Cohesity expands GenAI capabilities, visual data tool for Gaia assistant

Cohesity, a data security company, has introduced a visual data exploration tool to its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered assistant, Cohesity Gaia. This feature offers customers a visual way to categorise and explore themes within large datasets, enabling faster insights by suggesting queries based on data patterns. 

Launched earlier this year, Cohesity Gaia uses generative AI to analyse various types of enterprise data, including emails, documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and more. The platform helps users quickly identify key information from unstructured data. 

The new visual data explorer uses AI techniques to detect hidden themes across documents, making it easier for users to understand the data and ask more targeted questions. Users can click through identified themes and use context-aware prompts to find relevant information, streamlining the process of data exploration. 

Cohesity has also expanded Gaia’s capabilities to support more data sources, including Microsoft 365 services like Mail, SharePoint, and OneDrive, as well as on-premise and cloud-based file servers such as Dell EMC Isilon, NetApp NAS, and Cohesity SmartFiles. 

Introduced in February, Cohesity Gaia leverages retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and large language models (LLMs) to help businesses derive insights from their data. 

“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. 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,” said, Craig Martell, CTO, Cohesity.