Nutanix .NEXT 2025 is happening May 7-9 in Washington, D.C. and Cohesity is excited to announce new capabilities and first-of-its-kind integrations that will improve cyber resilience, simplify operations, and uncover new data insights.
Here’s a list of our top innovations for Nutanix customers:
- Deploy with confidence: Cohesity is the first data protection provider to achieve Nutanix Database Service (NDB) database protection Nutanix Ready™ validation
- Improved incident response and recovery: The Cohesity Clean Room Solution now in Nutanix HCI environments
- Hybrid multicloud data protection: Nutanix-certified data protection solution for Nutanix workloads running on Dell storage
- Enhanced operational efficiency: Support for Nutanix Prism Central centralized management interface*
- Faster, more efficient backup and recovery: Native support for Nutanix Files environments*
- Breakthrough AI-powered insights: Cohesity Gaia and RAG coming to Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box*
*Indicates features/solutions that are expected to be available in 2025.
Cohesity panel and booth details at .NEXT
Be sure to drop by Cohesity booth #B13 and talk to our cyber resilience experts, see live demos, and win some cool giveaways. We’re also sponsoring the Women in Technology panel discussion at .NEXT 2025, featuring trailblazing women leaders who are shaping the future of technology.
On Thursday, May 8, from 2:15 to 3:15, Cohesity Chief Marketing Officer Carol Carpenter will be joined by Rachel Skaff (AWS), Allison Grimes (SHI), and Mandy Dhaliwal (Nutanix). These accomplished executives will share their unique experiences, insights, and perspectives on breaking barriers, leading with purpose, and fostering innovation in the tech industry.
Speaking of innovation, keep reading for a double-click into each of the six innovations listed above.
1. Now available: First to achieve Nutanix Ready™ Validation for Nutanix Database Service protection
Recently, Cohesity became the first data protection provider to achieve Nutanix Database Service (NDB) database protection Nutanix Ready™ validation. Receiving the Nutanix Ready™ designation signifies that the solution has undergone a series of Nutanix Ready™ interoperability validations and unique feature integrations, which give customers added confidence regarding the compatibility of the solution. Through this validation, Cohesity DataProtect now complements NDB’s native time machine capabilities and streamlines protection for PostgreSQL databases on NDB through a single control plane. This seamless integration helps provide large enterprise customers with greater resilience against growing threats.
By combining Cohesity DataProtect with NDB’s native time machine capabilities, customers now have seamless protection from everyday application and user-related errors and disasters like a complete site failure or malicious attack. Additional benefits include:
- Enhanced security and multilayered cyber resilience and ransomware protection: Objects are safeguarded from being overwritten and are protected against deletion for a specified amount of time. With no single point of failure, the solution is highly resilient and fault-tolerant. It uses AES-256 and FIPS-compliant encryption of data in flight and at rest to give customers additional peace of mind that their data is protected.
- Unmatched efficiency and cost savings: Advanced deduplication and compression optimize storage efficiency and reduce data footprints.
- Improved speed and simplicity: Scale-out architecture and unlimited scalability improve backup and restore times to meet growing business needs. Customers are also able to streamline operations using Cohesity’s single-pane-of-glass to manage and define their backup strategy.
2. Now available: Cohesity Clean Room Solution in Nutanix HCI environments for improved incident response
The Cohesity Clean Room Solution provides organizations with a secure, isolated environment to recover and analyze data after a cyberattack, such as ransomware or insider threats. This helps to ensure that compromised systems are not reinfected while restoring critical business operations and enables safe forensic analysis. It also provides a trusted recovery point for “clean data” and supports regulatory compliance.
Nutanix customers can now deploy the Cohesity Clean Room Solution in Nutanix HCI environments. This offers a dedicated, production-ready isolated recovery environment within Nutanix workloads, allowing for rapid data restoration and re-establishment of trust with external stakeholders in the event of a cybersecurity breach. It also facilitates near-instant business continuity while ensuring ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation.
To learn more about how to deploy a clean room in Nutanix environments, check out this infographic and deployment guide.
3. Now available: Support for Nutanix AHV environments on Dell Storage
Last year, Nutanix announced Dell and Nutanix hybrid multicloud solutions to improve IT operations, resiliency, and flexibility. As part of this collaboration, Dell is offering an integrated turnkey hyperconverged appliance combining Nutanix Cloud Platform software and Dell storage.
