Beyond Data Backups: Building True Data Resilience

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Innovation is often about moving fast and building what's next, but it's also about the data that lies behind all of that and ensuring it's safe and protected. >> Thanks. Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Companies are creating and storing more information than ever and keeping that data secure and recovering it quickly when problems arise is a major priority. >> Thanks very much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> So, how does your businesses approach that challenge and what role can Huawei's Ocean Protect play in keeping critical information safe? Well, with some of the answers here at Huawei's innovative data infrastructure forum, our Jerome Wendt, the technology analyst firm Data Center Intelligence Group or DCIG, [music] and Song Ker from Huawei. >> Well, I think the industry as a whole is adapting fine. Like the providers are coming along fine. I think it's a matter of getting users actually using the tools that they're they're being offered by the providers. Uh because like some things that we talked about here is uh for many years was uh role-based role-based access controls and multi-factor authentication and encrypting your data uh using the anomaly detection features that are available in these tools. And many users you know, because they feel as data protection well, that's just safe. They don't have to actually use these tools. You know, they're not really protecting themselves. They're not really not maximizing the benefits that are there. So, I think it's more of an education effort that's you know, sort of the part of anyone. The analysts involved, the vendor community say, "Hey, we've got the tools in there. It's now time to start using them and really taking advantage of them." As opposed to just well, this is the way we've always done it. Why should we change anything? That's I think that's the bigger obstacle in front of the industry right now. >> Well, while I see talking is changes, let's talk to you, Song Ker from Huawei. Talk to me about Huawei's own Ocean Protect solution. What does that offer to customers? >> Yeah, actually we provide the end-to-end the solution as a data security platform. It's include like the software and hardware together. The importantly first of all, we provide the make you know the four whole scenarios protection application like at any traditional but also for the AI application and first point and second one with you know our advantage based on the hardware we provide the all flash hardware storage platform. So, so we estimate we can provide with faster backup and faster restore. And another one I think more importantly to provide the end-to-end the data security ability like you know the data encryption and the tamper proofing ability and ransomware detection ability and more importantly you know with hardware like the physical air gap and also data checking consistent checking and also very important. So, based on that any software and hardware together to provide a whole data security platform solution from our side. >> Well, well that's the pitch from from Huawei. What about the independent expert assessment? How do you rate Ocean Protect? >> Oh, well like every time we look at Ocean Protect it's always one of the top rated products in everything we review. It's a very full featured system for for many of the reasons he suggests. Now we talked about ransomware detection, anomaly detection, all these new features. So, data protection the the focus has kind of changed. It's always been about backup and the speed of backup but now the speed of recovery has become so important in today's era where people do need to recover quickly and get that data back. >> Well, well actually you talked about ransomware there and you mentioned it earlier. Obviously ransomware attacks are rising and the cost of them is soaring and I think you've said in the past that it's not if but when you get attacked, so how much of a factor is that defensive capability when it comes to assessing an enterprise? >> Enterprises when they look at their data protection scheme or even their cyber security approach, they just have to assume they're going to be attacked and it's and you can't really blame anyone person. People are going to be human, okay? They're going to make mistakes. There's going to be faults in code, you know, through no one's fault or no one's attention. Um and and then the hackers are getting more sophisticated. I mean, they're using AI, too. They're no fools. I mean, they they see big dollar signs out there. Uh and if they can compromise an organization and and extract their ransom, they're going to do it. Again, it's it's like this constant cat and mouse game right now between the the enterprises and the vendors and the hackers, like who who can get the upper hand. And every now and then hackers are going to get that upper hand. >> Well, Huawei is one of the cats in this cat and mouse game. Um what else is there more that Huawei can be doing? What how else can you help customers against those ransomware attacks? >> Yeah. You know, probably you know, we that any vendor we can provide that uh network solution, storage solution together. And the for the uh data security principle is uh for the risk, especially for the ransomware attack, is to find the risk at earlier and possible. And so for our network uh uh solution with a storage solution, we have the collaboration with MRP through my multi-layered data address my detection solutions. So, that means if a network policy have some features by the risk of the ransomware attack, they will proactively to tell the storage part. So, the storage can generate the home copy at the you know, disconnected uh to the air gap. So, that's where provide the different uh anti-ransomware solution to customer. Yeah, so as I think they need to manual which we compile with other vendors. Yeah. >> Providers uh like you like Huawei, you know, they can do the anomaly detection, but you know, how quickly can you start of identifying anomalies in your environment? Cuz each each scenario has has different things. No matter which company you're in, what might be normal in your environment is different in my environment is different to his environment. So, what uh providers like them have to be better doing is they would have the technology built in, but how do you you quickly identify what's the anomaly in in your environment and what makes it different? The second thing that that I'm seeing happening as well is when these anomalies are detected when something unusual occurs, how quickly can the recovery occur? Like so so it can be automated rather than waiting for you know myself to do it or someone else in your organization or even the provider kind of step in and help and initiate it. Maybe you're leveraging tools like AI to help automate that process. Okay, it's identified, we just you know flick a switch and we start automating you know help make your environment more resilient where it quickly comes back and there's so the outage time is is minimal. It can start pulling data from the right sources and restore it. And then really the third thing I'm starting to see happen is actually start mining that data so they get the insights and the value out of the data that they've already backed up and sort of now I mean it's not that there's not value in having restore and recovery. Obviously there is, but I think companies get more value out of it and start unlocking that value that's already stored in this data so they can start mining and using it to increase the ability of their own organization to get the insights into that data to make them more effective. >> It's kind of security plus. >> Right. Right. Security plus is a good way to look at it. >> And and just finally there in this sneak preview for those watching this, what's Huawei's strategic next move when it comes to data storage security? >> Yeah, our thinking I think of our strategy we will focus on three directions. First of all, you know, for the protection object we are not only focus on traditional the application like the virtual machines, database well. You know, next step we will focus on AI application to provide the end-to-end yes, full stack the protection ability like the AI training and first data and the vector database like the AI agent and consistent full protection and the restore and restore the ability. And the first of all, I think of all from our side we provide the software hardware the product together. So, we focus on to provide data security platform solutions to the world. Include encryption and the tamper proofing and the ransomware detection and consistent change different force that has security benefits, right? And especially to mention anything faster restore based on all flash hardware especially the storage platform to provide the playing as you were the most faster restore that speed for the customer. And that's the one is you know to build on the customer history back up cooking. How to dig the value based on this history the back up the cooking to provide the value to customer. I think the three direction is our strategy next thing that >> So during when thank you very much and from everyone good luck to the cat. >> [laughter]