Episodes

Lindsey Shultz, MD/MPH (Masters in Public Health) gives us hope for the future in this part of our three-part interview with her. If you haven't heard parts 1 and 2, please do so. They focus on defining the problem: what is...

We continue our three-part interview with Lindsey Shultz, MD/MPH about the Coronavirus. In this second part, we focus on the reaction to COVID-19, and why it's so much more extreme than our reactions to other diseases of the...

Lindsey Shultz MD/MPH (M.D. and Masters in Public Health) joins us to answer all our Coronavirus/COVID-19 questions. This is the first in a three-part interview with her, as she was so helpful we talked to her for almost two...

Enrico Signoretti (@esignoretti) joins us from Italy to discuss how the Coronavirus/Covid-19 quarantine is going. We also get a first-hand report about what it's like for a company that didn't have anyone working remotely to...

Prasanna Malaiyandi and W. Curtis Preston discuss week 2 of the Coronavirus scare. We dispense some helpful advice, both technical and non-technical. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

@wcpreston and @pmalaiyandi discuss Coronavirus and how it's going to affect the IT community, as well as your backup and recovery system. We discuss remote employees, cloud data protection, and disaster recovery. Mentioned ...

Brian Biles (@BrianBiles), Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Datrium, is our special guest. He explains their offerings, with a focus on how they use VMware Cloud on AWS to do DR. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

W. Curtis Preston & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss how to create a backup plan, including discovering what can harm your data, gathering requirements, and looking at design options. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

Special guest Chris Mellor (@chris_mellor) joins us on the podcast, and he asks some very good questions about the future of backup for Kubernetes, including a discussion about Portworx. Mentioned in this episode: Interview a...

Our special guest this week is Preethi Srinivasan, Technical Product Architect at Druva. We talk about Machine Learning, analytics, and how they relate to Data Protection. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

We discuss how Salesforce.com has reversed their position on their "recovery service" that costs $10,000 and takes 6-8 weeks. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

We have a special guest this week! None other than the author of "Knative in Action," Jacques Chester is joining Prasanna and Curtis to help us understand the interesting world of Kubernetes, Docker, Knative, and how it all ...

Due to the popularity of last week's podcast (An investor's perspective on Veem's Acquisiton), Prasanna and I decided to discuss this topic further. We used the article "The 6 things a private equity firm will do after they ...

One of the most successful investors in technology stocks is our special guest this first podcast of the new year! Matt Feshbach has managed billions in tech stocks, and he lends his brain to answer questions such as: - Wha...

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the various ways to back up IaaS, PaaS and SaaS data. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

W. Curtis Preston & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the announcements of re:Invent 2019, and how Curtis fought zombies and lost. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Jon Owings, Principal Solutions Architect for Cloud Solutions at Pure Storage (@jon_2vcps), discuss what container backup is, why it's so difficult, and what you need to do to back them up. ...

In this special Thanksgiving Episode of Restore it All, Prasanna and Curtis talk about the things they're thankful for. Important stuff, like smart phones, virtualization, and containers. Yea... we're nerds. Mentioned in th...

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss some vendor FUD about using AWS snapshots (which are really image copies and not snapshots) for protecting native AWS resources like EC2, Redshift, S3, and EBS. Men...

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss whether or not backup admins are no longer needed. They also discuss tapas and sangria. :) Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss SaaS backup: what it is, what it isn't, things to look for in a SaaS data protection solution, and how to decide if SaaS data protection is for you. Mentioned in th...

Jeff Rochlin, a former actor and Hollywood IT Industry veteran, makes his second appearance on Restore it All. W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi ask him to design a greenfield datacenter. We also talk abou...

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the various ways one can backup a relational database, like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and a mystery guest discuss why it has become so popular for data protection companies to offer their product as a service. Mentioned in this episode: Interview ad