Vijay Ramachandran

"So to us, it doesn't end with just protection. Recovery is as important as protection, which means that in the worst case scenario where you're attacked and you have a ransom to give, many customers just give a ransom and yeah. But that's too expensive and it's disruptive, so what we want to do is we don't just want to protect. We want to provide recovery mechanisms as well."

"we have products and solution across the board for detecting attacks, for hardening our platform, the core platform. As well as in the unfortunate case that somebody does get attacked, we have solutions to recover as quickly as possible and more importantly, in the most secure way as possible."

"Our goal with VCF is really three things. Make it easy to deploy and operate the whole private cloud, make it secure and make it performant and at the lowest cost."

"private cloud, we believe, offers probably the most secure way to deploy your infrastructure and your application. First of all, enterprises have full control with the private cloud, full control over their infrastructure, their resources."

"With AI, there have been incidents where someone has typed something in AI that says, 'Hey, optimize my environment or optimize this or clean up my environment.' And the damn thing literally cleans up the whole thing and so customers have lost data, have lost workloads, because they enter the wrong prompt."

"one of the coolest areas that we are excited about is cyber security, only because it's a very tough field to understand. And so, one of the things that we have done is we've introduced this solution, a feature called Intelligent Assist, which sort of scans all the alarms and alerts that you get from our vDefend product and makes sense out of it."

"It used to be a point in time audit. Auditors used to come, regulators used to come once a quarter, once a year. Now, customers are expecting continuous compliance checks and so we need to be able to provide a platform that does continuous compliance checks and remediation."

"What surprised me was that a majority of customers actually have now gone to a practice of testing this on a quarterly basis, or at least on a bi- yearly basis, whatever, twice a year. And we see this all the time, is that customers, they want to not just have a checkbox that says that, 'I'm protected,' but actually want to be able to prove to themselves that they're protected."