Name: MeetTheCEO: Actifio’s Ash Ashutosh
Start: 2019-06-12T18:45:00Z
End: 2019-06-12T19:07:58.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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StorONE's mission is to make Storage Heroes by providing IT professionals with a solution that meets all the objectives of software-defined storage, plus adds data protection and resiliency that is 10X better than any other technology on the market. At the same time, it increases storage system performance 10X over industry standard. The result is StorONE's Enterprise Storage Platform.

StorONE founders are proven, successful entrepreneurs who boast over 50 patent awards. Top-tier industry luminaries and strategic investors back the company. The S1 Storage Platform changes the perception of data center storage from an IT cost center to a resource that provides organizations with a critical competitive advantage. The StorONE headquarters are in New York, with offices in Fort Worth TX, Tel Aviv, and Singapore.

3-2-1 means nothing without a comprehensive plan

Losing all or some of your data from a ransomware attack can destroy a business. And even worse, according to Cybereason, over 80% of businesses who are attacked and pay the ransom get attacked again within 30 days. 

You need to make sure your primary data and backup data is protected and you have a recovery strategy in place. 

This webinar will talk about the multifaceted requirement for a ransomware protection system and plan that will make sure your data is safe, and can be restored quickly - without paying the ransom.  

In this webinar, we will answer questions such as: 
   * Why is a 3-2-1 approach alone not enough? 
   * How should I craft a plan that can fit into the broader picture?
   * What are the guiding principles of a data protection plan? 
   * Why would a complicated backup scheme make recovery more complicated?

How to Create a 360° Ransomware Recovery Plan

Ransomware, data theft, hardware failure, and natural disasters are some of the threats to your data. Backup is your “restore of last resort,” used when everything else fails, but it is time-consuming and can’t always recover all your data. 

Features like encryption, replication, immutability, and others are available to help organizations defend against these threats, but they all require proper implementation and preplanning to be effective. Organizations need to develop a data resiliency plan that protects their data against these threats and lessens the dependence on backups while reducing costs. 

Join StorONE’s Chief Product Strategist, George Crump, and Solutions Architect, James Keating, as they review the data threat list and how to design a multi-level data resiliency plan to ensure continuous data access regardless of the threat the organization faces. Learn what data resiliency features you need and how to implement them properly. 

Register Now
Live on: Wednesday, December 1st at 11:00 am ET / 8:00 am PT 

*All attendees will receive an advance copy of our latest white paper, “Developing a Data Resiliency Plan for Continuous Data Access.”

The Six Requirements for a Data Resiliency Plan

Ransomware is targeting your last line of defense, your backups. The backup application and the data it creates are susceptible to malware's encryption. If it succeeds, your backups are rendered useless, and you may have to pay the ransom.

Join Veeam's Senior Director of Product Strategy, Rick Vanover, and StorONE's Chief Product Strategist, George Crump, for a live interactive webinar to learn the best practices for hardening your backup environment and how to execute the fastest, most secure recovery possible. During the webinar, Rick and George explain why double protection is the new standard when fighting ransomware.

Key Takeaways
1. Steps you can take right now to make your backup environment more resilient.
2. Critical changes to backup policies you should make now to reduce your threat exposure window
3. How to prepare for recovery from a ransomware event.

Register Now! Live on October 19th at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT Pre-register before September 30th and receive an advanced copy of our latest whitepaper, "Developing a Multi-Layered Ransomware Protection Strategy."

Beat Ransomware - How to Turn a Data Protection Double Play

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are the backbone of most organizations' data storage infrastructures. IT uses NAS for user files, backup data, archive storage, and even to host production VMware and database environments. 

However, this mix of workloads is forcing organizations to refresh their NAS systems prematurely. IT needs a better NAS that can support various workloads, is protected from ransomware attacks, and is flexible enough to last for more than ten years. 

