Cohesity Raises Strategic Funding From NVIDIA

By Amit Chowdhry • Updated April 25, 2024

Cohesity – a leader in AI-powered data security and management – announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to help organizations unlock the power of GenAI and data with the recently announced NVIDIA NIM microservices and through the integration of NVIDIA AI Enterprise into the Cohesity Gaia platform. Cohesity’s latest funding round also led to NVIDIA becoming a new investor.

Cohesity Gaia, the company’s collection of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, will offer NVIDIA NIM and more technologies as part of an enterprise-class, multi-cloud data platform with ready-to-implement GenAI solutions.

The integration of Cohesity Gaia with NVIDIA AI Enterprise benefits customers by offering direct access to the latest AI capabilities to drive more efficient operations, providing better insights into security risks, and providing more value from their data. The capabilities will include:

1.) Enables customers and partners to create domain-specific and performant GenAI models based on the customers’ Cohesity-managed data with NVIDIA NIM. Through this combination, Cohesity customers can fine-tune their large language models (LLMs) with their data and adapt them to fit their organization’s brand voice.

2.) A tool for customers to query data via a generative AI assistant to gain actionable insights from their data like deployment and configuration information, security, etc.

3.) An ability for Cohesity’s and NVIDIA’s developer and partner ecosystems to utilize Cohesity’s secondary data. And this means the ecosystem partners can build GenAI apps that provide more insights for their customers based on data. And customers can make the data securely available in an easy-to-consume way for partners and developers to build upon.

Via NVIDIA NIM, customers with Cohesity Gaia can add GenAI intelligence to data backups and archives. And this will enable the companies to bring NVIDIA-optimized GenAI to all Cohesity Data Cloud customers. Utilizing the power of performance-tuned and optimized NIM, Cohesity Data Cloud customers can obtain the power of data-driven insights from their data backups and archives, unleashing new levels of insight, efficiency, innovation, and growth.

Cohesity Gaia was built to cater to the constantly changing needs of customers who seek to utilize the power of AI to unlock valuable insights from their enterprise data in a safe, secure, compliant, and responsible way.

Cohesity has utilize the power of AI/ML for years in various applications like ransomware hunting, anomaly detection, threat intelligence, data classification, data entropy, and capacity prediction.

KEY QUOTES:

“Our collaboration, and NVIDIA’s investment in our company, is a testament to the promise NVIDIA sees in Cohesity as a leader and innovator in generative AI as evidenced by Cohesity Gaia. Through this collaboration, technology and business executives will have a unique opportunity to leverage the power of generative AI, turning information into knowledge, while keeping their data both compliant and safe.”

  • Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity

“Generative AI is a computing platform shift that’s opened a floodgate of new productivity opportunities for enterprises. We’re working with Cohesity to enable businesses to gain greater value from their data without compromising security or management flexibility.”

  • Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA