As Commvault GO wound down this week in Nashville, Tennessee, analysts attending the conference were reminded of legacy challenges that still confront the information technology industry. A number of chief technology officers remain legacy-minded, reluctant to move to the cloud, according to David Chapa, founder of The CTE Group LLC, a data management analyst and consultancy firm. As former Nashville resident Johnny Cash once sang, “You give me that old-time feeling.”

Shaking the old-time blues means convincing businesses that migrating away from legacy technologies will help them make faster decisions to keep their business competitive. “Those legacy customers at some point are going to have to make a decision to be competitive in the marketplace, and they’re going to need new tools,” Chapa said. “Commvault is sitting there with their new platform, the transformative ideas that they have, to help them get there.”

Chapa spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), principal at The CTO Advisor, during Commvault GO 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. They discussed some of the tools offered by Commvault Systems Inc. to help with enterprise data recovery and the importance of listening to customers and comprehending their challenges. (* Disclosure below.)

Generating a readiness report

One of the tools that impressed Chapa was Commvault’s Recovery Readiness Report, a software solution that collects and analyzes operational data and then generates a report that shows how ready an IT shop might be in case of a disaster.

“Their interface is very clean, and a customer can drill into the recovery point objective that they want,” Chapa said. “When you can have a disaster recovery plan and you can respond and not react, that’s where you want to be.”

In addition to advising clients on legacy migrations, Chapa is also a musician, playing in a Johnny Cash tribute band, which landed a gig in Nashville during the conference. “You can’t find a bad musician in Nashville,” Chapa said. “If you do, they’re not in town very long.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Commvault GO 2018. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Commvault GO event. Neither Commvault Systems Inc., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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