Episodes
The one and only Kit Colbert, new VMware CTO sits down with past VMware now Cohesity Principal Technologists Chris Colotti and Vic Camacho. While this episode is a little longer than usual Chris and Vic get to pick Kit's brain on his rise from Intern to Company CTO. The three also reminisce about the early days working together.
Published 01/04/22
We welcome back Vic Camacho to the team at Cohesity and in his first episode back he and fellow Principal Technologist Chris Colotti tackle the complex issue of outages. A recent cloud outage sparked a community twitter conversation that is the basis of the discussion. Listen to some of their thoughts and comment to continue the discussion.
Published 12/13/21
Chris Colotti and Cohesity CISO Brian Spanswick discuss some of the things that are keeping CISO's on their toes. They talk about insider threats and data exfiltration just to name a few things.
Published 12/09/21
Join Theresa Miller, Principal Technologist at Cohesity and J. Peter Bruzzese, Co-founder of ClipTraining to listen in to their conversation around how cyberthreats and events can have a negative impact on your company brand. From there they dive into some of J. Peter's experiences around email and preventing these threats from entering your organization that way. Plus some suggestions around data governance, PII reporting and more.
Published 11/09/21
Join Theresa Miller, Principal Technologist at Cohesity and guests Shannon Kuehn, Cloud Advocate for Microsoft and J. Peter Bruzzese, CoFounder and Chief Content Officer for ClipTraining to learn more about how as a Service applications are impacting organization business decisions, and how to overcome some of the challenges this presents. Also, check out their Ignite session where they dive deep into protecting M365 as a Service considerations, challenges and creating recovery success for...
Published 11/01/21
Chris Colotti, Principal Technologist sits down with Mike Houghton, VP of Global Partnerships to discuss how the Cohesity Partner Ecosystem has evolved. Mike discusses his vision for the partners, how partners are integral in helping customers succeed and their importance to Cohesity.
Published 10/29/21
Join Theresa Miller, Principal Technologist at Cohesity and guest Tobias Kreidl who spent over 25 years in IT, and a long-time community advocate sharing invaluable information with the world. Tobias can be found on twitter @tkreidl. Today they cover the topic of not only the importance of backup and recovery, but the value in spending time making sure you wrap the correct processes, do planning and most importantly test your recoveries! Tune in now!
Published 10/13/21
In this episode of Cohesity On The Line, Chris Colotti Principal Technologist sits down with Director of Information Systems John Gaede of Sky Lakes Medical. Now, this story has been told in a few other Cohesity forums, but Chris and John break down the timeline, and more importantly the time and processes involved in such a massive recovery. They dive into the effect on the clinical staff, the engineers, and most importantly the patients. This is a real look into how Cohesity helped save lives.
Published 10/06/21
Join Theresa Miller with Cohesity and fellow Microsoft MVP Gareth Gudger to let learn more about what was publicly shared at Microsofts Partner event Microsoft Inspire. They will share their thoughts on the following:* M365 and Office What's new!* Microsoft Teams, Teams, and more Teams* Other announcements such as Viva, Windows 365 and Windows 11
Published 09/14/21
Jon Hildebrand and Chris Colotti tackle the in's and out's of Disaster Recovery as a service. They discuss not only the "why" but some of the "how" and what Cohesity is doing to help with this process. Check out the discussion and see what you think!
Published 08/18/21
In this Episode of On The Line, Chris Colotti and Patrick Redknap discuss the upcoming VMworld 2021 virtual event with community member and vExpert Christian Mohn. The trio talks about their hopes for what changed from 2020, and some ideas on how to even get local groups of people together for viewing parties.
Published 08/04/21
In this episode of On The Line, Chris Colotti and Jon Hildebrand speak to well known Silicon Valley technologist and now Venture Capital Partner with General Catalyst Steve Herrod. They have an engaging discussion about the current state of the venture capital space, what people like Steve look for, and how an Ex-CTO made the jump into the VC world.
Published 07/21/21
In this episode, Jon Hildebrand talks with Brian Knudtson, Director of Cloud Market Intelligence, at iland, about the new partnership between Cohesity and iland. We get into why iland chose Cohesity and what iland's expectations of the relationship are for the long term.
