Cohesity

What the company sells

Cohesity sells Cohesity Data Cloud, a platform to protect, secure and gain insights into enterprise data. Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud is a single platform to protect 1,000+ workloads across cloud, on-prem and SaaS. Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud has built-in zero-trust principles and AI-powered threat detection, and immutability. Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud can improve AI outcomes with secure, trustworthy, AI-ready enterprise data.

Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud protects 1,000+ workloads across hybrid cloud and SaaS environments. Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud can strengthen threat detection, automate cyber recovery and reduce compliance risk. FortKnox isolates backup data in an immutable, air-gapped cyber vault. FortKnox copies data into a vaulted environment that is isolated from production networks. FortKnox is available for both DataProtect or NetBackup as a fully managed cyber vault hosted on AWS, Azure and GCP. Cohesity says integrated anomaly detection and threat scanning in FortKnox confirm data cleanliness before restore.

Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud includes Google Threat Intelligence in its backup scanning workflows. Cohesity describes a Sophos-powered malware scanning engine for inspecting backups. Cohesity CERT steps in to help contain the damage and initiate recovery. Cohesity says cyber recovery orchestration helps teams orchestrate and rehearse cyber recovery workflows to respond and recover faster after a cyberattack. Cohesity Data Cloud includes blueprints that sequence recovery steps in a visual workflow. Cyber recovery orchestration integrates natively with Cohesity DataProtect and Cohesity NetBackup. Cohesity says its cyber clean room design isolates impacted systems in a controlled environment for detailed threat analysis.

Cohesity Gaia is used through the Cohesity Data Cloud and through agentic AI tools. Gaia makes protected enterprise data AI-ready in place, searchable, summarizable and agent-accessible, without moving a byte or rebuilding permissions. Gaia can run as SaaS or fully self-managed on-prem, including fully air-gapped environments. Gaia connects to agentic tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Glean, which is marked as coming soon. Cohesity offers Cohesity Data Security Posture Management, powered by Cyera. Cohesity says it supports identity security, protection and recovery for organizations that rely on AD, Entra ID or a hybrid model.

For long-term retention, Cohesity names three archival solutions: CloudArchive, CloudArchive Direct and Cloud Tier. Cohesity says CloudArchive, CloudArchive Direct and Cloud Tier can archive data either to public clouds or S3 compatible targets. Cohesity says unified backup and automated disaster recovery solutions can deliver near-zero application downtime and no data loss. Cohesity offers data classification solutions to discover and classify sensitive and critical data with ML-based scanning. Cohesity describes protection for VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cloud Director. Cohesity says VMware users can globally search and then instantly recover dozens to thousands of virtual machines using instant mass restore. NetBackup supports backing up and recovering Kubernetes workloads and applications. NetBackup Powered Appliances give fast and flexible deployment with hardened, multi-layer security. Cohesity says teams using RecoveryAgent can build, test and validate recovery plans.

Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud is available as Cohesity-managed, self-managed or partner-managed offerings. Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud runs in public clouds and on-premises on certified platforms. A Cohesity-Powered service provider can manage Cohesity Data Cloud on a customer's behalf. Cohesity says customers can run Cohesity software in a data center, in the cloud or at the edge with certified solutions from Cohesity and its partners. Cohesity works with Cisco, HPE and more on certified hardware.

Cohesity says 12,000+ customers rely on it for their cyber resilience. Cohesity says its platform is for organizations of all sizes, across all industries. AutoNation is a Cohesity customer that says the software-defined platform for data management improved reliability and lowered TCO. Sky Lakes Medical Center says it used Cohesity to recover machines and file shares, verify they are clean and bring applications back online.^{[1][3][7][8][9][10][13][14][15][16]}

Categories

• Backup and cyber recovery (primary category)
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Headquarters

San Jose, United States^[2]

Founded

2013^[2]

Ownership

Privately held^{[4][5][6][11][12]}

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Website

cohesity.com

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

• Cohesity Data Cloud^{[4][6][8][9][11]}

  A single platform to protect 1,000+ workloads across cloud, on-prem and SaaS.

  Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud protects 1,000+ workloads across hybrid cloud and SaaS environments. Cohesity Data Cloud is available as Cohesity-managed, self-managed or partner-managed offerings. Cohesity says Cohesity Data Cloud runs in public clouds and on-premises on certified platforms.

• Cohesity Gaia^[6][11]

  AI-powered conversational search.

  Cohesity Gaia can run as SaaS or fully self-managed on-prem, including air-gapped environments. Gaia self-managed deployments are validated on reference architectures from NVIDIA, Cisco and HPE. Gaia connects to agentic tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Glean, which is marked as coming soon.

Competitors and alternatives

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• On backup and cyber recovery, Cohesity competes with Acronis, Commvault, Druva, HYCU, Keepit, Object First, Rubrik, Veeam, Freeit Data Solutions, Halcyon and 4 more.

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• G2 · no rating shown · 74 reviews^[5]seen November 3, 2026

References

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1. [1]CompanyCohesity · cohesity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
2. [2]Cohesity announces significant expansion in pune with long term commitment to the indian marketCohesity · cohesity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
3. [3]Cohesity becomes worlds largest data protection provider after completing combination with veritas enterprise data protection businessCohesity · cohesity.com · published December 10, 2024 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
4. [4]AI-powered data security and management | CohesityCohesity · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
5. [5]Cohesity Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
6. [6]Cloud Data Security and Management Platform | Cohesity Data CloudCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
7. [7]FortKnox Cyber Vaulting: Immutable Air-Gapped Backup for Clean, Fast RecoveryCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
8. [8]Ransomware Threat Protection Software | CohesityCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
9. [9]Cyber Recovery Orchestration | Cohesity RecoveryAgentCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
10. [10]Data Management Solutions | Comprehensive Data Management SoftwareCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
11. [11]AI-Ready Data Platform: Activate On-Prem Enterprise Data for AI | Cohesity GaiaCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
12. [12]Data Archiving & Retention Solution | CohesityCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
13. [13]VMware Backup and Recovery Solution | CohesityCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
14. [14]NetBackup: Enterprise backup solutions | CohesityCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
15. [15]Certified Platforms | Solutions from Cohesity and PartnersCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
16. [16]Instant and Rapid Recovery | Cohesity Instant Mass RestoreCohesity · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

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