Singapore – Singtel Digital InfraCo’s sovereign AI cloud platform, RE:AI, has formed a partnership with Cohesity to introduce a sovereign AI service focused on data protection and management. The initiative aims to help organisations derive greater value from historical information stored in backup systems by enabling it to be indexed, searched and analysed through artificial intelligence tools.
Enterprises commonly retain extensive archives containing documents, emails, reports and operational records accumulated over many years. While these repositories are essential for disaster recovery and compliance purposes, they are often difficult to access or analyse using modern LLMs and AI applications, which typically operate on live or active datasets.
The new service developed by RE:AI and Cohesity seeks to address this challenge by cataloguing and structuring legacy backup data so that it can be queried in real time, allowing organisations to extract insights from a broader and longer-term information base.
“Enterprise backup data has traditionally been treated as a safeguard for recovery rather than a rich source of intelligence,” Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, stated.
“By combining RE:AI’s sovereign AI capabilities with market-leading data security capabilities from Cohesity, enterprises can finally harness historical data that has long remained untapped to generate deeper insights and make faster, more informed decisions.”
The offering is designed to allow businesses and public sector agencies to convert archived information into a searchable knowledge layer that can support AI-driven analysis and decision-making. By incorporating older data alongside current operational information, organisations may be able to generate more context-rich outputs and improve the reliability of automated responses produced by AI systems.
As part of the collaboration, Cohesity will also contribute research and development resources to Singtel Digital InfraCo’s Centre of Excellence for Applied AI with NVIDIA, which was announced earlier in 2026. The involvement is expected to expand the centre’s ecosystem, supporting secure and resilient AI adoption across enterprises and government institutions.
“Through our partnership with RE:AI, we are transforming protected enterprise data into a trusted, AI-ready knowledge layer within Singapore’s sovereign cloud environment,” Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO of Cohesity, commented.
“By combining Cohesity’s AI-powered data security and intelligent indexing with RE:AI’s infrastructure, organisations can enable agentic AI applications and accelerate insight– without compromising compliance, privacy, or control.”
In addition to enabling search and analysis, the platform allows organisations to recover historical information to reconstruct what data existed at a particular moment in time. This capability is intended to support audits, compliance reviews, investigations and regulatory reporting.
The service also aims to strengthen cyber resilience by enabling automated tools to identify compromised systems and isolate affected data across backup records during incidents such as ransomware attacks, potentially accelerating response and recovery efforts.
