Multi-Cloud Data Security - Dell Technologies and Faction
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[Music] hey how's it going it's keith townsend principal of the cto advisor and we have two returning guests matt from faction in ctos their title right matt cto advisors talking to a cto on on uh the cto dose that that works out really really well and then jody from dell emc who's functionally a cto jody i don't know if your titles feel cto or not what's your title i used to be field cto i did that for many years talking to executives and customers all over
planet earth about strategies of technology but now made a bit of a transition over into the dell technologies corporate side of the house and i'm a global evangelist for primary storage and multi-cloud well jody uh i think michael will be very pleased i'm gonna make you earn your money today the we're gonna talk about a board level conversation because i have two c-level advisors on the cto dose and we're talking about something extremely important to the c-suite over the past year year and a half which
is data security in the previous video uh matt you shared with me about the petabyte scale of the faction inc and power scale combination but when i think petabyte scale the first thing that comes to my mind is not necessarily multi-cloud access but security can you two talk to me about what it is that faction inc and dell technologies are doing together to address the securities concerns of the c suite jam and i think you'd start off by understanding that there's the core product the dell
technologies power protect from multi-cloud and it really gives you this to your point petabyte scale repository to save data especially copies of data and i am seeing amazing results of this i have one customer that now has written over 100 petabytes of data to this repository i shared that screenshot with you getting over a hundred and two to one dedupe that's not a promise but it's really neat result and then on top of that the powertech for multi-cloud we have this cybervault cyberprotect offering where you
know it adds a bunch of capabilities on top of that where there's some orchestration software for recovery uh there's a worm capability so you can have right only media with this programmatic air gap you know and one of the things that we know about the challenges of ransomware is that you know you can be attacked you can have your primary copy corrupted but ransomware today has gotten really smart and wants to go and try to touch and delete and corrupt your other copies to force you
to pay the ransom because you can't recover and so this air gap really protects you not only protects your data but protects you from ransomware attacking that secondary copy as well so jody i know how to buy faction inc and i know how to buy power scale and power protect via my relationship with faction and talk to me a little bit more about power vault how does this fit in the portfolio of products well when we look at what's going on in the data protection schema
with the primary storage infrastructure and then our data protection you know strategy around power protect that power protect ecosystem allows us whether it's infrastructure based like data domain or as matt was just mentioning the the software aspects that allow you to create the wrappers around that that create a seamless point of recovery protection and even things like deep mining analysis of that so when you get into you know making that acquisition we actually have a very strategic partnership with faction in which all of this can
be consumed as a service through them so you don't have to make these capital expenditures this can be an operational model in which you can consume the technology get that air gapping capability so making sure that you know something is protected before it's corrupted and also the software wrapper around it to do deep mining analytics on that backup infrastructure and data set to make sure that the data itself hasn't been manipulated or corrupted so i think that's that all-inclusive package of protecting your storage investment and
infrastructure wherever it's going even if it's in a multi-cloud environment and also being able to do that deep mining analysis to ensure that you're air-gapped and protected and even click-button recoverability from that so matt talk to me about the existing customer's journey if i wanted to implement whether it's power protect or uh cyber vault in my existing deployment today how would i do that sure i mean if you were using one of the other services today and you wanted to say you know add another tier
for data protection we can do that seamlessly we could do it attached to the same fabric we could do sub-fabrics and separate those whether your data is in the cloud and you want to protect it whether it was in the multi-cloud service that dell and faction offered together and you wanted to protect it but i will say you know most of the people that are adopting this are actually in their data centers or in branch offices right they're actually taking data using software to basically escrow
those backup copies into this service using cloud more for the recovery and the protection where the primary copy still lives in say an enterprise data center and that works seamlessly we can you know get the replication over the internet over a private carrier circuit through a data center cross connect if they're in a place like an equinix or a core site they can connect directly to the platform so they're all options and then of course you know the software and the hardware make it really easy
to get that backup copy in place so again the thing that i want to focus on because this is this is you know the cto browser is running a series this stuff is hard multi-cloud is hard data protection in multi-cloud is hard i need my employees and my engineers working on stuff that uh involves the application side of innovation and data protection even though it's important i need to be able to outsource the actual management of these systems to other to other entities that we trust
and this is a managed service or can can be assumed to be consumed by a managed service yeah many parts of this are a managed service and then there's a little bit of things that you know customers get to do themselves as well so they have more control of the environment but i'm glad you touched on you know this concept of the service and the outsourcing because there's something a lot of people don't necessarily think of as they go to take that you know secondary copy
secure it for cyber reasons you know protect themselves against ransomware which is that aspect of compliance because a lot of people may undergo some series of audits today but they may not be prepared to undergo an audit in a second data center or an audit for that second copy right so the fact that we have you know type 2 sock 1 type 2 sock 2 hipaa and we can sign baas you know those types of super hard to pass and hard to maintain audits means that
whole thing for an entire new stack in order to do that cyber protection isn't something you have to do the heavy lifting yourself because i mean as hard as the operational aspect is i think i would say the compliance aspect is literally even harder i agree they haven't have to have done pci audits and pci remediations is not necessarily the technology but getting the processes and the certifications and the compliance and working with qsa auditors that become the problem if you have a cyber security problem
you like that segway if you have a cyber security problem you can always reach out to the folks at faction inc and dell technologies via the link below if you have specific questions that we didn't address you can reach out to me on twitter at ctlvisor on twitter dms are open you want to find out where we've gone and where we may go in the future in future road trips you can visit the website the ctoadvisor.com forward slash road trip talk to you next cto does