Join StorONE's Chief Product Strategist, George Crump, as he reviews the challenges that make the lives of IT professionals overly complicated while risking organizational data. By attending the event you will learn how to design a Better NAS that can overcome these challenges and become the long-lasting foundation of the organization's storage infrastructure.

How to Build a Better NAS

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have one fundamental goal, to profitably increase monthly recurring revenue (MRR). The challenge is each new service offering requires another storage system, and as the offering gains in popularity, they need to purchase more storage systems to support more new customers.
Join StorONE for our live webinar "Increase MRR by Reducing Storage Complexity" to learn why current legacy storage systems make adding additional services so costly and how to overcome these limitations to enable additional services and increase customer density while containing costs.
MSP Infrastructure Planners Will Learn:
1. The Common Storage Infrastructure Strategies
2. How "Blue-Chip" Storage Vendors fall short
3. How "Start-Up" Storage Vendors fall short
4. How "Open-Source" Storage Vendors fall short
5. How a New Software I/O Engine Can Increase MRR and Customer Density
Register Now! Live on September 29th at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT Pre-register before September 15th and receive an advanced copy of our latest whitepaper, "Overcome the Storage Roadblock to MRR and Profits"

MSPs — Increase MRR by Reducing Storage Complexity

There is no denying that storage infrastructures are too complex. The problem is that solving complexity is often more expensive than the problem itself and opens IT up to user complaints. How do you reduce that complexity without breaking the bank or compromising the quality of service? Storage complexity results from day-to-day operational challenges, data protection difficulties, and the lack of a practical solution for storage consolidation.

Join StorONE on September 28th at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT for our live webinar "Three Steps to Reducing Storage Complexity. During the webinar, we will discuss the primary causes of storage complexity and then provide three steps to eliminate them.

Three Steps to Reducing Storage Complexity

All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) capture headlines and make storage vendors' lives easier, but they are hard on the IT budget. Organizations are told they have no choice if they want consistent production-class performance and advanced data services.

All-Flash vendors justify their premium pricing based on three myths:
1. All-Flash Has reached price parity with HDD
2. HDD RAID Rebuilds are too slow
3. Hybrid Performance is too inconsistent

Join StorONE on September 7th at 1:00 pm ET and 10:00 am PT for our live webinar "Debunking the Top Three All-Flash Myths" with StorONE's Chief Product Strategist and former industry analyst, George Crump, to learn how a Hybrid Storage Solution powered by the StorONE engine can bust these myths. A StorONE Hybrid solution can deliver consistent production-class performance and rapid HDD rebuilds (25x faster than competitors) at dramatically lower pricing than AFAs.

The Top Three All-Flash Myths…Debunked!

Join StorONE on August 10th for our live webinar "Understanding Storage Software Architectures" to learn why most of today's storage systems can't take advantage of innovative storage hardware. We’ll explain why our competitors force you to buy more flash drives than you should need for performance and more hard disks than you need to meet your capacity demands. The inefficiencies of storage software architectures raise your cost to acquire and manage storage while forcing you into a never-ending cycle of refreshing and replacing storage systems. 

During the webinar, we will discuss: 

• What is the Storage IO stack?

• How the Storage IO stack stifles storage hardware innovation 

• The Impact of Inefficient storage software Architectures 

• How storage software architectures need to change so IT can tap into the full potential of today’s hardware, and tomorrow’s hardware innovation

Join us live on August 17th at Noon ET / 9:00 AM PT.

Understanding Storage Software Architectures

Learn how StorONE's new drive-based licensing model, Scale-For-Free, can dramatically lower storage costs while increasing performance, improving ransomware resiliency, and eliminating storage refreshes.

IT is under more pressure than ever to do more with less. Join StorONE's CEO, Gal Naor, and Chief Product Strategist, George Crump, to learn how StorONE’s efficient storage engine is powering a new way to purchase storage, by the number of drives, instead of the total capacity. We call it Scale-for-Free, and it will change the industry. Scale-for-Free rewards you for buying fewer, higher-performing, and higher-density drives, reducing the cost of storage now and in the future. 

