Cohesity deepens strategic collaboration with Red Hat

As many IT leaders re-consider their virtualization strategy, Cohesity remains committed to helping organizations like yours stay resilient to destructive cyberattacks as you adjust your mix of data center technologies

By combining Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies with Cohesity’s industry-leading modern data protection, our collaboration aims to deliver enhanced cyber resilience, operational simplicity, and performance at enterprise scale.

Watch Cohesity CEO and President Sanjay Poonen and Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks discuss our collaboration, below:

Advancing Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization optimization

As part of this collaboration, Cohesity is implementing key enhancements* to its data protection capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Designed with enterprise needs in mind, these improvements can provide:

• Granular VM-level protection for custom backup workflows.
• Native integration with storage partners, supporting block mode architecture.
• Compatibility with the latest Red Hat OpenShift architecture, enabling more seamless deployment and scalability.

These enhancements help customers more effectively safeguard critical virtualized workloads running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with greater flexibility and confidence.

*Indicates features/solutions that are expected to be available in 2025.

RHEL adoption powers security and stability.

We’re excited to share that Cohesity Data Cloud now runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9. Our ongoing adoption of RHEL 9.4 and 9.6 brings critical performance and security advancements to Cohesity Data Cloud, including:

• Comprehensive CVE coverage and updated security packages
• Enterprise-grade compliance configurations
• Extended Update Support (EUS) from Red Hat, providing up to two years of critical security and bug fix coverage

Cohesity's transition to RHEL 9.4 and 9.6 reinforces our commitment to enterprise-grade reliability and long-term stability, essential for organizations looking to build cyber-resilient infrastructure.

Cohesity at Red Hat Summit 2025

You can hear more about the joint integration directly from Cohesity leaders at Red Hat Summit 2025, Booth #762. Be sure to check out Cohesity in the three events below:

• Tues. May 20 at 11 AM PDT | Discovery Theater 2 – Expo Hall
  Speaker: Gautam Bhasin, Sr. Director of Product Management
  Topic: Cyber-Proofing Red Hat OpenShift Virtual Machines and Data
  Gautam will explore how organizations can overcome fragmented data environments, legacy backup limitations, and rising cyber threats with a unified, resilient approach.
• Vikram Kanodia, VP of Technology & Cloud Alliances, Cohesity, will appear on theCUBE to dive deeper into the partnership and the path to cyber resilience.
• Wed. May 21 at 9 AM PDT | Cohesity Tech Insights video
  Theresa Miller, Senior Director, Technical Marketing at Cohesity and guest Alan Cowles, Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat discuss how ransomware detection, immutable backups, and fast recovery benefit your organization as the last line of defense when combatting cyberattacks.

Learn more about Cohesity and Red Hat:

• Read: Cohesity Data Cloud 7.2.2, now GA, expands support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
• Read: Cohesity Data Cloud now protects Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Proxmox VE workloads
• Watch: When Cohesity and Red Hat join forces, cyber resilience wins