Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein

Google’s purchase of Spirit Airlines’ data out of bankruptcy signaled a shift in how the tech world values real-world datasets. Although compute and models get much of the attention, in this landscape, it’s data that is a company’s protective moat. Eon CEO / Co-Founder Ofir Ehrlich and President / Co-Founder Gonen Stein join Elad Gil to talk about how Eon is redefining cloud backup into a secure data foundation designed to power and protect enterprise AI. Ofir and Gonen discuss why historical enterprise data is in demand by AI labs, and how Eon facilitates access to scattered and locked data across business units through providing the mapping, classification, and access controls needed to connect it into AI workflows. They also explore how traditional ransomware defenses must now protect against rogue AI agents with legitimate system permissions, concerns around the influx of autonomous agents and non-human identities, and the implications for the breakneck speed of AI adoption compared to the slowness of the cloud era.

Chapters:

00:00 – Cold Open Trailer

00:59 – Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein Introduction

01:27 – What Eon Does

02:41 – Data as Moat

06:43 – Training Agents with Good Data

09:39 – Data is the New Oil

15:00 – Autonomous Security Threats

18:15 – How Agents Change the Enterprise Stack

22:11 – Re-imagining Data Infrastructure

27:52 – Cloud vs. AI Era Shift

30:26 – How AI is Changing Companies

34:31 – Conclusion