Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
Eon co-founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein join Elad Gil to discuss how the rise of AI is transforming backup and disaster recovery into an active data foundation. They explore the increasing monetary value of enterprise datasets, the emergence of non-human identity security threats, and why the velocity of AI adoption far outpaces the previous cloud migration era.
- Point-to-point ETL pipelines built on tools like Fivetran and dbt were designed for static human queries, not dynamic agent workloads. Read →
- Cloud migration took a decade because infrastructure felt abstract to leadership; generative AI adoption moves at breakneck speed because boards experienced ChatGPT firsthand. Read →
- Enterprise AI adoption stalls because internal training data sits trapped across twenty years of disconnected databases and unmapped cloud storage. Read →
- Google paid $10 million for Spirit Airlines' enterprise data during bankruptcy proceedings, leaving the airplanes behind. Read →
- Autonomous agents hold legitimate credentials: AI workers operate with valid permissions, meaning malicious activity looks identical to authorized work. Read →