Cohesity Data Cloud

Cohesity aggressively disrupted the legacy backup market by introducing the concept of hyperconverged secondary storage. Historically, enterprise backup environments were incredibly fragmented, requiring organizations to piece together backup software from one vendor, media servers from another, and massive, expensive deduplication appliances from a third. Cohesity solved this immense complexity by collapsing the entire secondary storage stack—backups, archives, file shares, and test/dev environments—into a single, massively scalable, software-defined platform that runs on standard, off-the-shelf hardware or entirely in the cloud. The core of Cohesity is its unique "SpanFS" file system. Because Cohesity is built on a distributed, web-scale architecture (similar to how Google or Amazon manage their data centers), it has virtually no scaling limits. As an organization's data grows, they simply add another node to the cluster, and performance and capacity scale linearly. This architecture enables Cohesity to offer incredibly fast, "instant" mass restores. Instead of recovering one VM at a time, Cohesity can instantly boot hundreds of virtual machines simultaneously directly from the backup cluster, enabling organizations to recover from a massive ransomware attack or site-wide disaster in minutes rather than days. Beyond basic backup, Cohesity transforms dark, dormant backup data into a productive asset. Because the platform securely holds a copy of the entire enterprise's data, organizations can utilize Cohesity's "Marketplace" applications to run analytics directly against the backup data. They can run vulnerability scanners, anti-malware engines, or sensitive data discovery tools (to find exposed PII/PHI for GDPR compliance) against the backups without ever impacting the performance of the live production environment. With its elegant hyperconverged architecture and focus on data security, Cohesity is a premier choice for modernizing enterprise data centers.