Data protection, cyber resilience, and sovereign AI: What Cohesity is bringing to HPE Discover 2026

Thousands of enterprise IT and security leaders will gather  at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2026—and Cohesity will be there  with solutions to some of the most pressing challenges they're facing. If data protection, ransomware resilience, or on-premises AI are on your radar, then what we’re showcasing is worth your attention.

Cohesity and HPE have been working together since 2016 to build something that goes well beyond traditional backup. Together, we've created a platform that customers tell us has fundamentally changed how they think about data protection. It’s much more than an insurance policy they hope they never have to use—it’s a strategic data foundation for their entire business.

Here's what we're focusing on at Discover this year, and why it matters to you.

One platform, all your data

If you've managed multiple backup tools across your on-prem environment, your cloud workloads, and your remote sites, you know how much time can be spent keeping those tools running.

Cohesity Data Cloud, running on certified HPE Private Cloud solutions, HPE ProLiant Compute, and HPE Alletra Storage Servers, changes that equation. It's a single platform that handles backup, recovery, and data management whether your workloads live in your data center or in the cloud. You get one management console, a unified support relationship, and a consistent experience across your entire data estate.

Customers tell us the difference is immediate. One customer described going from having almost no visibility into their environment to suddenly having a clear, comprehensive picture of where their data resilience was strong—and where it wasn't.

When a ransomware attack hits, how fast can you recover?

When an attack happens, having a backup is not enough. What matters is how quickly you can recover at scale and get back to business, without having to manually piece things back together system by system.

That's where the combination of Cohesity NetBackup and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 comes in—a jointly engineered, high-performance solution designed specifically for fast recovery at enterprise scale. Built on HPE's most advanced all-flash storage platform, it delivers the throughput and low latency your organization needs to restore data quickly and reliably.

But high-performance storage is only half the answer. The other half is getting back to business fast. Cohesity's instant mass restore capability lets you recover entire environments–not just files or folders, but entire fleets of VMs–rapidly, so that a ransomware event becomes a disruption you manage rather than a crisis that manages you.

For organizations that require continuous cyber resilience and operational continuity, HPE Zerto Software complements Cohesity with virtualized and cloud workload resilience, automated recovery orchestration, and near-zero data loss recovery. Whether you're recovering from a cyberattack or a data center outage, you're back online before most teams have finished their first incident call.

Your protected data is already an AI asset

Every organization is accelerating their AI journey right now. But, for many organizations—especially those in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, and government—sending sensitive data to cloud-based AI tools simply isn't an option. Compliance requirements, data sovereignty laws, and security policies often mean that AI can’t leave the building.

And that’s precisely the problem that Cohesity Gaia, running on HPE infrastructure with NVIDIA accelerated computing, is designed to solve.

Cohesity Gaia's unique architecture works with the data you already protect–no data pipelines, no data migration, no re-permissioning. Cohesity Gaia classifies, chunks, and vectorizes your protected data in place, and the AI responses it generates inherits your existing role-based access controls. That means your teams get grounded, auditable answers from your own institutional knowledge, with governance built in from the start–not bolted on afterward.

The architecture that makes this possible brings three things together in a single, pre-validated stack: 

Figure 1: A turnkey, sovereign AI stack – no data movement required.

Because the entire stack is pre-validated–HPE ProLiant Compute, HPE Alletra MP Storage, Cohesity's governed data layer, and NVIDIA's AI runtime—there's no guesswork on compatibility, no new vendor relationships to manage, and no separate procurement cycles. Organizations can have a practical path to enterprise AI without rearchitecting their environment or taking on new compliance risks.

This is what the industry has started calling sovereign AI–the ability to run AI on your own data, in your own environment, fully under your control. And it's why this solution was highlighted at NVIDIA GTC as well.