Cohesity

What is Cohesity?

Cohesity is a next-generation data management and data backup software designed for modern IT environments. It consolidates disparate data silos, including backup, recovery, file shares, and analytics, onto a single, web-scale platform. The solution provides comprehensive protection for a wide range of workloads, including virtual and physical databases, storage systems, and applications. Operating across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, Cohesity simplifies data management for IT professionals, enabling them to protect, manage, and derive value from their most critical data assets through one unified interface.

Why Choose Cohesity?

• Simplicity at Scale: Cohesity eliminates the need for multiple point products by consolidating data services. Users can manage all backup, recovery, and data management tasks from a single, intuitive user interface, simplifying operations significantly.
• Unified Backup and Recovery: It offers a single platform to protect all data sources, whether they reside on-premises, in the public cloud, or in a hybrid configuration. This unified approach ensures consistent data protection policies and streamlined management.
• Fast and Reliable Recovery: The platform is engineered for rapid recovery to minimize downtime. Users can instantly search for any file or virtual machine and restore it to any point in time from fully hydrated backup snapshots, a critical capability for business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Built-in Cyber Resilience: Cohesity provides robust defense against ransomware with features like immutable backups, anomaly detection, and instant mass restore capabilities. Its architecture helps organizations recover quickly and confidently from a cyberattack.
• Flexible Delivery Models: Customers can deploy Cohesity as a self-managed solution, a partner-managed service, or as a fully managed Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering. This flexibility allows businesses to choose an OpEx-friendly model that best fits their operational and financial needs.

Advanced Features of Cohesity

• Instant Recovery at Scale: Search and restore any data element, from a single file to a complete VM or database, instantly and at any scale.
• Cloud Integration: Native integration with leading public clouds like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud enables seamless data mobility, long-term retention, and cloud-native backup.
• Ransomware Defense: A multi-layered defense strategy includes immutable snapshots, AI-powered anomaly detection to identify potential threats, and data vaulting with Cohesity FortKnox for ultimate protection.
• Unlock Data Value: Cohesity allows you to run applications directly on its platform, turning backup data into a valuable asset for analytics, compliance monitoring, and dev/test environments without impacting production systems.
• Broad Workload Support: The platform supports an extensive list of data sources, including virtual environments (VMware, Hyper-V), databases (Oracle, SQL), applications, physical servers, and cloud workloads.

Modules of Cohesity

• DataProtect: A modern, AI-powered solution for enterprise backup and recovery. It delivers instant recovery, robust ransomware protection, and hybrid cloud scalability in one package.
• FortKnox: A SaaS-based cyber vaulting service that provides an isolated, highly secure copy of data in the cloud, ensuring organizations can recover from sophisticated ransomware attacks.
• SmartFiles: A multiprotocol file and object solution supporting NFS, SMB, and S3 access to the same data, designed for large enterprises and cloud environments.
• SiteContinuity: Disaster recovery orchestration with continuous data protection and automated failover/fallback via a unified policy engine.
• Cohesity Data Cloud: The core web-scale foundation of Cohesity (formerly branded DataPlatform), available in physical, virtual, and cloud editions to suit different deployment needs.
• Helios: Cohesity's global control plane and unified platform, providing a single dashboard to view, manage, and act on DataProtect, FortKnox, SmartFiles, SiteContinuity, and all Cohesity clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Marketplace: An ecosystem of Cohesity and third-party applications that can be run directly on the Cohesity platform to enhance security, compliance, and analytics.

How to Use Cohesity?

1. Deploy the Platform: Choose your preferred deployment model - on-premises appliance, virtual appliance, or a cloud-based BaaS subscription.
2. Register Data Sources: From the Helios management console, connect Cohesity to your various data sources, such as vCenter, physical servers, databases, or cloud accounts.
3. Create Protection Policies: Define protection policies that specify backup frequency, retention duration, replication targets (e.g., another site or the cloud), and archival rules.
4. Apply Policies: Assign these policies to your registered data sources. Cohesity automates the protection jobs based on the defined schedule.
5. Monitor and Recover: Use the global dashboard to monitor the health of your data protection environment. In case of data loss, use the universal search feature to find and restore data instantly.

Cohesity Pricing

Cohesity pricing details are available on request on techjockey.com.

The pricing model is based on different parameters, including extra features, deployment type, and the total number of users. For further queries related to the product, you can contact our product team and learn more about the pricing and offers.