Cohesity deepened its cyber-resilience collaboration with IBM. The enhanced relationship will accelerate the development of essential cyber-resilience capabilities to address critical need for increased data security and resilience across hybrid cloud environments. With this announcement, Cohesity completed its Series F financing, with IBM joining NVIDIA as a strategic investor.
IBM delivered Cohesity capabilities into its end-to-end cyber resilience platform, the Storage Defender, to strengthen customers’ ability to recover from data breaches and cyber-attacks.
“IBM is a powerful partner in the enterprise cloud and IT infrastructure market. They bring decades of expertise to our relationship, in addition to their investment in our business to help fund incremental research and development to offer customers even stronger cyber resilience,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and president, Cohesity. “We’re thrilled that IBM is working with us as we continue to help combined customers detect threats rapidly and maintain operations during an attack to avoid business interruptions.”
“Data breaches continue to be one of the biggest threats organizations face to advancing business outcomes,” said Ric Lewis, SVP, infrastructure, IBM. “We’re excited to deepen our collaboration with Cohesity to bring clients innovative end-to-end software-defined solutions designed to increase their cyber resilience and help avoid business interruptions.”
Cohesity’s collaboration with IBM brought Cohesity DataProtect together with IBM’s Storage Defender to help their joint customers protect, monitor, manage and recover data. Cohesity DataProtect offers a high-performance, secured backup and recovery solution that is designed to safeguard information against sophisticated cyberthreats. It offers comprehensive policy-based protection for cloud-native, SaaS and traditional data sources. DataProtect converges multiple-point products into a single multicloud platform deployed on-premise or consumed as a service.
Storage Defender, meanwhile, leverages AI and event monitoring across multiple storage platforms through a single pane of glass to help protect organizations’ data layer from risks such as ransomware, human error and sabotage. It is also expected to include cyber vault and clean room features, with automated recovery functions designed to help companies restore business-critical data in hours or minutes from what used to take days.
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