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
80% of Data Isn’t Being Used But It’s Still Costing Money
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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:
Rising cloud storage costs
Increasing ransomware threats
Growing compliance and retention requirements
Expanding petabyte-scale data growth
many are reassessing where long-term data should live.
Qualstar explains how modern tape infrastructure provides:
Air-gapped ransomware protection
Predictable, long-term storage economics
Scalable archive for enterprise environments
Support for compliance-driven data retention
Integration within hybrid storage architectures
For CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and infrastructure leaders managing large data estates, this episode explores how tape fits alongside cloud and disk — not as legacy technology, but as a deliberate strategic layer.
If you're reviewing backup architecture, archive policy, or cloud repatriation initiatives, this conversation offers practical insight into how enterprise tape supports resilience and cost control.
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