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TECHx
10-04-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Cohesity Teams with Google Cloud on Cyber Defense
Cohesity has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to help organizations tackle increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. With enterprises losing an average of $540,000 per hour in downtime, the need for robust cyber resilience has never been more critical. This collaboration introduces new AI-powered solutions that enable earlier threat detection, faster incident response, and rapid data recovery. As a result, organizations can reduce business risk and minimize disruption. Key updates include the integration of Google Threat Intelligence into the Cohesity Data Cloud, offering enhanced threat detection using insights from over 450 global threat actors and 1,100+ annual investigations. This enables faster identification and containment of risks. Cohesity is also partnering with Mandiant, a Google company, for incident response. Cohesity's CERT team and Mandiant's experts will now collaborate to help joint customers mitigate cyberattacks, recover critical data, and reduce downtime. Another major development is the ability to create a Cloud Isolated Recovery Environment (CIRE) in Google Cloud. Built with Mandiant, this solution allows organizations to securely restore operations after an attack. Additionally, Cohesity is integrating with Google Security Operations to enhance customers' data protection and security posture. To help businesses derive more value from their data, Cohesity is also launching new AI-driven features. Through the integration of Cohesity Gaia with Google Agentspace, customers will be able to search across enterprise data quickly and securely. With Gemini models from Google Cloud, users gain advanced reasoning capabilities for deeper insights. Furthermore, the integration of Google Gemini with Cohesity Gaia strengthens Cohesity's AI-powered enterprise search assistant, enabling intelligent data discovery and analysis. Stephen Orban, VP at Google Cloud, stated that the partnership will help organizations improve cyber resilience and accelerate digital transformation. Johnny Karam, VP at Cohesity, added that the collaboration aims to reduce both legislative and reputational risks while empowering businesses with AI-enhanced data access. Vikram Kanodia, VP at Cohesity, emphasized that the joint solutions are designed to protect business data and turn it into a strategic asset. The new integrations with Google Cloud are expected to be available by summer 2025. The Mandiant partnership and integration with Google Security Operations are already live.
TECHx
20-03-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Cohesity Enhances Gaia with AI for On-Premises Data Security - TECHx Media Cohesity Enhances Gaia with AI for On-Premises Data Security
Cohesity Enhances Gaia with AI for On-Premises Data Security Cohesity, an AI-powered data security firm, is expanding its Cohesity Gaia platform to offer one of the industry's first AI search capabilities for backup data stored on-premises. This solution will be available for use with Cisco UCS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Nutanix. The expansion enables enterprises to unlock the full potential of their on-premises backup data and gain AI-powered insights, enhancing data management. As hybrid cloud strategies become more prevalent, many enterprises prefer to keep critical data on-premises to meet security, compliance, and performance requirements. By extending Cohesity Gaia to on-premises environments, enterprises can gain access to high-quality data while maintaining full control over their infrastructure. Johnny Karam, Managing Director and Vice President, International Emerging Markets at Cohesity, emphasized the importance of secure AI-driven insights in the UAE's rapidly evolving digital transformation landscape. 'As the UAE accelerates its AI and digital transformation agenda in line with the National AI Strategy 2031 and the Digital Government Strategy 2025, enterprises must securely harness AI insights while staying in control of their data,' Karam said. 'Cohesity Gaia's expansion to on-premises environments will empower sectors like government, finance, and healthcare to innovate while ensuring compliance with the nation's data security frameworks.' The solution leverages NVIDIA accelerated computing and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, including NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NeMo Retriever. This collaboration brings generative AI to data backups and archives, helping enterprises unlock new levels of efficiency, insight, and growth. Pat Lee, Vice President of Strategic Enterprise Partnerships at NVIDIA, noted, 'Access to data is essential for building advanced AI systems, including agentic AI. Integrating NVIDIA NIM microservices and NeMo Retriever