Leading the next era of data security and management

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At Cohesity, we believe that simplicity is the foundation of modern data management.
Our mission is to radically simplify how organizations secure and manage their data and unlock limitless value.

Company Timeline

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June 2013

Company Founded

Mohit Aron, former Google File System lead developer and former Nutanix co-founder/CTO, addresses the new data management challenge.

Early investors include Sequoia Capital, ACCEL Partners, and Google Ventures.

Timeline Cohesity Data Platform Data Protect
October 2015

Introduction of Cohesity DataPlatform & Cohesity DataProtect

First hyperconverged data protection solution includes backup, distributed NFS, and analytics.

Timeline Product Release 2.0
February 2016

Launch of Cohesity DataPlatform & Cohesity DataProtect 2.0

Site replication, integrated cloud services from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, support for SMB,
stronger security, and an enhanced UI added.

Timeline Product Release 3.0
June 2016

Release of Cohesity DataPlatform & Cohesity DataProtect 3.0

Physical workloads, servers, and databases added with Pure Storage integration and Cohesity SnapTree™ Technology for speed and scalability.

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October 2016

Expansion to EMEA

Company announces expansion into the European market.

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April 2017

Strategic Partners Invest

Cisco Investments and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) back groundbreaking, complementary Cohesity solution.

Timeline Product Release 4.0
April 2017

Launch of Cohesity DataPlatform & Cohesity DataProtect 4.0

S3-compatible object store, NAS data protection, role-based access, erasure coding, and more
capabilities added.

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September 2017

Industry Accolades

Cohesity named "2017 Cool Vendor" by Gartner and “Next Billion-Dollar Startup 2017" by Forbes.

Timeline Product Release 5.0
December 2017

Release of Cohesity DataPlatform & Cohesity DataProtect 5.0

Hyper-V, AHV, and NAS protection introduced.

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January 2018

Expansion to APAC

Company opens second international office in Bangalore, India.

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March 2018

US Expansion

Opening of second major U.S. office in Research Triangle, NC.

Timeline March 2018 Investment
June 2018

Strategic Investments

SoftBank Vision Fund, Morgan Stanley, and other strategic investors back proven, complementary Cohesity technology.

Timeline Product Release 6.0
July 2018

Release of Cohesity DataPlatform & DataProtect 6.0

Simplified multicluster management, addition of CloudSpin and Cloud DR, and enhancements to Analytics.

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August 2018

Introduction of Cohesity Helios

Single, simple SaaS-based global management solution for data and applications.

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February 2019

Introducing Cohesity Marketplace

Making backup data productive for other business requirements.

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May 2019

Imanis Data Acquisition

Expanded coverage for Hadoop and NoSQL distributed databases.

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May 2019

CNBC Disruptor 50 List

Cohesity selected for the CNBC Disruptor 50 list for most ambitious and innovative companies.

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September 2019

Cohesity Named A Leader in Forrester Wave

Cohesity named a Leader in the Forrester Wave Data Resiliency Solutions Q3, 2019.

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October 2019

Cohesity Named A Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant

Cohesity named a Visionary for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions.

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November 2019

2019 Distinguished Alumni Award

IIT Delhi Selects Cohesity Founder and CEO Mohit Aron for the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award.

Timeline 2020 Forbes 100 Award
January 2020

2020 Forbes Cloud 100 for Second Year in a Row

Cohesity has been named to the Forbes 2020 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world.

Timeline Gartner Peer Insights 2020
February 2020

Third Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Award

Cohesity recognized for the third time in a row as a Customers’ Choice for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions, and one of only 3 vendors rated in Global Enterprises Voice of the Customer survey.

Timeline 2020 Investment
April 2020

Further Strong Investment Round and Valuation

Cohesity raises another $235M in Series E funding round led by DFJ Growth Fund, more than doubling the company's valuation to $2.5B.

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April 2020

Cohesity Unveils Industry’s First Mobile Application

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June 2020

Cohesity Named a Leader In GigaOm Report

GigaOm rates Cohesity’s software-defined, platform-based approach to modern data management solutions above all vendors in new market landscape report.

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July 2020

Cohesity Named A Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant

The company is positioned as a Leader in just its second time in this Magic Quadrant. Gartner states that “Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.”

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August 2020

Pure Storage and Cohesity Forge Strategic Partnership to Deliver Rapid Recovery at Scale

Pure FlashRecover, Powered by Cohesity®is the industry’s first jointly-engineered all-flash modern data protection solution for rapid recovery, ransomware protection, and reuse of data.

Timeline AWS Strategic Partnership
October 2020

Strategic Collaboration with AWS to Deliver Data Management as a Service

Unveiled the industry’s most comprehensive Data Management as a Service offering, utilizing the Cohesity Helios multicloud platform, with AWS as our preferred cloud provider.

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December 2020

Cohesity Makes Data Management as Simple as Sign Up, Connect and Protect Through New SaaS Offerings for Backup and Disaster Recovery

New SaaS Offerings Deliver on the Promise of Data Management as a Service and Provide an Unprecedented Level of Choice and Simplicity

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January 2021

Fourth Time in a Row

Cohesity recognized as a Customers’ Choice in 10 of 11 category distinctions in the Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions, and the only vendor named a Customers’ Choice for Global Enterprises.

CRN Coolest Cloud Company Award 2021
February 2021

Cohesity Featured Among CRN’s Coolest Cloud Companies for 2021

Recognition Follows the Rollout of Cohesity's Industry-first, Comprehensive Data Management as a Service Solution

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March 2021

Cohesity Named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in Two Reports

Cohesity is the only data management vendor named a Customers' Choice in both the Distributed File Systems and Object Storage report and the Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions report.