Cohesity is among the first Nutanix-certified data protection vendors to support the joint Nutanix-Dell solution, making it easier for customers using them to protect their critical data and applications from ransomware and other cybersecurity threats. The powerful combination of Dell’s high-performance, software-defined storage, Nutanix’s industry-leading HCI efficiency, and Cohesity’s AI-powered data security addresses critical customer challenges related to cyber resiliency, scalability, management complexity, performance optimization, and potentially cost efficiency.
4. Coming soon: Support for Nutanix Prism Central centralized management interface for enhanced operational efficiency*
To help Nutanix customers improve their operational efficiency with growing business needs, Cohesity will soon be integrating with Nutanix Prism Central for simplified data protection and recovery across multiple Nutanix clusters—instead of registering many Prism elements and managing them individually. Benefits for Nutanix customers include:
- Unified authentication method for accessing multiple clusters within Nutanix environments
- Global search and backup of virtual machines (VMs), files and objects across multiple clusters
- Ability to restore VMs to any clusters registered to Prism Central
- Utilization of role-based access control (RBAC) to establish personalized roles tailored for backup admins
- Improved application-specific snapshot functionality using Nutanix guest tools (NGT) policies
These capabilities will significantly simplify the data protection and recovery of Nutanix workloads, save IT teams precious time and resources, and improve their user experience.
5. Coming soon: Native support for Nutanix Files environments for faster, more efficient backup and recovery*
Organizations that rely on Nutanix Files as their primary NAS need a fast, powerful, and simple backup and recovery solution that scales well to keep up with their ever-growing data. Cohesity provides a modern data protection solution that eliminates the complexities and operational inefficiencies of traditional NAS backup by unifying their data protection and recovery infrastructure—including target storage, backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud archiving—on a single platform. Cohesity already offers agentless, policy-based data protection, granular file-level restoration capabilities, replication, cloud archiving for Nutanix Files and is platform-independent to avoid vendor lock-in.
Nutanix and Cohesity customers will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of native support for Nutanix Files environments, including:
- Incremental backup with Change File Tracking: Ability to use the Nutanix Change File Tracking (CFT) capability to identify the changed files during an incremental backup just by enabling “Use Nutanix Change File tracking” in the Protection Group’s advanced settings. The Nutanix Change File tracking is an internal Nutanix Files job engine that quickly identifies the file and folder differences between any two snapshots.
- Auto protect new shares: With the auto protection capability, Cohesity will automatically detect and protect each new shares user adds to their Nutanix storage, saving them from manually configuring the Cohesity Protection Group to back up the new shares each time they add them.
- Choose backup scope: Ability to back up their Nutanix Files data at the cluster or File Server Virtual Machine (FSVM) levels. With cluster-level backup, users will be able to discover all the shares across different FSVMs of the cluster to back up. With FSVM-level backup, users will be able to find the shares at the FSVM level to back up.
- Encrypt backup traffic between Nutanix and Cohesity: Ability to encrypt backup traffic between Nutanix and Cohesity by enabling encryption in the Protection Group’s advanced settings.
6. Coming soon: Cohesity Gaia on Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box for faster, smarter data insights*
We are thrilled to unveil the availability of Cohesity Gaia, our AI-powered conversational assistant, soon to be integrated with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box. This first-of-its-kind integration brings the power of natural language processing (NLP) directly to your data protection and management workflows running in Nutanix HCI environments. With Cohesity Gaia, Nutanix customers will be able to quickly surface insights, automate tasks, generate reports, and accelerate troubleshooting on backup data simply by asking intuitive questions in everyday language.
By combining Cohesity’s advanced AI capabilities with Nutanix’s cutting-edge HCI infrastructure, joint customers will gain faster, smarter decision-making while significantly improving operational efficiency, and security posture. Cohesity Gaia on Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box will empower IT teams to save time, reduce complexity, and unlock the full potential of their protected data—all through a seamless, conversational experience. For more details on Gaia, read the Gaia solution brief.
*Indicates features/solutions that are expected to be available in 2025.
Get started with Cohesity and Nutanix today
Today, more customers rely on Nutanix HCI infrastructure to run applications and data across different environments than ever before. Nutanix relies on Cohesity’s comprehensive AI-powered data security and management solutions (certified as Nutanix Ready™) to help prepare for, respond to, and, most importantly, rapidly recover Nutanix workloads from cyberattacks to reduce downtime and ensure business continuity.
Visit the Cohesity booth #B13 at Nutanix .NEXT 2025 or request a meeting with our experts. You can also get qualified for a free trial with Cohesity to test it out today.
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