Cohesity expands collaboration with Google Cloud

Cohesity has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud, focusing on delivering new, integrated solutions for artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and data protection.  

Organisations can already utilise Google’s Gemini models to enable Cohesity’s enterprise AI assistant, Cohesity Gaia, in both cloud and on-premises deployments, to allow employees to extract value from unstructured enterprise data through natural language searches.  

Cohesity plans to embed Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Search capabilities into the Cohesity Gaia platform to deliver instant answers to structured user queries, accompanied by relevant citations drawn from source files stored in Cohesity’s immutable, AI-ready data lake. 

Planned integration with Gemini Enterprise, a new agentic platform designed to bring the full power of Google’s AI to every employee and every workflow, will deliver secure access to the historical enterprise data in the Cohesity Data Cloud from agents made by Google and its ecosystem of partners.

A Google Cloud-hosted version of the Cohesity Gaia platform, available now, can "enhance the speed, availability, and value of the responses delivered", leveraging Google Cloud’s global infrastructure, according to the two companies.

Strengthening cybersecurity 

The Cohesity Data Cloud platform incorporates Google Threat Intelligence, aiming to help customers detect, respond to, and eradicate the latest threats that may have infiltrated their enterprise data stores. 

Google Threat Intelligence’s high-fidelity indicators of compromise (IOCs) enable both proactive hunting and reactive threat scanning in the Cohesity platform, facilitating the execution of clean cyber recoveries. 

The Cohesity CERT (Cyber Event Response Team) also collaborates with Google Cloud’s Mandiant Incident Response team to support mutual clients in recovering from potentially destructive cyber incidents rapidly. 

Deeper integration of the Cohesity Data Cloud platform with Google Security Operations will intend to connect and help automate security operations workflows, surfacing potential threats lurking in backup data and reducing response times. 

The launch of a planned cyber resilience SaaS offering, featuring cloud-isolated recovery from Google Cloud, is expected to help customers recover quickly and securely from cyberattacks, even if primary systems are compromised, enabling critical data to be restored rapidly and securely from a trusted, clean-room environment. 

Digital sovereignty 

Google has already certified Cohesity as a Google Cloud Ready – Regulated & Sovereignty Solutions partner, meaning users can deploy the Cohesity Data Cloud solution within the Google Cloud Data Boundary to meet data residency and sovereign control requirements.  

Cohesity FortKnox, Cohesity’s cyber vaulting solution, on Google Cloud, will enable enterprises to maintain immutable, isolated copies of critical data within specific geographic regions, meeting sovereignty requirements.

Additionally, it will provide policy-based controls to ensure vaults remain stored and recoverable only within approved jurisdictions. 

Expanding data protection  

Cohesity DataProtect allows organisations using Google Cloud to protect their most critical services, including Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, and multiple databases with immutable backups stored in Google Cloud or their own infrastructure.

Expanded support for GKE, BigQuery, and numerous other data-centric services, along with enhanced regional storage options, will aim to deliver increased flexibility in meeting growing resilience needs.

All components of the Cohesity Data Cloud are available through the Google Cloud Marketplace.

The collaboration will also include new joint go-to-market programs, co-selling initiatives, and integrated marketing campaigns. 

"Enterprise organisations across Australia and New Zealand are under growing pressure to strengthen cyber resiliency while also meeting stringent data sovereignty requirements,"says James Eagleton, MD ANZ at Cohesity. 

"Our expanded partnership with Google Cloud enables customers in this region to protect their data confidently, comply with local regulations, and accelerate AI-driven insights, all without compromising security or performance.

"Through this collaboration, we’re helping organisations turn current security-related and AI challenges into opportunities for innovation and growth."

“Our deepened partnership with Cohesity reflects a shared commitment to helping organisations unlock the full potential of their data - securely, and at scale,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud.

“By combining Google Cloud’s AI and security innovations with Cohesity’s cyber resilience foundations, we’re enabling enterprises to accelerate AI transformation while building a more resilient, compliant future for customers everywhere in the world.”