Cohesity
The world’s largest data-protection provider — AI-powered data security & management: protect (backup), secure (cyber resilience) and get insight (Gaia AI) from your data, on a scale-out platform. Post the Veritas combination (NetBackup, Alta). This hub is your complete intel file.
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The company, at a glance
Quick answer
Five intel pages. One data-protection portfolio.
The complete Cohesity portfolio — every linked card is a full intel page, from modern backup to AI over your data.
DataProtect
Modern, cyber-resilient, scale-out backup.
Scale-out backup for VMs, databases, NAS, physical, apps, cloud and SaaS, with immutable backups, threat detection and clean recovery.
NetBackup
The enterprise workhorse — broadest coverage.
The enterprise workhorse from Veritas, now Cohesity: the broadest workload coverage, proven at the largest scale, now being modernised.
FortKnox
An isolated copy attackers can't reach.
A SaaS cyber vault: an isolated, immutable off-site copy of critical data, locked with WORM, MFA, quorum and RBAC; also self-managed.
Gaia
Talk to your own data.
Conversational AI search over your backup data: ask in plain English and get cited, access-aware answers grounded via RAG.
Veritas Alta
Cloud/SaaS data protection + compliance.
Cloud, hybrid and Microsoft 365 protection as a service, from Veritas, now Cohesity, with eDiscovery, records and retention built in.
RecoveryAgent & Cleanroom
Platform & engineAI cyber-recovery orchestration across NetBackup and DataProtect, plus a cleanroom to rebuild a clean environment after an attack.
DataHawk & DSPM (Cyera)
Platform & engineCohesity’s threat detection, data classification and FortKnox cyber vaulting, with data security posture management powered by Cyera.
Cohesity sells across 4 of the products TechBag carries in backup & cyber resilience. The Backup & Cyber Resilience guide shows how the category splits and which part is yours. →
Why “protect, secure and get insight from your data” is the whole story
Ransomware made backup a security concern — backups are the last line of defence, and a target — while backup itself sprawled into costly silos. Cohesity bet on scale-out consolidation, cyber resilience and AI: DataProtect, NetBackup for enterprise depth, FortKnox vaulting, Alta for cloud and SaaS, and Gaia for AI.
The Cohesity Data Cloud
A scale-out, hyperconverged platform that consolidates data protection across hybrid and multicloud, replacing legacy backup silos, all managed through one control plane, Helios.
Protect — Backup & Recovery
DataProtect (modern scale-out) and NetBackup (the enterprise workhorse, from Veritas) protect the widest range of workloads with immutable, clean recovery; Veritas Alta adds cloud and SaaS.
Secure — Cyber Resilience
Immutable backups, anomaly detection, clean and mass recovery, FortKnox cyber vaulting and DSPM data security, layered so you can recover from ransomware without paying.
Insight — Gaia AI
Gaia is a generative-AI search assistant over your protected data: ask in plain English, get cited, access-aware answers. A backup vendor already holds the data, which is the point.
One Vendor, Converging Roadmap
After the Veritas combination, DataProtect, NetBackup and Alta are converging under one control plane (Helios), and customers can stay, modernise or move with investments preserved.
Start with DataProtect (modern cyber-resilient backup) or your biggest need — enterprise coverage (NetBackup), a cyber vault (FortKnox), cloud/SaaS (Alta) — then add AI (Gaia).
Peer & market recognition
Every claim on this hub traces to one of these public signals.
World's largest DP provider
Post the Veritas combination
12,000+ customers
85+ Fortune 100 · ~70% Global 500
Veritas enterprise DP business
NetBackup + Alta · Dec 2024
Over $7B (combined)
NVIDIA-backed
Mohit Aron
Google File System, Nutanix co-founder
Sanjay Poonen
Ex-COO, VMware
Scale-out consolidation
+ cyber resilience + AI
Bangalore + Pune hubs
Major Indian bank & telco customers
The company in six figures
See the platform, hear the pitch
Building a Cyber Vault Fortress with FortKnox
Cyber resilience & vaulting.
Watch a demo of Cohesity Gaia
AI over your data.
Where Cohesity sits — the grids
Two company-level views you won’t find on any vendor site — tap any dot for the rationale. The category-level grid lives on the product page.
