As artificial intelligence continues to take center stage, data backup has shifted from being a mundane 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 other side of the coin by integrating AI into data security since the cost of inaction in case of an attack is huge, according to Kit Beall (pictured, left), chief revenue officer of Cohesity.

Cohesity’s Kit Beall talks to theCUBE about the importance of AI-powered data protection.

“We’re setting records, growing the business and really helping our customers solve the most important challenge of the day, which is data resilience and security,” Beall said. “We’re in the process of acquiring the data protection business from Veritas. We have to protect the customers’ data. That’s certainly what we are capable of doing with Gaia, along 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 fits into the AI-powered data protection picture

For tailor-made solutions, such as AI-powered data protection, Cohesity joined hands with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. This collaboration looks at the hardware side of the coin, according to Klosterman.

“I focus 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 a lot of models on offer with HPE when we talk about specific hardware. What can we do with the new all-flash AMD solutions we’ve just brought to market.”

By using the power of generative AI, Cohesity offers an enterprise search assistant called Gaia that delves deeper into backups. This is made possible by uniquely incorporating large language models and retrieval augmented generation, Klosterman pointed out. 

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

Here’s the complete video interview, 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 primary sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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