi-Cloud Costs Are Rising (And How to Manage Them)

    · 29 min · S1 E7 · Explicit

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ray speaks with Stefan Ferrari from Vawlt, the multi-cloud storage platform built for resilience, predictable costs and zero-knowledge security. You’ll learn how Vawlt: • Stores data…

  14. Why Cloud Storage Costs Are Rising (And What to Do About It)

    · 28 min · S1 E6

    Send us Fan Mail This episode explores how enterprise storage is shifting away from cloud-only strategies and toward hybrid, performance-driven deployments using modern NAS platforms. Tom from QNAP shares insights…

  15. Why AI Still Can’t Stop Modern Cyber Attacks

    · 50 min · S1 E5

    Send us Fan Mail Unlock the future of IT with Lenovo. Tim Brazier, UK Data Storage Solutions Specialist at Lenovo, joins Smarter Strategic Thinking to discuss the biggest challenges for businesses over the next 5–10…

  16. What Happens When AI Meets Storage at Scale

    · 25 min · S1 E4

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Smarter Strategic Thinking by Fortuna Data, Ray sits down with Andy from Seagate, one of the world’s leading storage innovators, to explore how AI, data growth, and sustainability…

  17. How Enterprises Are Rethinking IT Spend and Flexibility

    · 30 min · S1 E3

    Send us Fan Mail What if your IT infrastructure could scale as fast as your business grows? In this episode of Smarter Strategic Thinking, we sit down with Tim, Lenovo’s TruScale Channel Sales Lead, to uncover how…

  18. How to Reduce VMware Costs Without Adding Complexity

    · 32 min · S1 E2

    Send us Fan Mail From Founder's Vision to Software Innovation. The Complete EuroNAS & eEVOS Story with Tvrtko Fritz! We dive deep into: Tvrtko's founding journey and the specific problem that sparked EuroNAS…

  19. Is Tape Dead?

    · 43 min · S1 E1

    Send us Fan Mail Explore the truth behind tape storage with Insurgo’s Iain Hamilton! We dive deep into: How Insurgo became a global leader in tape management. Innovations in secure, sustainable data destruction. Why…

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