AI-powered data protection: Cohesity’s strategy with HPE [Video]

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.

“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 …