Greg Hughes, CEO of Veritas, sits down with John Walls & Dave Vellante at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, CA.
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Veritas offers data protection, availability and insight in a perilous world
Data protection can be a great idea in concept, until it doesn’t work.
When crippling ransomware attacks impacted 23 cities in Texas near the end of this summer, public libraries checked out books by writing the names of borrowers on sheets of paper and police issued manually generated tickets by hand.
And the towns in Texas weren’t the only ones hit by cyberattacks. Hospitals, cities, court systems, and police departments in Georgia and Pennsylvania have also been impacted by ransomware intrusions over the past year.
Without a clean backup copy of an organization’s entire data catalog, users are at the mercy of criminals seeking monetary gain for holding computer systems hostage. While cities have been targeted by malicious actors more recently, large enterprises are vulnerable as well.
“The bad guys are going to get in, spear phishing works,” said Greg Hughes (pictured), chief executive officer of Veritas Technologies LLC, who described how employees can be enticed to click on one innocuous email link that downloads destructive malware system-wide. “There’s been a lot of focus from large enterprises at restoring at scale very quickly, so you’re not beholden; you can’t be extorted by ransomware attackers. We provide availability, protection and insights for those customers.”
Hughes spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and John Walls (@JohnWalls21), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the VMworld event in San Francisco. They discussed the company’s hardware and cloud-agnostic strategy, its work with VMware Inc. in support of hybrid models, the importance of gaining insights from data to meet regulatory requirements, and Veritas’ evolution as a market leader (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)
This week, theCUBE features Greg Hughes as its Guest of the Week.
Ninety-nine of Fortune 100
Formed in 1989, long before ransomware entered the lexicon of disruptive threats, Veritas has emerged as a major player in data protection, software-defined storage, and analytics. The company has claimed 99 of the Fortune 100 and all of the top 10 firms among telecommunications, healthcare and financial institutions as customers, according to Hughes.
“We work with the largest, most complex, most highly regulated, and most demanding customers on the planet,” Hughes said.
That’s a tall order, and Veritas has built its enterprise credibility by following a hardware agnostic strategy while working with 60 cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Hardware-agnostic approach
An example of how this strategy has evolved for Veritas can be found in one of its major customers — Groupe Renault. The automotive company has 40 terabytes of data across VMware-based SAP application servers that run on the Veritas Resiliency Platform to replicate between data centers.
“They work with us because we are hardware agnostic,” Hughes said. “Our strategy is focused on taking away the complexity and helping the largest companies in the world deal with these data challenges.”
Veritas’ work with VMware Inc. extends beyond Renault’s application servers. In August, Veritas announced general availability for its Enterprise Data Services Platform for VMware on-premises environments or running in any of the major clouds.
The Enterprise Data Services Platform is designed to abstract complex data for enterprise information technology organizations while providing protection and insights.
“VMware is talking about this hybrid, multicloud world, and Veritas is 100% supportive of that vision,” Hughes stated.
Aptare acquisition adds insight
A key component of that multicloud vision involves being able to glean insight from massive amounts of data spread across the enterprise. In March, Veritas acquired Aptare Inc., a provider of analytics solutions for hybrid cloud environments.
Aptare had been focused on storage-based predictive analytics, which can help with a multitude of needs, including compliance demands.
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(* Disclosure: Veritas Technologies LLC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Veritas nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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Greg Hughes, CEO of Veritas, sits down with John Walls & Dave Vellante at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, CA.
#theCUBE #Veritas @SiliconANGLE theCUBE @VMware
https://siliconangle.com/2019/09/16/veritas-offers-data-protection-availability-and-insight-in-a-perilous-world-vmworld-guestoftheweek/
Veritas offers data protection, availability and insight in a perilous world
Data protection can be a great idea in concept, until it doesn’t work.
When crippling ransomware attacks impacted 23 cities in Texas near the end of this summer, public libraries checked out books by writing the names of borrowers on sheets of paper and police issued manually generated tickets by hand.
And the towns in Texas weren’t the only ones hit by cyberattacks. Hospitals, cities, court systems, and police departments in Georgia and Pennsylvania have also been impacted by ransomware intrusions over the past year.
Without a clean backup copy of an organization’s entire data catalog, users are at the mercy of criminals seeking monetary gain for holding computer systems hostage. While cities have been targeted by malicious actors more recently, large enterprises are vulnerable as well.
“The bad guys are going to get in, spear phishing works,” said Greg Hughes (pictured), chief executive officer of Veritas Technologies LLC, who described how employees can be enticed to click on one innocuous email link that downloads destructive malware system-wide. “There’s been a lot of focus from large enterprises at restoring at scale very quickly, so you’re not beholden; you can’t be extorted by ransomware attackers. We provide availability, protection and insights for those customers.”
Hughes spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and John Walls (@JohnWalls21), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the VMworld event in San Francisco. They discussed the company’s hardware and cloud-agnostic strategy, its work with VMware Inc. in support of hybrid models, the importance of gaining insights from data to meet regulatory requirements, and Veritas’ evolution as a market leader (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)
This week, theCUBE features Greg Hughes as its Guest of the Week.
Ninety-nine of Fortune 100
Formed in 1989, long before ransomware entered the lexicon of disruptive threats, Veritas has emerged as a major player in data protection, software-defined storage, and analytics. The company has claimed 99 of the Fortune 100 and all of the top 10 firms among telecommunications, healthcare and financial institutions as customers, according to Hughes.
“We work with the largest, most complex, most highly regulated, and most demanding customers on the planet,” Hughes said.
That’s a tall order, and Veritas has built its enterprise credibility by following a hardware agnostic strategy while working with 60 cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Hardware-agnostic approach
An example of how this strategy has evolved for Veritas can be found in one of its major customers — Groupe Renault. The automotive company has 40 terabytes of data across VMware-based SAP application servers that run on the Veritas Resiliency Platform to replicate between data centers.
“They work with us because we are hardware agnostic,” Hughes said. “Our strategy is focused on taking away the complexity and helping the largest companies in the world deal with these data challenges.”
Veritas’ work with VMware Inc. extends beyond Renault’s application servers. In August, Veritas announced general availability for its Enterprise Data Services Platform for VMware on-premises environments or running in any of the major clouds.
The Enterprise Data Services Platform is designed to abstract complex data for enterprise information technology organizations while providing protection and insights.
“VMware is talking about this hybrid, multicloud world, and Veritas is 100% supportive of that vision,” Hughes stated.
Aptare acquisition adds insight
A key component of that multicloud vision involves being able to glean insight from massive amounts of data spread across the enterprise. In March, Veritas acquired Aptare Inc., a provider of analytics solutions for hybrid cloud environments.
Aptare had been focused on storage-based predictive analytics, which can help with a multitude of needs, including compliance demands.
...
(* Disclosure: Veritas Technologies LLC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Veritas nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
