Beyond protection: Advance cyber resilience and continuous compliance with Cohesity DataProtect on IBM® LinuxONE

As enterprises operate across hybrid and multicloud environments, data resilience is essential to ensure integrity, availability, and rapid recovery from the cyber threats that are rising in scale and complexity. IBM LinuxONE delivers continuous availability, built-in security, and enterprise-grade reliability required for mission-critical workloads. 

As a primary ransomware target, backup data must be stored securely, protected from unauthorized access and contamination, and always recoverable. That means maintaining a copy that is offsite and logically isolated via a virtual air gap and ready for rapid recovery when it matters most.  

The cyber resilience problem no one talks about

IBM LinuxONE is engineered for resilience and security, featuring AI acceleration on chip with IBM's latsest Telum® II processor to enable real-time anomaly detectioin, confidential computing, and quantum-safe cryptography. While data on IBM LinuxONE is secure, cyber resilience requires enterprises to have the ability to withstand and recover from cyberattacks in case of an incident. 

The most sophisticated attacks don’t take down your platform—they quietly compromise your data. Ransomware can sit dormant for weeks before detonating. Insider threats can corrupt backups before anyone notices. And when organizations discover their last clean recovery point is weeks old, or that their backup data was encrypted along with everything else—it's already too late.

Cohesity DataProtect now available on IBM LinuxONE

Cohesity DataProtect on IBM LinuxONE advances protection to the data layer with modern data security and cyber resilience capabilities while enabling continuous compliance to regulatory requirements. We treat backup data as a high-value asset. That means immutable storage to block tampering, encryption to prevent unauthorized access, and a virtual air gap to ensure a clean, offsite copy is always available. 

Together, they deliver a unified solution—combining a highly secure, resilient runtime environment with comprehensive data protection, rapid recovery, and ransomware defense—to provide end-to-end assurance for mission-critical workloads. 

How Cohesity addresses cyber resilience challenges on IBM LinuxONE

Cohesity DataProtect is widely used by enterprise organizations in their heterogeneous environments, providing the same cyber resilient protection used across enterprise x86, VMware, NAS, and cloud environments. Now, we’re proud to extend our class-leading cyber resiliencet to IBM LinuxONE workloads. Using our new agent for IBM LinuxONE, organizations receive:

• Efficient, incremental-forever protection: Minimized backup windows and network impact while delivering efficient protection of large file systems and application datasets.
• Immutability and DataLock: Backup data is locked against deletion or modification—by anyone, including administrators—for a configured retention period. WORM-capable storage also supports regulatory mandates like the SEC’s Exchange Act Rule 17a-4(f). DataProtect is designed so that when ransomware hits, your recovery points are clean.
• Virtual air gap: Cohesity FortKnox provides a logically isolated, cloud-based copy of backup data to help ensure that a clean offsite copy remains recoverable even if the primary backup infrastructure is compromised. This is foundational to any credible ransomware recovery posture.
• Encryption everywhere: AES-256, FIPS-compliant encryption protects backup data in flight and at rest. On a platform like IBM LinuxONE, where confidential computing is a core design principle, your data protection layer should meet the same standard.
• No single point off failure architecture. A fault-tolerant, scale-out design ensures your backup infrastructure doesn’t become its own point of failure—aligning with IBM LinuxONE’s high-availability design principles. 

Fitting into how you already work

One practical concern for any backup administrator: disruption to existing workflows. Through close collaboration with IBM, Cohesity’s approach is designed to meet you where you are. IBM LinuxONE environments can be integrated into enterprise-wide cyber resilience workflows alongside the rest of your data estate: VMware, NAS, IBM i, SaaS platforms, and public cloud.

Enterprise-grade resilience, end to end

Cohesity’s support for IBM LinuxONE is part of a broader commitment: to protect and secure enterprise data wherever it lives. For organizations that rely on IBM LinuxONE as a cornerstone of their infrastructure, this isn’t just another capability extension—it’s about ensuring that the platform’s world-class hardware resilience is matched by an equally rigorous data protection and cyber resilience strategy.

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