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Cohesity, a pioneer in AI-powered data security, now supports the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council with Cohesity DataProtect. This allows the organisation to drastically reduce the time and resources needed to manage its backups, both on-premises and in the cloud and significantly accelerate the data recovery processes to enhance its cyber resilience. The Haute-Garonne Departmental Council manages a vast collection of data covering different functions, including building plans, architectural services, departmental archives, social assistance requests, and even transport cards. This diversity of formats and data silos made recovery a long process that required many internal resources. Cohesity DataProtect Cohesity allowed the Departmental Council to harmonise all its data into a simple-to-use, high-performance key To resolve any incident, “You had to be an expert in backup administration,” explains Jean-Xavier Mauruc, database systems administrator at the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council. The migration to Cohesity has allowed the Departmental Council to harmonise all their data into a simple-to-use, high-performance solution. Cohesity DataProtect helped to streamline the Departmental Council's backup operations by reducing the number of backup jobs from 150 to around 15. This reduction enabled the Departmental Council to significantly reduce time spent on administrative tasks, from two to three hours per day to just a few minutes, saving it up to 15 working hours per week. Advanced security threats The Departmental Council was also looking for a robust and resilient solution to deal with cyber threats, including the fight against ransomware, while maintaining their existing production infrastructure. The solution had to be easy to use to manage various daily tasks, from integration to corrective and operational maintenance. For Jean-Xavier Mauruc, “DataProtect from Cohesity offers native security improvements. Being a solution specifically designed with advanced security threats in mind, it provides inherent protection against ransomware. Cohesity stood out as an optimal choice.” Cohesity and DataProtect cloud services Beyond the administrative team, the simplified processes and interface of Cohesity and DataProtect cloud services have allowed employees to manage recoveries themselves without additional training, saving both time and money. The adaptation took place very quickly, and the Departmental Council is now well-equipped to protect its various institutional data while continuing to safely promote economic and social progress for the inhabitants of Haute-Garonne. In this territory of more than a million inhabitants, Olivier Savornin, group vice president of EMEA at Cohesity, said, “We are proud to support the Departmental Council in its efforts to secure and manage data, vital for the region's sustainable development.”

Cohesity, a pioneer in AI-powered data security announced the appointment of Vasu Murthy as SVP and Chief Product Officer. Vasu Murthy Murthy is a veteran with over 25 years of experience building enterprise software at scale. He has successfully led software launches at companies ranging from day-zero startups to large, global brands, with strengths in driving rapid growth and managing complex multi-product scaling efforts.  Murthy will bring this vast experience in data protection, security, and analytics to Cohesity to further its industry-leading AI-powered data security portfolio.   Work experience Before Rubrik, Murthy was VP of Products for the Analytics Platform at Oracle, launching several $100M+ products Murthy joined Cohesity from Rubrik, where he was VP of Products and was responsible for the company’s core product, platform, and technology partnerships. He helped grow Rubrik’s ARR tenfold over six years to IPO while navigating transformation across three fronts: software to subscription, on-prem to cloud, and backup to data security. Before Rubrik, Murthy was VP of Products for the Analytics Platform at Oracle, launching several $100M+ products while driving market-leading innovation and cloud transformation. He joined via its acquisition of DataScaler, an in-memory database company he co-founded. Murthy is an IIT Kharagpur graduate based in the Bay Area. Customer-first mindset “Vasu’s strong experience supporting organisations through significant growth and transformational change with a customer-first mindset, as well as his deep domain expertise, made him the perfect fit for Cohesity,” said Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO, of Cohesity. “Vasu has consistently delivered exceptional results in his past experiences, shaping product portfolios to meet customer needs while driving business evolution and transformation. His data protection, security, and analytics expertise will help us further extend our innovations as we enter a new era of Cohesity in the coming years.” Enterprise data protection “Cohesity has taken an aggressive and innovative approach to leveraging AI to strengthen the security of its platform and offer customers new insight into their business data." "And combining Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business will only bring more resources to develop new products at scale, something I’m deeply excited about,” said Murthy.  Differentiated vision and platform “Cohesity has a differentiated vision and platform that has the potential to transform the industry completely." "As we scale our R&D investments and build best-in-class offerings to support global customers, I look forward to partnering with the team to make a bigger impact. I’m thrilled to join Cohesity in their journey as we enter the next growth phase.”   Recent Cohesity highlights Murthy joins Cohesity during a time of significant momentum:  In February, Cohesity announced its intent to combine with Veritas’ data protection business.  In March, Cohesity announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to help organisations safely unlock the power of generative AI, resulting in NVIDIA becoming a new investor.  In April, Cohesity extended its collaboration with IBM to strengthen cyber resilience, which resulted in IBM's investment in the company.  In August, Forbes named Cohesity for the fifth time in its 2024 Cloud 100, and CRN recognised Cohesity Gaia as a 2024 Tech Innovator in the artificial intelligence category. The company continued to bolster its product offerings and drive strategic partner growth, building its strategic partnership with Crowdstrike, expanding its collaboration with Intel, and recently announcing its advanced visualisation tool for Gaia.  Throughout the year, Cohesity’s leadership team welcomed deep industry expertise to continue driving market leadership, including the addition of Dr. Craig Martell as CTO and the appointments of Olivier Savornin and Fraser Hutchinson in EMEA. 

