Cohesity launches Maestro to bring backup into AI apps

Cohesity has launched Cohesity Maestro, extending its data protection and recovery tools into external artificial intelligence platforms.

The launch centres on Model Context Protocol, or MCP, an open standard that lets software tools connect with AI systems such as Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Maestro gives customers access to cyber resilience operations, security telemetry, autonomous agents and Cohesity's Gaia search engine from within AI workflows they already use. Cohesity describes the approach as headless architecture, meaning users can trigger actions and retrieve information without switching to a separate Cohesity console.

That includes data protection tasks such as restores, status checks, reporting, recovery group orchestration and threat hunting. It also covers real-time operational and security signals that can be pulled into other dashboards and AI-driven processes.

Headless model

Cohesity is targeting businesses that have already adopted a mix of AI tools and want infrastructure software to fit around those choices. Rather than building around a single proprietary assistant, it is opening access through MCP so the same functions can be used across different AI environments.

The same role-based access controls, authentication settings and audit framework used in the main platform also apply when customers access the service through external AI tools.

Maestro also builds on earlier products. Cohesity Copilot, introduced in 2024, added natural-language administration for data protection. RecoveryAgent, launched in 2025, focused on cyber recovery tasks including recovery group and blueprint orchestration.

Support for Gaia through MCP is part of the launch for customers already using the company's search and knowledge engine. According to Cohesity, Gaia provides semantically enriched search across protected data using a metadata catalogue and NVIDIA enterprise AI.

The company positioned the release as a way for IT and security teams to ask questions about changes across their environments, identify risks and recovery gaps, and then take actions such as restoring systems or investigating threats from within the AI products they already use.

Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Poonen said customers no longer want suppliers to force them into a separate interface.

"Our customers have already chosen," said Sanjay Poonen, Chief Executive Officer of Cohesity.

He said the shift reflects how enterprise software is increasingly being used alongside large language models and AI assistants.

"Claude, Gemini, and GPT already run operations on these platforms, which grow in capability every day. Cohesity Maestro gives those platforms direct access to our data protection capabilities. No new console. No workflow changes. Just the power of Cohesity, wherever their AI already lives. This is what headless data protection looks like, and Cohesity is the first in our industry to deliver it," said Poonen.

Open integration

Cohesity contrasted its MCP-based approach with what it described as more closed, agent-led systems from rivals. Its argument is that customers should be able to connect data protection tools to whichever AI stack they choose, rather than relying on a single vendor-controlled environment.

That position reflects a wider shift in enterprise technology as software companies look for ways to make their products usable through external AI agents. Instead of requiring staff to log into dedicated applications, vendors are increasingly exposing functions so they can be called from broader workflows.

For backup, recovery and cyber resilience providers, that could change how administrators handle urgent incidents. Security and infrastructure teams could surface telemetry, check the status of protection jobs, run reports or launch recovery procedures from within a conversational AI interface rather than a specialist operations console.

Availability

Copilot and RecoveryAgent are available now, along with Gaia support for MCP. The full Maestro MCP interface and additional agents are due later this year.

Cohesity said its products are used by customers in more than 140 countries, including more than 70% of the Fortune Global 500.