Cohesity Enhances Data Protection and Cyber Resilience for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Workloads

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 13, 2025 – Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, today announced an expanded collaboration with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, to provide enhanced support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, now available on the Cohesity Data Cloud. With this integration, customers can more easily secure and protect data from virtual machines and containers in their Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments with Cohesity DataProtect and NetBackup. The enhancements help simplify users’ backup and recovery operations, enabling more robust data protection and better resilience from cyber attacks like ransomware and other disruptions. 

Cohesity DataProtect and NetBackup customers can now protect and secure even more critical workloads, dramatically increasing their efficiency and scale while simplifying data management. Backup and recovery operations for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization-based virtual machines, along with containers, can be managed using the same workflows as existing data sources on the Cohesity Data Cloud. 

The Cohesity platform, running on Red Hat OpenShift and designed with zero-trust principles, offers robust security features, including immutability, strict access controls, and clean room technology, delivering one of the most comprehensive data resilience platforms against sophisticated cyber attacks. Combining simplicity and streamlined operations with industry-leading cyber resilience capabilities, Cohesity provides exceptional value to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization customers. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift, including Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, which focuses primarily on providing functionality for virtual machines and virtualization use cases. ​​     ​​

Today’s announcement is an extension of the long-standing collaboration between Cohesity and Red Hat, which includes Cohesity adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundational operating system for the Cohesity Data Cloud.  Through a shared commitment to supporting customers in safeguarding their data, Red Hat and Cohesity will continue to deliver comprehensive data resilience and management features that support future workloads and advancements to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.  

Supporting Quotes

“We are excited to expand our relationship with Cohesity to bring their data protection and cyber resilience capabilities to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization customers,” said Matt Hicks, president and chief executive officer, Red Hat. “Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers organizations a streamlined path to infrastructure modernization with a unified hybrid cloud platform to help them build and deploy applications at scale. Now, with the added support of Cohesity’s leading cyber resilience capabilities, those customers can have greater confidence that their most critical IT systems can be protected and secured with the solutions they already rely on to keep their business resilient.”

“Red Hat is a strategic partner of Cohesity, and having standardized on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in our appliances, we are now bringing our industry-leading cyber resilience capabilities to the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization ecosystem,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO, Cohesity. “Cohesity’s broad data source support, including for containers and VMs, helps our customers use the right technologies that enhance their business, with the peace of mind to know that their data is secured and protected against cyber attacks with the resilience Cohesity delivers.”

Additional Resources 

• See a video with Cohesity CEO and President Sanjay Poonen with Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks, discussing today’s news

• Read the blog: Cohesity Data Cloud 7.2.2, now generally available, expands support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and improves cyber resilience

• Read the October 2023 announcement to embed Red Hat Enterprise Linux into the Cohesity Data Cloud

• Read about the  data security and resiliency collaboration between IBM and Cohesity

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