Cohesity, a pioneer in AI-powered data security and management introduced a patent-pending visual data exploration capability to Cohesity Gaia, its first-to-market AI-powered search assistant launched earlier in 2024. By providing customers with a visual categorisation of the themes across documents and files within a data set, the visual data explorer brings new context to the data and suggests queries that help users gain insights faster.  Challenges with the traditional approach With traditional approaches, enterprises often struggle to gain insights across unstructured data and text. This challenge only grows as the amount of unstructured data increases. With unstructured data representing more than 80 percent of all corporate data, companies are often forced to run queries and compile reports based on a small subset of data, the information stored in structured systems. As a result, reports and analyses may be incomplete or inaccurate, with valuable insight still locked inside disparate unstructured systems.  Cohesity Gaia The solution indexes and provides insight based on data stored in many popular formats Cohesity Gaia brings the power of generative AI to enterprise data, dramatically improving the speed and quality of insights available for a variety of use cases. The solution indexes and provides insight based on data stored in many popular formats, including emails, documents, PDFs, text files, spreadsheets, HTML, XML, and presentations. Gain insights faster with auto-generated themes and topics One of the biggest challenges users face when working with vast datasets is having access to data but not knowing where to begin or what valuable insights can be retrieved. Cohesity Gaia overcomes this by automatically providing a visual representation of the data, sorted by themes, giving users a clear starting point.  New visual explorer The new visual explorer uses topic modeling, a set of advanced AI techniques with natural language processing, to instantly identify hidden thematic structures across documents and files. This deep insight and context into the nature of the data offer a framework for better understanding, empowering users to ask more informed and targeted questions as they search.  Context-aware prompts Gaia gives customers insight into their data while keeping it secure and compliant with regulatory requirements The Gaia data explorer further simplifies this process by allowing users to click through each theme, ask conversational questions, and interact with intelligent, context-aware prompts to quickly find the most relevant information. Aligned with Cohesity’s responsible AI commitment, Gaia gives customers insight into their data while keeping it secure and compliant with regulatory requirements. Cohesity will host a series of AI workshops to give customers and prospects a hands-on look at the first-of-its-kind data explorer and learn more about how Cohesity Gaia can help unlock new insights from their business.  Data accessibility “By addressing the challenge of managing and extracting insights from unstructured data across disparate systems, Cohesity Gaia and its new visual data explorer have the potential to revolutionise data accessibility for enterprises,” said Chirag Mehta, Principal Cybersecurity Analyst with Constellation Research. “This innovation not only could enhance data security and compliance but could also empower business users of enterprise customers with deeper, more contextual insights, significantly benefiting the decision-making process and operational efficiency.” Access vast amounts with Generative AI Cohesity Gaia uses RAG AI and LLMs to help business users take advantage of information Cohesity has also expanded support for new workloads and data sources within Gaia. Cohesity customers can analyse corporate data protected on the Cohesity platform from Microsoft 365 Mail, Microsoft 365 Sharepoint, and Microsoft 365 OneDrive, as well as on-prem or cloud-based file servers, including popular systems like Dell EMC Isilon, Netapp NAS, physical file servers, and Cohesity Smartfiles. Introduced in February, Cohesity Gaia uses retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI and large language models (LLMs) to help business users take advantage of the information contained in the data a company has generated.  Valuable insights “We developed Cohesity Gaia because we believe that companies should be able to unlock valuable insights from the data they’re spending so much time and so many resources to protect,” said Craig Martell, CTO, of Cohesity. “It should be easy for business users to ask a question about their data and get an accurate, useful result, even if the data resides in disparate locations and different systems or how far back in history it goes. That is the promise of what Cohesity Gaia will deliver.” Artificial intelligence category Cohesity Gaia was recently recognised as a 2024 Tech Innovator by CRN in the artificial intelligence category. The awards spotlight innovative products and services that provide significant technology advances - and partner growth opportunities - across a range of technology categories, including AI and AI infrastructure. The visual data explorer and support for new data sources and workloads will be available in the October release of Cohesity Gaia.