Cohesity Unveils Expansion of NVIDIA GPU-Enhanced Solution

Cohesity has announced that it is expanding its Cohesity Gaia, an NVIDIA GPU-enhanced enterprise search assistant, to more on-premises environments.

Cohesity Gaia brings AI to the on-prem infrastructure world

The solution will deliver AI search capabilities for data stored on-premises and will be compatible with Cisco UCS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) platforms, and Nutanix.

By extending Cohesity Gaia to data stored on-premises, organizations are allowed greater access to more high-quality data and remain entirely in control of their infrastructure.

“Many of our customers require an AI solution for on-premises environments. This solution allows them to maintain complete control over sensitive data while benefiting from generative AI capabilities at the same time,” said Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO of Cohesity. “By deploying Cohesity Gaia on-premises, they can harness powerful data intelligence directly within their environment and not worry about any of the data leaving their infrastructure.”

Among the key benefits of the Cohesity Gaia extension include:

• Enterprises can retain complete control and security over backup data while harnessing AI to extract meaningful insights.
• High-performance AI with NVIDIA GPUs uses accelerated computing to deliver users the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of AI capabilities.
• Multi-lingual indexing and querying allow global enterprises to search and analyze data in multiple languages.
• Customizable and scalable infrastructure makes it easier for customers to tailor their data intelligence environment to specific business needs.
• Reference architectures provide a prescriptive way for enterprises to deploy Cohesity Gaia on-premises across multiple hardware platforms.
• Pre-packaged on-premises LLMs will eliminate the need for any customer backup data to be transferred to the cloud.
• Optimized architecture that enables efficient searches of petabyte-level volumes of data.

“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, the 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.”

Cisco, HPE, and Nutanix will offer Cohesity Gaia software with full-stack solutions. Cohesity and Cisco will validate and deploy the 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 also collaborate on validating and deploying the software on HPE Private Cloud AI, a turn-key, cloud-based solution co-developed with NVIDIA.

“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 at 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 for on-prem environments is expected to be generally available in mid-2025.

Cohesity expands Red Hat collaboration

The AI-powered data security provider also announced the recent expansion of its collaboration with Red Hat, an open-source solutions provider, to enhance support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which is available now on the Cohesity Data Cloud.

“We are excited to expand our relationship with Cohesity to bring their data protection and cyber resilience capabilities to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization customers,” said Matt Hicks, president and CEO of Red Hat. “Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers organizations a streamlined path to infrastructure modernization with a unified hybrid cloud platform to help them build and deploy applications at scale. Now, with the added support of Cohesity’s leading cyber resilience capabilities, those customers can have greater confidence that their most critical IT systems can be protected and secured with the solutions they already rely on to keep their business resilient.”

The expanded integration will allow customers to quickly secure and protect data from virtual machines and containers in their Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments with Cohesity DataProtect and NetBackup. These enhancements simplify users’ backup and recovery operations, enabling stronger data protection and cyberattack resilience.

DataProtect and NetBackup customers can also protect and secure more critical workloads, increasing their efficiency and scale while simplifying data management.

The Cohesity platform, which runs on Red Hat OpenShift, is designed with zero-trust principles in mind and offers security features such as immutability, strict access controls, and clean room technology.

“Red Hat is a strategic partner of Cohesity, and having standardized on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in our appliances, we are now bringing our industry-leading cyber resilience capabilities to the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization ecosystem,” said Poonen. “Cohesity’s broad data source support, including for containers and VMs, helps our customers use the right technologies that enhance their business, with the peace of mind to know that their data is secured and protected against cyberattacks with the resilience Cohesity delivers.”

Cohesity recently expanded its Cyber Events Response Team (CERT) to enhance cyber resilience. Read more about how this service assists with incident response, backup, and recovery.