Cohesity Across Its Portfolio
Each dot is a Cohesity product: competitive position vs category momentum.
Modern scale-out backup & recovery core.
The Cyber-Resilience × Breadth Map
Cyber resilience & scale vs legacy backup — where Cohesity leads the data-protection market.
World's largest DP provider — modern platform + enterprise depth + cyber resilience + AI.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform standings and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
New to this? Learn it properly.
Zero-jargon starting points, in reading order. Each links into the deep education on the product page.
Where should you start with Cohesity?
Answer three questions; we’ll point you at the right starting product. No email required — this isn’t that kind of quiz.
1. What's your primary data-protection need?
2. Which sentence sounds most like you?
3. What does success look like?
Why backup is now a security concern
How ransomware turned backups into a target and the last line of defence, and what immutable, fast-recovering backup looks like.
Read →Immutable backups vs a cyber vault
Immutable backups are the primary layer; an isolated cyber vault like FortKnox is the last resort. When you need both.
Read →NetBackup: still sold, being modernised
After the Veritas combination, NetBackup is still sold and being modernised, with a path forward and customer choice.
Read →Do you need to back up Microsoft 365?
Yes — SaaS data is YOUR responsibility, not the provider's. How Veritas Alta closes the widely-overlooked SaaS-backup gap.
Read →AI over your backup data (Gaia)
How generative AI (RAG) turns your inert backup data into a searchable knowledge asset — responsibly (grounded, cited, secure).
Read →Cohesity vs Rubrik vs Veeam
The cyber-resilience leaders, Cohesity and Rubrik, against Veeam, the simple market-share leader, compared honestly.
Read →The acronym decoder
Every term on these pages, in one place- Data protection
- Backing up data so it's protected and — crucially — recoverable, now including cyber resilience against ransomware.
- Cyber resilience
- Surviving and recovering from attacks like ransomware, via immutable backups, isolated vaults and clean recovery.
- Immutable backup
- A backup stored so it can't be encrypted, altered or deleted (WORM) — so it survives a ransomware attack.
- Cyber vault (air gap)
- An isolated, immutable, off-network copy of critical data that attackers can’t reach, such as Cohesity FortKnox.
- Scale-out / hyperconverged
- An architecture that grows by adding nodes, consolidating data on one platform instead of separate silos.
- DataProtect
- Cohesity's modern scale-out backup and recovery platform — the cyber-resilient core.
- NetBackup
- Veritas’s enterprise backup workhorse, now Cohesity’s, built for the largest estates; still sold and being modernised.
- FortKnox
- Cohesity's cyber vault — a SaaS, isolated, immutable air-gapped copy (the last line of defence).
- Gaia
- Cohesity's generative-AI conversational search over your (backup) data — ask in plain English, get cited answers.
- Veritas Alta
- Cohesity’s SaaS and cloud data protection and compliance platform from Veritas, covering M365 backup and eDiscovery.
- SaaS backup responsibility
- SaaS data (e.g. Microsoft 365) is YOUR responsibility to back up, not the provider's — a widely-overlooked gap.
- The Veritas combination
- Cohesity took on Veritas’s NetBackup and Alta in Dec 2024; Backup Exec and InfoScale went to Arctera instead.
Buy it like you’ve done this before
The procurement playbook TechBag runs with IT buyers — steps, licensing cheat-sheet, and the pitfalls that cost quarters.
Assess your data-protection needs
Map workloads, cloud and SaaS data, ransomware exposure, recovery and compliance needs and any existing NetBackup. That decides which products fit.
Choose within the portfolio
DataProtect, NetBackup, FortKnox, Alta and Gaia often work in combination, such as DataProtect plus FortKnox. TechBag explains the fit and the converging roadmap.
Prioritise cyber resilience
Check immutability, threat detection and clean, mass recovery in DataProtect, and add a FortKnox vault for critical data, so you can recover without paying.
Compare on the right lane
Weigh Rubrik head-to-head, Veeam for simplicity, Commvault or Dell for enterprise depth and Druva for pure SaaS; within Cohesity, DataProtect vs NetBackup vs Alta.
Right-size (and test recovery)
Cohesity is quote-priced by capacity, subscription or SaaS. Size the capacity and products to your estate, then test recovery. TechBag quotes in INR/GST.
