Building Automation Frameworks and Tackling Cloud Archiving with Fred Lhoest

This episode summarizes operational lessons from a telecommunications IT leader on consolidating fragmented backup tooling into a single data protection platform, building automation with GraphQL APIs, and enforcing human-in-the-loop controls for failovers. It also covers cross-border data residency considerations for hybrid cloud migrations and warns about long-term digital archiving risks from file format and hypervisor obsolescence, emphasizing continuous recovery testing and guardrails for developer/AI interactions.