Clumio Data Protection for Google Cloud –
At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Keith sits down with returning guest Woon Jung, CTO of Clumio, to break down their new GCS backup launch — and why “replication” and “backup” are not the same thing. They dig into the real failure domains that catch GCP-native organizations off guard, the operational reality of multi-cloud data protection, and how AI is quietly changing the calculus on what data is worth keeping. If you’re running workloads across AWS and GCP, this one’s for you.
Show Notes:
Woon Jung, CTO of Clumio, returns to the CTO Advisor podcast live from Google Cloud Next at Mandalay Bay. Clumio announced GCS (Google Cloud Storage) backup support — their first expansion beyond AWS after eight years. Keith and Won unpack why Google doesn’t offer native GCS backup, how replication fails you when data is corrupted or accidentally deleted, and what it means to be “born in GCP” with no point of reference for these risks.
The conversation shifts to multi-cloud operations: single policy, single API, single portal across AWS and GCP — hiding the provider-specific differences so teams don’t have to manage them. They also tackle the AI threat angle — agentic workloads widening the blast radius of accidental (or malicious) deletions — and the emerging realization that data previously considered disposable (logs, auxiliary blobs) now has extractable value through AI, changing the cost-benefit equation for retention and protection tiers.
Topics covered: GCS backup launch, replication vs. backup, multi-cloud data protection operations, AI-driven data revaluation, tiered backup economics, agentic AI blast radius
Guest: Woon Jung, CTO, Clumio — clumio.com
Host: Keith Townsend, The CTO Advisor — ctoadvisor.com