How Cohesity and Red Hat are securing the open hybrid cloud

Advancing cyber resilience for modern Red Hat environments

We are continuing to deepen our integration with Red Hat, with several capabilities expected later this year that further strengthen protection across Red Hat OpenShift environments, enabling:

• File-level recovery back into VMs for faster, more surgical restores.
• Source-side deduplication to reduce network overhead and improve efficiency across large-scale Red Hat deployments.
• Cohesity FortKnox support for Red Hat workloads—bringing isolated, immutable cyber vaulting and orchestrated clean room recovery to Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Cohesity Virtual Edition on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization that lets organizations deploy Cohesity software closer to the platform they already manage, simplifying procurement, lifecycle operations, and resource alignment.

Looking further ahead, one of the most significant advances expected later this year is incremental backup support for VMs on Red Hat OpenShift.  

Cohesity is collaborating closely with Red Hat to bring Changed Block Tracking (CBT) to Red Hat OpenShift for more efficient incremental backups and VM protection. The result is shorter backup windows, less network consumption, and a protection model that can scale with large Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization estates. Delivering storage agnostic incremental VM backup can also unlock migration opportunities for enterprise customers with demanding data protection requirements. 

Recover with greater confidence

Cyber resilience is ultimately about recovering confidently and quickly when the worst happens. Threat actors often remain inside environments for weeks or sometimes months before triggering an attack, meaning a recovery from last week's backup may not be a recovery from a clean copy. As described in Cohesity’s 5-step framework for cyber resilience, every recovery strategy today should be anchored by the ability to isolate, validate, and restore data from a known-good, air-gapped source. 

Cohesity FortKnox delivers an isolated, immutable cyber vault with rapid, clean room recovery. For organizations with sovereign or air-gapped requirements, FortKnox Self-Managed brings this capability entirely on-premises, with support for Red Hat OpenShift workloads coming soon. 

Combined with immutable snapshots, AI-powered threat detection, and orchestrated recovery workflows, Cohesity’s collaboration with Red Hat helps strengthen cyber resilience everywhere your data lives, under your control.

Data sovereignty by design

Data sovereignty isn't just a compliance checkbox. For regulated industries, government agencies, and defense organizations, it encompasses data residency and jurisdictional control, operational autonomy, infrastructure isolation, security compliance, and auditable visibility into every copy of data.

Cohesity addresses all these dimensions in a single platform. Cohesity Helios self-managed is deployed entirely within the organization's own environment with complete dark site support, so no data, no metadata, and no management traffic ever leaves the customer's jurisdiction. 

Organizations retain full operational autonomy without any dependency on external connectivity or cloud-based services. Helios self-managed operates on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a deliberate architectural choice. Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s security posture, SELinux mandatory access controls, and enterprise support lifecycle make it the natural foundation for organizations to meet strict sovereignty requirements on infrastructure they fully control. For organizations that also require an on-premises cyber vault, FortKnox Self-Managed extends this sovereignty story to isolated, clean room recovery. 

See us at Red Hat Summit

Heading to Red Hat Summit in Atlanta, May 11-14?  Visit Cohesity at Booth 227 for live demos and one-on-one conversations with our experts. 

Or book a meeting in advance to dig into how Cohesity and Red Hat deliver Resilience Everywhere, with data sovereignty by design.

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