Cohesity DataProtect: Enterprise data protection for today's modern workloads

Enterprise data protection refers to the strategies, policies, and technologies organizations use to secure, back up, and recover their critical business data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. As enterprises face growing threats from ransomware, cyberattacks, accidental deletion, and infrastructure failures, protecting data has become fundamental to business continuity. Without a comprehensive data protection strategy, organizations risk prolonged downtime, compliance violations, financial loss, and reputational damage. Effective enterprise data protection ensures data remains available, recoverable, and secure no matter what happens.

Cohesity DataProtect is a unified data protection solution that helps enterprises protect modern workloads, strengthen cyber resilience, and recover data faster while reducing operational complexity and costs. It centralizes management across your entire data estate, from on-premises systems to multiple clouds and SaaS applications, through a single platform.

Cohesity DataProtect provides broad workload coverage to ensure resilience as enterprises continue to innovate, including:

• Virtual — VMware vSphere, Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper-V, RHOV 

• Databases — Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra

• Cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI 

• Applications — Microsoft 365, Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce

• Storage/NAS — Pure Storage, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Isilon 

• AI/Vector Databases — Google Vertex AI, Pinecone

One platform protects your most critical data across environments, eliminating the need for siloed point tools. 

Cohesity DataProtect uses a multilayered security architecture designed to minimize the risk of backups becoming a ransomware target. Key protections include:

• Immutable snapshots that cannot be directly accessed, altered, or mounted from outside the Cohesity service

• Zero Trust Security with granular role-based access control (RBAC), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and single sign-on (SSO)

• Hash-based threat scanning to detect threats within backup data

• DataLock immutability policies that prevent accidental or intentional deletion of backups 

Together, these ensure your backup environment is hardened against sophisticated attacks, so you always have a clean, recoverable copy of your data.

Cohesity DataProtect is built for near-instantaneous recovery. It can recover hundreds of files, objects, and VMs at scale across your entire data estate. Unlimited, fully hydrated snapshots eliminate slow, chain-based backup dependencies and reduce recovery time objectives (RTOs) to minutes.

Yes. Cohesity DataProtect is built with compliance and data sovereignty in mind. It offers FIPS certification and supports on-premises or private cloud deployment to help your organization meet regulatory and sovereignty requirements. 

For organizations that require full control over their management plane, Helios Self-Managed can be deployed entirely on-premises, giving teams centralized oversight of their entire data estate without reliance on external networks or third-party management. This makes it well-suited for government, defense, healthcare, and other industries operating in air-gapped or restricted environments. 

Together, these capabilities support compliance mandates across regulated industries while maintaining control over where data lives and who can access it.

A single management platform replaces multiple point products, reducing licensing, administrative overhead, and infrastructure costs. Built-in deduplication and compression further reduce storage consumption across on-premises and cloud environments.  

Cohesity DataProtect is your primary enterprise backup and recovery platform. It protects, manages, and recovers data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS workloads from a single unified solution.

Cohesity FortKnox is a cyber vaulting solution focused on ransomware resilience. It provides an immutable, air-gapped vault that stores an isolated, offsite copy of your most critical data for clean and fast recovery after a cyberattack. 

The two are complementary and are often deployed together for a secure, confident recovery.