Russell Smith hosts Petri Dish, a podcast for Microsoft system engineers and administrators looking to keep up to date with the latest trends in IT.

On this episode of the Petri Dish, we talk to Anthony from Veeam about the evolution of the backup industry and what's on the horizon for your data.

On this episode of the Petri Dish, we are talking to Duncan Epping of VMWare about Storage, Availability, and a little vSAN

On this episode of the Petri Dish, we are talking to Quantum who makes the convincing pitch that tape is not dead and in fact, it may be the future.

On this episode of the Petri Dish, we are talking to Infinidat about how their unique solution works with the largest of enterprise customers and how it helps you store more but pay less without sacrificing performance.

If you remote into another machine or share passwords with co-workers and are looking for a better way to combine these tasks, you need to take a look at the latest episode of the Petri Dish.

Everything and everyone is talking about 'the cloud' and what it means for tomorrow. Understanding how this technology fits into your portfolio is important but it's better to understand when the time is right to migrate.

This week I had a chance to sit down with Jeff DeVerter to talk about PCI Compliance, managed hosting solutions and a lot more on the Petri Dish.

At Ignite 2017, I had the chance to sit down with Andy Syrewicze and talk all things backup security and encryption.

At Ignite, I had a chance to sit down Darren Mar-Elia of Semperis to talk AD-aware forest recovery and a lot more at Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference.

At Ignite this week, I had a chance to sit down with Jeff Melnick to talk about the threats impacting Active Directory.

On this episode of the Petri Dish, I sit down with Alan Byrne to talk about moving from on-premises Office to the cloud with Office 365.

On this episode of The Petri Dish, I talk with Mor Cohen about how you can control and monitor your cloud usage across a variety of platforms as well as making sure you are only paying for services you actually need.