With a new U.S. patent, Cohesity secures rights to a technology designed to apply generative AI directly to protected secondary data.
Cohesity has been granted a U.S. patent for technology designed to apply generative AI directly to protected secondary data. Patent No. 12,619,501 forms the foundation of the Cohesity Gaia platform. At its core, the approach combines backup and recovery data with a retrieval-augmented generation architecture without transferring data to separate AI environments.
Companies store large amounts of valuable information in backups, archives, email systems, databases, and virtual machines. This data often contains relevant business knowledge but has been difficult to utilize for AI applications until now. At the same time, it is considered particularly sensitive.
The patented approach combines secondary data systems with a semantic RAG layer. Language models can retrieve relevant information via semantic search while the data remains in its protected environment. The goal is to avoid creating data copies and to maintain existing governance, compliance, and security structures.
The patent reflects a market trend: companies are looking for ways to make existing data sets usable for AI without creating new data silos. The Cohesity Gaia platform is designed to help analyze historical data sets and develop AI-powered workflows.
Dr. Jakob Jung is Editor-in-Chief of Security Storage and Channel Germany. He has been working in IT journalism for more than 20 years. His career includes Computer Reseller News, Heise Resale, Informationweek, Techtarget (storage and data center) and ChannelBiz. He also freelances for numerous IT publications, including Computerwoche, Channelpartner, IT-Business, Storage-Insider and ZDnet. His main topics are channel, storage, security, data center, ERP and CRM.
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