This week, Chris talks to Paul Stringfellow, Technical Director at Gardner Systems, about the process of creating a data management strategy. As we adopt additional, sometimes disparate services from SaaS and IaaS vendors, increasingly businesses are seeing their data being dispersed across multiple platforms. With such a valuable asset at their fingertips, how do businesses go about building a strategy for storing, managing and securing their information? The conversation starts with a look at three layers – physical infrastructure, smart storage management and data management. Storage platforms are pretty fully functional these days, so features …