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AMD EPYC CPU-Powered Solutions Offers Cohesity Customers More Choices

Taylor Graham — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:15:04 +0000

As companies continue to generate increasing volumes of data, it’s critical they manage and secure that data properly. Organizations face many challenges, from ransomware and other cyberattacks to stringent regulatory requirements, IT constraints, tight budgets, and tough economic conditions. To solve these challenges, companies need to take advantage of technology that is best suited to their specific requirements.

Cohesity has announced that its Cohesity Data Cloud now supports AMD EPYC CPU-powered servers, providing customers with additional choices for modern data security and management. Customers can now deploy and operate Cohesity Data Cloud on AMD EPYC CPU-based all-flash and hybrid servers from Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Lenovo.

“Customers each have unique needs but a common goal – securing and gaining insight from their data. They trust Cohesity, in part, because we strive to offer the largest ecosystem with the most choices to suit their preferences,” said John Davidson, group vice president, Americas Sales, Cohesity. “By supporting AMD EPYC CPU-powered servers, we’re opening up new options for our customers to customize and modernize their data center, increasing performance and delivering energy, space, and cost savings so they can execute their data security and management strategy on their preferred hardware configurations.”

All-flash servers have become an increasingly popular choice for organizations with high-demand applications and workloads, stringent power budgets for their data centers, or increasing storage capacity requirements and little physical space within their data center. Leveraging the performance, cost efficiency, and energy efficiency of AMD EPYC CPUs, Cohesity now delivers compelling AMD-powered all-flash servers from HPE to modernize customer data centers and meet the requirements of green initiatives through the greater density, performance, and cost savings all-flash servers provide over traditional servers. Single-socket 1U HPE servers based on AMD EPYC can reduce the number of required nodes and power costs by up to 33% when compared with dual-socket 2U servers based on other CPUs. Additionally, through the HPE Secure Supply Chain, Cohesity’s software is preloaded at the factory, reducing deployment and increasing the security of the overall solution.

“Businesses increasingly demand more from their data centers to meet their business needs —more performance, more energy efficiency, more cost savings,” said Kumaran Siva, corporate vice president, Strategic Market Development, AMD. “AMD is uniquely positioned to help meet the demands of the modern data center while enabling technology partners, like Cohesity, to deliver business critical applications like their AI-powered data security and management capabilities.”

Cohesity’s AI-powered data security and management capabilities are now generally available on AMD-powered all-flash servers from HPE and hybrid servers from Dell and Lenovo.

Learn more about Cohesity Data Cloud supporting AMD EPYC CPU-powered servers by reading the blog: “Revamping Your Data Centers with Cohesity on HPE Next-Gen Compute, Powered by AMD” here.

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Dr. Martell Appointed as Cohesity’s Chief Technology Officer

Taylor Graham — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:00:17 +0000

Cohesity has appointed Dr. Craig Martell as its Chief Technology Officer. In this position, Dr. Martell will leverage his extensive industry knowledge to steer the company’s technical direction. He will integrate prevailing and emerging industry and customer insights to define and implement a strategic and impactful roadmap that ensures Cohesity’s future success.

Dr. Martell brings extensive industry and public sector experience and unprecedented expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, leading AI programs for top tech companies since 2013. Dr. Martell most recently served as the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). In this role, he served as the senior official responsible for accelerating the adoption of data, analytics, digital solutions, and AI functions to generate decision advantage across the department – expertly guiding the DoD through a quickly-changing AI industry. With Dr. Martell as its first leader, the CDAO office was created to elevate digital and AI strategy development and policy formulation while ensuring the unity of mission and tighter integration for the department’s enterprise-wide data, AI, and cyber organizations.

Prior to joining the DoD, Dr. Martell held several senior roles at some of the most recognizable technology companies. At Lyft, he served as Head of Machine Learning, where he designed and built a state-of-the-art Machine Learning (ML) Platform, allowing the Lyft engineering team to quickly create and ship ML models using large-scale, new, and ongoing statistical programs. From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Martell was Head of Machine Intelligence at Dropbox, responsible for all machine learning, including overall vision-setting, drawing from analytics as applied to ML, and clear, concise communication of ML strategy across the organization. Before then, he led a number of AI teams and market-moving initiatives at LinkedIn. Dr. Martell was also a tenured computer science professor at the Naval Postgraduate School specializing in natural language processing. Dr. Martell’s proficiency in statistical principles and methodologies has been demonstrated in his several patents, including a Hybrid Classification System in 2021 and System and Method for Encrypting Data in Pictorial Data in 2008.

