Introducing Cohesity Essentials: Enterprise-grade cyber resilience built for midsized organizations

Ransomware doesn't check your headcount or sophisticated skills of your team before attacking. As a security or IT professional at a midsize business, you're facing the same threats as the Fortune 500—often with broad IT responsibilities and a lean team. Fragmented, environment-specific tools create blind spots that attackers count on. The stakes are real: 76% of organizations experienced destructive cyberattacks in the past year, with most threat actors specifically targeting backups. If your backups aren't hardened, your recovery strategy isn't either.

The data protection market has long forced midsize organizations into a frustrating tradeoff: lightweight tools that leave gaps, or overbuilt enterprise platforms too complex and costly to justify. Cohesity Essentials solutions were built to eliminate that tradeoff.

Enterprise-grade security

Cohesity Essentials embeds enterprise-grade security controls that most midsize businesses have never had access to at an affordable price point.

• Immutable backups with zero-trust architecture ensure data can't be tampered with or encrypted by ransomware. 
• Anomaly detection alerts administrators to potential ransomware threats.
• Role-based access controls and multifactor authentication mitigates insider threats.

Optional cyber resilience features include: 

• Integrated cyber vaulting and data isolation keep clean recovery copies separated from potentially compromised environments. 
• Threat protection that allows for proactive scanning of data as new threat signatures emerge.
• Identity resilience for protecting and recovering Active Directory and EntraID services.
• Data classification for identifying, securing, and recovering PII data.

The result is a secure data environment for ransomware-free quick and confident recoveries.

Built-in simplicity

Operational overhead is a real cost. Every hour your team spends managing point products or manually coordinating a recovery is an hour not spent on higher-value work.

Cohesity Essentials replaces tool sprawl with a single, unified platform and a modern management console. The AI-powered Copilot simplifies day-to-day administration, and orchestrated recovery dramatically reduces the manual coordination that turns incidents into multi-day outages. The impact is measurable: organizations can recover data up to 2x faster than similar solutions—and restore up to 1,000 VMs instantly when it matters most.

Efficient data handling

Cohesity Essentials is designed to reduce your total cost of ownership—not just shift spending around. Efficient data handling can cut storage costs up to 93%, and platform consolidation lowers your overall infrastructure footprint. Predictable, pay-as-you-go pricing eliminates hidden charges, supports accurate budget planning, and delivers a TCO reduction of up to 40%¹ compared to fragmented alternatives.

Predictable pricing. No features you'll never use. No enterprise overkill.

Flexible deployment options to match your architecture

Cohesity Essentials meet you where you are—and support where you're going. Essentials M365 provides Cohesity-managed protection for Microsoft 365 SaaS deployments. Essentials covers self-managed software-only protection for on-premises and cloud workloads. Essentials Appliance delivers integrated hardware and software for turnkey, cyber-hardened simplicity. Whether you need SaaS delivery, a self-managed virtual edition, or an appliance-based deployment, Essentials scales with your environment without requiring you to rearchitect as you grow.

The bottom line

Every company, no matter its size, needs to be cyber resilient. As a midsize business, you need resilience that is powerful, unified, and cost-effective—without requiring an enterprise-sized team of specialists to operate it.

Cohesity Essentials delivers exactly that: enterprise-grade protection, embedded security, faster recovery, and simplified management in an affordable package designed for the way modern midsize IT teams actually work. 

Your backups should be your strongest line of defense. With Cohesity Essentials, they are. Cohesity Essentials is available through Cohesity and our channel partner network. 

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