into Cohesity Gaia allows enterprises to leverage AI insights while ensuring data security and accessibility.' Key benefits of Cohesity Gaia's on-premises solution include: Complete control and security – Enterprises retain full control over backup data while using AI to gain insights. – Enterprises retain full control over backup data while using AI to gain insights. High-performance AI – Powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing for speed, accuracy, and efficiency. – Powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing for speed, accuracy, and efficiency. Multi-lingual indexing – Enabling global enterprises to search and analyze data in multiple languages. – Enabling global enterprises to search and analyze data in multiple languages. Customizable and scalable infrastructure – Tailoring the data intelligence environment to specific business needs. – Tailoring the data intelligence environment to specific business needs. Reference architectures – A prescriptive approach for deploying the solution across various hardware platforms. – A prescriptive approach for deploying the solution across various hardware platforms. Pre-packaged on-premises LLMs – Eliminating the need for backup data to be transferred to the cloud. – Eliminating the need for backup data to be transferred to the cloud. Optimized architecture – Efficient searches of petabyte-level data. JSR Corporation, an international research and manufacturing company, is evaluating the solution. Ryan Reed, Head of IT at JSR Corporation, stated, 'With our global research centers, using generative AI to analyze years of data will accelerate our research. Cohesity's on-premises AI solution, leveraging NVIDIA AI, makes that possible.' Cohesity is working with industry leaders Cisco, HPE, and Nutanix to bring Gaia to enterprises worldwide. Cohesity Gaia will be validated and deployed on Cisco AI PODs, HPE Private Cloud AI, and other solutions, ensuring easy adoption with scalable, future-ready deployment options. Cohesity Gaia for on-premises environments is expected to be available in mid-2025. To learn more, visit the official blog or see a demonstration at NVIDIA GTC, booth 2012. Additionally, Cohesity and NVIDIA will host a Tech Insights session on March 18 at 9 a.m. Pacific to discuss AI in the enterprise, security, and critical gaps.
Zawya
19-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Cohesity Gaia pioneers AI-powered insights from on-premises backup data
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, is expanding Cohesity Gaia, the enterprise knowledge discovery assistant, to deliver one of the industry's first AI search capabilities for backup data stored on-premises. The solution will be available for use with Cisco UCS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Nutanix. The expansion will enable enterprises to uncover AI-powered insights by unlocking the full potential of their on-premises backup data. As enterprises increasingly adopt hybrid cloud strategies, many prefer to have valuable, critical data remain on-premises to meet security, compliance, and performance requirements. Extending Cohesity Gaia to data stored on-premises empowers enterprises to tap into more high-quality data and remain fully in control of their infrastructure. 'As the UAE accelerates its AI and digital transformation agenda in line with the National AI Strategy 2031 and the Digital Government Strategy 2025, enterprises must ensure they can securely harness AI-driven insights while maintaining full control over their data,' said Johnny Karam, Managing Director and Vice President, International Emerging Markets at Cohesity. 'With Cohesity Gaia's expansion to on-premises environments, organizations across key sectors—including government, finance, and healthcare—can leverage AI-powered discovery to drive innovation while aligning with the nation's stringent data security and compliance frameworks.' Leveraging NVIDIA accelerated computing and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform — including with NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NeMo Retriever — the Cohesity Gaia discovery assistant brings the power of generative AI to data backups and archives. Cohesity Gaia lets customers unleash new levels of insight, efficiency, innovation, and growth. "Access to data is a crucial foundation for building advanced AI systems, including agentic AI,' said Pat Lee, vice president, Strategic Enterprise Partnerships, NVIDIA. 