The Data Foundation Every AI Stack Should Run On — Pulse Brief

Enterprises Keep Rebuilding What Their Protected Data Already Holds

Enterprises are adopting AI across multiple providers, often rebuilding data pipelines and protection strategies for each environment. Yet much of the information these systems need already exists in protected backups spanning cloud platforms, on-premises systems, databases, and file shares.

In this research brief, Moor Insights & Strategy Vice President and Principal Analyst Mike Leone examines how protected enterprise data can serve as a shared foundation across AI stacks. He explores Cohesity’s approach, the potential to reduce duplication while preserving access controls, and the growing need to protect and recover AI agents’ memory, settings, and history. The brief outlines why enterprises should evaluate this foundation as core AI infrastructure.

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The Data Foundation Every AI Stack Should Run On

TABLE OF CONTENTS
What Enterprises Face in Creating AI Stacks
Feeding and Protecting AI the Hard Way
The Data Foundation Already Exists
How Cohesity Becomes That Foundation
Evaluate the Foundation as Infrastructure

COMPANIES CITED
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Anthropic
Cohesity
Datadog
Google
Microsoft
NVIDIA
OpenAI
ServiceNow
Snowflake
Veritas

Mike Leone
VP & Principal Analyst |  + posts

Mike Leone is a principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy covering data platforms and analytics, data infrastructure and storage, and data governance and enterprise data strategy. He brings 15 years of analyst experience from his work at Enterprise Strategy Group, where he rose to practice director for data management, analytics, and AI. Mike's work is grounded in a strong technical and strategic foundation, including early roles in software and hardware engineering.

Patrick Moorhead
Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst |  + posts

Patrick Moorhead is the founder, CEO, and chief analyst of Moor Insights & Strategy. His big-picture view of technology is grounded in more than 20 years as an executive leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing functions at NCR, AT&T, Compaq, and AMD. He has shared his expertise in areas from silicon to infrastructure to enterprise SaaS and everything in-between in thousands of national broadcast appearances (CNBC, Yahoo Finance), articles (Forbes, CIO), research-based analyses, and podcast episodes. Today, he has 100+ CXO-level advisory clients and is often ranked the #1 technology industry analyst by ARInsights.

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