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Simplified backup and instant recovery for virtual machines

Protect VMs at unlimited scale with powerful security features to fend off ransomware and cyber threats. Available as a service or self-managed software.

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Simple protection. Instant recovery.

Simplify backups with integrated protection and granular recovery of virtual machines, data stores, files, folders, virtual disks, and other components of your virtualization stack.

Simplicity without compromise

Protect your virtual machines with integrated backup and quick recovery for VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, RHEV, Kubernetes, and more.

Security without worry

Safeguard all your virtual machines and application data against cyber threats and outages with unlimited immutable snapshots and enterprise-level security and encryption.

Scalability without limits

Instantly recover any number of virtual machines to any point in time and location to exceed recovery SLAs. Quickly clone virtual machines and datastores for development and testing without impacting production. Rapidly migrate virtual machines across locations with minimal downtime.

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Protect your VMware Cloud with Cohesity

Why do customers around the globe and across all industries choose Cohesity to protect their VMware environment?

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Commonly asked VM backup and recovery questions

Virtual backup is the process of copying data from a virtual machine (VM) to another, separate location to prevent data from being permanently lost or damaged. Depending on traditional backup software is risky because VMs can end up in “resource contention”—meaning a conflict over access to a shared resource that can adversely impact performance. What’s needed is an end-to-end, software-defined solution for backing up all on-prem, edge, and public cloud VM environments at scale and to any point in time.

The VM is a standard unit for both compute and storage in today’s IT environments. Some organizations run IT environments that are completely or almost completely virtualized. VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, RHEV, and Nutanix AHV are popular hypervisor providers of virtual machines, and virtual machine backups are an important aspect of every backup and recovery strategy.

Robust VMware backup is necessary for business continuity because cybercriminals are increasingly targeting organizations’ data with ransomware. Analysts predict ransomware attackers will be targeting a business every 2 seconds by 2031. The most effective virtual backup solution will include comprehensive capabilities to detect and deter ransomware, and to help organizations with rapid recovery in case of an attack.

Having a simple, secure way to manage virtual backups is also a business necessity to meet compliance requirements. Auditors will often ask teams to prove they’re complying with long-term retention policies and can easily initiate data recovery if needed.

Modern backup solutions simplify backing up VMs. Cohesity, for example, integrates with VMware snapshot technology and VMware vCenter to:

  • Consolidate disconnected, standalone backup software, target storage, proxy and media servers, and cloud gateways into a single solution
  • Provide comprehensive data protection for a broad set of enterprise apps, databases, network-attached storage (NAS), and workloads running as virtual machines on the VMware hypervisor
  • Globally search VMs, files, and objects across locations and instantly recover at scale to any point in time

Resources

Solution Brief
Solution Brief
Radically simple data management for your VMware estate
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Solution Brief
Secure and manage enterprise data with Microsoft and Cohesity
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Solution Brief
Data protection for Kubernetes
Analyst Report
Analyst Report
GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection for the Enterprise
Analyst Report
Analyst Report
ESG Research Report: Data protection and cloud strategies at a crossroads
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