Dell wants its data management portfolio to be the whole package

After Dell Technologies Inc. saw an 88% jump in revenue reported last week, it’s safe to say the hardware and data management company is on a roll.

Although the hype is primarily around Dell’s artificial intelligence servers, the company knows that AI adoption goes hand in hand with strong data protection. As AI-powered cyberattacks increase, the pressure is on enterprises to defend smarter and faster, according to Simon Jelley (pictured), Dell’s new vice president of product management.

“A number of people often question me, ‘Why have you stayed in the realm of data management, data protection for so long now?’” he said. “I think the reality is that the challenges are always changing … and that is only accelerating now. Our demand is how do we continue to provide that foundation even with such evolution around where are the uses of AI going to drive this, for example, in the future? But the core is you’ve got to still have that data set really protected and manageable.”

Jelley spoke with theCUBE’s Christophe Bertrand during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Dell’s data management and protection portfolio and how AI is shaping cybersecurity policy. (* Disclosure below.)

The full data management package

Dell’s greatest advantage is that it offers a fully integrated platform for its users to view, manage and secure their data, according to Jelley. Its PowerProtect portfolio establishes cyber resiliency across multiple environments, tackling not just one piece, but rather the whole system of data protection.

“It’s all a single console,” Jelley said. “You’ve got a true single pane of glass in terms of providing that management. We make it very cookie cutter in terms of being able to deliver that integrated experience moving forward while still providing that open depth of architecture and capability as a platform.”

Dell has four pillars of unified cyber management: open and integrated architecture, future-ready operations, AI-driven simplicity and multi-layered security and resilience. That AI pillar takes the form of an AI assistant that is intended to enhance the work of data management practitioners at any level of expertise.

“We’ve introduced a new AI assistant that’s embedded into that unified management experience, [which] provides that kind of guided journey for the administrators,” Jelley explained. “Whether that be proficient operators to more junior operators in really using AI to help the system and understand what are the best practice policies, spot gaps in their protection capabilities, help them operate the actual recovery capabilities themselves.”

Jelley emphasized Dell’s ability to take the signals from every side of its business — server, consumer, storage — and use them to reduce detection time for threats. As cybercriminals grow increasingly sophisticated, attacks are going to be inevitable.

“It’s not if it’s going to happen, it’s when,” he said. “Having that core recovery platform, that’s the foundational element that I get the honor of driving, moving forward in terms of the strategy. But, as you say, then it’s the connective tissue on top of that — in terms of being able to look at the mean time to detect the threat and then really understand how broad that blast radius has been.”

Here’s theCUBE’s complete video interview:

(* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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