Cohesity & Google Cloud expand AI & cyber defence pact

Cohesity has deepened its partnership with Google Cloud under a multi-year strategic agreement that expands joint work across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and data protection, with a strong emphasis on data sovereignty.

The companies plan new product integrations, joint go-to-market activity and closer alignment between their platforms. The deal extends an existing relationship that already links Cohesity's data security and management software with Google Cloud infrastructure and security services.

Cohesity said the latest phase of the collaboration aims to improve cyber resilience and data risk management for enterprises while also supporting wider use of AI on corporate data. The work will span AI search, threat intelligence, incident response, digital sovereignty controls and backup services.

"This collaboration with Google Cloud represents a bold step forward in redefining how enterprises protect, secure, and gain insight from their data, while reframing sovereignty from a regulatory burden into a source of trust and advantage," said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and president, Cohesity. "By combining the power of AI, cyber resilience, and cloud innovation, Cohesity is not just working to solve today's challenges-we're building the foundation for a smarter, more secure digital future."

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said the expanded agreement reflects growing customer demand for secure AI and resilient infrastructure.

"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, 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."

AI search focus

A central plank of the partnership is support for AI applications on enterprise data. Cohesity already uses Google's Gemini models within its Gaia product, an AI assistant that runs in cloud or on-premises environments and allows staff to query unstructured corporate data through natural language searches.

Cohesity plans to add Vertex AI Search into the Gaia platform. The company said this will introduce instant, grounded responses to structured user questions. The answers will include citations sourced from files stored in Cohesity's immutable data lake, which it positions as "AI-ready".

The partners also plan an integration between Cohesity's Data Cloud and Gemini Enterprise, Google's new agentic AI platform. Cohesity said this linkage will let AI agents created by Google and partners access historical enterprise data that resides in Cohesity environments. It expects this will connect that data more directly with existing workflows inside organisations.

A version of Gaia that runs on Google Cloud is already available. Cohesity said hosting Gaia on Google's global infrastructure can increase the speed and availability of responses from the assistant and can raise the overall value of the responses for users.

Threat detection

The deal also extends the companies' work in cyber defence. Cohesity's Data Cloud platform already incorporates Google Threat Intelligence. Customers can use the combined system to detect and respond to attacks against enterprise data stores. Google's indicators of compromise data supports both proactive threat hunting and reactive scans within Cohesity's environment, with the aim of supporting clean cyber recoveries.

Cohesity's Cyber Event Response Team works with Google Cloud's Mandiant Incident Response team on cyber incidents. The joint response activity focuses on rapid recovery after destructive attacks.

The companies plan deeper integration between Cohesity Data Cloud and Google Security Operations. They expect this will connect security operations workflows and automate more detection steps. The work will surface possible threats within backup data and target shorter response times.

Cohesity also outlined a planned cyber resilience software-as-a-service product that uses cloud-isolated recovery on Google Cloud. The aim is swift recovery from cyberattacks, including in cases where primary systems are compromised. The service will keep recovery data in a separate, trusted environment that functions as a clean room.

Digital sovereignty

The partnership places significant weight on regulatory requirements around data location and control. Google has certified Cohesity as a Google Cloud Ready - Regulated & Sovereignty Solutions partner. Customers can deploy Cohesity Data Cloud inside Google Cloud's Data Boundary environment in order to meet data residency and sovereign control rules in specific jurisdictions.

The deal also extends support for Cohesity FortKnox, the vendor's cyber vaulting product, on Google Cloud. Customers can maintain immutable, isolated copies of critical information in distinct geographic regions. Policy-based controls will govern where vaults are stored and where they can be recovered. Cohesity said enterprises can use the combination of FortKnox and Google Cloud infrastructure to align local data residency needs with broader cyber resilience objectives.

Extended data protection

The companies are broadening their work in backup and recovery for cloud services. Cohesity DataProtect supports organisations that run workloads on Google Cloud. It can protect services such as Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage and several databases. It uses immutable backups that can sit in Google Cloud or in a customer's own data centre.

Cohesity plans additional support for Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery and other data-centric services. It also plans more regional storage options. The company said these changes will give customers more choice over how they structure resilience strategies across regions and services.

All parts of the Cohesity Data Cloud portfolio are available through the Google Cloud Marketplace. Customers can purchase and deploy the products through their existing cloud procurement channels.

The expanded collaboration also includes joint go-to-market initiatives, co-selling agreements and integrated marketing activity aimed at shared enterprise customers across regions.

Cohesity and Google Cloud said they will continue to add new integrations and services under the agreement as customer requirements for AI, cyber resilience and sovereignty evolve.