Security threats, particularly ransomware, are posing considerable challenges to businesses today.

Dell Technologies Inc. has been partnering with Druva Inc. to deliver cohesive cybersecurity solutions. Dell chose Druva to deliver a proven cloud-native platform, according to Travis Vigil (pictured, right), senior vice president of product management at Dell.

“It delivers fast, reliable and secure backup and recovery services, and most importantly it’s designed to be scalable, flexible and easy to use,” Vigil said. “It provides customers with comprehensive features and capabilities and really enables them to protect their cloud data in a way that can reduce TCO, improve operational efficiency and ultimately enhance cyber resiliency. It was really us working with the best in the industry.”

Vigil and Jaspreet Singh (left), founder and chief executive officer of Druva, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Rob Strechay in a CUBE Conversation from SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the key challenges Dell and Druva are trying to solve and what future plans look like.

Navigating complex cybersecurity landscapes

Companies are seeing a more complex environment with complicated challenges emerging right now. That’s where a combination of cloud deployments, on-prem scale and artificial intelligence come into play, according to Singh.

“[It’s] a comprehensive solution offered by Dell, which includes the best-of-breed elements of on-premise protection, cloud protection, elements of security oversight put together, that the partnership brings together,” he said. “Put this together for a customer, and ultimately the customer wins, because they have a very comprehensive solution offered.”

Why, then, did Dell decide to partner with Druva, rather than just building it themselves? It had to do with an opportunity to work with best-of-breed, according to Vigil.

“If you look at Dell Data Protection solutions, we have a portfolio which includes software to secure a customer’s data no matter where it lives,” he said. “That’s inclusive of appliances that meet the size of any organization, and then Dell APEX backup services, which provides data protection as a service, and it scales on demand and is pay-as-you-go.”

When it comes to being able to protect software as-a-service-based data, there are a number of threats on the market today. The issues that businesses are dealing with are all about increasing automation, increasing efficient utilization of IT resources and ultimately providing the best resilience against cyber threats, such as ransomware, according to Vigil.

“I know we all love to talk about generative AI these days, but cyber protection, ransomware protection, remains a top C-level conversation at companies of all sizes,” he said.

When it comes to generative AI in the context of data protection, gen AI is a workload that a lot of companies will potentially start in the cloud or start with a hoster, according to Vigil. Because of data privacy, data sovereignty and data governance issues, that may change.

“Potentially, [they will] move to on-premises from an operating the LLM perspective or operating the generative AI infrastructure perspective,” he said. “In conversations with customers, I think it’s fair to say they are still figuring out how the data and the storage part of the equation factor in.”

Here’s theCUBE’s complete video interview:

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