Smarter, Strategic Thinking
Technology is moving faster than most organisations can adapt.
The question is can your strategy keep up?
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.
Smarter, Strategic Thinking
Latest Episodes
IBM FlashSystem: 20PB Density & 60-Second Ransomware Detection
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 launched in February 2026.Want t...
Private GPT: Stop Sharing Company Data
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 Technologies, to explore their fully on-premise...
IBM CAS Solves Unstructured Data Growth
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.IBM CAS is IBM's semantic interface fo...
Why Post-Production Studios Are Going Back to Tape
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 long-term storage management. David ha...
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Why the US Cloud Act Is a Threat to Your Data
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 why simply storing data in the UK isn't e...