Attend our live session and learn:

• How the StorONE engine delivers more performance with fewer flash drives.

• How the ONE Storage Engine enables you to combine those flash drives with a tier of high-density hard disks while still maintaining consistent performance. 

• How the StorONE engine allows you to use high-density 18TB/20TB hard drives but still recover from drive failure in about three hours. No more 3-day+ RAID rebuild times!

• How to design a solution with Scale-for-Free, that saves you money upfront and in the future.

Do More Storage with Less Hardware

Solving the Big 3 VMware Storage Challenges 

Learn how to:
   • Lower Storage Costs  • Improve VM Density      • Achieve Ransomware Resiliency

Join StorONE to learn how to solve the three biggest storage challenges facing VMware administrators: 
 √ Reducing storage costs
 √ Increasing VMware ROI 
 √ Protecting against ransomware attacks 

During the webinar, StorONE's Chief Product Strategist, George Crump, will explain how typical hybrid and all-flash storage systems fall short and why these shortcomings are not the fault of the storage hardware; it's the storage software. Then he will explain how storage software needs to improve so IT can meet these three critical objectives. 

By attending this webinar, you will learn how to: 

• Significantly lower VMware storage costs
• Increase VMware ROI by increasing VM Density
• Recover from a ransomware attack within minutes

Solving the Big 3 VMware Storage Challenges

NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) promises high performance, lower latency, and greater scale, but are your applications and storage worth it? How will you integrate cost-effective technologies like HDDs into the plan?

Join us to learn how to take full advantage of the next generation in storage.

The NVMe-oF Readiness Workshop

Veeam is advancing the state-of-the-art for protecting and recovering data. However, its advances require an optimized backup storage infrastructure so IT professionals can tap into the full potential of Veeam's innovations. During this live webinar, StorONE's Chief Product Strategist and former Industry Analyst, George Crump, will provide insight on how to optimize the backup architecture so you can extract the total value of Veeam's capabilities. 

By attending the webinar, you will learn how to:

1. Increase backup frequency to every hour without moving to all-flash backup.
2. Improve ransomware resiliency immediately with today's software.
3. Leverage high-density hard disks without experiencing three-day drive rebuilds
4. Make instantly recovered VMs perform like production

Two live attendees will receive our independent backup and recovery assessment service. A StorONE disaster recovery expert leads the assessment service with 30 years of experience. The service examines your existing backup environment to project long-term growth impact, identify exposure areas, and make suggestions for improvement.

Four Ways to Optimize Veeam Backup and Recovery

If malware gets through your defenses, what is your next step? Preventing an attack is an essential first step in any ransomware strategy, but IT pros must be prepared with a response when an attack strikes. Join StorONE and North American Systems International for our live webinar "How to Create a Ransomware Recovery Plan."

5 Key Webinar Takeaways:
   * Learn about the latest ransomware variants
   * Which applications are the most vulnerable
   * Learn how to modify your backup schedule to reduce your ransomware threat window
   * Learn how to protect backup data, indexes, and configuration files
   * Learn how to recover in minutes without fear of further infection all while continuing to use your existing backup application

How to Create a Ransomware Recovery Plan

During our 30-minute webinar, we will expose the four myths that drive up backup storage costs instead of decreasing them. The reality is backup costs are escalating, and IT is in danger of missing recovery points and time objectives. After exposing these myths, we'll offer suggestions on how to improve your backup infrastructure's resiliency while dramatically reducing costs. 

Join us live as we expose the four backup storage Myths:
• You must use low-density drives to avoid long RAID rebuild times
• You must use scale-out backup storage to address capacity demands
• You must use all-flash backup 
• You must use a new backup application to beat ransomware

TechTalk - Four Myths that Increase Backup Storage Costs

Preventing a Ransomware Attack is an essential first step in any ransomware defense, but at some point, you must prepare for a response if the malware gets through your defenses. Join StorONE and Seagate for our live webinar "How to Develop a Ransomware Recovery Plan."

