Singapore – Cohesity, an AI-powered data security company, has recently teamed up with work AI platform Glean to integrate its backup data into the Glean platform.
Under the collaboration, mutual customers can now access high-quality backup data from Cohesity-protected workloads, enhancing enterprise knowledge and AI-driven insights.
As per the firm, said integration is also anticipated to be available later this year, offering customers multiple benefits like broader data source access. Through this, Glean’s connector capabilities will be extended to cover a wide variety of data sources protected by Cohesity, such as files stored on virtual machines, physical hosts, and NAS devices.
With this enhancement, users can conduct comprehensive searches across their entire data estate, adhering to their permissions, without being confined by system or storage architecture.
It also enables users to explore beyond the current state of data to access past versions of documents, including deleted files and other previously inaccessible data. Historical snapshots will offer a unique advantage, particularly in compliance, forensic investigations, and data recovery efforts.
Apart from this, accessing backup copies of production application data through Cohesity ensures that production applications continue to operate without performance degradation. This direct access to Cohesity backup data also eliminates the need for additional extraction, loading, and transformation tools.
Another benefit also includes simplifying the search and download of current and historical backups directly from the Cohesity platform. If a document is inadvertently modified or deleted, users can pinpoint the precise version they need without relying on a manual retrieval process.
Ultimately, granular access controls allow administrators to define who can search, access, and download data based on user role. Ensuring adherence to security policies and regulatory requirements will add another layer of security for protecting sensitive or confidential data.
Dr Craig Martell, chief AI officer at Cohesity, said, “Organisations struggle to manage and extract value from vast, diverse, and distributed data sources. Cohesity is breaking down the silos, helping them manage and secure data wherever it lives, and providing new ways to use that data.”
“We’ve broadened the utility of our platform to bring Cohesity backup data to other widely used AI tools and services, like the Glean’s Work AI platform. Cohesity protects hundreds of exabytes of the world’s data, and many of our customers leverage Glean on a massive scale. By joining forces, we can deliver significant value to our mutual customers,” he further shared.
