Artificial intelligence efficiency platform startup Granica Computing Inc. today announced Chronicle, a new generative artificial intelligence-powered software-as-a-service solution that provides visibility and analytics into how data is accessed in cloud object stores.

Granica, which launched with $45 million in funding in June, offers a platform designed to help petabyte-scale Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 and Google Cloud Storage customers eliminate redundant and low-value data. The company says its solution offers a next-generation approach to AI efficiency via data reduction and data privacy, enabling AI teams using AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage to derive maximum value from their growing volumes of training data.

The new Chronicle service, part of Granica’s AI efficiency platform, provides rich analytics and observability for data with a deep focus on access. Chronicle also speeds time to value for new customers of either Granica Crunch, the platform’s data reduction service, and/or Granica Screen, the data privacy service.

Granica argues that cloud object stores — such as Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage — represent the largest surface area for breach risk, given that repositories on the service are optimized to store large volumes of file and object data for AI and machine learning training and big data analytics. With this surface area continuing to expand at a petabyte scale, a lack of visibility makes it hard for teams to optimize their application environments for cost, ensure compliance, enable chargebacks and improve performance.

Granica Chronicle provides data at rest and access visibility into cloud object storage platforms via an AI-powered, natural language interface. After entering simple prompts, users are presented with relevant visualizations in graphs and tables that answer key questions.

The service offers data security and compliance, allowing users to determine potential rogue/shadow access, determine if access complies with regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, minimize the risk of breach or data loss, and maintain audit trails.

Chronicle also gives users more insight into scenario planning and analysis to determine the potential termination of certain compute resources and determine the baseline performance and service level agreement to service applications. It can also help define an optimal lifecycle policy across tiering and deletion.

“Historically, the options for free visibility tools are either too simplistic or overly complex to solve cloud storage access issues businesses face day to day,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Rahul Ponnala. “These datasets are also typically siloed off, making it hard for teams to see the full picture around how their data is being accessed.”

Ponnala added that Granica Chronicle has been designed to “deliver the sweet spot customers are looking for — a user-friendly analytics environment bringing data visibility across disparate silos together in one cohesive place.”

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