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March 2021

Cohesity Announces $3.7 Billion Valuation

$1.2 Billion more than valuation less than 12 months ago

Cohesity Featured Among CRN’s Coolest Cloud Companies for 2021
June 2021

CRN’s Software-Defined Data Center 50 for 2021

Cohesity named to the 2021 Software-Defined Data Center 50 List for forward-thinking technology providers who virtualize and automate the delivery and management of data center infrastructure.

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July 2021

GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection for the Enterprise

Cohesity Named a Leader for Two Years in a Row in the GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection for the Enterprise

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup & Recovery Software Solutions Report
July 2021

Cohesity Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions

Cohesity was recognized for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.

2021 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree
August 2021

Cohesity Is Named To The 2021 Forbes Cloud 100 for the Third Year in a Row

Cohesity has been named to the Forbes 2021 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

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October 2021

Cohesity Connect

Cohesity hosted its inaugural user conference Cohesity Connect, a global, virtual event that gave attendees from around the world the opportunity to hear about the latest trends and innovations in next-gen data management.

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March 2022

Named a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar for Infrastructure-Oriented Unstructured Data Management

Cohesity ranked one of the top two leaders based on 12 criteria and metrics.

April 2022

IDC MarketScape Worldwide Distributed Scale-Out File System 2022 Vendor Assessment

Cohesity was recognized as a Major Player based on 12 capabilities and 10 strategies criteria and metrics.

Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice
May 2022

Customers’ Choice in 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’: Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

For the second consecutive year Cohesity received recognition as a Customers’ Choice for the Distributed File Systems and Object Storage market category.

2022 GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud for Data Protection
July 2022

Cohesity Named a Leader and Outperformer in Two GigaOm Radars on Hybrid Cloud Data Protection

Cohesity Ranked One of The Top Two Leaders in Both Reports

2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant
July 2022

2022 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions

August 2022

Cohesity Appoints Sanjay Poonen as CEO and President

Former VMware COO and SAP President to Lead Cohesity’s Next Stage of Growth; Founder Mohit Aron Will Continue to Drive the Next-Gen Data Management Leader’s Innovation as Chief Technology and Product Officer

Forbes Cloud 100
August 2022

Cohesity Named to the 2022 Forbes Cloud 100 for the Fourth Year in a Row

Cohesity Ranked in Top Third and Continues to Climb as it Doubles Down on Data Management as a Service, Data Security in a Multicloud World, and Partnerships

2022 Gartner MQ Files & Objects
October 2022

Cohesity named a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

Hybrid, multicloud solution consolidates data from multiple application silos and analyzes data in-place

DataHawk
November 2022

Cohesity Announces DataHawk – Providing Protection, Detection, and Recovery Against Cyberattacks All From a Single SaaS Security Offering

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November 2022

A new era of Cohesity’s leadership in data security and management

2022 Forrester Data Resilience Solutions Suites
December 2022

Cohesity is named a LEADER

Cohesity was named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Data Resilience Solution Suites, Q4 2022 and was top ranked in the strategy category.

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January 2023

Cohesity named an outperformer in GigaOm Radar Report for Enterprise Scale-Out File Systems in 2023

Gartner Customer Choice 2023
January 2023

Cohesity recognized for the fifth time as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice

Cohesity has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the January 2023 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions report.

CRN Cloud 100
January 2023

Cohesity Featured Among CRN's Cloud Companies for 2023

CRN recognizes forward-thinking cloud suppliers that have demonstrated commitment to working with channel partners while spurring innovation.

Cohesity Named a 2023 Leader in the Omdia Universe: Protecting and Recovering Data in the Cloud Era
February 2023

Cohesity Named a 2023 Leader in the Omdia Universe: Protecting and Recovering Data in the Cloud Era

Omdia, a global technology research leader, positioned Cohesity as a leading solution provider for its latest Omdia Universe: Protecting and Recovering Data in the Cloud Era.

IBM and Cohesity Partnership
March 2023

IBM and Cohesity Announce New Data Security and Resiliency Partnership

This technology partnership addresses the urgent need organizations have for increased data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments.

Microsoft and Cohesity partnership
April 2023

Microsoft and Cohesity join forces to protect and secure data

Cohesity unveils key security and cloud integrations with Microsoft and announces Cohesity’s AI vision with Microsoft Azure OpenAI.

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May 2023

Cohesity Announces Partnership with Google Cloud to Help Organizations Unlock the Power of Generative AI and Data

Cohesity unveils Cohesity Turing—an expanding set of AI capabilities that powers deep AI-driven insights for customers across industries and geographies

FedRAMP
May 2023

Cohesity earns ‘In Process’ status for FedRAMP®

With this designation, federal agencies and others in the public sector can use Cohesity Cloud Services for Government atop AWS GovCloud to reduce their risk from ransomware and other cyber threats.

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Industry Accolades

Cohesity innovation has been recognized by industry analysts, media publications, business influencers, and partner organizations.

Gartner Magic Quadrant 2021

3X Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions

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4X Named to 2022 Forbes Cloud 100

2023 CRN Cloud 100

4X Named to 2023 CRN Coolest Cloud Companies

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Major Player in 2022 IDC MarketScape Worldwide Distributed Scale-Out File System Vendor Assessment

Satisfied Customers

Customer obsession is a Cohesity core value, and our mission is to always deliver exceptional support. We’re very proud of our 90+ Net Promoter Score (NPS) and having won the NorthFace Scoreboard award for excellence six years in a row.

Investors

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