The Spectra Current: Recent Episodes
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The Spectra Current is Spectra Logic’s new podcast series featuring in-depth discussions by Spectra executives and other IT industry experts as they dive deep into the latest in data storage, data management and security.
Spectra will post new episodes monthly, so check back often to hear unique insights from IT professionals on the front lines who are cracking the code on some of the industry’s most pressing challenges.
Tune in for this episode of the Spectra Current, where Betsy interviews Wasabi's Vice President of Technology Alliances and Media and Entertainment, Whit Jackson. We learn about Whit's personal philosophies, how the Wasabi name came to be, and a bit about where industry leaders see the cloud storage market heading in the future. You don't want to miss this insightful conversation.
Join us for this week's episode of The Spectra Current, where we dive into both the personal backstory of Steve Town, Spectra's Senior VP of Worldwide Sales, as well as get to learn about Steve's sales philosophy, and explore more of why he loves what he gets to do for work. We hope you'll enjoy this episode, and please be sure to subscribe to be the first to hear new episodes!
Join us for an exciting episode of The Spectra Current, with a few more of the Spectra Steves. We have Steve Ngan, Steve Cser, and Steve Baird who join us for an enlightening discussion surrounding their extensive tenure in the Data Storage industry, with additional insights into the personalities that make Spectra special. We hope you'll enjoy this episode of The Spectra Current.
Join us this week as we speak with Solutions Architect, Steve Paulson, and explore his career in tech. We discuss at depth the value of discovering, and learning how to best utilize tools such as Strengths Finder, and others, to assist with both empowering a team, as well as improving your own personal success within the workplace. We hope you'll enjoy this captivating conversation with another great guest!
Welcome back for this week’s episode of The Spectra Current. In this episode Dave Hiechel revisits his decades in the data storage industry, at Eagle Technology. We explore in depth what it takes to build, train, and keep, a highly competent team, as well as what it’s really like to build a VAR business, find great vendors, and provide an exceptional value proposition to the customers that choose Eagle Technologies
Take a listen to the #SpectraCurrent this week with VP of Sales, Chris Shannon, as we relive his 26-year history in sales roles at Spectra. Chris shares stories, wisdom, and much more in this captivating #podcast episode!
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Spectra Current. In this episode recorded live from the NAB 2022 trade show floor in Las Vegas, NV, we speak one-on-one with customers and partners to hear about what new innovations are happening in the world of media and entertainment.
This week we explore the history of Alan Hall, and his experience operating and managing CLASS at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). We discover firsthand why NOAA and Alan still believe tape has a strong place in the data center, as well as getting to explore how he got his start in this field.
Tune in for this week's episode with Spectra's new Director of Product Marketing, Deanna Hoover. In this episode, we explore Deanna's career as a woman in STEM, the challenges faced, the mentors and role models discovered, as well as hear from this technology thought leader on what it is like to work for a software enabled storage company. This is an episode that you won't want to miss, we hope you'll enjoy this enlightening conversation.
In this week's episode we speak with two of Spectra’s beloved employees, John Kranz (J.K.) and Bob Cone, who both co-wrote Spectra’s book, Society’s Genome with Spectra CEO, Nathan Thompson. They recall what it was like to write a book, reminisce on what it has been like to work at Spectra over the years, including the dramatic changes the company has undergone. We explore their unique hobbies and past times, like being in a band and gardening. We hope you enjoy the episode, thanks for tuning in.
Join us for this weeks episode as we interview Spectra’s founder and CEO Nathan Thompson. During this conversation we explore the early days of Spectra, the process of building a thriving technology company, as well as what it took to pivot and stay innovative over the lifespan of Spectra Logic
Join us for this week's pre-holiday edition of The Spectra Current, as we follow the journey from intern to full time with some of Spectra’s newer faces. Specifically, we are interviewing Kristen Coats, our Graphic Designer and Videographer, Mariana Menge Schuett, our Marketing Programs Manager, and Keaton Day, our Digital Marketing Manager, all three of whom have unique onboarding stories, and have been a joy to bring into the Spectra family.
Join us for this week's episode of The Spectra Current, as we jump into an exciting conversation with Spectra Logic's Chief Technology Officer, Matt Starr. Matt has exciting stories from his travels around the world, seeing the cool things our customers do, as well as a unique set of hobbies like winemaking that he loves to "rub some math on". We hope you'll enjoy this installment of the Spectra Current, and thanks for joining.
Join us with One Technology founder Mat Brown as we explore what it was like founding a company with the mission of data center modernization and cloud enablement. Mat dives into their pirate ship philosophy, and how they keep One Technology flexible to always enable their business to provide valuable solutions for their customers.
Join us this week with guest Tony Mendoza, Spectra's Senior Director of IT. We will cover all facets of the ransomware attack that Spectra Logic underwent in May of 2020, and how we overcame that obstacle. In this episode, we uncover all of the details of our experience, what we learned, what we have improved from this experience, and how we as a company are using this as an opportunity to improve our products to help customers if they ever were to face a similar situation.
Welcome back for episode four of The Spectra Current, where we have a great conversation with industry analyst Fred Moore. Listen as we explore his time as a semi-professional basketball player, learn what it was like building out the foundation for what we know today as the storage pyramid, as well as why security is no longer just a problem of the data center. Discover how tape can be a major benefactor of the growing secondary storage space, and how hyperscale data centers need tape to support their growing data footprints. Fred was a delight to have on, and we hope that you will enjoy this insightful conversation today.
Join us for a unique conversation with Spectra's Senior Vice President of Organizational Development, Mike Sausa. Hear how the Spectra culture has been formed over the decades, learn about Mike's "ten-year attention span" and how the desire to always be learning and trying new things has kept Spectra at the cutting edge of the data storage and data management industry.
What does it mean to have a truly resilient data storage strategy? Listen in to this short conversation with Spectra's Eric Polet, as we explore and define things such as air gap, data resiliency, and more.
Welcome to The Spectra Current, today we have the first episode of our new podcast series. In this conversation, hear from Spectra's Jeff Biley as we explore what it was like to be at Spectra in the early days, as well as follow the progression of Spectra to becoming a leader in the data storage and data management industry.