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.
• High-performance AI – Powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing for speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Multi-lingual indexing – Enabling global enterprises to search and analyze data in multiple languages.
• Customizable and scalable infrastructure – Tailoring the data intelligence environment to specific business needs.
• Reference architectures – 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.
• 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.