'By integrating NVIDIA NIM microservices and NeMo Retriever into Cohesity Gaia, enterprises can harness AI-driven insights directly within their infrastructure to preserve data accessibility and security while unlocking new levels of intelligence.' The extension of Cohesity Gaia to on-premises environments will mark a significant milestone in the evolution of AI-driven enterprise data management. Key benefits of the solution include: Complete control and security – allowing enterprises to retain full control over backup data while harnessing AI to extract meaningful insights. High-performance AI with NVIDIA accelerated computing – delivering the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of AI capabilities using accelerated computing Multi-lingual indexing and querying – allowing global enterprises to search and analyze data in multiple languages. Customizable and scalable infrastructure – making it easy for customers to tailor their data intelligence environment to specific business needs. Reference architectures – providing a prescriptive way for enterprises to deploy the solution on-premises across multiple hardware platforms. Pre-packaged on-premises LLMs – eliminating the need for any customer backup data to be transferred to the cloud. Optimized architecture – enabling efficient searches of petabyte-level volumes of data. Customers like JSR Corporation, an international research and manufacturing company, are evaluating the benefits of leveraging Cohesity Gaia's on-premises solution. "With research centers in many locations, our researchers speak different languages. We want to be able to use generative AI to look across years of our data to discover insights that can accelerate the rate of our research and discovery,' said Ryan Reed, Head of IT, JSR Corporation. 'Cohesity is leveraging NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and expertise to make that possible with an on-premises AI solution that uses our own collective knowledge.' Cohesity is collaborating with data security, infrastructure, and AI industry leaders to bring Gaia to enterprises worldwide. Cisco, HPE, and Nutanix will be among the organizations that can offer Cohesity Gaia software with their full stack solutions. Cohesity and Cisco will validate and deploy Cohesity Gaia Software on Cisco AI PODs—plug-and-play AI infrastructure stacks that integrate compute, storage, networking, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise to simplify adoption with scalable, efficient, and future-ready deployment. Cohesity and HPE will work together to validate and deploy Cohesity Gaia Software on HPE Private Cloud AI, a turnkey, cloud-based solution co-developed with NVIDIA. Cohesity Gaia for on-premises environments is slated for general availability in mid-2025. More information can be found at this blog. To see a demonstration of Cohesity Gaia at NVIDIA GTC, visit booth 2012. Cohesity and NVIDIA will also present a Tech Insights session during the NVIDIA GTC event on March 18 at 9 a.m. Pacific, discussing the enterprise AI landscape, critical gaps, and security considerations. Learn more about Cohesity's work with NVIDIA. Supporting Quotes 'Cohesity Gaia's on-premises solution combined with Cisco's AI-optimized infrastructure would enable organizations to unlock the insights and untapped value in their backup data," said Jeremy Foster, SVP and GM of Cisco Compute. "It promises to also deliver the performance and scalability needed for growing AI workloads, while keeping sensitive data within an organization's control.' "To accelerate value creation with AI, enterprises need exceptional performance and simplicity across their data estate. Cohesity Gaia paired with HPE AI-optimized infrastructure, such as HPE Private Cloud AI, provides both," said Patrick Osborne, SVP of technology acceleration, HPE. "These integrated solutions featuring HPE storage and servers let organizations efficiently manage unstructured data growth, reduce costs and complexity, and create new insights within their own secure environments." "Cohesity Gaia integrated with Nutanix Enterprise AI infrastructure will enable enterprise customers to efficiently derive value from backup data," said Thomas Cornely, SVP of Product Management, Nutanix. This joint solution will deliver valuable AI powered insights with privacy, control, and efficiency, all within the confines of their on-premises environments.' About Cohesity Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas' enterprise data protection business, the company's solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe. To learn more, follow Cohesity on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: Any forward-looking statements in this release are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to change/update without notice. Media Contact The Alto Agency on behalf of Cohesity in the UAE Cohesity@
Channel Post MEA
28-01-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Data Privacy Day: Safeguarding the Future in the Middle East
