Cohesity

Cohesity is an AI-powered data security and management company focused on helping organizations protect, secure, and derive value from enterprise data across cloud, on-premises, edge, and SaaS environments. Its positioning centers on cyber resilience, combining backup and recovery, threat detection, secure isolation, and AI-ready data services in a unified platform approach.

The company’s portfolio spans the Cohesity Data Cloud platform, cloud-delivered and self-managed offerings, and the NetBackup software and appliance lines. Through this portfolio, Cohesity addresses core needs such as immutable protection, rapid recovery, ransomware resilience, unstructured data management, and AI-driven data insights, giving customers flexibility in how they deploy and operate data protection and security at scale.

Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations

Cohesity delivers data protection, data security, cyber recovery, AI-powered data insights, and unstructured data management through a common platform and management experience. Its capabilities include policy-based backup and recovery, immutable copies, cyber vaulting, anomaly and malware detection, global search, disaster recovery orchestration, and file and object services for large unstructured data estates.

Cohesity supports customer-managed, partner-managed, and fully managed SaaS deployment models. Its platform is built for hybrid and multicloud operations and aligns with major hyperscaler environments, SaaS applications, security tooling, and enterprise AI workflows, helping customers extend protection, recovery, and data access without relying on disconnected point products.

Products and Services

• Cohesity Data Cloud: Unified platform for data protection, security, and AI that protects, secures, and provides insights from enterprise data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments.
• Cohesity Alta: Secure, cloud-native backup and recovery offering designed for modern workloads across hybrid, multicloud, public cloud, private cloud, edge, and on-premises environments.
• DataProtect: Enterprise backup and recovery software for cloud-native, SaaS, and on-premises workloads with immutable snapshots, rapid recovery, and cyber resilience features.
• NetBackup: Enterprise data protection software optimized for hybrid and multicloud environments, with automation, AI-driven operations, integrated cyber resilience, and broad workload coverage.
• NetBackup Appliances: Integrated appliance family for turnkey, cyber-resilient data protection with NetBackup software, including options for scalable backup infrastructure and long-term retention.
• Cohesity Gaia: AI-powered data insights solution that uses conversational search and retrieval-augmented generation to help users find, summarize, and reason over protected enterprise data.
• FortKnox: Cyber vaulting and recovery solution that creates isolated, immutable copies of backup data for clean recovery after cyber incidents, available in managed and self-managed deployment options.
• SmartFiles: Software-defined file and object solution for hybrid cloud environments that consolidates unstructured data management with security, governance, and multiprotocol access.
• Cohesity Cloud Services: Fully managed backup as a service for protecting SaaS, cloud-native, and on-premises data sources through a cloud-delivered operating model.
• Cohesity Data Security Posture Management (DSPM): Data security posture management offering, powered by Cyera, that helps organizations discover sensitive data, understand exposure, and reduce data and AI risk.

Target Customers

Cohesity primarily serves enterprises with large, distributed data estates spanning data centers, public cloud, SaaS platforms, and edge locations. Its solutions fit organizations that need to consolidate backup infrastructure, strengthen ransomware resilience, accelerate recovery, and govern data consistently across diverse workloads and operating models.

The company has strong relevance in regulated and data-intensive sectors such as financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing and logistics, and government. Cohesity also addresses midsize businesses with packaged cyber resilience offerings and supports managed service providers that build Cohesity-powered backup and data security services for their own customers.

Cloud Integrations and Marketplace

• AWS Marketplace: Cohesity has a verified AWS Marketplace presence for offerings including Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service, Cohesity Data Cloud, and related cloud services, supporting customer-managed and SaaS consumption on AWS.
• Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Cohesity has a verified Microsoft Azure Marketplace presence for offerings including Cohesity Data Cloud, DataProtect, Cloud Services, FortKnox, and NetBackup-related integrations for Azure environments.
• Google Cloud Marketplace: Cohesity has a verified Google Cloud Marketplace presence and promotes customer-managed and SaaS deployment options for Google Cloud, including marketplace availability for Cohesity data protection and cyber resilience offerings.

Key People

• Sanjay Poonen: CEO and President
• Eric Brown: CFO and COO
• Kit Beall: Chief Revenue Officer
• Vasu Murthy: Chief Product Officer
• Anubhav Gupta: Chief Technology Officer
• Carol Carpenter: Chief Marketing Officer
• Sunil Moolchandani: Chief Strategy Officer
• Rebecca Adams: Chief People Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO
• Walter Angerer: Chief Development Officer
• Tim Robbins: Chief Legal Officer
• Lenny Alugas: Chief Customer Experience Officer
• Mohit Aron: Founder Emeritus

Key Facts

• Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, United States
• Employees: Approximately 7,700
• Annual Revenue: $1.7B+
• Parent Company: None
• Subsidiaries: None
• Publicly Listed: Privately held

Analyst Recognitions

• Gartner: Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Backup and Data Protection Platforms.
• Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave: Data Resilience Solution Suites, Q4 2022.
• IDC: Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cyber Recovery 2025 Vendor Assessment. Major Player in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Distributed Scale-Out File System 2022 Vendor Assessment.