Cohesity introduced a patent-pending visual data
exploration capability to Cohesity Gaia, its first-to-market AI-powered search
assistant launched earlier this year. By providing customers with a visual
categorization 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.
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 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 for Thousands of Documents
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. 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 offers a framework for better understanding, empowering users to ask
more informed and targeted questions as they search.
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.
"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 revolutionize 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 of
Data Stored in Sharepoint and NAS environments with Generative AI
Cohesity has also expanded
support for new workloads and data sources within Gaia. Cohesity customers can
now analyze 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.
"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, Cohesity. "It should be easy for business
users to ask a question of 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."
Cohesity Gaia was recently
recognized 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.