Data is everywhere and part of every strategic business conversation how do we use it better? How do get more value from it? How do we truly make it a business asset? The answers to those questions are driving a whole new way of thinking in the way we deliver IT services to a business. New workflows, new development architectures and exploiting technology shifts to try to break the shackles that traditional infrastructure often enforces on how we can use data to meet our business needs. This has led to a steady evolution, virtualisation, cloud and architectures such as serverless which allows us to run our code and services independent of any underlying platform. What if we could achieve that same flexibility for our data? If your business could use its data without restriction what would that allow you to do? That was the thesis of a blog post that I read recently from David Flynn the CEO of my guest Doug Fallstrom’s company Hammerspace and is the topic for this weeks show. Join us as we discuss. • Why we need to be data-centric. • Getting additional value from our data. • Users don’t care where the data is and why should they? • Talk to the non-storage people in your business to know how they use data. • Tips for shifting to a data focussed approach. • The Hammerspace Tech. • The power of the “as a service” model. For today’s enterprise taking a data-centric approach to the way, we build our IT platforms is critical if you want to be a data-driven business. Approaches such as those discussed by Doug, coupled with technical innovations to enable your data strategy is going to be central to your success. For full show notes visit here https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1Qx Finally, If you have an idea for a show or would like to be a guest, then email podcast@techstringy.com. Until next time, thanks for listening.