Cohesity Gaia Brings GenAI to Backup Data—Securely
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As organizations build their AI strategies, many struggle with how to unlock knowledge trapped in their enterprise data in a safe and responsible way. Cohesity Gaia is an easy, secure, and scalable solution that provides value for a variety of use cases, including risk and compliance management, eDiscovery, knowledge management and customer support. In general, this first-to-market, game-changing solution gives you the opportunity to develop more intelligence about how you're dealing with your data.
What is Cohesity Gaia?
Cohesity Gaia brings retrieval RAG AI and LLMs to your backup data to generate insights and create learnings. Cohesity has paired retrieval and generation into a capability that allows you to explore those concepts in an easy, safe, secure and responsible way.
In short, it allows your users and employees to converse with your data using natural language, and it searches through extensive amounts of data, then clearly presents the results including summaries, highlights of relevant details, and links to documents and files.
Cohesity Gaia Is an Easy Button to AI
A robust, embedded solution built on the Cohesity Data Cloud, Cohesity Gaia simplifies your journey to AI because you don't have to invest in any architecture, do any engineering work, move data around, or build connections into data to prepare to get insights. It's an easy to adopt, turnkey AI solution that deploys in minutes and is easy to use, requiring no technical background.
Also, because your data doesn't move off the backup, it stays secure and in compliance. That means you can avoid organizational hurdles to get at the data. It also uses role-based access controls (RBAC) to protect your data further. Cohesity Gaia also eliminates what is perhaps the biggest hurdle—scale.
Cohesity Gaia Supports Multiple Data Sources
As you develop your GenAI capabilities, the ultimate goal is to ensure you have flexibility to securely index your companies vast sources of data. That flexibility also extends into customer's being able to leverage both publicly available and in future iterations of Gaia, private LLMs. Gaia currently supports M365 (Mail, OneDrive and SharePoint), NetApp, Isilon; and generic network-attached storage (NAS) devices as data sources as inputs to their RAG solution.
How it Works
Cohesity Gaia works in a simple, powerful way. It first indexes your enterprise data by vectorizing it and storing it in a specialized database designed for dimensional vector searches, which provides you with more context. You ask it questions, and it uses RAG AI to access backup data on the Cohesity Data Cloud, analyze it, and give you generative, context-rich answers.
Cohesity allows you to traverse space and time with your data. It is essentially a digital twin of the enterprise that allows you to look at data as it was at any point in the past. What's more, you can traverse space by accessing data wherever it is located on the planet. This gives you access to immense information that can readily inform your decisions.
Top Use Cases for Cohesity Gaia
You can use Cohesity Gaia for many things: to answer complex questions, transfer information from one project or department to another, train employees, assess your level of cyber-resilience, or do audit checks.
Use Case 1: eDiscovery and compliance management
For eDiscovery, Cohesity Gaia not only finds, downloads, and organizes documents, but also provides a summary with links to them. This reduces manual processes and increases accuracy.
For compliance management, you can clearly and instantly determine if you're protecting the right data or the wrong data, and whether or not the data you're protecting is in alignment with your broader corporate or legal requirements.
Use Case 2: Knowledge management
Cohesity Gaia allows you to democratize tribal or siloed knowledge by giving people access to assets to answer RFPs, create deliverables, or to understand how things were done over time.
You can also mine additional information and deeper insights about the data you actually have, what you can use in analysis, and what you need to keep or potentially get rid of as you get your organizational data house in order. Cohesity Gaia can even generate a visual map of your data set and give you recommendations for how to dig deeper into your data.
Use Case 3: Customer support
Cohesity Gaia allows you to leverage all of your existing artifacts to provide better customer support and engagement, especially when you have sprawling documentation for your customers and tribal knowledge that is learned over time and not well understood by all customer-facing personnel.
What's Next for Cohesity Gaia?
Cohesity Gaia will support more sources in future releases, including comingling data from external data sources, such as Software as a Service (SaaS) models, without having to come in from the backup data.
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