Cohesity

Market position

Cohesity positions itself in the backup, data protection and cyber resilience market. It has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for backup and data protection platforms eight times in a row (including the 2026 Voice of the Customer report), appears in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, is cited as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cyber Recovery 2025 Vendor Assessment, and was named to CRN's 2025 Coolest Cloud Companies and Hot AI Companies lists. It was also recognized as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for enterprise data center backup and recovery and has won the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award every year since 2016.

The company differentiates on consolidating all secondary data use cases — not just backup — onto a single web-scale, software-defined platform spanning on-premises and public cloud, combining data security and data management in one system. Company materials cite 10x faster recovery from ransomware, 50% lower TCO, support for 1,000+ hybrid cloud and SaaS workloads, and a customer support organization with a Net Promoter Score above 85.

Technology

Cohesity's technology is a web-scale, software-defined, cloud-native platform that consolidates secondary data workloads onto a single system spanning on-premises and public cloud. Capabilities include immutable backup snapshots, AI/ML-based anomaly and threat detection, ML-based data classification scanning, continuous data protection, instant mass restore, global search across workloads and locations, air-gapped cloud vaulting, cyber clean-room isolation for incident investigation, infrastructure-as-code automation with open APIs, and conversational AI search via Cohesity Gaia. The company states it holds 1,700 patents.

Go-to-market

Cohesity sells directly to enterprises through a worldwide sales and marketing organization backed by 24/7 global technical support across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, and offers product demos, a 30-day free trial and consultations with security specialists. It works with technology partners and strategic investors such as Cisco and HPE — the latter integrating Cohesity's platform into HPE solutions through the Hewlett Packard Pathfinder program — and with managed service providers, including a 2022 partnership with Rackspace Technology built on Cohesity DataProtect. It also partners with cybersecurity incident response firms through its Cyber Event Response Team (CERT).

Large enterprises and public-sector organizations across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and government, including named customers such as Nasdaq, Conagra, Bethany Children's Health Center, Credit Acceptance, AutoNation, Hyatt, LendingClub, the San Francisco Giants, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Air Force.

Geography

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California (press releases have also been issued from Santa Clara and San Jose), with offices in India and Ireland. Support is delivered globally with dedicated numbers across the Americas (US, Brazil, Chile, Mexico), EMEA (including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Nordics, Ireland, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Israel) and APAC (Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea). DataProtect and FortKnox became available to customers in Southeast Asia in June 2022.

History

Cohesity closed a $15 million Series A while in stealth mode and launched publicly in June 2015 with a platform for consolidating and managing secondary data; in October 2015 it announced its DataPlatform and DataProtect products alongside a $55 million Series B, bringing its total to $70 million. Second-generation products arrived in February 2016 and 3.0 products extending protection to physical servers in June 2016. In April 2017 it raised over $90 million in Series C funding co-led by GV and Sequoia Capital, and in June 2018 a $250 million Series D led by the SoftBank Vision Fund brought total equity raised to $410 million. Helios, a SaaS management console, launched in August 2018; the online MarketPlace followed in February 2019, and in May 2019 Cohesity made its first acquisition, buying NoSQL data protection provider Imanis Data. In 2020 it raised $250 million in a Series E, and by December 2021 had raised $660 million in total and filed for an IPO. It partnered with Rackspace Technology in April 2022 and released FortKnox in May 2022. In August 2022 Sanjay Poonen succeeded Mohit Aron as CEO and President, and in December 2024 Cohesity completed its $3 billion acquisition of Veritas Technologies from The Carlyle Group.

Risks & controversies

Cohesity filed for an IPO in December 2021, but as of an August 2022 CNBC report its market debut was on hold.