5 Key Webinar Takeaways:
  * Learn about the latest ransomware variants
  * Learn how backup storage and applications are the most vulnerable
  * Learn how to modify your backup schedule and intervals to reduce your ransomware threat window
  * Learn how to protect backup data, indexes, and configuration files
  * Learn how to recover in minutes without fear of further infection 
all while continuing to use your existing backup application

All attendees who register before April 15th will receive an exclusive copy of our detailed white paper: “The Ransomware Recovery Planning Guide”.

Learn How to Prepare for a Ransomware Attack

March 31st is World Backup Day. This World Backup Day you have two priorities: 
• Establish a Ransomware Recovery Strategy that lowers your threat exposure to less than 30 minutes
• Lower the overall cost of backup storage infrastructure to combat inflation

Join StorONE on this special World Backup Day as we announce a NEW service; Backup Infrastructure as a Service (BIaaS). We are providing our industry's best ransomware protection solution, S1:Backup, in an OPEX consumption model. With an introductory price of $5,450 per month for 1.2PBs capacity. BIaaS provides all the flexibility but with a bias towards on-premises for faster recoveries and superior ransomware protection. All attendees will get a coupon for and additional $500 off per month for the first year. 

During the webinar, StorONE CEO and co-Founder, Gal Naor, and CMO, George Crump will introduce this ground-breaking new service and why it is a better alternative to cloud backup storage.

World Backup Day - Beat the High Cost of Backup Storage with an On-Prem Cloud

Ransomware attacks are now using three new exploits to force you into paying the ransom. Bad actors know that you will resort to your backups in response to an attack. As a result, modern ransomware malware deploys three new exploits:
     1. Target the protected data that the backup architecture stores
     2. Target backup software metadata and configuration files
     3. Target the recovery process to slow it down to where it seems easier to pay the ransom 

These three exploits leave the backdoor open and increase your vulnerability. The cause of these vulnerabilities is legacy backup storage systems that are decades old and can’t possibly keep up with these new threats. Join StorONE’s CMO and former industry analyst, George Crump, to learn more about these three exploits and how to close the back door on Ransomware. 

Join us live on March 17th at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT. Pre-register today, and we will send you our latest whitepaper, “How to Protect Your Backup Infrastructure from Ransomware Attack.” Can’t make the live event? Pre-register, and we will send you a copy of the paper and let you know when the on-demand version is available.

Three NEW Ransomware Exploits - How to Close the Backdoor

In this webinar you will learn how Standby Storage can improve your day-to-day backup infrastructure by shrinking backup windows, improving recovery performance, and providing complete protection from ransomware. You’ll then learn how this solution can elevate itself to standby storage, providing an alternate production storage environment that you know has not been infected by the malware. Standby storage can also help you respond quickly to failures in production storage hardware or software bugs that take down the system.

Beat Ransomware with Standby Storage

Enterprises are dealing with a constant tide of copy data sprawl. More copies are being created to serve secondary business processes like analytics, test and development, and frequently with limited oversight or governance from IT. Meanwhile, regulations like the European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) require more data to be stored for longer periods of time. Copy data management (CDM) solutions can help to contain this sprawl, but they must be agile in order to effectively support business operations. Also, in order to truly minimize infrastructure-related costs, they should have the flexibility to be procured through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.

Ash Ashutosh, CEO of CDM pioneer Actifio, will join Storage Switzerland to share his perspective on how customer pain points related to managing copy data sprawl are evolving, and how his company is pivoting in-line with those requirements. Be sure to join and hear his thoughts on changing business models, and how CDM can not only support more efficient and effective business collaboration, but also to protect against the threat of ransomware and supporting compliance requirements.

MeetTheCEO: Actifio’s Ash Ashutosh

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