Presenter: Jeff Reichard, Sr Director, Enterprise Strategy, Veeam

Summary: In this session, Jeff Reichard from the Office of the CTO at Veeam will discuss current data protection trends and challenges.  Jeff will draw heavily on Veeam’s recently-completed worldwide Cloud Data Management survey of 1,500 IT decision makers as well as on information from other industry analysts.  Topics will include on-prem data protection and disaster recovery as well as cloud workload management.  The talk will focus on actionable strategies based on current research, not a sales pitch.  The talk will end with a brief summary of Veeam’s solutions in the tribal data protection and availability space.