Having data is one thing, but using it is another. Any time data is called up from the cold dark of storage, there’s a risk: It could be hackers, accidental data loss or just a lack of access that makes the data unusable. Because of this risk, companies are taking steps to improve their digital resilience.

“We’re trying to get our customers digital resilience. What that means to us is your people have access to their data whenever they need it, wherever they need it, in a secure and protected manner,” said Shahin Pirooz (pictured), chief technology officer at Data Endure.

Pirooz spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas. They discussed Data Endure’s business, digital resilience and the cloud. (* Disclosure below.)

Guiding companies through a resilience journey

Data Endure is a systems integration and reseller company that evolved from the early days of the tech market. Today, it focuses on security and compliance, datacenter and cloud, data managemen, and systems and storage. The company serves enterprise business and smaller organizations throughout the tech world, Pirooz explained.

When it comes to digital resilience, the cloud is a big part of that journey. The company sees this journey as a number of phases toward maturity. It tends to start when a company moves their backup services to the cloud. Then, it goes through virtual machines in the cloud and other steps, finally ending with the company building cloud-native applications, Pirooz stated.

There is a point, however, when cloud becomes more expensive than just building systems in-house. Exactly where that point lies depends on the scale of the company, but it leads to hybrid-cloud networks, according to Pirooz. These networks are forming the practical model of how companies use the cloud.

“It’s that hybrid cloud model we’ve been talking about for the last decade, and no one really has a good handle on what it is,” Pirooz said.

Cloud also offers its own challenges, such as regulatory compliance and storing all that data. Managing these issues is not easy. Companies need tools to help, such as those from Veritas Technologiess LCC, Pirooz pointed out. “Having visibility into all your data … that’s the first level of understanding your data to know if it meets all the controls [you] have to adhere to,” Pirooz concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Veritas Vision 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Veritas Vision 2017. Neither Veritas Technologies LLC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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