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Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup

Powering the Future with a Scale-Out Data Platform

Enterprises today face escalating threats, expanding data estates, and growing operational complexity. To stay resilient, IT organizations must modernize their data protection without sacrificing the reliability of existing investments.

Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup delivers a modern, secure, and scalable foundation for NetBackup environments. By bringing NetBackup media services natively onto the Cohesity Data Cloud platform, it transforms traditional NetBackup architectures into a high-performance, cyber-resilient, and AI-ready data foundation.

Building on the foundation established with DirectIO, this approach evolves NetBackup from a multi-tier architecture into a unified, platform-based deployment – delivering improved performance, built-in high availability, and simplified lifecycle management – all without workflow disruption or migration.

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Figure 1: The Cohesity Data Cloud advantage


Key Benefits

  • Extend – not replace – NetBackup: Enhance your existing NetBackup environment without changing applications, policies, or workflows.
  • Eliminate infrastructure sprawl: Collapse media servers and external storage into a single, scalable platform.
  • Scale performance with demand: Add capacity to increase both storage and performance—no re-architecture required.
  • Strengthen cyber resilience: Leverage platform-level immutability, encryption, and Zero Trust–aligned architecture to reduce risk and improve recoverability.
  • Prepare for what’s next: Enable a future path to AI-driven insights, data classification, and advanced cyber resilience – without needing to move data again.

How it works

Traditional NetBackup deployments rely on standalone media servers and external deduplication storage, often leading to scaling constraints and operational complexity.

Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup redefines this architecture by embedding NetBackup media services directly into the platform:

  1. DirectIO data path (foundation): NetBackup writes directly to Cohesity SpanFS®, a web-scale file system that is the foundation for Cohesity Data Cloud – providing efficient, high-performance data ingestion.
  2. Platform-managed media services: Media services run as distributed, containerized services within the Cohesity Data Cloud—eliminating standalone media server infrastructure.
  3. SpanFS scale-out file system: Cohesity’s patented, web-scale file system consolidates backup, file, and object storage into one intelligent, immutable data layer. It enables simultaneous access by NetBackup, DataProtect, and Cohesity analytics services – all from a single optimized copy of data.

This integration turns backup data into a live, actionable asset – available for recovery, analysis, and cyber defense at any scale.

Built for enterprise flexibility

Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup is designed for large-scale, distributed environments. It supports a wide range of workloads and deployment configurations:

Category Supported Options
Supported Platforms Cohesity Data Cloud 7.4+, NetBackup 11.1.0.2+
Workloads VMware, databases, NAS, and core enterprise workloads
Deployment Options
  • Full consolidation (embedded media services)
  • Hybrid (embedded + external media servers)
Security and Resilience Immutability, encryption, RBAC, audit logging, malware scanning, and cyber vaulting with FortKnox

The Cohesity Data Cloud advantage for NetBackup

Scale-out architecture

Backup and recovery performance scale linearly by distributing workloads across the cluster—eliminating media server bottlenecks. 

Built-in high availability

Platform-managed services improve resilience and reduce single points of failure across media and storage layers. 

Simplified operations and lifecycle management

Eliminate standalone media servers and reduce operational overhead with platform-managed upgrades and automation. 

Reduced infrastructure complexity and cost

Consolidate media servers and external storage into a single platform, lowering total cost of ownership. 

Zero disruption to NetBackup workflows

Preserve existing policies, catalogs, and operational processes—no migration or retraining required. 

Foundation for future data intelligence and cyber resilience

Position NetBackup data on the Cohesity Data Cloud to enable future AI-driven insights, security services, and analytics.

 

A Smarter Path Forward

Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup combines the reliability of NetBackup with the simplicity and scalability of a modern data platform – providing organizations with a simpler, smarter, and more secure foundation for the future.

With a single platform for protection, recovery, analytics, and AI, Cohesity Data Cloud transforms backup data from a passive archive into an active source of resilience and insight. Modernize your NetBackup infrastructure today – and turn data protection into a competitive advantage.

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