Jan 21, 2025 · 59 min · 15 segments
Nate Kurtz, CIO at Veeam, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview. They discuss sustaining collaborative IT culture, reining in "tech sprawl," on-prem to SaaS transitions…
Well, I'm going to take full advantage of your expertise with my first question here about data resiliency.
Now, what does that term mean to your CIO customers today versus the data backup and data storage needs, the kind of data housekeeping that we've all heard about for many, many years in the industry? When you talk about data resiliency, what exactly are we talking about?
Yeah, so I think, you know, in my career in tech, I think if you were to go back 10, 15 years, people tended to talk about, like you said, data backup and recovery.
I think, though, as this space has evolved and we start talking about data resiliency, it's become more and more important as time has gone on.
and so this is the one area this is truly the keys to to what we are responsible for is is recovering that data in a very complex environment too and so it's uh the world is becoming more complex the amount of data that we have as a world is growing it's doubling every year i i think the last term i heard was 150 zettabytes and it's it's continuing to expand.
And so not only do we have this rapid growth of data, but we also have growth in complexity in terms of the number of of systems, cloud providers, and where it's all residing.
And so with all this, I would say that macro level environment in terms of our data, it's just become more and more critical to be resilient when it comes to it.
And for Veeam, we use this bounce forward slogan because we want our products, but we also want the industry as a whole to be able to very quickly be resilient and recover if there is an incident with their data.
Well, you mentioned that in years past, once you could recover applications, but data would be lost.
I take it that as technologies have evolved, the the problem of losing that data forever.
What is it about technologies and the advances of them that are protecting that data better today?
And so I think we've kind of talked about this a little bit already, but we tend to think of it in kind of five pillars.
Well, I'm going to take full advantage of your expertise with my first question here about data resiliency.
Now, what does that term mean to your CIO customers today versus the data backup and data storage needs, the kind of data housekeeping that we've all heard about for many, many years in the industry? When you talk about data resiliency, what exactly are we talking about?
Yeah, so I think, you know, in my career in tech, I think if you were to go back 10, 15 years, people tended to talk about, like you said, data backup and recovery.
I think, though, as this space has evolved and we start talking about data resiliency, it's become more and more important as time has gone on.
and so this is the one area this is truly the keys to to what we are responsible for is is recovering that data in a very complex environment too and so it's uh the world is becoming more complex the amount of data that we have as a world is growing it's doubling every year i i think the last term i heard was 150 zettabytes and it's it's continuing to expand.
And so not only do we have this rapid growth of data, but we also have growth in complexity in terms of the number of of systems, cloud providers, and where it's all residing.
And so with all this, I would say that macro level environment in terms of our data, it's just become more and more critical to be resilient when it comes to it.
And for Veeam, we use this bounce forward slogan because we want our products, but we also want the industry as a whole to be able to very quickly be resilient and recover if there is an incident with their data.
Well, you mentioned that in years past, once you could recover applications, but data would be lost.
I take it that as technologies have evolved, the the problem of losing that data forever.
What is it about technologies and the advances of them that are protecting that data better today?
And so I think we've kind of talked about this a little bit already, but we tend to think of it in kind of five pillars.
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