Implementing artificial intelligence at enterprise scale raises questions about data resiliency and ensuring trust and security within data pipelines. As the AI race intensifies, the infrastructure supporting it has become a significant limiting factor. Hardware is back in focus, not just for performance, but also for how it enables secure and scalable deployments.

Superna’s Andrew McKay talks with theCUBE about data resiliency.

The partnership between Dell Technologies Inc. and Superna USA Inc. ensures enterprises can secure unstructured data — across PowerScale, PowerStore and ECS ObjectScale — without forcing customers to choose where their critical workloads reside.

“We’ve been working with PowerScale for many, many years, and so we launched yesterday support for PowerStore, bringing our technology across the unstructured world for the Dell portfolio,” said Andrew MacKay (pictured, left), chief technology and strategy officer of Superna. “I think the announcement we want to talk about here is PowerScale and products that have been in the market with over 4,000 customers who depend on our failover solutions.”

MacKay and David Noy (right), vice president of product management at Dell, spoke with theCUBE’s Jackie McGuire and Dave Vellante at Dell Technologies World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed new product integrations and why protecting data — not just networks and endpoints — is the cornerstone of cyber resilience in the AI era. (* Disclosure below.)

Superna’s data-layer security and AirGap are central to data resiliency

While traditional cybersecurity has emphasized perimeter defenses and endpoint monitoring, Superna has pioneered what it calls “cyber storage,” which is security at the data layer. The company’s AirGap solution, once reserved for highly controlled environments, is now broadly available through Dell, according to MacKay.

“We’ve forgotten that the ultimate target of cyber attacks is data, and the missing link has always been security at the data layer,” MacKay said. “We feel this is closing the gap for getting better outcomes. If you look in the news today or any given day, you’re going to see some evidence of a cyber attack. Ultimately, it’s all about the data. We figured that the data was the best place to start adding a layer of security.”

One data resiliency challenge security teams face is tool sprawl — managing an average of 45 different platforms. Instead of becoming yet another siloed tool, Superna integrates natively with leading security vendors such as CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and SentinelOne Inc. This integration allows security operations centers to receive packaged, actionable insights on affected users, vulnerable IPs, impacted data and mitigation strategies, according to Noy.

“What Superna is providing for us is nearly a native integration of the Superna products into our products to look at user behavior and analytics,” Noy said. “Do we see something that looks suspicious? How do we detect and respond? And then not just within their tooling, but also into the broader ecosystem of tools that exist.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell Technologies World. Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the primary sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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