AI-powered data protection: Cohesity’s strategy with HPE

As artificial intelligence continues to take center stage, data backup has shifted from being an earthly infrastructure topic to a board level one as AI-powered data protection continues to gain steam.

For enhanced cyber and business resilience, Cohesity Inc. looks at the opposite side of the coin by integrating AI into data security since the associated fee of inaction in case of an attack is big, based on Kit Beall (pictured, left), chief revenue officer of Cohesity.

“We’re setting records, growing the business and really helping our customers solve an important challenge of the day, which is data resilience and security,” Beall said. “We’re within the technique of acquiring the information protection business from Veritas. We have now to guard the shoppers’ data. That’s actually what we’re able to doing with Gaia, together with our partnership with BigID for data classification and things like that. Gaia is our generative AI application.”

Beall and Chris Klosterman (right), alliances field chief technology officer at Cohesity, spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Cohesity is enhancing AI-powered data protection. (* Disclosure below.)

How HPE matches into the AI-powered data protection picture

For tailor-made solutions, reminiscent of AI-powered data protection, Cohesity joined hands with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. This collaboration looks on the hardware side of the coin, based on Klosterman.

“I concentrate on our relationship with HPE specifically,” he stated. “I own the technical side of that relationship globally, and it’s our strongest OEM partnership by far. We have now a whole lot of models on offer with HPE after we speak about specific hardware. What can we do with the brand new all-flash AMD solutions we’ve just delivered to market.”

Through the use of the facility of generative AI, Cohesity offers an enterprise search assistant called Gaia that delves deeper into backups. That is made possible by uniquely incorporating large language models and retrieval augmented generation, Klosterman identified. 

“Back in February of this 12 months we announced Gaia,” he stated. “With Gaia, we enable customers to have conversations with their data and to really ask intelligent questions that, really, compliance and legal teams would I’m sure be extremely fascinated by seeing. Things in a healthcare setting, like asking a matter, ‘Has any patient confidential data been sent outside the organization?’ That’s a really vague query, but when you can answer that, that’s really powerful.”

Here’s the whole video interview, a part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of HPE Discover: 

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for HPE Discover. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp., the first sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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