Recovery you can rehearse,
performance you can trust

What’s new in NetBackup Flex 8.0: cyber resilience built into the platform your recovery plan depends on, from day 0 to day 1000 and beyond.

The challenge: a recovery plan is not recovery confidence

Most enterprises have a plan to recover from a cyber attack. Far fewer can say with confidence that it will work. Three gaps keep resilience programs from closing that distance:

Unverified recoveries. Teams cannot prove a restore point is clean without standing up, hardening and maintaining a separate malware-scanning environment, and every scan adds a hop and a delay.
Fluctuating performance. Backup windows that held on install day slip as new workloads are added to the same appliance and quietly compete for storage.
Blind spots in the platform. Appliance health is discovered during an incident instead of before it, turning routine issues into support cases and extending downtime.

The Minimum Viable Company, the smallest set of systems your organization needs to operate after an attack, is only as recoverable as the platform beneath it.

The solution: NetBackup Flex 8.0

NetBackup Flex Appliances combine NetBackup with a hardened, immutable and indelible platform purpose-built for cyber resilience. Flex 8.0 extends that foundation with three capabilities that make recovery rehearsable, performance predictable and the platform observable, with no new infrastructure and no change to how teams back up and recover.

SECURITY Recover clean, with confidence	STORAGE Predictable performance as you grow	MONITORING Know it’s healthy before you need it
Scan recovery images on the appliance itself and encrypt connections where no NetBackup client is present.	See how storage maps to each instance and dedicate it to priority workloads so backups stay in their window.	A health dashboard and in-console diagnostics surface issues early and shorten time to resolution.

What’s new in Flex 8.0

Capability	What it does	Business outcome
On-appliance malware scanning	Assess NetBackup recovery images directly on the Flex appliance. The scanner runs on the same protected platform as the data.	No separate scan host to procure, harden, certify or patch. A shorter path to a verified clean recovery.
IPsec for external connections	Encrypt and authenticate the channel between the appliance and systems without a NetBackup client, such as NDMP, DNAS, UShare for agentless backups.	Encryption in transit no longer depends on the network team. Less exposure across network boundaries.
Storage quality of service	Dedicate storage to a priority workload so new application instances never share its path. Move capacity live after allocation.	Backup SLAs hold as the environment grows. Fewer missed windows, less firefighting.
Application-to-storage visibility	See how storage maps to every application instance from the Flex console.	Capacity and performance decisions made from data, not guesswork.
Health dashboard and diagnostics	View appliance health, infrastructure heartbeat and disk I/O metrics; run health checks in the console.	Issues caught before they become incidents. Faster resolution when support is needed.
Location-aware API tokens	Grant API access only when a valid token is presented from an approved network location.	Limits the impact of a stolen credential as automation and AI tooling connect to the platform.

The outcome: a Minimum Viable Company you can rehearse, a backup SLA you can keep, and a platform you can see into. Same appliance, same workflows, more confidence.

Why NetBackup Flex

Secure by design. Hardened, immutable and indelible architecture with zero-trust controls, multi-person authorization and network access controls built in.
Consolidated and efficient. Containerized NetBackup services consolidate primary, media, deduplication and WORM storage on one appliance, reducing hardware, power and complexity.
Proven at scale. Trusted by more than 4,000 organizations worldwide, including the majority of the Fortune 100, with a disciplined refresh cadence and multi-year lifecycle support.
A path forward. Manage NetBackup alongside Cohesity DataProtect from Helios, and extend protection to new workloads on your own terms.

Next steps

NetBackup Flex 8.0 is available October 19, 2026 for Flex 5270, 5372 and supported prior-generation appliances.

Contact your Cohesity account team to plan your upgrade, or visit cohesity.com/flex to learn more.

Recovery you can rehearse, performance you can trust