Data Infrastructure

Cohesity

Data security and management platform for backup, recovery and AI-ready data

About Cohesity

Cohesity provides software for data protection, cyber recovery and data management across on-premises, cloud and SaaS environments. It combined with the data protection business of Veritas in 2024, bringing NetBackup into its portfolio. It also offers search and AI-oriented tools over backup data.

Common use cases

  • Ransomware recovery
  • Enterprise backup consolidation
  • Data compliance
  • Cloud data protection

Social listening

What people are saying about Cohesity

Reviewers value Cohesity's approachable console, broad workload coverage and ransomware-protection options, and buyers typically plan for support, reporting and sizing for smaller organizations.

What stands out

  • Reviewers find the interface easy to learn, with most configuration done in the GUI.
  • Coverage spans on-premises, VM, cloud, file and Microsoft 365 workloads from one console.
  • Fast backup and restore, deduplication, and immutable or air-gapped copies are valued for ransomware protection.
  • Some see it as good value for the capability.

Things to consider

  • Worth confirming support tiers and resolution times.
  • Worth confirming reporting options, such as for usage-based billing.
  • Worth confirming Microsoft 365 backup and specific database or network setups.
  • Smaller organizations should ask for a scoped pricing estimate.
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Themes summarized from public reviews, community discussion and press coverage as of November 2026. They reflect public discussion, not a rating or an endorsement by AI Connect.

Products and services

Cohesity DataProtect

Backup and recovery for enterprise workloads.

NetBackup

Enterprise backup software inherited from Veritas.

Cohesity Data Cloud

Platform combining protection, security and data management.

Cohesity Gaia

Generative AI search and assistance over backup data.

Recent product updates

  • March 2026: announced an Enterprise AI Resilience strategy covering protection of AI systems and use of protected data for AI.
  • March 2026: introduced DSPM capabilities powered by Cyera and federated semantic search over backup data via Model Context Protocol; Gaia Catalog announced as upcoming.

Key features

  • Backup and recovery
  • Ransomware detection
  • Immutable snapshots
  • Cyber vault
  • Global search
  • Cloud and SaaS protection

Integrations

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • VMware
  • Microsoft 365
  • Salesforce
  • CrowdStrike

Cohesity alternatives

FAQs

What is it mainly used for?

Backup, disaster recovery and cyber resilience for enterprise data.

Does it cover SaaS data?

Yes, including Microsoft 365 and other SaaS applications.

Who owns it?

It is privately held.

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