Smarter, Strategic Thinking
In a world where technology moves faster than strategy, how do businesses keep their data and their future secure?
Smarter, Strategic Thinking brings you conversations with leaders, innovators, and partners shaping the future of IT. From ransomware protection and storage innovation to smarter infrastructure decisions, each episode explores the strategies that matter most to today’s technology leaders.
Hosted by Fortuna Data — trusted partners of IBM, Lenovo, Seagate, HYCU, QNAP, and Qualstar this podcast goes beyond buzzwords to deliver insights you can act on.
Join us every episode for smarter conversations, sharper perspectives, and strategic thinking that keeps your business ahead.
Episodes
13 episodes
Why the World Is Running Out of Data Storage
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 complement LTO in enterprise backup a...
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Episode 13
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Are You Overpaying for Your Storage Stack?
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 enterprise environments.<...
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Episode 12
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80% of Data Isn’t Being Used But It’s Still Costing Money
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.As organizations face:...
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Episode 11
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Data Leaders Are Sleepwalking Into Disaster Titan Warns Why
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 enterprise organisations mus...
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Episode 10
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Why Enterprises Are Moving Petabytes Off The Cloud Qstar Explains
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 down with Dave Thompson fr...
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Episode 9
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How Modern Cyber Resilience Really Works With Panzura
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 is built for cybe...
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Episode 8
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The Future of Multi-Cloud with Vawlt
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 across AWS, Azure, GCP...
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Episode 7
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Reducing Cloud Costs With Hybrid NAS Infrastructure with QNAP
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 on:Using NAS as primary data ...
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Episode 6
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Future-Proofing IT: Lenovo on Cybersecurity, AI, and Edge Computing
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 years and how Lenovo helps organizations over...
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Episode 5
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The Future of Data Storage: AI, Data Growth & Seagate’s Vision
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 are transforming the w...
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Episode 4
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Why Lenovo TruScale Is Changing IT Forever
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 TruScale is reshaping the future of...
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Episode 3
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VMware Alternative eEVOS, euroNAS & High Performance NAS
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 creation.How EuroNAS has navi...
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Episode 2
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