The enterprise already relies on artificial intelligence in the form of automation, neural language processing and more, but one major question remains: How can it harness new-age AI capabilities directly to transform solutions?

“This summarization capability, the idea of summarizing a large amount of content, which is the heart and soul of generative AI, is so transformative,” said Sanjay Poonen (pictured), chief executive officer and president of Cohesity Inc. “Finding the application of generative AI into enterprise software like what we’re doing now at Cohesity … I think this is going to be transformational. I predict it’s going to be bigger than what we’ve seen in cloud and in cybersecurity.”

Poonen spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Rob Strechay at VMware Explore 2023, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Cohesity’s blueprint for harnessing gen AI. (* Disclosure below.)

Summarization on steroids

In late 2022, ChatGPT and gen AI made the biggest splash in tech since, perhaps, the iPhone. Everyone swiftly adopted the tool to source information, spur ideas and ease their workflows — chiefly because it expertly summarizes and presents information.

That same next-level summarization capability will ease and expedite how data companies search for and retrieve data across petabytes of compressed internal and customer data stored across disparate environments, according to Poonen.

“Could we use OpenAI and generative AI to search that large backup of Cohesity data and come back with a summary to a customer of what they had stored in there for years?” he said. “For example, let’s say I’m a CISO of a bank, and 10 years ago there was a breach at my bank and the former CISO wrote up a whole bunch of documents about it, but it’s in my backup. I want to use generative AI to search my entire backup and come back with a summary of what that CISO wrote.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of VMware Explore 2023:

(* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for VMware Explore 2023. VMware and other sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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