Buy through the channel
TechBag handles scoping, comparison, deployment, cyber-resilience design and support, mapped to RBI and DPDP needs, with INR/GST invoicing.
The licensing cheat-sheet
| Product | Licensing model | How you enter | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataProtect | Quote — per-TB capacity subscription (or SaaS consumption) | Cyber-resilient backup & recovery; immutable; fast/mass/clean recovery | Modern, cyber-resilient backup |
| NetBackup | Quote — per-TB capacity subscription; software or appliance | Broadest enterprise coverage; proven scale | Largest estates; existing NetBackup |
| FortKnox | SaaS/quote — by data vaulted (front-end TB) | Isolated, immutable cyber vault; quorum/MFA/RBAC | Isolated last copy of critical data |
| Gaia | Quote — part of the Cohesity platform | Gen-AI conversational search over your data; RAG, cited | Insight from your protected data |
| Veritas Alta | Quote/SaaS — subscription by data & capabilities | Cloud/hybrid + SaaS (M365) protection; compliance/eDiscovery | Cloud/SaaS protection and governance |
Quote-priced by capacity (per-TB), subscription or SaaS consumption across the products — TechBag right-sizes the portfolio and quotes in INR/GST for your size.
Five pitfalls that cost buyers quarters
Treating backup as insurance, not security
Attackers target backups to force a ransom, so a backup they can destroy is a liability. Insist on immutable, threat-aware backup that recovers fast and clean, as Cohesity DataProtect does.
Assuming Microsoft 365 / SaaS data is backed up (it isn't)
SaaS providers keep the service running, but protecting your data from deletion and ransomware is largely your job. Back up Microsoft 365 and SaaS data explicitly, e.g. with Veritas Alta.
Having backups but no isolated last resort
Immutable backups can still sit inside a compromised estate. For critical or regulated data, keep an isolated copy attackers cannot reach; Cohesity FortKnox is a SaaS cyber vault for that.
Fearing NetBackup is being retired (it isn't)
NetBackup is still sold and being modernised, not retired, with a path onto Cohesity’s platform and a choice to stay, modernise or move. TechBag clarifies the roadmap.
Focusing on backup, forgetting recovery (and testing it)
Backup exists for recovery, and legacy tools fail there: slow and prone to reinfection. Judge a product on fast, mass, clean recovery, and test it — untested recovery is only a hope.
The evaluation kit
Each intel page carries an 8-question vendor checklist and a value calculator:
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Book a discovery call →The forces shaping this market
Six trends with momentum scores (TechBag’s read of analyst and market signals) — and what each means for your next decision.
Category momentum — estimated market growth
Illustrative CAGR synthesis**Directionally consistent with public analyst forecasts; verify exact figures before quoting. The takeaway: cyber vaulting and AI-over-your-data compound fastest — exactly where Cohesity (FortKnox and Gaia) is placed.
Ransomware makes backup a security concern
Attackers target backups to force payment, so backups must be immutable, threat-aware and quick to recover cleanly.
What it means for you
Cohesity DataProtect adds immutability, threat detection and fast, clean recovery to backup.
Cyber vaulting / isolated recovery
For critical data, organisations add isolated, air-gapped cyber vaults that attackers cannot reach.
What it means for you
Cohesity FortKnox is a SaaS cyber vault, a virtual air gap, as the last line of defence.
Consolidation over backup silos
Organisations move fragmented backup silos onto scale-out platforms to cut cost and complexity.
What it means for you
Cohesity’s scale-out platform replaces many separate backup silos with one.
AI insight from your data
Backup data is a huge, comprehensive corpus — and generative AI (RAG) can unlock searchable insight from it, responsibly.
What it means for you
Cohesity Gaia makes protected data searchable, with grounded, cited answers.
Protecting cloud & SaaS data
As data moves to cloud and SaaS (M365), protecting it is the customer’s responsibility, not the provider’s.
What it means for you
Veritas Alta protects cloud and SaaS data as a service, with governance built in.
Consolidation among data-protection vendors
The market is consolidating: Cohesity’s deal for Veritas’s enterprise data-protection business created the leader.
What it means for you
Cohesity is now the world’s largest data-protection provider, pairing DataProtect with NetBackup.
Questions buyers ask about Cohesity
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