Data management provider Cohesity Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud and unveiled Cohesity Turing, a set of artificial intelligence technologies that bring AI capabilities to data security and management.

The expanded partnership between Google LLC and Cohesity builds on a previous partnership wherein Cohesity and Google have offered joint customers a solution for the backup and recovery of applications that use the Google Cloud Platform. With the expanded partnership, Cohesity is extending its artificial intelligence-ready data security and management platform, Cohesity Data Cloud, to have deeper integrations, including Google’s Vertex AI, a platform designed to accelerate the deployment of machine learning and AI models.

The integration of Cohesity’s capabilities and Google Vertex is said to allow customers to gain new insights from the data they’re already securing and managing on Cohesity’s platform using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Large Language Models. The integration will allow customers to quickly search vast amounts of data to detect threats, find answers to specific questions, or recover data using contextual searches.

The newly announced Cohesity Turing is a collection of AI and machine learning capabilities and technologies integrated into Cohesity’s multi-cloud data platform designed to address the evolving needs customers have with AI and data. Cohesity Turing enables organizations to use the latest AI capabilities to drive more efficient operations, get greater insight into security risks and derive more value from their data. The service includes capabilities such as ransomware anomaly detection, threat intelligence, data access, data classification and predictive capacity planning.

Future expansion plans for Cohesity Turing include the ability for customers to gain even more insights from their data via the Retrieval Augmented Generation AI model workflows. The model workflows are claimed to help customers get deep insights and quickly find content in petabytes of data.

Also announced today at Catalyst, Cohesity’s three-day virtual summit, were new members of the Data Security Alliance, an alliance established by Cohesity in November to enable industry heavyweights in security and services to help enterprises defend against cyberattacks.

New members Netskope Inc., ServiceNow Inc. and Zscaler Inc. have joined the alliance alongside existing members BigID Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., CyberArk Software Ltd., Okta Inc., Palo Alto Networks Inc., Securonix Inc., Splunk Inc. and Tenable Inc. Google-owned Mandiant and PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. are also participants through a security advisory relationship.

Amith Nair, senior vice president and general manager of cloud at Cohesity, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s livestreaming studio, in January, about how the current ransomware threat landscape has moved beyond just securing infrastructures from the edge through firewalls and other networking layers:

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