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.
Episodes
16 episodes
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...
What Cost per GB Doesn’t Tell You About Long-Term Costs
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 break down what IT leaders, CIOs, and i...
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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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.<...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
Why Multi-Cloud Costs Are Rising (And How to Manage Them)
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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Why Cloud Storage Costs Are Rising (And What to Do About It)
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 ...
Why AI Still Can’t Stop Modern Cyber Attacks
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...
What Happens When AI Meets Storage at Scale
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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How Enterprises Are Rethinking IT Spend and Flexibility
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...
How to Reduce VMware Costs Without Adding Complexity
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 navig...
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