Cohesity
About
Cohesity is an enterprise data management company that merged with Veritas (December 2024) creating a $2.7B+ combined entity covering 86% of the Fortune 100. Gartner MQ Leader. FedRAMP Moderate Authorized. GovRAMP Authorized. HIPAA compliant. DISA DoDIN Approved Products List certified for DoD networks. Common Criteria EAL2+ certified. STIGs available for DoD Top Secret networks. TAA and Section 889 compliant. Hardware ships from San Jose, CA.
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Ideal Customer
- Cohesity's core sweet spot is large enterprise and upper mid-market B2B organizations, historically mid-market and above, with its on-premises product most suited to large enterprises managing multi-petabyte secondary data footprints.
- Its SaaS/DMaaS offerings (Helios, FortKnox) expand reach to smaller organizations and cloud-first buyers.
Key Differentiators
- Cohesity's primary differentiator is its single-platform architecture that consolidates backup, disaster recovery, file/object storage, data analytics, and security into one system — eliminating the fragmented 'island of data silos' that legacy vendors create.
- Following the Veritas merger, Cohesity claims approximately 20% market share in data protection, ahead of Veeam's 15%, and is the only vendor Gartner has named a Leader in each of its last 20+ consecutive backup and data protection platform reports (7X Leader as of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant), while also being named Customers' Choice for eight consecutive years.
Industries Served
- Cohesity serves a broad range of industries with particular depth in financial services (all 10 of the top 10 major banking institutions), healthcare and life sciences (8 of the top 10 organizations), federal government, state and local government, manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, legal, technology, media and entertainment, and telecom.
- The company has HIPAA-aligned products for healthcare, DORA/NYDFS/OSFI compliance capabilities for financial services, and FedRAMP Moderate Authorization for federal agencies.
Service Coverage
- Cohesity operates globally, with customers in more than 140 countries and operations spanning 28 offices across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions.
- Office locations include Santa Clara (HQ), New York, Durham, Arlington, São Paulo, Heredia (Costa Rica), Munich, London, Paris, Cork, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, and multiple India locations (Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi).
Partnerships
- Cohesity maintains deep strategic technology partnerships with all three major hyperscalers: AWS (named 2024 AWS Global Storage Partner of the Year and launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud), Google Cloud (multi-year strategic partnership including Gemini AI integration, Google Threat Intelligence, and Mandiant incident response), and Microsoft (generating significant commercial momentum through co-selling and Azure OpenAI integration).
- Additional strategic alliances include IBM, NVIDIA, Cisco, and HPE — all of whom are also equity investors.
Company Size & Ownership
- Cohesity was founded in June 2013 by Mohit Aron and is currently led by CEO Sanjay Poonen.
- The company has approximately 5,800–7,800 employees globally (sources vary due to the Veritas integration) and on a pro forma adjusted basis for fiscal year ending July 2024, the combined entity reported revenue exceeding $1.7 billion with ARR of $1.5 billion — making it the fastest data protection company to cross $1.5 billion in revenue in 11 years.
Compliance & Certifications
- Cohesity maintains a comprehensive compliance portfolio including SOC 2 Type II (annual audits on its Helios SaaS platform), ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for its cloud services ISMS, FedRAMP Moderate Authorization (via Cohesity Cloud Services for Government running on AWS GovCloud), GovRAMP Authorization for state and local government, and HIPAA alignment across its products and services.
- Additional certifications include Common Criteria EAL2+ (ALC_FLR.1), NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 1, USGv6, and Trade Agreements Act (TAA) compliance.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
4 offeringsCohesity DataCloud
Enterprise data management platform unifying backup, disaster recovery, file/object storage, data analytics, and security on a single architecture. Following the Veritas merger (December 2024), Cohesity manages data protection for 86% of the Fortune 100. Provides a single platform approach versus best-of-breed — one system for backup, files, analytics, and DR.
Cohesity DataProtect
Enterprise backup and recovery for VMs, physical servers, databases, NAS, and SaaS applications. Policy-driven with SLA-based automation. Instant mass restore capability for recovering hundreds of VMs simultaneously after a ransomware event. Named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Backup.
Cohesity FortKnox
Cloud-based data isolation and recovery vault providing an air-gapped, immutable copy of critical data in Cohesity's managed cloud. Ransomware resilience through physical and logical separation from the production network. Recovery directly from vault without restoring through compromised infrastructure.
Cohesity SiteContinuity
Automated disaster recovery orchestration with one-click failover to cloud or secondary sites. Automated DR testing with compliance reporting. Integrates with DataProtect to provide both backup and DR from a single platform without requiring a separate DR product.
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