As a developer, engineer or architect, managing and securing growing amounts of data across multiple environments can be a complex and time-consuming task. Cohesity, a leading data management company, recently presented at the 54th IT Press Tour, highlighting how their platform simplifies data protection, management and recovery, making life easier for technical professionals.
The challenge of managing fragmented data
Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen highlighted the challenges customers face due to the lack of a single platform for security and data management. With data distributed across multiple segments such as data protection, security, mobility, access and insights, organizations struggle with complexity, security risks, inefficiencies and siled systems. Cohecity aims to address this more than $30 billion market opportunity by providing a converged solution.
Hyperconverged Architecture: The Foundation of Simplicity
At the core of Cohesity’s offering is its scale-out, hyperconverged architecture designed to handle modern workloads and big data management. Mohit Aron, founder of Cohesity, is considered the father of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), having introduced the concept at Nutanix. This architecture enables Cohesity to deliver impressive performance, with 10x faster data recovery speeds, reducing recovery times to less than 5 minutes.
Benefits for developers and engineers
For developers and engineers, the Cohesity platform provides a number of benefits:
- Simplified data protection: Cohecity consolidates backup, recovery and data management into a single platform, eliminating the need for multi-point solutions. This simplifies data protection workflows, reduces costs and improves efficiency.
- Flexibility across multiple clouds: With support for a variety of public, private and hybrid cloud environments, Cohesity enables developers to seamlessly implement multi-cloud strategies. This flexibility allows organizations to take advantage of cloud computing while maintaining consistent data protection and governance across environments.
- Rule-based automation: The Cohesity platform offers policy-based automation for data protection and management tasks. Developers and engineers can automate routine operations, reduce human error and streamline workflow, saving time and effort.
- Advanced data management: The platform provides features such as global deduplication, compression and data reduction. These capabilities optimize storage utilization, improve data availability, and reduce overall costs.
- API-driven integration: Cohesity offers RESTful APIs and integrations with popular management and automation tools. This allows developers to easily integrate Cohesity’s functionality into their existing tools and workflows, improving automation and customization capabilities.
Unlocking the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning
Cohecity is uniquely positioned to unlock the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to manage data. With its distributed architecture and ability to translate computation to data, Cohecity enables developers and data scientists to run advanced analytics and AI workloads directly on the platform. This eliminates the need for separate infrastructure and data movement, simplifying AI initiatives.
Cohecity Gaia: Conversational Artificial Intelligence for Data Management
One of the key innovations announced at the event was Cohecity Gaia, an AI-powered conversational search assistant. Gaia uses Augmented Retrieval Generation (RAG) to enable natural language interactions with data. Developers can use Gaia to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making by accessing insights from high-quality data. Gaia’s secure and efficient RAG AI engine simplifies compliance and risk management by allowing responsible and secure access to enterprise data over time.
Greg Statton, of Cohesity’s CTO office, emphasized the value Gaia brings to developers: “We help customers bring their data into AI/ML applications. Models are commodities. Value is customer data.”
Merger with Veritas: strengthening the market position
Cohesity’s merger with Veritas, a leading business data protection company, further strengthens its market position. With the acquisition of Veritas’ data protection business, Cohesity will have a total user base of over 10,000 organizations, including 96% of the Fortune 100. This scale gives developers and engineers the security of working with a platform trusted by the world’s largest enterprises.
To developers worried about the merger’s impact, Cohesity’s CEO gave a clear message: “No customer will be left out.” The company is committed to supporting and improving the plans of both Cohesity and Veritas products, providing a smooth transition for customers. This commitment also applies to partners, and Cohesity is committed to supporting all partners who are committed to the growth of the combined company.
Eric Brown, CFO of Cohesity, highlighted the financial strength of the combined entity: “We will have growth, growth in scale. So a combination of revenue growth and profitability. There’s this convention on Wall Street. They look for the ‘Rule of 40’ companies. If you add up your revenue growth rate and your profit margin, if it’s four, you better be the rule. We’re going to be a ‘Rule 40’ company.”
Conclusion
In conclusion, Cohesity’s platform offers developers, engineers and architects a simplified and powerful data management and security solution. With its converged architecture, multi-cloud support, policy-based automation, and API-driven integration, Cohecity streamlines data protection and management workflows. Adding AI capabilities through Cohesity Gaia and merging with Veritas further enhances the platform’s value proposition. As data continues to grow and become more distributed, Cohecity enables technical professionals to focus on innovation while ensuring their data remains secure, accessible and insightful.
As Sanjay Poonen summarized, “We want all of this data to be able to go on a simple platform, just as Oracle wanted all of this data to be in an Oracle database one day, and we’ve had reasonable success. But together, part of the reason we this deal with Veritas with Veritas. We now have hundreds of exabytes of data that will be on our platform, and that provides a tremendous amount of opportunity for secure management and more insights, where we will be 100 times larger than almost all of our competitors in terms of data size.”