Published 07/07/21
In this episode, Chris Colotti and Patrick Redknap talk with VMware EMEA CTO Joe Baguley on IoT devices and Security.
Published 06/23/21
In this episode, Chris Colotti and Jon Hildebrand talk to the new Cohesity User Group Program manager Farrah White about the launch of her new program. They chat about why the user group is important, how it will be run, and how you can volunteer to be a group leader.
Published 06/11/21
Theresa Miller, Field CTO with Cohesity, and Girish Chanchlani of AWS discuss Backup as a Service options for your AWS workloads, more specifically why such an option would be considered. Adoption of Amazon EC2 has been profound in the past year, and AWS remains one of the top cloud providers in the world today. So, what is happening to all those new instances and all that new data? Is it recoverable, should you even care? Listen in now to find out!
Published 06/09/21
Cohesity Field CTOs Jon Hildebrand and Theresa Miller, Microsoft MVP, discuss the profound adoption of M365 by organizations. Learn about: * Where data responsibility really lives * What native M365 protection options provide * What to be thinking about to make sure you have long-term retention of your data * What to do to ensure YOUR business level recovery SLAs before you need them
Published 05/17/21
Join Theresa Miller and Shayne Williams of Cohesity to learn more about disaster recovery, test/dev, and how to leverage Cohesity and the cloud for your business success. They discuss: * The differences between disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity, then define the importance of DR. * The options by which Cohesity can support your disaster recovery requirements. * How our customers use CloudSpin for migration of virtual machines to the cloud. * Uncovering how simple dev/test really...
Published 05/12/21
In this episode, Cohesity's Chris Colotti and Jon Hildebrand discuss the value of community programs like vExpert with Matt Crape and Joel Sprague. They talk about the importance of engaging with these groups: how it should not just be about the items people get but how the vendors are remembered.
Published 05/03/21
In this episode, Field CTO's Chris Colotti and Jon Hildebrand talk with fellow vExpert and SHI architect Paul Woodward about a controversial topic: Testing company employees with fake phishing emails. Key take aways: * Stay abreast of what is changing in the area of phishing attacks * Build a culture that rewards and thanks people for reporting phishing attacks * Word of mouth and peer training can be a good thing if managed properly * Always be suspicious Listen to some of the ideas they...
Published 04/28/21
Join Theresa Miller and Tim Desai of Cohesity to uncover the benefits of protecting and managing Files and Objects with Cohesity Smartfiles.  More specifically, they will cover: * The key organization considerations around cost reduction when it comes to Files and Objects. * How Smartfiles can optimize efficiency. * Some of the industry challenges with Files and Objects that can impact a solutions ability to ensure productivity.
Published 04/14/21
In this episode, Field CTO Chris Colotti talks to Chris Harney and David Johnson, Cohesity partners from Cyber North, about the challenges faced in the change to the sales motion since the pandemic started. They discuss how meeting with customers, and even architecting solutions, has become more challenging and some ways to help.
Published 03/29/21
In this episode, tune into Chris Colotti and cyber expert Margaux Weinraub discussing the trends and concepts of cyber insurance. The topic tales some interesting twists and turns, but we think you will find this one a very interesting listen!
Published 03/29/21
In this episode, Theresa Miller and Shayne Williams discuss Cohesity long-term retention options for cloud, and how they help with data protection in your organization. More specifically, you will hear about what our customers are doing to solve these problems. * Learn how to decide which Cohesity solution to use for long-term retention: Cloud Archive, Cloud Archive Direct, or Cloud Retrieve. * Understand what customers need to know about replicating data to the cloud. * Wrapping things up...
Published 03/17/21
During this episode of On the Line with Cohesity join Theresa Miller of Cohesity, Martina Grom of atwork gmbh, and Leah Schoeb of AMD in honor of International Women's Day to discuss the following tips that have lead to success in their careers: • What is your personal brand, and what is needed to created one in any enterprise• Recommendations around using confident language• How to prepare for and speak at meetings
Published 03/08/21