“The speed and scale Cohesity has achieved over the last several years is a testament to the incredible technology platform the company has built at the junction of multi-cloud, security and AI for the future of data protection. My role will be to accelerate the innovation internally and the advocacy externally of Cohesity’s AI-powered innovations that are second to none,” said Dr. Martell. “I’m honored to join Sanjay and the talented team he has put together as we accelerate the company’s course to advance AI and machine learning capabilities critical to addressing key challenges to enterprise data.”

“AI represents a massive competitive opportunity and advantage for Cohesity. Our launch of Cohesity Gaia – with its first-to-market, patent-pending innovations – was the first step in our strategy,” said Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO, Cohesity. “Attracting and hiring an industry pioneer of Craig’s caliber – someone who has been driving an agenda of responsible AI at the highest levels of both public and private sector organizations – rounds out our strong executive leadership team with expertise across security, multicloud, and AI. I expect that Craig’s experience and vision for Cohesity’s AI roadmap will accelerate our lead in this critical area of our business.”

To learn more about Dr. Martell and the Cohesity Executive Team, visit the website here.

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Confidential Computing Capabilities with Cohesity and Intel Collaboration

Taylor Graham — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:30:44 +0000

Cohesity has announced a partnership with Intel to integrate Intel’s confidential computing capabilities into the Cohesity Data Cloud. By combining this technology with Cohesity’s renowned cyber vault service, Fort Knox, they introduce a groundbreaking data-in-use encryption solution, marking a pioneering advancement in the data management industry.

Together, Cohesity and Intel are solving one of the most pressing cybersecurity challenges for CIOs. Traditionally, options have been limited for protecting data in use while it is actively processed in memory, which can leave data unencrypted and vulnerable to insider attacks. Confidential computing enabled by Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) will support Cohesity customers to reduce the risk posed by potential bad actors accessing data while it is being processed in main memory. This is especially critical for highly regulated industries like financial institutions, healthcare, and government.

Cohesity’s flagship platform, Cohesity Data Cloud, has long included many proven and cutting-edge technologies to help the world’s largest organizations manage and secure their most critical data from cyber criminals. Cohesity and Intel are joining forces to reduce customers’ risk of cyber threat by:

Creating a unique solution that will protect encryption keys that secure customer data in a hardware-secured environment leveraging Intel SGX for confidential computing in the cloud.
This solution dramatically reduces the risk posed by data exfiltration, as the data is not viewable or downloadable by any privileged accounts when the data is being processed in memory as it is encrypted.
Providing a way for Cohesity customers to verify that their Intel SGX is legitimate by using Intel® Trust Authority, which has the latest patches and only runs the dedicated Cohesity application before extracting the data encryption key.

“We are relentlessly focused on innovation that furthers our mission: To protect, secure, and provide insights into the world’s data. Collaborations with the biggest and most trusted names in tech, like Intel, are the reason why the largest global enterprises rely on us to strengthen their business resilience,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President of Cohesity. “With Intel SGX, Intel Trust Authority, and confidential computing, our customers will benefit from reduced risk and increased security in cloud environments, allowing them to focus on what really matters, their business.”

“Intel is a pioneer and leader in data center confidential computing technologies, enabling customers, especially those handling sensitive or highly regulated data, to address their needs of confidentiality, integrity, and attestation for their workloads,” said Greg Lavender, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Intel Corporation. “Cohesity’s adoption of our technology reflects the growing customer need to protect critical data in the cloud and advances our common goal of delivering a secure computing environment combined with the trust customers expect.”

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Cyberattacks Compel Companies to Pay Ransoms, Breaking their ‘Do Not Pay’ Policies

Taylor Graham — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:00:43 +0000

A study conducted by Cohesity indicates that prevalent cyberattacks are compelling a majority of companies to pay ransoms and disregard their ‘do not pay’ policies. The research, based on responses from over 900 IT and Security decision-makers, underscores the prevailing notion that companies are operating in an environment where cyberattacks are not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when.’ Notably, a significant portion of surveyed companies has paid ransoms in the past two years, and the majority anticipates a substantial increase in the threat of cyberattacks in 2024 compared to 2023. The situation is exacerbated by deficiencies in data recovery capabilities.

Alarmingly, close to 8 in 10 (79%) respondents said their company had been the ‘victim of a ransomware attack’ between June and December. The cyber threat landscape is expected to get even worse in 2024, with 96% of respondents saying the threat of cyberattacks to their industry will increase this year and over 7 in 10 (71%) predicting it will increase by more than 50%.

Organizations’ attack surfaces are informed by the size and scope of their data environments. However, 78% of respondents said their data security risk has now increased faster than the growth in the data they manage. Respondents also believe organizations’ cyber resilience and data security strategies are not keeping up with the current threat landscape, with just 21% having full confidence in their company’s cyber resilience strategy and its ability to ‘address today’s escalating cyber challenges and threats’.(1)

Slow Data Recovery & Lack of Cyber Resilience Results Ransom Payments

Cyber resilience is the technology backbone for business continuity. It defines companies’ ability to recover their data and restore business processes when they suffer a cyberattack or adverse IT event. However, according to respondents, every company has cyber resilience and business continuity challenges:

All respondents said they need over 24 hours to recover data and restore business processes
Just 7% said their company could recover data and restore business processes within 1-3 days
35% said they could recover and restore in 4 to 6 days, while 34% need 1-2 weeks
Alarmingly, almost 1 in 4 (23%) need over 3 weeks to recover data and restore business processes

Further demonstrating cyber resilience gaps, just 12% said their company had stress-tested their data security, data management, and data recovery processes or solutions in the six months prior to being surveyed, and 46% had not tested their processes or solutions in over 12 months.

Unsurprisingly, 94% of respondents said their company would pay a ransom to recover data and restore business processes, while 5% said ‘maybe, depending on the ransom amount.’ More than 2 in 3 (67%) said their company would be willing to pay over $3 million to recover data and restore business processes, with 35% of respondents saying their company would be willing to pay over $5 million. The research also showed the importance of being able to respond and recover, as 9 in 10 said their organization had paid a ransom in the prior two years, despite 84% saying their company had a ‘do not pay’ policy.

“Organizations can’t control the increasing volume, frequency, or sophistication of cyberattacks such as ransomware. What they can control is their cyber resilience, which is the ability to rapidly respond and recover from cyberattacks or IT failures by adopting modern data security capabilities,” said Brian Spanswick, chief information security officer and head of IT, Cohesity. “It is no surprise that the majority of companies have been hit by cyberattacks like ransomware. What is alarming is that 90% have paid a ransom, breaking their ‘do not pay’ policies, and most are willing to pay over $3 million in ransoms because they can’t recover their data and restore business processes or do so fast enough.”

Executive Management Should Be Accountable & Aligned

Respondents identified executive awareness and responsibility for data security as two areas for companies to improve, with just 35% saying their senior and executive management fully understands the ‘serious risks and daily challenges of protecting, securing, managing, backing up, and recovering data.’ Four in five said executive management (C-Level) and boards should share the responsibility for their company’s data security strategy, while 67% said their company’s CIO and CISO, in particular, could be better aligned.

Prioritizing their biggest concerns about a successful data breach or cyberattack, respondents selected brand and reputational damage (34%), a drop in share price / investment / profitability (31%), a direct hit to revenue (30%), and a loss of stakeholder trust (30%). When asked who is most impacted by a data breach or cyberattack, respondents said existing customers (29%), the Security team (29%), the IT team (28%), employees (28%), and their third-party partners (27%) were most impacted.

“Cyber resilience and data security should be a holistic organizational priority because the use of data and technology occurs in every function by every employee. The severe impact of a successful cyberattack or data breach on business continuity, revenue, brand reputation, and trust is enough to keep all business, IT, and Security leaders awake at night,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and president of Cohesity. “To rapidly respond to cyberattacks, organizations need modern AI-powered data security and management solutions that protect their data, detect when it is under attack, and recover it as fast as possible to restore their business processes.”

Regulation Isn’t Driving Companies’ Cyber Resilience & Data Security Best Practices

Despite governments and public institutions going to great lengths to encourage stronger cybersecurity and data management, only 46% of respondents said government initiatives, legislation, and regulations are actually driving their companies’ data security, data management, or data recovery initiatives. Of these respondents that said specific government initiatives, legislation, and regulations are driving their data security, management, and recovery approaches, 2 in 3 named these as the most influential:

United States:

California Consumer Privacy Act
Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
Department of Defense’s Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA)

Australia:

Privacy Act 1988
Digital Transformation Agency Guidelines
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) Scheme

United Kingdom:

National Data Strategy (NDS)
Consumer Data Right (CDR)
Data Protection Act 2018
UK Cloud Security Principles

“It may seem surprising that 54% say government efforts and policies aren’t driving their companies’ data security, management, and recovery initiatives. However, organizations should not be centering their entire data security, risk, management, or recovery strategy around a set standard or compliance framework,” said Spanswick. “Organizations should certainly adhere to legislation, regulation, and standards, but these should be seen as the floor and not the ceiling. The security risks to a company’s data and operations should be what drives their data management, security, and recovery practices.”

About the survey:
The findings are based on a survey of 902 IT and Security decision-makers (split as close to 50:50 as possible) commissioned by Cohesity and conducted by Censuswide. Survey respondents were polled from businesses in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The top five industries selected by respondents as best representing the industry their company operates in were: IT & Telecommunications, Finance, Healthcare, Finance, HR, and Manufacturing & Utilities.

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Cyber Resilience and Data Recovery are Lacking According to Cohesity Research

¹Respondents were provided with the NIST definition of cyber resiliency at the start of the survey: “The ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources. Cyber resiliency is intended to enable mission or business objectives that depend on cyber resources to be achieved in a contested cyber environment.”

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Cohesity DataProtect Integration with Microsoft 365 Brings Enhanced Security

Taylor Graham — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:30:49 +0000

At Microsoft Ignite 2023, Cohesity revealed an expanded collaboration with Microsoft, aiming to assist organizations in promptly responding to and recovering from data loss within Microsoft 365 environments. For years, Cohesity and Microsoft have offered solutions for high-speed backup and recovery. This includes recent AI and cloud security integrations announced earlier this year across Microsoft environments, from Microsoft Azure to Microsoft 365.

With this expanded collaboration, Cohesity is working with Microsoft to deliver enhanced backup and recovery performance for Microsoft 365 environments via the integration of native APIs of Microsoft 365 Backup Storage with Cohesity DataProtect. Cohesity DataProtect is a high-performance, secure backup and recovery solution that safeguards data against sophisticated cyber threats. It offers comprehensive, policy-based protection for cloud-native, SaaS, and traditional data sources. As one of the top workloads secured and managed by Cohesity DataProtect, enterprises worldwide trust Cohesity to secure and protect their Microsoft 365 data.

“93% of organizations say that the threat of ransomware has grown significantly in 2023, making it particularly important to protect data across cloud environments,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President of Cohesity. “With this integration between Cohesity DataProtect and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, our joint customers will benefit from faster data restore capabilities in the context of their Microsoft 365 configuration and access policies.”

“Microsoft 365 Backup Storage provides high-speed point-in-time recovery for data stored in Microsoft 365 environments so customers can react and respond to the latest cybersecurity threats confidently,” said Jeff Teper, President, Collaboration Apps and Platform, Microsoft. “We are pleased that Cohesity is working with us to bring high-speed Microsoft 365 backup and recovery operations to Cohesity DataProtect, as customers will gain reduced time to backup and restore data, stronger posture for audits and compliance, and greater data and business resiliency.”

Microsoft customers can benefit from the following through the integration between Microsoft 365 Backup Storage and Cohesity DataProtect:

Seamless, high-speed data protection and management: With this integration, customers can simplify data protection, recovery, and storage across on-prem and cloud environments by seamlessly connecting their Cohesity infrastructure to Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, Through this, they can ensure their data remains accessible, protected, and easily recoverable to help meet strict Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives.
Compliance and governance: By combining Cohesity’s robust data backup and recovery capabilities with Microsoft 365 Backup Storage’s compliance features, organizations can remain compliant with data governance regulations – particularly crucial for industries with strict regulatory requirements.
Single pane of glass: Cohesity supports backup and recovery for on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS workloads, all managed through a single control plane, making it easier to protect enterprise data at scale regardless of where it resides.
AI-based data security features: Users can benefit from early access to integration between Cohesity Turing – an expanding set of AI capabilities that power deep AI-driven insights – and Azure OpenAI Service. This allows organizations to use generative AI to bring more significant insights and power to their data security and protection strategies.

Learn more about Cohesity’s collaboration with Microsoft.

Cyber Resilience and Data Recovery are Lacking According to Cohesity Research

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Cyber Resilience and Data Recovery are Lacking According to Cohesity Research

Taylor Graham — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:00:08 +0000

Cohesity commissioned new research revealing the majority of businesses do not have the necessary cyber resilience strategies or data security capabilities required to address today’s escalating cyber threats and maintain business continuity. Furthermore, their cyber resilience efforts are not keeping pace with cyber threats, with data security and recovery technology deficiencies reducing cyber insurance eligibility and increasing the fallout of a successful attack.

In comparing the cybersecurity outlook for 2023 to 2022, 93% of respondents said they felt the threat of ransomware attacks to their industry had increased in 2023. Alarmingly, almost half of respondents (45%) confirmed their business had been the victim of a ransomware attack in the prior six months. Respondents also revealed that their business’ cyber resilience and data security capabilities have not kept pace, with 80% expressing concerns about their organization’s cyber resilience strategy and whether it can ‘address today’s escalating cyber challenges and threats’^[1].

Business continuity is critical even when adverse cyber events arise, however, businesses are slow to respond because they lack the capability to recover data and restore business processes quickly. When asked how long their organization would take to recover data and business processes if a cyberattack occurred? Over 95% of respondents revealed their business would need over 24 hours, 71% said it would take more than 4 days, while a fourth (41%) of respondents said over a week would be required.

Unsurprisingly, two-thirds respondents (67%) lack full confidence that their company could recover their data and critical business processes in the event of a system-wide cyberattack. Diving deeper into cyber resilience and data recovery expectations versus reality, 90% of respondents said their business would consider paying a ransom, with close to 3 in 4 (74%) saying ‘Yes’ their organization would pay, if it meant being able to recover data and business processes, or recover faster.

“Companies cannot afford to be offline and unable to maintain operations, especially for more than a day. However, the stark reality is that many organizations are vulnerable to leverage from cyber criminals because they are incapable of rapidly recovering their data and business processes when necessary,” said Brian Spanswick, chief information security officer and head of IT, Cohesity. “Therefore, it’s no surprise that 9 in 10 respondents said their business would consider paying a ransom to maintain continuity.”

When asked about the biggest barriers to their organization being able to get back up and running in the event of a successful cyberattack, respondents said their top three challenges were integration between IT and security systems (34%), a lack of coordination between IT and security (33%) and antiquated backup and recovery systems (32%). Further clarity was provided by respondents regarding their ability to secure their data estates, with less than half stating they are confident all their data stored in the cloud (44%) or at the edge (42%) is secure and protected, and less than 3 in 10 (28%) are confident data stored on-premises is secure and protected.

“IT and SecOps must co-own organizations’ cyber resilience outcomes to identify sensitive data and protect, detect, respond, and recover from cyberattacks,” said Spanswick. “Relying on traditional backup and recovery systems, which lack modern data security capabilities, in today’s sophisticated cyber threat landscape is a recipe for disaster. Instead, organizations should seek out data security and management platforms that integrate with their existing cybersecurity solutions and provide visibility into their security posture and improve cyber resilience.”

“It’s not a surprise that over half of organizations still struggle with securing data in the cloud. The reality is most organization’s data is scattered across different environments and varies by type,” said Tyler Young, CISO of BigID. “That’s why solutions like BigID that enable organizations to know and control their data become ever more critical.”

Consequently, 87% of respondents said that to help win the war against ransomware, data and cybersecurity vendors must collaborate to provide complete and integrated anti-ransomware solutions, and 9 in 10 respondents feel their business would benefit from a data security and management platform that provides insights on their overall security posture and cyber resilience.

“The only way to achieve cyber resilience is by prioritizing proactive security measures that will prevent cyberattacks in the first place,” said Ray Komar, vice president of technology and cloud alliances, Tenable. “This approach should also extend to backup and recovery measures to ensure business continuity in the event of a cybersecurity incident. This requires organizations to not only manage their cyber risk, but better understand their exposure to risk by leveraging vulnerability and exposure data to make informed decisions on remediation efforts.”

This is especially urgent given that adequate data backup and recovery services are critical to have in order to qualify for cyber insurance – and not all solutions are created equal. While almost 3 in 4 (74%) respondents confirmed their company has cyber insurance, close to half (46%) of all respondents said it is now harder to obtain cyber insurance than it was in 2020. Respondents also shared the three most critical technologies or capabilities required to secure cyber insurance are: “strong encryption” (40%), the “ability to verify the integrity of backups” (38%) and MFA (37%) as their top needs.

About the survey:
The findings are based on a survey of 3,409 IT and Security Operations (SecOps) decision-makers (split as close to 50:50 between the two groups as possible) commissioned by Cohesity, Tenable, and BigID, and conducted by Censuswide with results shared in late April 2023. Survey respondents were polled from businesses in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

To learn more about Cohesity, visit the website HERE. To read Cohesity’s 2023 State of Data Security & Management Report, please click HERE.

^[1] Respondents were provided with the NIST definition of cyber resiliency at the beginning of the survey: The ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources. Cyber resiliency is intended to enable mission or business objectives that depend on cyber resources to be achieved in a contested cyber environment.

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Cohesity Cloud Services Grows Market Penetration with Partners Cisco and HPE

Taylor Graham — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:00:48 +0000

Cohesity announced Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will each be offering Cohesity Cloud Services (CCS) to bring efficient data security and management to companies operating in today’s modern hybrid and multicloud environments.

Cohesity has benefited from strategic partnerships with Cisco and HPE to help deliver the benefits of the Cohesity Data Cloud to nearly 1,000 joint customers worldwide. In 2017, both companies started working with Cohesity to deliver integrated data protection solutions on Cisco UCS servers and HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo servers respectively that dramatically simplify data management, harden cyber resilience, and help organizations recover their business operations rapidly in the event of a successful cyber-attack or disaster.

Today, Cohesity and Cisco have over 460 joint customers. Two recent examples of customers that have deployed FortKnox – Cohesity’s new award-winning cyber vaulting service – include the Master Group and Pearl River Community College. HPE and Cohesity have jointly helped over 600 customers including Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Proliance Surgeons, to move to a modern platform that simplifies data security and management, helping them improve their cyber resilience.

“There is always a desire to do more with less in IT, and it is our job to find the best solutions in terms of agility, security, cost, and efficiency to meet our organizations goals,” said George Ciarrocchi, executive director of Systems and Networking, Information Technology, Millersville University. “Cohesity has been a great partner in providing the flexibility we need to help us take advantage of a hybrid, multicloud model, while meeting our data security and management needs as well as our cost savings goals.”

“We are constantly working to improve the flexibility, cyber resilience, and simplify the operations of our systems,” said Curt Kwak, chief information officer, Proliance Surgeons. “Cohesity has been a great partner in offering data security and management solutions that provide the flexibility we need to meet our changing needs while helping us strengthen our cyber resilience and reduce complexity.”

Every day, organizations are under threat from cyber criminals, hackers, and nation states all while struggling with the complexities of managing data across hybrid, on-premises, and multicloud environments. Research indicates that 89% of data is stored in hybrid or cloud storage distributed globally,* resulting in increased security risks and operational complexity for organizations.

Cohesity Cloud Services are a portfolio of data security and management offerings, in which the cloud components are fully managed by Cohesity and hosted in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. This SaaS approach simplifies the management of multiple data workflows. It provides backup and recovery, cyber vaulting and data isolation, automated disaster recovery, and threat defense as a service, on a single platform. This simplification enables IT teams to re-focus their time on more critical business requirements versus managing on-prem infrastructure, helping to increase IT productivity and morale, and business agility.

Cohesity Cloud Services – Accelerating Growth, Innovation, and Industry Recognition
CIOs and CISOs are under pressure to control costs and increase cyber resilience while facing increasing threats of cyber attacks and meeting stringent compliance requirements. As a result, they seek solutions that help to move from legacy to modern hybrid, multicloud models while improving the organization’s security posture and ability to rapidly recover from a cyber-attack.

Cohesity has seen great success as a trusted vendor for enterprises worldwide and has experienced strong growth in its cloud services business. One in five customers now use Cohesity Cloud Services, and approximately 25% of all new customer and expansion business comes from CCS. In addition, nearly two thirds of CCS Annual Recurring Revenue in the past four quarters have come from enterprise customers with revenue greater than $1B, demonstrating strong interest from large customers.

The company has continued its rapid pace of innovation with the release of the award-winning, SaaS-based cyber vaulting solution, FortKnox and DataHawk, a new service that helps customers protect, detect, and recover from cyber and ransomware attacks. Cohesity recently expanded the availability of its cloud services beyond America, Canada and Europe to new regions around the world, including Singapore and Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Middle East.

“Enterprises are moving away from incumbent technologies to modern platforms for greater risk reduction, an improved security posture, and the ability to restore their systems quickly in the event of a cyber attack,” said Chris Kent, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing, Cohesity. “We are partner-focused, and these agreements add significant resources to our ability to reach even more customers worldwide, as we continue to innovate and develop efficient, and simple solutions to secure and manage data, wherever it resides.”

“With more applications generating more data than ever before, customers face increased complexity and cost as they look to secure and manage their data while also improving cyber resilience and recovery,” said Jeremy Foster, SVP and General Manager, Cisco Compute. “To address these challenges, we are excited to bring simpler, cost-effective solutions to our customers with Cohesity Cloud Services.”

Cohesity Cloud Services are available from Cohesity, HPE and HPE resellers. They will be available from Cisco and their channel partners in calendar 2023.

* Komprise: The State of Unstructured Data Management Report 2022

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Sanjay Poonen Appointed as Cohesity CEO and President

Taylor Graham — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 17:54:51 +0000

Cohesity announced the appointment of Sanjay Poonen as CEO and President. He will also join the Cohesity Board of Directors. Poonen was formerly Chief Operating Officer (COO) of VMware and President of SAP. Mohit Aron, who has been CEO since founding the company in 2013, will accelerate Cohesity’s product innovation and roadmap as Founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer. Aron will continue to lead the company’s research and development (R&D), support and services, as well as the Office of the CTO. He will remain on the Cohesity Board of Directors.

“Cohesity sits at the intersection of three of the highest priority business issues today – cyber security, cloud, and data management – and is poised to become a major powerhouse with industry analyst firms naming the company a leader and one of the fastest growing in its category,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity. “In my due diligence with customers, I’ve found that Cohesity has the best technology in its category and protects data for many of the biggest brands in the Fortune 500. Above all, Mohit has built an incredible team across the organization that is committed to driving innovation while putting customers first. I look forward to leading this talented organization and driving even further success in strong partnership with Mohit and all Cohesians.”

In his most recent role as COO of VMware, Sanjay Poonen oversaw sales, marketing, services, and alliances and played a key role in doubling revenues from approximately $6B to $12B. Poonen also played a vital role in architecting multiple successful cloud partnerships, including AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. He led the company’s security and end-user computing businesses, including the acquisition of AirWatch and Carbon Black. Prior to VMware, Poonen served as President of SAP where he led SAP’s Applications, Industries, and Platform teams, serving in engineering and sales roles that helped double SAP revenues from approximately $10B to $20B.

“As we scale, it is important to me to have a tighter focus on where I spend my time to have the greatest impact. I approached the Board with the goal of finding a seasoned and proven executive that I could partner with to achieve our ambitious goals. I’m excited to work with Sanjay as we continue to grow and disrupt the $25B data management market,” said Mohit Aron, Founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer, Cohesity. “I’ll continue to work closely with our customers and partners to further drive Cohesity’s technology and product leadership forward as we combat ransomware, eliminate data fragmentation, and simplify data management in the hybrid and multicloud world.”

“Sanjay is ideally suited to be the next CEO of Cohesity. He is one of the software industry’s most successful and respected executives, has an incredible track record of driving growth and operational excellence, is passionate about customers and partners, strongly believes in company culture, and is focused on delivering best-in-class innovation,” said Gaurav Garg, Chairman of the Board and Founding Partner of Wing Ventures.

“Mohit helped lead the development of the Google file system, co-founded the industry’s premier hyperconverged infrastructure company, and at Cohesity, created the leader in next-gen data management. With Sanjay and Mohit, along with the rest of the seasoned leadership team, Cohesity will continue to drive innovation and solve our customer’s most critical data management and security challenges for years to come,” Garg added.

More information about Cohesity, the leader in next-gen data management, can be found here.

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Combating Ransomware with Cohesity’s SaaS FortKnox

Taylor Graham — Fri, 13 May 2022 08:00:10 +0000

Cohesity announced the general availability of Cohesity FortKnox – a software as a service (SaaS) data isolation and recovery solution, adding to the company’s Data Management as a Service portfolio of offerings that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

FortKnox is a modern data isolation solution that can play a critical role in helping organizations minimize the impact of cyber attacks such as ransomware. It is designed to provide an additional layer of off-site protection while dramatically simplifying operations and lowering costs compared to magnetic-tape and self-managed data vaults. The SaaS offering also helps enterprises meet recovery service level agreement (SLA) requirements and regulatory requirements.

This announcement comes as customers look for a next-gen approach to data management and security. Traditionally, data was air gapped using magnetic tape as part of a 3-2-1 backup strategy – three copies of data, on two different media, with one of them in an off-site environment. Although tape provides security isolation for data it does not allow for rapid recovery at scale, preventing teams from responding quickly to cyber security incidents, such as ransomware, where large volumes of data may be compromised.

FortKnox powers a modern 3-2-1 option fit for the cloud era that effectively balances organizations’ security and agility priorities. It’s a cloud solution that allows customers to simply connect, vault, and recover. Vaulted data is kept secure and out of the hands of bad actors via a virtual air gap that is achieved through physical separation, and network and management isolation. This clean data can be recovered from the Cohesity-managed cloud vault back to the original source location – or alternate targets, including the public cloud – in support of business continuity objectives.

“Cyber resilience is a top business priority for organizations,” said Brian Spanswick, chief information security officer, Cohesity. “Providing off-site data isolation through this SaaS offering is another way we are helping customers combat increasingly sophisticated attacks and accelerate recovery, while also enabling SecOps and compliance teams to sleep better at night.”

“With cyberattacks becoming more and more frequent and destructive, Cohesity FortKnox adds a new layer of protection to our most critical data,” said Olivier Pouvesle, CTO at BRGM.

“Organizations prioritize keeping data secure, but the increasing sophistication and frequency of cybersecurity threats is making data protection not only more critical but also more difficult,” said Adrian De Luca, director of solution architecture, global partner strategic development at AWS. “With Cohesity FortKnox, customers are able to utilize the scalability, security, and accessibility of AWS with Cohesity’s next-gen data management for a solution that can help protect their data from ransomware and other cybersecurity threats.”

Cohesity FortKnox is designed to help customers:

Keep data safe through:
- Secure connection via a configurable data transfer window, outside of which the data vault is locked
- Tamper resistance with immutability, object lock to prevent changes of vault policy, and quorum that requires a minimum of two or more people to approve critical actions
- Operational isolation achieved with separate Cohesity-managed keys (not accessible to a rogue administrator) and separate workflows for read and write operations
- Strict access controls including granular role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, and encryption both in-flight and at rest
- AI-powered anomaly detection, through our Helios platform, helps identify potential indications of emerging ransomware attacks so administrators can take necessary actions to minimize proliferation and impact
Connect, vault, and recover — no need to shuttle tapes around, construct a do-it-yourself (DIY) data vault, build out additional storage infrastructure, or devise bespoke recovery processes.
In case of a ransomware attack, quickly identify a clean copy of data with confidence and rapidly recover safely to the desired location — on-premises or in the cloud.
Move from a CapEx intensive to an OpEx ‘as a service’ model.

“The ability of organizations to minimize the impact of a cyber attack and quickly regain operations of its core business systems is top of mind for CIOs and CISOs around the world,” said Dave Gruber, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. ”Data recovery completeness and speed sets apart those who are most prepared. Recent ESG research tells us that isolating data offsite is a leading strategy to achieve these objectives.”

Cohesity FortKnox complements Cohesity’s Threat Defense data security architecture. This multi-layered architecture is continually enhanced to help customers stay a step ahead of cyber criminals. It brings together a range of products, services, and capabilities from Cohesity and ecosystem partners to help customers identify threats via AI and ML, protect their data, and rapidly recover in the event of a cyberattack.

Cohesity FortKnox is available globally from Cohesity and its partner ecosystem as a subscription-based SaaS offering.

For more information, go to the Cohesity FortKnox page here.

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