New Way Now: Eon transforms cloud backups to AI-ready data lakes
10Featured in this video: Ron Kimchi, Co-founder and CTO at Eon
Executive Summary: Eon is a cloud-native, autonomous backup platform that unifies cloud backup posture management with a backup-optimized storage tier built on Google Cloud. It transforms cloud backups into instantly usable data lakes for AI, analytics, and recovery—eliminating silos and reducing operational and storage costs. Customers have achieved up to a 50% cost reduction in secondary storage used for backup. In some extreme cases, cost savings reached up to 98%. Enterprises have seen a 45% reduction in manual labor related to data protection and management.
Challenge: Enterprises frequently struggle with data loss, as demonstrated by a customer who faced a ransomware attack and discovered that a large percentage (roughly 40%) of their infrastructure was not properly protected or recoverable. This issue arises because centralized backup teams often lack awareness of new resources and data movements generated by distributed application teams using various cloud services, leading to misconfigurations and improper data retention. Additionally, traditional data analytics processes require extensive ETL (extract, transform, load) from numerous disparate databases, creating pervasive data silos that hinder efficient data access and analysis for AI purposes.
Solution: Eon transforms complex, multi-cloud backups into a live, queryable data lake—no restores, no ETL—enabling instant access for analytics, AI, and granular recovery. This enables customers to run analytics and AI tools, such as BigQuery, directly on their backups without needing to restore any data or perform manual ETL processes. Users can search across backups, run SQL queries, and pluck individual files from any point in time. Furthermore, Eon allows customers to leverage large language models (LLMs) to ask free-text questions directly on the indexed backup data, gaining immediate context and value from historical data across the entire retention period.
Result: Eon's collaboration with Google Cloud has yielded strong, measurable results for customers. Enterprises have significantly optimized costs, achieving up to a 50% reduction in secondary storage for backups—with some extreme cases reaching savings as high as 98%. Furthermore, the partnership has drastically improved recovery time from data loss events by up to 90%, while also cutting manual labor associated with data protection and management by 45%.
Interview highlights and key takeaways from Ron Kimchi, Co-founder and CTO at Eon:
→ "Eon empowers enterprises to take full control of their multi-cloud environment in the form of having one unified, storage platform."
→ "We've built a storage tier that sits on top of Google Cloud Storage that basically takes the entire backup that enterprises have and makes it accessible, as if it was one huge data lake."
→ "Customers can run BigQuery directly on top of their backups without restoring any data. In addition, they can use RAG and agentic AI directly on top of the backup."
→ "Together with Google Cloud, Eon has achieved very strong results for customers. We've seen that customers have improved the recovery time from data loss events up to 90%. In addition, we want our enterprises to have value for their workloads span, and we've seen that manual labor has been reduced by 45% for these enterprises."
Google Cloud products used: Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery