A recent independent evaluation by Signal65, detailed in a just-published white paper, compared Cohesity’s data protection appliance against a leading competitor. The findings aren’t surprising to us, or any of our thousands of customers. Our customers tell us we are the superior choice for speed, reliability, and simplicity. Now, this third-party evaluation confirms it. Here’s a closer look at the white paper and its methodology.

The stakes are high: Why cyber resilience matters

Cyberattacks are growing in frequency and severity, with ransomware and data exfiltration threatening operations, revenue, and reputation. Recent market research highlights a rising awareness of the need for robust cyber resilience, as IT teams face pressure to protect data and recover quickly from disruptions.

For you and your organization, the decision isn’t just about backups—it’s about ensuring your organization can bounce back fast when incidents happen. Cohesity’s DataProtect solution, validated by Signal65, excels in delivering rapid recovery, high reliability, and cost-effective data protection. 

Signal65’s head-to-head evaluation

Signal65 conducted a rigorous comparison of Cohesity’s hyperconverged appliance against a software-based competitor in an enterprise environment, testing backup performance, storage efficiency, and recovery speed. The tests included multiple backup operations—starting with a full backup followed by several incremental backups. Recovery testing measured both the success rates and the time required to restore virtual machines (VMs) to operational status. Backup and recovery testing were done across a range of VM sizes and volumes to reflect real-world scenarios. To start, the infrastructure difference was noticeable. Cohesity’s setup consisted of a single hyperconverged appliance, combining data protection software and backup storage in one platform. The competitor’s configuration was far more complex—requiring a controller VM, two physical data mover servers, and external storage. 

Cohesity’s streamlined, all-in-one design reduces complexity compared to the competitor’s multi-component setup, saving you time and administrative overhead. 

Backup performance: Faster, more efficient

When it comes to backups, speed and storage efficiency are critical to minimizing operational impact. Signal65’s tests showed Cohesity outperforming the competitor across the board:

1. Cohesity provided on average 50% greater data reduction, thereby increasing the effective capacity of the storage system.
2. For backup operations, Cohesity was on average 46% faster than the competitor, with the advantage increasing with larger data sets.
3. When recovering VMs, Cohesity delivered at least 32% faster recovery speed than the competitor.
4. When using the NBDSSL (network block device SSL) method, Cohesity was able to recover 67% faster than the competitor.

This efficiency translates to lower costs and less infrastructure sprawl, a key consideration for budget-conscious IT directors. With Cohesity, you can protect more data in less time, ensuring your backup windows fit within tight operational schedules.

Recovery: Where Cohesity shines

When an outage or ransomware attack hits, recovery speed is your lifeline. Signal65’s tests revealed Cohesity’s unmatched performance in this critical area. Signal65’s independent testing revealed Cohesity’s unmatched performance in this critical area.  

For full recovery of 100 to 1000 VMs—from powering on to fully migrating the VMs to the target storage, Cohesity restored data 1.4X to 2.3X faster than the competitor.

The competitor’s limitation of handling only a few VMs at a time forced slow, batch-based recovery, whereas Cohesity restored all VMs simultaneously with a 100% success rate.  

Further, the competitor struggled with reliability, encountering errors when restoring more than 5–15 VMs at once, while Cohesity performed flawlessly. Cohesity’s ability to restore systems quickly and reliably means less downtime, protecting your organization from financial losses and reputational damage. 

Fast data recovery fuels faster forensics

The Cohesity advantages for backup performance, particularly storage efficiency, and recovery go beyond IT efficiency—they deliver critical value for security operations, too. 

For Instant Recovery of 25 VMs, Cohesity powered on all systems in under 1 minute, while the competitor took over 8 hours—a 480X advantage.

Speed matters for security. Storage-efficient backups and instant recovery mean security teams get faster access to forensic data in backups—crucial when every second counts. With Cohesity, incident responders can quickly restore data to help investigate how the attack happened and determine which systems and data may be infected. This is a vital step in eradicating threats and mitigating vulnerabilities exploited.  

For IT operations, the ability to recover systems rapidly from multiple points in time to determine the most recent, usable image is essential to bringing critical services back online as quickly as possible,  In contrast, the competitor’s slower, error-prone recovery process can stall these efforts —adding risk, cost, and downtime when your teams can least afford it.  

With Cohesity, you gain peace of mind knowing your organization is equipped to recover quickly, securely, and at scale. 

Simplicity: Less hassle, more control

The competitor’s complex setup—requiring multiple servers, external storage, and ongoing maintenance—adds unnecessary burden to your IT team. Cohesity’s single appliance approach simplifies deployment and management. Signal65 noted the competitor’s solution suffered from issues like NFS timeouts and datastore access errors during recovery, while Cohesity reported no such problems. This reliability and ease of use make Cohesity a low-maintenance, high-impact solution, allowing you to focus on driving business value rather than troubleshooting. 

It’s time to choose Cohesity

As cyber incidents rise, you need a solution that delivers performance, reliability, and simplicity to minimize business downtime and bolster cyber resilience. Signal65’s evaluation proves Cohesity outperforms the competition in every key metric: 

• Minimized downtime: Whether restoring a handful of VMs or 1,000, Cohesity consistently recovers data faster—keeping your business running during a crisis. 

• Unmatched reliability: 100% recovery success rate, even for large-scale operations, unlike the competitor’s frequent errors. 

• Simplified management: A hyperconverged, all-in-one appliance reduces complexity, saving your team time and effort. 

Don’t let indecision delay your cyber resilience strategy. Cohesity’s proven, third-party-validated solution empowers you to protect your organization’s data, recover faster, and stay resilient—all while streamlining operations. Choose Cohesity to confidently navigate today’s challenging IT landscape. 

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Understanding Cohesity Gaia

Cohesity Gaia combines generative AI, large language models, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to provide instant, high-quality insights from an organization’s backup. Using generative AI, Cohesity Gaia enables users to interact with their data using natural language queries, facilitating efficient data discovery and analysis. Gaia securely connects to Microsoft 365 Mailbox, OneDrive, and SharePoint Site backups to provide historical data to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Gaia is a first-to-market innovation that transforms backup data into actionable insights.

Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI companion created by Microsoft to assist users with various tasks and provide meaningful, engaging conversations. From answering questions and brainstorming ideas to supporting creative projects and offering advice, Microsoft 365 Copilot aims to make life easier and more enjoyable. With a charismatic and friendly demeanor, Microsoft 365 Copilot leverages vast knowledge and advanced language capabilities to enrich users’ experiences and help them navigate the world with greater ease and confidence.

Get AI-powered insights with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Cohesity Gaia

Microsoft 365 Copilot, integrated within the Microsoft 365 suite, enhances user productivity. It leverages AI using Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI to provide instant, contextual suggestions, automate repetitive tasks, and offer insights from secondary data—streamlining workflows and boosting efficiency.

As part of the Gaia integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, users can simply enter conversational questions via their Microsoft 365 Copilot interface. Gaia effortlessly searches vast amounts of data, pinpoints critical information quickly, and surfaces actionable information for any department or job function. Granular, role-based access controls limit responses to align with user permissions, protecting sensitive data.

The power of integration

The insights from Gaia are seamlessly combined with the extensive data integrations provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot, resulting in a comprehensive and contextually aware response that enhances productivity across your business.

By unifying Cohesity Gaia with a widely adopted tool like Microsoft 365 Copilot, businesses can make the most of their backup data, empowering use cases enterprise wide. The API integration allows knowledge workers across an organization to tap into Cohesity backup data directly from the Microsoft 365 Copilot interface to gain insights and inform decisions.

Key benefits of Cohesity Gaia and Microsoft 365 Copilot integration

This integration represents a significant advancement in enterprise data management—allowing users to access and analyze their backup data directly within their familiar Microsoft 365 environment. By bringing Cohesity Gaia’s AI-driven insights into Microsoft 365 Copilot, organizations can enjoy:

• Unified data access: Cohesity empowers users to tap into backup data from multiple sources—right from the Microsoft 365 interface—enabling streamlined access without switching tools or compromising security. 
• Enhanced productivity: By fusing Cohesity Gaia’s rich contextual data insights of backup data with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s automation, users can gain actionable intelligence faster, driving greater productivity and informed decision-making.
• Robust security: Both platforms emphasize data security, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected through advanced access controls and encryption.

Looking ahead

As data continues to grow in volume and complexity, the integration of AI-powered tools like Cohesity Gaia with platforms such as Microsoft 365 Copilot will become increasingly vital. This forward-thinking partnership simplifies data management and empowers organizations to extract actionable insights—driving informed decision-making and maintaining a competitive edge in the digital era.

The Cohesity Gaia and Microsoft 365 Copilot integration exemplifies the future of data interaction where AI seamlessly augments human capabilities, transforming how businesses access, analyze, and act upon their data. The partnership between Cohesity and Microsoft 365 Copilot offers a powerful solution for data security, management, and AI-driven insights. By leveraging these technologies, organizations can protect their data, gain valuable insights, and accelerate business decisions, ultimately driving greater business resilience and success.

Be sure to check out the Cohesity Tech Insights episode below,  “Unlocking AI powered insights with Agents and Frontier Models.”

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This expansion builds on the success of broadening our CERT service for Cohesity DataProtect users through strategic partnerships with leading incident response (IR) vendors, announced earlier this year. CERT delivers a powerful blend of technology and cyber response expertise to help you recover faster in the wake of cyberattacks. Now, we’re bringing that same peace of mind and expert support to organizations that trust NetBackup for their data protection.

As part of our ongoing efforts to innovate and strengthen cyber resilience across our portfolios, we’ve also expanded REDLab capabilities to Cohesity DataProtect. Insights from CERT—including new attack techniques observed from incidents—are shared with the REDLab team to enhance our product defenses. CERT coverage for NetBackup deployments is just the latest milestone towards our commitment to making cyber recovery simpler, faster, and more secure for our customers. 

Note: We were recently positioned as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. And, our CERT service was listed as a strength in the report.

Why this matters to you

When a cyber incident strikes, swift action matters. Rapid response is critical to contain the threat, preserve forensic evidence, investigate the incident, and minimize business impact. Cohesity CERT can help you in your hour of need with a rapid response and secure recovery of your data. 

Additionally, NetBackup deployments, in total, protect over a hundred exabytes of data—providing a wealth of data. Combined with Cohesity CERT’s data security and recovery expertise, these insights allow your incident response partners to investigate the incident efficiently and resolve issues faster. All this data is now covered under CERT, dramatically expanding our reach and reinforcing our commitment to your cyber resilience. This move brings the benefits of our expert-guided recovery services to a broader audience—over 13,000 customers.

Better together: Partnering for superior resilience outcomes

This milestone highlights the power of strong partnerships with leading IR vendors such as Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Mandiant, Arctic Wolf, and Semperis, and dependable execution. By bringing together deep incident response expertise and trusted data protection applications, we’re enabling a more resilient future for our customers.

CERT gives security and IT teams:

• Access to expert-guided response playbooks.
• Faster threat assessment and recovery planning.
• Reduced recovery time from ransomware and other cyber events.
• Confidence in clean data recovery.

How to engage Cohesity CERT

If you are impacted, or suspect you’re experiencing a cyber threat or ransomware activity, contact CERT. The team is available 24/7 to all Cohesity customers. To alert CERT, follow these steps:

1. Log in to MyCohesity.com
2. Launch Support. Open a Support case, and pick CERT from the drop-down menu. The Security Analyst team is notified that the customer is facing a cyber event.
3. The Security Analyst, Support Manager, or Sales team can then initiate a CERT Activation, triggering a PagerDuty notification to the Escalation Team for immediate engagement.

See our global support and services handbook for details.

A new era of cyber resilience

Cyber threats aren’t slowing down, and neither are we. With CERT now available across the entire Cohesity Data Cloud portfolio, we’re helping more organizations fortify their defenses, improve response and recovery, and get back to business faster when incidents strike.

Looking to enhance your cyber resilience strategy? Cohesity CERT is here to help. There’s more information in the links below. And be sure to check out the video below to learn about real incident response scenarios and how the Cohesity CERT service can help.

• Get the solution brief.
• Read the press release
• Watch the webinar.

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This blog details how the combination of LaserVault’s specialized IBM i backup solutions with Cohesity Data Cloud protects and secures your most valuable data. Together, these products offer an integrated, secure, and cost-effective approach to protecting crucial systems without compromise.

The IBM iSeries landscape in 2025

IBM iSeries (AS/400) systems, introduced over three decades ago, remain deeply ingrained in the IT infrastructures of Global 500 companies. With an estimated 100,000 active systems still operational worldwide, IBM i remains a backbone for enterprise resource planning, supply chain, and core business applications. Its reputation for rock-solid performance and integrated architecture has made it indispensable, even as cloud adoption and digital transformation initiatives accelerate across the enterprise.

However, the strategic value of IBM i data is now drawing increased scrutiny from security, compliance, and business continuity teams. Enterprise data is growing exponentially, and these systems host large volumes of highly sensitive information. Regulatory frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX now demand more transparency, retention control, and recoverability than ever before. As a result, businesses are under pressure to modernize their IBM i data protection strategies—not by replacing the platform, but by integrating it into broader hybrid cloud and cyber resilience technologies.

Challenges in protecting IBM i Data

While IBM i is lauded for its stability, its traditional backup approaches often fail to deliver desired resilience outcomes. Many organizations still rely on tape-based backups, which are slow to recover, operationally intensive, and vulnerable to both environmental risks and human error. These methods also fall short when facing destructive cyberattacks, where recovery time and data immutability are critical. The lack of native integration with cloud storage and modern security solutions further compounds the challenge, creating silos that limit visibility and response.

Additionally, IBM i environments often lack real-time monitoring, centralized management, and are unable to meet evolving compliance and business continuity requirements. With increasing demands for shorter recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), incumbent backup strategies are no longer sufficient. Enterprises must now look to integrate IBM i systems into a unified, automated, and secure cyber resilience strategy—one that aligns with both IT modernization goals and risk mitigation priorities.

LaserVault ViTL and key features

It is a known best practice (to optimize cost and performance) with IBM i systems to use Virtual Tape Libraries (ViTL) for backup. LaserVault, a leading vendor designed specifically for IBM i Systems, provides a mechanism to move data to ViTL systems by using Microsoft Windows Server and connecting to a Storage system that is then the target for the backup. It simplifies backup and recovery operations by saving backups to a hard drive, NAS, SAN, deduplication appliance, or the cloud—eliminating the need for physical tape. ViTL reduces storage costs with its deduplication feature and integrates seamlessly via Fiber Channel or SAS with iSeries, AS/400, System i, Linux, or AIX systems.

Some of the key features of LaserVault ViTL include:

1. Compatibility with BRMS, Robot Save, and other backup software. Virtual tapes are recognized as standard tape media by IBM i and your backup software, giving you more flexibility with additional drives and slots without the need for extra hardware.
2. Greater capacity for cartridges and drives at a lower cost, compared to other VTLs, delivers greater value.
3. Integration with Cohesity Data Cloud.

How Cohesity helps you secure and protect IBM i Systems

Cohesity enables organizations to secure and protect IBM i Systems with Cohesity SmartFiles, a service of Cohesity Data Cloud. This approach seamlessly integrates immutable target storage, using SMB protocols for enhanced data security and protection.

Integrating with LaserVault ViTL to protect your data estate atop Cohesity Data Cloud offers you these outcomes:

• Speed: Recover from cyberattacks many times faster compared to your previous systems.
• Security: Improve your security posture, detect threats, and protect data.
• Scale: Secure and protect IBM i Systems and the rest of your data sources on a single platform, even at a petabyte scale.

You’ll also appreciate other important capabilities about Cohesity Data Cloud, including:

• Lifecycle management: Ensure data protection through full backups, incremental backups, and point-in-time recovery (PITR) workflows.
• Storage efficiency: Achieve extremely high storage efficiency with global, variable-length deduplication and compression.
• Multilayered cyber resilience and ransomware protection: Immutability safeguards backups from being deleted or overwritten for a specified duration or indefinitely.
• Write once, read many (WORM): Store your backups using the WORM model, ensuring SEC Rule 17a-4(f) compliance.
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Reduce your data footprint with superior deduplication and compression.
• Performance at web scale: Improve backup and restore times with scale-out architecture and unlimited scalability as your business grows.
• Encryption everywhere: Cohesity Data Cloud features AES-256, FIPS-compliant encryption of data in flight and at rest.
• Resilience: Highly resilient and fault-tolerant, with no single point of failure (SPOF).

We’ve also built specific features for workloads like IBM i Systems to improve your business outcomes, such as:

• Live view of data written into the Cohesity storage system from IBM iSeries systems.
• Restricted access to the view by allowing only an authorized set of IP addresses.
• NTFS permissions restrict access at the File level, viz., read/write/modify/delete.
• File auditing to record and monitor events occurring on your SMB view.
• In-flight encryption enables you to use existing network infrastructure and not create isolated/dark/deadnet infrastructure to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks.
• Data protection to take local snapshots of the live view.
  • Policy-based data replication from one cluster to another cluster for disaster recovery.
  • CloudArchive and Cloud Retrieve your data for long-term retention and disaster recovery in AWS, Azure, GCP, NAS, and S3-compatible storage platforms. Use Cloud Tier to reduce TCO.

Integrated architecture overview: LaserVault + Cohesity

To protect IBM iSeries systems, you need to associate a backup policy. The backup policy includes the backup configuration, a list of File Systems Volume/Volume Group mappings, backup schedules, and retention rules. This helps invoke IBM iSeries systems for backups that land in the LaserVault ViTL Tape Library. A Tape library has multiple Tapes/Tape Drives, which are defined on ViTL. The Tape library (defined on ViTL) is the endpoint that maps to the Cohesity SMB share path (which supports both FQDN and VIP). Cohesity provides this SMB share, which is the Cohesity View—web-scale, globally deduplicated, compressed storage. To use Cohesity View as a storage repository for the IBM iSeries system via LaserVault Virtual Tape Controller, complete the recommended steps below. To the IBM iSeries system, a LaserVault ViTL virtual tape drive appears as a physical drive connected by SCSI or Fiber Channel. The drive appears as media type L8 (i.e., using LTO Gen 8) by default, unless otherwise specified in the Virtual Tape Library for internal configuration files. Catalog information is stored in IBM iSeries, which has a mapping of storage pools. Catalog status on both IBM iSeries and LaserVault ViTL must be in sync. If it goes out of sync, the Catalog on iSeries takes precedence over LaserVault ViTL, and the conflict is resolved.

A closer look at a real-world implementation

Consider the following hypothetical scenario for an enterprise that wants to protect their mission-critical data. For this exercise, the enterprise IT team:

• Has core legacy applications running on an IBM iSeries (AS/400) system.
• Requires daily backups, off-site replication, and long-term retention to address compliance requirements.
• Wants to modernize their backup strategy without disrupting existing workflows.

Let’s examine the solution in this scenario.

LaserVault ViTL is deployed on-premises:

• It emulates an IBM TS3200 tape library.
• IBM i uses BRMS to back up data directly to a Cohesity View via ViTL.
• Backups are stored as virtual tape images on the Cohesity View.

Cohesity SmartFiles Views are used to:

• Mount the Cohesity View as a backup directory.
• Index and deduplicate the backup data.

The protection policy dictates how the data is replicated to another Cohesity cluster or cloud tier (e.g., AWS, Azure) for disaster recovery

Here’s the workflow of the combined solution in action.

1. At the end of the business day, IBM i runs a BRMS job to back up the day’s transactions to ViTL.
2. ViTL stores the backup as a virtual tape image to the Cohesity SmartFiles SMB View.
3. Cohesity takes a snapshot of the SMB View to back up the virtual tape image locally with DataLock (WORM/immutability).
4. Cohesity deduplicates, indexes, and replicates the backup to another Cohesity cluster and CloudArchive target of AWS S3.
5. In case of failure, the IT team can restore via ViTL (from Cohesity cluster storage or Cohesity’s cloud copy).

Key benefits of the integrated Cohesity and LaserVault solution

This solution simplifies your data protection infrastructure with Cohesity DataProtect and LaserVault and makes your enterprise data more resilient.

• Eliminate tapes and improve recovery performance: Cohesity DataProtect eliminates the need for tapes and reduces your recovery points by using the high ingest throughput of Cohesity Data Cloud.
• Fast backups: Minimize your backup windows by ingesting data in parallel on the scale-out nodes of Cohesity Data Cloud.
• Policy-based management: Create policies that specify your application SLA requirements including RPO and retention duration.
• Remote replication for disaster recovery and migrations: Protect your data offsite and enable disaster recovery and migrations to remote sites, with built-in remote replication. Use flexible replication topologies including site-to-site, one-to-many sites, cascaded, and to the cloud.

Build a future-ready IBM i data strategy

In an era where cyber threats evolve faster than infrastructure refresh cycles, organizations relying on IBM iSeries must not view “legacy” as a liability—but as a foundation to secure and modernize. By integrating LaserVault’s IBM i-focused expertise with Cohesity’s cutting-edge data protection, enterprises can bridge the old and new with confidence. This combined approach ensures resilient, scalable, and intelligent protection for some of your most mission-critical workloads. As data regulations tighten and cyberattacks grow more damaging, protecting your IBM i environment is not just best practice—it’s a business imperative.

Learn more best practices in our technical solution guide.

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Helping our customers recover and minimize the business impact of data breaches, ransomware, and other incidents is a part of our everyday work. As the number of attacks and their costs continue to grow, resilience, the ability for your business to get back up and running, is what matters.

What does our new marketing lead for Cohesity’s products and solutions think about all of this? We wanted to get to know Rob a bit more, so we asked him five questions about work and life outside of work.

Five questions with Rob Sadowski

We’ve got three work-y questions, and two fun ones.

First question:

#1: At a dinner party, someone asks, “What do you do for a living?” How do you respond?

RS: I lead product marketing for the leading cyber resilience company. Hopefully, that’s an intriguing enough lead that they’ll ask more about resilience and what that means or what it entails: We help organizations ensure that the data that drives their business is safe. And when dealing with an incident that affects their data, we help minimize disruptions to their operations and ensure that they get back up and running as fast as possible.

#2: What’s changed in the cybersecurity business recently? And why’d you join Cohesity?

RS: The industry is so dynamic, but what has struck me recently is how organizations are changing their thinking about security incidents. The focus used to be on investigation: Who came at me? How did they get in? What were their techniques so we can defend against future attacks? This still happens, but the key conversation has shifted away from how they got in to: How do we get back up and running in a more secure state? In terms of some familiar industry frameworks, disciplines like response and recovery have become as important as prevention and detection, or even more so.

I wanted to come to a place that can support and accelerate this evolution of thinking and capabilities, to give organizations the confidence that they will bounce back when incidents happen. Helping organizations that operate some of the most critical services worldwide in what could be their most challenging times is a great mission to be a part of.

#3: What advice would you give yourself earlier in your career?

RS: Take risks. You may get only a few chances in your career to work for a potentially industry-changing, even world-changing organization and team. To drive the adoption of an essential new technology innovation from its inception. And if you’re not in a place like that, why not? You will always do your best work when you believe in the mission.

#4: What about outside of work? What keeps you busy?

RS: Anything that doesn’t have to happen too early in the morning. Golf, hikes, and following my favorite bands.

#5: When it comes to stacking the dishwasher, do you believe in order, and that everything has its proper place? Or, are you an agent of chaos, and it looks like a raccoon loaded the dishwasher?

RS: Ha, orderly. I usually have a good plan. Things have their proper places.

Bonus question: Star Wars or Star Trek?

RS: Star Wars. Not even close.

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Cohesity at HPE Discover 2025

If you’re attending the event in person, come stop by Cohesity booth #3130 on the show floor for a hands-on demo, an insightful conversation with our cyber security experts, or a partner breakout session at the AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA booths.

Drinks. Dancing. Data Resilience | June 25 @ 9:30 PM | TAO Nightclub, Venetian Resort

Join your peers, partners, and innovators for an exclusive night of celebration at TAO Nightclub. Space is limited so request for an invite today!

New technology innovations by Cohesity and HPE

New: Cohesity support for HPE Virtual Machine (VM) Essentials workloads for unified virtualization management

Cohesity recently announced support for HPE VM Essentials workloads to enable a simplified hypervisor management experience. This allows joint customers to manage HPE VM Essentials and VMware vSphere environments through a single, unified interface, reducing complexity and operational overhead.

Here are some ways for joint customers to improve their VM data protection experience with this new capability:

• Stronger VM security: Prevent cyber threats from spreading across VMs.
• Smarter data protection: Use AI to automate backups, enhance security, and speed up recovery.
• Lower costs with flexibility: Cut costs and avoid vendor lock-in by managing workloads across platforms.
• Efficient and scalable storage: Reduce silos and scale easily with advanced deduplication and compression.
• Simplified IT operations: Streamline infrastructure management to boost IT productivity.

New: HPE is the first OEM certified by Cohesity for Helios self-managed deployments

Cohesity recently announced Helios Self-Managed v1.0.0—deployed on rack appliances in a customer’s data center. HPE customers now have access to the first OEM servers (HPE DL380 Gen 11 and DL325 Gen 11) certified by Cohesity to deploy Helios in self-managed mode.

The new deployment model brings Helios SaaS capabilities to on-premises environments, offering a consistent management experience across Cohesity deployments. Designed for large enterprises with petabytes of data, remote edge locations, or sites with limited cloud connectivity, this option supports customers with strict compliance, security, or data sovereignty requirements. The Helios self-managed deployment delivers greater feature parity with the SaaS version, which can enable centralized management, anomaly detection, quorum, and rich data insights. While this model enhances flexibility for specialized use cases, all customers are encouraged to use Helios SaaS for optimal performance, user experience, and security. Helios self-managed is recommended only for dark sites or those with specific regulatory constraints.

More information is available in the Helios Self-Managed user guide.

New: Cohesity supports array integration with HPE Alletra and Primera servers for simplified virtual machine backups

Starting with Cohesity release 7.2.2_u1, Cohesity has added support for array snapshot integration with:

• HPE Alletra-MP B10000
• HPE Alletra-MP
• HPE Alletra 9000
• HPE Primera

This new functionality allows VMware workloads to offload snapshots from the hypervisor to the storage array. As a result of this integration customers no longer need to worry about possibly stunning VMs during backup operations. As a result, backups can be taken more often, giving customers more frequent recovery points, and potentially reducing how much data would be lost in the event you need to restore.

New: Cohesity adds HPE utilities to support orchestrated firmware updates

Starting with Cohesity releases 7.2.2_u1 and 7.1.2_u4, Cohesity has added Smart Update Tools (SUT) and Agentless Management Service (AMS)—software utilities used in HPE server environments for firmware and software updates—to Cohesity’s code. This allows customers who use HPE’s licensed applications HPE OneView or HPE Compute Ops Manager (COM) to orchestrate firmware updates of their joint Cohesity-HPE clusters. The utilities significantly simplify IT operations and can save time and resources for IT teams. Documentation on this new functionality will be published soon.

Coming soon: Cohesity service integration with HPE GSEM for improved customer service experience*

Joint Cohesity and HPE customers will soon be able to enjoy a simpler, easier customer support experience with shared ticket management, through the integration of HPE Global Service Event Management (GSEM) tool with Cohesity Salesforce. Here are some benefits that customers can look forward to:

• Seamless experience: Easier collaboration between Cohesity and HPE support teams, making the customer support journey smoother and more connected. The GSEM tool integration will remove duplication of work by reducing multiple tickets between the two companies.
• Faster responses: Support teams on both sides will be able to work more efficiently behind the scenes, ensuring that tickets are routed to the right teams, sharing logs, and resolving customer tickets quickly.
• Smarter support: Parties will be able to see ticket updates in real time. Tickets will require less manual intervention during routing and communications can be housed in a centralized system.

*Anticipated capabilities are expected to be generally available in the second half of calendar year 2025.

Coming soon: HPE servers certified for Cohesity Gaia self-managed on-premises helping to enable easier, faster data insights*

Cohesity recently announced one of the industry’s first AI-powered search capabilities for backup data stored on-premises. Cohesity and HPE customers will soon be able to deploy Cohesity Gaia—our AI-powered conversational data assistant—on HPE environments in two modes:

• Option 1: Build your own Gaia self-managed environment with HPE servers and Nvidia GPUs.
• Option 2: Deploy Gaia self-managed on HPE Private Cloud AI—a turnkey, cloud-based solution co-developed by HPE and NVIDIA.

Extending Cohesity Gaia to data stored on-prem empowers enterprises to tap into more high-quality data while remaining fully in control of their infrastructure. This is particularly useful to customers who prefer to have valuable, critical data remain on-prem to meet security, compliance, and performance requirements.

*Anticipated capabilities are expected to be generally available in the second half of calendar year 2025.

Cohesity and HPE: Trusted partners, proven solutions

The Cohesity and HPE partnership offers a modern, integrated solution for secure, efficient, and scalable data management. By combining Cohesity’s AI-powered platform with HPE’s trusted infrastructure, customers can benefit from stronger cyber resilience, reduced costs, and simplified operations. With flexible consumption through HPE GreenLake and continuous innovation in AI, cloud, and zero-trust security, the joint solution empowers enterprises to protect and manage data at scale—on-prem or in the cloud—while future-proofing their IT investments.

• To learn more about Cohesity-HPE solutions, drop by Cohesity booth #3130 at HPE Discover 2025 or request a meeting with our experts.

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Key capabilities of the Cohesity and MongoDB integration

This purpose-built integration is designed for enterprises with large-scale, mission-critical MongoDB environments—think global banks, financial services firms, and Fortune 500 companies. With this release, organizations can now seamlessly protect, manage, and recover MongoDB datasets at speed and scale—meeting stringent recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) with confidence.

Key capabilities

Using the Cohesity-MongoDB integration, organizations can unlock a wide range of enterprise-grade capabilities:

• Cyber resilient ransomware protection: Experience cyber resilient protection with immutable backups, RBAC, and end-to-end encryption. The solution auto-discovers MongoDB Ops Manager (OM) objects, enabling a frictionless and intuitive user experience. It also fully supports OM instances running in High Availability (HA) mode and with SSL encryption—ensuring secure, resilient protection for even the most demanding environments. 
• Business continuity and redundancy: Protect replica sets and sharded clusters with flexible secondary, primary, or fixed preferred backup nodes—enabling continuous availability and failover readiness. Achieve stricter SLAs (both RPO and RTOs) and eliminate data loss in high-velocity environments. 
  
• Sharded and Replicaset deployment support: Confidently protect and recover diverse MongoDB topologies.
• Application-consistent backups: Maintain data integrity across complex MongoDB deployments through tightly integrated snapshot orchestration.
• Disaster recovery: Restore MongoDB clusters in-place or to new environments following failures or ransomware events.
• Performance testing and upgrades: Safely evaluate performance enhancements or upgrades on alternate hardware with no production downtime.
• Dev/test refreshes: Seamlessly refresh development environments using out-of-place recovery from clean, consistent MongoDB backups.

This integration is built to scale and smart enough to adapt—bringing simplicity and strength to MongoDB data management at any scale.

Features and benefits

Speed: Cohesity delivers rapid recovery by using parallel data streams and  backups. This enables MongoDB databases to be restored up to twice as fast as traditional methods—with fast recovery and point-in-time restores available.

Security: With a Zero Trust architecture, Cohesity ensures robust protection for MongoDB workloads through end-to-end encryption, immutable WORM storage, role-based access control, and continuous data protection to defend against ransomware and malicious threats.

Scale: Cohesity’s scale-out architecture supports even the largest MongoDB environments, while global deduplication and compression dramatically reduce storage requirements without compromising data performance.

Smarts: Teams benefit from policy-based automation and advanced analytics, gaining actionable insights and streamlined workflows via centralized reporting, alerting, and an API-first platform for seamless integration.

Simplicity: Unified management through the Cohesity Data Cloud and native integration with MongoDB Ops Manager provide straightforward, application-consistent protection for both sharded and unsharded deployments, eliminating complexity.

Applications and use cases

Financial services compliance and resilience: Use the Cohesity and MongoDB integration to safeguard petabytes of sensitive financial data. The solution’s fast recovery and immutable backups enable banks to meet strict regulatory requirements and swiftly recover from ransomware attacks.

E-commerce data protection at scale: Achieve lower RTOs for enormous MongoDB datasets, ensuring high availability and seamless customer experiences even during outages for environments that manage billions of customer transactions daily.

DevOps and Test/dev refresh: Leverage out-of-place recovery to quickly refresh development and testing environments with live MongoDB data. Accelerate innovation while maintaining data integrity and security.

Strengthening resilience of MongoDB workloads

As MongoDB continues to be a cornerstone in modern data architectures, ensuring its protection is paramount. As one of the first vendors to offer deep MongoDB workload resilience via the official Ops Manager API, Cohesity empowers organizations to confidently protect, recover, and optimize their most critical data assets.

Our MongoDB integration isn’t just about checking a box. It’s about delivering real, measurable advantages to help organizations meet and exceed their recovery objectives, even at a massive scale.

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New: Data protection of Pure Storage Protection Groups

Cohesity now supports backup of Pure Storage Protection Groups for Pure Storage FlashArray block storage to deliver powerful end-to-end data protection and cyber resilience for modern enterprises. Cohesity supports Pure’s Protection Groups for application-consistent recovery—extending data protection beyond local snapshots to include long-term retention, cloud archiving, and ransomware-resilient backups.  This means customers get both local speed and long-term resilience—essential for compliance, recovery, and cyber insurance readiness. It also allows customers to balance performance and cost more effectively.

Coming soon: Data Protection of Pure FlashBlade S3 Object Storage*

Cohesity and Pure Storage customers will soon be able to back up and recover mission-critical S3 object stores running on Pure FlashBlade—the industry’s first all-flash, scale-out file and object storage platform. FlashBlade is purpose-built for high-performance and immediate access to mission-critical file and object data. Customers can back up and recover entire S3 buckets running on FlashBlade or choose specific prefixes for more granular recovery options. With Cohesity’s unified platform, managing file, block, and object data becomes simpler and more secure. Combining Cohesity’s AI-powered data security and Pure FlashBlade’s performance and reliability will empower customers to enhance cyber resilience, manage their unstructured object data at scale, and support modern workloads like AI, analytics, and high-performance applications.

* Expected to be generally available in the second half of calendar year 2025.

These two new capabilities above enhance Cohesity’s data protection of Pure Storage workloads and enable joint customers to simplify backup and recovery through policy-driven automation, while enhancing data security with immutable backup copies, encryption, multifactor authentication, and more. IT and security teams can benefit from streamlined operations, faster recovery, and unified visibility across environments—whether on-prem or in the cloud. Cohesity also supports automatic, policy-based archival and tiering to lower-cost storage on Pure FlashBlade to balance performance, cost, and compliance more effectively.

With Cohesity and Pure Storage, organizations can confidently protect mission-critical workloads, meet compliance mandates, and strengthen their ransomware defense strategy—all through a single, unified platform.

Powering the next generation of data resilience

Together, Cohesity and Pure Storage are helping organizations reimagine what’s possible for data security and resilience. This partnership enables IT and security leaders to reduce risk, accelerate recovery, and gain greater visibility into their data—all while improving agility and reducing complexity.

Whether you’re modernizing legacy backup environments, enhancing your ransomware response strategy, or planning for multicloud growth, the Cohesity-Pure solution is designed to deliver the performance, protection, and peace of mind you need.

Learn more about how our joint solutions can help you stay resilient in the face of uncertainty—and prepare for what’s next. Check out the resources below:

• Watch the webinar on multi-tier data resiliency with Cohesity and Pure Storage.
• Request a meeting with our experts.
• Get qualified for a free trial with Cohesity to test it out today.

Any unreleased services or features referenced in this blog are not currently available and may not be made generally available on time or at all, as may be determined in our sole discretion. Any such referenced services or features do not represent promises to deliver, commitments, or obligations of Cohesity and may not be incorporated into any contract. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon services and features that are currently generally available. 

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One exciting new development on this front: performing tried-and-true threat testing and running ransomware simulations on GA code on more of the Cohesity Data Cloud.

Now validating Cohesity DataProtect in REDLab

To deepen our commitment, we’ve expanded the scope of Cohesity REDLab, our proprietary lab, to include Cohesity DataProtect. REDLab is where we rigorously test the real-world resilience of our products using live malware, advanced exploits, and modern attack techniques. Our REDLab is an air-gapped environment designed to allow full-spectrum threat testing while protecting Cohesity infrastructure.

For IT and security leaders, this means confidence that your backup and recovery solutions have been tested to deliver the highest levels of data security. They’re hardened and tested components of your cybersecurity strategy.

Since REDLab was built in early 2023, the focus has been on validating Cohesity NetBackup software and NetBackup appliances. With the addition of DataProtect, we’re raising the bar—ensuring that more of our platform is hardened against advanced threats before they reach your environment.

We now continuously validate DataProtect’s product security posture—and will expand to include threat detection and threat hunting in the future—all under real-world and fully isolated conditions.

Inside REDLab: Real-world rigor for real-world threats

What makes REDLab unique is its realism and rigor. Our dedicated team of security researchers and engineers exchange threat intelligence with leading agencies like the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), a consortium of federal government, private and international partners led in the U.S. by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Cohesity Data Security Alliance, and the broader open-source community.

Our REDLab team collects real malware and exploit kits from global honeypots, sandboxes, and intelligence feeds. Then it conducts both static and dynamic analysis, including detonating malware against Cohesity products in controlled environments. By analyzing and mapping malware kill chains, our REDLab team curates and fine-tunes detection mechanisms, including YARA rules, indicators of compromise (IOCs), tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and file hashes. Their work also involves benchmarking detection accuracy, response speed, and recovery performance.

The valuable insights from this hands-on work, combined with product telemetry, help curate threat feeds that power security capabilities across both DataProtect and NetBackup. Whether you’re a customer of NetBackup or DataProtect, you can benefit from industry-leading ransomware protection.

Fueling a more cyber-resilient future: Sharing threat research

We believe in strengthening the broader cyber community. So, we’ll continue to regularly publish our findings, in-depth malware analysis, and recommendations for prevention and remediation based on REDLab validation to help IT and security teams stay ahead of evolving threats.

Our REDLab mission is simple: build products that are not only resilient by design, but resilient by validation—under the harshest conditions we can throw at them.

Learn more:

• Visit cohesity.com/redlab
• Get the eBook: The 5 critical steps to improve your organization’s cyber resilience
• Get our white paper: How to formulate a “wartime” response strategy to destructive cyberattacks

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With this competency, Cohesity joins an elite few ISV partners who have undergone rigorous inspection and have been vetted by AWS to provide data protection and security services on AWS GovCloud. “As the Federal market leader, this designation validates our ability to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant data security solutions tailored to the unique needs of the U.S. government,” said Kevin Youngquist, vice president, U.S. Federal Sales, Cohesity.

This competency highlights our continued commitment and expertise in service to our public sector customers. In 2024, we earned the “Authorized” status for both FedRAMP® and GovRAMP (formerly known as StateRAMP).

AWS Government Competency: Why it matters

The AWS Government Competency is a valuable designation that helps government customers identify and engage with AWS Partners who have demonstrated deep expertise in supporting mission-critical workloads in highly regulated environments. AWS Government Competency Partners have passed rigorous technical validation to ensure they are following AWS best practices. They have also demonstrated experience in delivering quality solutions to help agencies meet mandates, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation across civilian agencies, national defense and intelligence communities, and state and local governments.

Here’s how Cohesity’s AWS Government Competency helps government agencies:

1. Ensure compliance with stringent regulations: Cohesity understands the complex regulatory landscape faced by government agencies. We have experience working within frameworks like FedRAMP, ITAR, CJIS, and DoD SRG, and helping agencies stay compliant while accelerating innovation.
2. Support sensitive and mission-critical workloads: GovCloud Competency signifies that Cohesity is equipped to manage and secure sensitive data, including Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), personally identifiable information (PII), and classified workloads—making them ideal for defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies.
3. Accelerate cloud adoption and modernization: Cohesity provides proven solutions and services that help agencies migrate legacy systems, modernize IT infrastructure, and adopt cloud-native technologies, all while reducing risk and maintaining operational continuity.
4. Enhance security and resilience: With deep expertise in data protection, encryption, identity management, and threat detection, Cohesity helps agencies build robust cybersecurity postures and ensure mission resilience in the face of evolving threats.
5. Enable scalable, purpose-built solutions: Whether it’s ransomware response and recovery, AI/ML, data analytics, or disaster recovery, Cohesity offers specialized capabilities that are tailored to the unique needs of public sector organizations.

Meet Cohesity at AWS Summit Washington, D.C. 2025

Cohesity is also sponsoring AWS Summit 2025 in Washington, D.C., June 10-11. Visit Cohesity Booth #548 to chat with our product experts, get a hands-on demo, and enjoy a cup of coffee on us at our espresso station. Find more ways to engage with Cohesity onsite and register for a networking reception with your peers.

Marlin McFate, our public sector CTO/CISO, will be speaking at the lightning talk “Disaster Recovery Isn’t Enough—It’s Time for Resilience.” Be sure to join this session to discover best practices for improved cyber recovery. Session details below:

Cohesity Breakout Session: SEC203-S

Wednesday, June 10th at 4:05 pm
Athena Theater in Expo Hall

Get started with Cohesity and AWS GovCloud today

Government agencies are highly regulated and need heightened cybersecurity defense measures to safeguard essential public data and services that are the backbone of the economy. Cohesity and AWS are committed to working together to help our government customers prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber threats with a comprehensive solution that fortifies cyber resilience and fulfils mandatory compliance requirements.

Explore these resources to learn more:

• Read the solution brief on Modern Data Security and Management for Government
• Request a 30-day free trial with Cohesity today
• Read how public sector customers use Cohesity to improve their security posture
• Watch all the Cohesity GovCloud demos to simplify and secure your backup and recovery:
  • Video demo: AWS data protection with GovCloud
  • Video demo: VMware workload protection with GovCloud
  • Video demo: GovCloud – M365 DataProtection

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