This World Data Privacy Day, industry leaders from various technology companies have come together to highlight the urgent need for enhanced data protection in our increasingly interconnected world. Johnny Karam, Managing Director and Vice President for International Emerging Markets at Cohesity emphasizes that the current cybersecurity landscape has dramatically changed, with daily cyberattacks in the UAE increasing from 50,000 to over 200,000, according to His Excellency Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cyber Security for the UAE Government, speaking at GITEX 2024. This surge necessitates a shift from traditional cybersecurity methods to more advanced solutions like AI-driven threat simulations and quantum-resilient encryption methods to protect sensitive data. Johnny Karam, Managing Director and Vice President for International Emerging Markets at Cohesity Karam also underscores the significance of aligning with the UAE's ethical AI policies and National Cybersecurity Strategy to foster innovation while ensuring robust security. Adopting proactive measures and ethical AI practices not only safeguard critical systems but also foster trust and support sustainable growth in today's digital era. He advises that organizations implement protocols such as immutable data security to provide an additional layer of protection against ransomware attacks, data breaches, and financial losses. Ahmad Shakora, Group Vice President of Emerging Markets at Cloudera Similarly, Ahmad Shakora, Group Vice President of Emerging Markets at Cloudera, highlights the paradox businesses face: leveraging analytics to drive innovation while safeguarding individual privacy. As AI adoption outpaces regulations, Shakora argues that it's imperative for organizations to embed privacy into their operations, covering data from collection to deletion. It's vital to not only comply with laws but to ensure privacy is intrinsic to the business process. Shakora calls for proactive steps such as building secure-by-design systems, training staff on privacy priorities, and cultivating a culture of transparency. In an evolving AI landscape, businesses that earn and maintain customer trust will lead the way in the digital age where trust acts as crucial currency. Louise Bou Rached, Regional Director of META at Milestone Systems Louise Bou Rached, Regional Director of META at Milestone Systems, points out that the alarming daily average of 200,000 cyberattacks in the UAE demands robust data protection more than ever. She stresses that Data Privacy Day serves as a crucial reminder of the responsibilities in our data-driven world. According to Rached, the Middle East's rapid digital adoption necessitates a delicate balance between innovation and privacy, requiring organizations to embed privacy-by-design principles and invest in technologies that can safeguard data while maintaining efficiency and trust. Rached argues that individuals can contribute to data security by managing privacy settings and sharing information responsibly. On an organizational level, privacy should be viewed as a business imperative, she says, highlighting the importance of clear communication, responsible data handling, and vendor oversight to maintain trust and protect individual rights. Education and collaboration across the industry are essential to handle the complexity of data ethics responsibly, ultimately fostering a future where innovation and privacy coexist. Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO EMEA & Cybersecurity Lead at Veeam Software, remarks that Data Privacy Day is an opportunity to reflect on the significant changes in cybersecurity regulations over the past year. He notes the increasing importance of corporate accountability for data resilience, especially with regulations like NIS2. Weijdema believes that data resilience is shifting from a cybersecurity requirement to a critical business differentiator, as organizations must be prepared to demonstrate their data resilience efforts to executives and third-party partners, reflecting an awareness driven by persistent breach and ransomware threats. Emilie Kuijt, DPO at AppsFlyer Emilie Kuijt, DPO at AppsFlyer, acknowledges the challenge and opportunity that online privacy represents for brands in 2025 as technological advancements continue to outpace regulatory frameworks. Kuijt stresses that consumers are more conscious of their data usage than ever before, prompting companies to adapt by adopting Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and embedding privacy-by-design principles to meet evolving legislative requirements and consumer expectations. To succeed, brands must prioritize transparency with explicit cookie policies, offer genuine customer choices without coercion, and respect data subject requests, advocating for a clear focus on building trust and fostering lasting customer relationships. Overall, this Data Privacy Day serves as a crucial reminder of the ever-evolving landscape of data protection and the continuous efforts required to uphold privacy. By adopting innovative and ethical practices, organizations can not only safeguard sensitive information but also foster trust, ensure operational continuity, and drive sustainable growth in an increasingly data-driven world. 0 0
