Cohesity

Cohesity is a privately held information technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. The company develops software that allows IT professionals to backup, manage and gain insights from their data, across multiple systems or cloud providers.[4][5]

Cohesity
TypePrivate
IndustryInformation technology
FounderMohit Aron
Headquarters
San Jose, California
,
United States
Key people
Mohit Aron, CEO & Founder[1]
ProductsDataProtect,
DataPlatform
Revenue $200 Million (2019)[2]
Number of employees
1,200[3]
Websitewww.cohesity.com

History

Cohesity was founded in June 2013 by Mohit Aron, who previously co-founded storage company Nutanix.[1] While still in stealth mode, it closed a Series A funding round of $15M.[1]

The company launched publicly in June 2015, introducing a platform designed to consolidate and manage secondary data.[6] In October, Cohesity announced the public launch of its data management products, DataPlatform and DataProtect.[7] As part of coming out of stealth mode, the company announced a Series B funding round of $55M, bringing its total at that point to $70M.[1]

In February 2016, the company announced the second generation of DataPlatform and DataProtect.[8] In June, the company launched its 3.0 products, expanding data protection to physical servers.[9] Also by June, the company had raised $70 million in venture funding in two rounds with Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.[10]

On April 4, 2017, Cohesity announced a $90 million Series C funding round, led by GV, the venture capital arm of Google parent Alphabet Inc., and Sequoia Capital.[11][12]

On June 11, 2018, the company announced a Series D funding round of $250 million led by Softbank Vision Fund.[13] In August, the company introduced a SaaS-based management console called Helios.[14]

In February 2019, Cohesity launched their online MarketPlace to sell applications that run on its DataPlatform.[15] In May, the company made its first acquisition by buying Imanis Data, a provider of NoSQL data protection software.[16] In July, the company announced it would be recognizing revenue predominantly from software, transitioning away from recognizing hardware revenue from the sale of backup appliances.[17]

Products

Cohesity develops software used to consolidate and simplify data management, and includes analytics capabilities.[18] The company's software also solves the problem of mass data fragmentation, as data proliferates across multiple systems or cloud providers.[5]

The company's main product, DataPlatform, is hyper converged software that allows businesses to consolidate a variety of workloads, including backups, archives, test and development, along with analytics data, onto a single cloud-native platform.[18] It works with physical servers as well as virtual machines.[19]

The company also develops data management and backup software called DataProtect, which runs on DataPlatform. As of 2019, the most current version was code-named Pegasus.[19][18]

Through the acquisition of Imanis Data, Cohesity extends backup capabilities to NoSQL workloads distributed databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, and Hbase, as well as Hadoop data on Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) datastores.[16]

The company's Helios SaaS management tool provides a dashboard view of a customer's DataPlatform sites, including local and remote; on-premises; and in the public cloud.[14]

The company's MarketPlace allows customers to purchase the company's other applications, as well as third party apps that run on the company's DataPlatform.[15] The company also makes a software development kit (SDK) available for programmers who want to develop their own apps for DataPlatform.[15]

References
  1. Bob Brown (2016-06-17). "Google-infused storage startup Cohesity reveals itself". networkworld.com. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-21/softbank-backed-cohesity-hits-200-million-in-annualized-sales
  3. "Bay Area News Group Top Workplaces 2016". Bay Area News Group. 2016-06-26. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  4. "The perils of mass data fragmentation and the cloud". networkworld.com. 2018-06-18. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  5. "What is Cohesity and why did it pull in $250M in venture money?". technologyrecord.com. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  6. "Flush With $70M Cash, Cohesity Launches To Shake Up Storage". forbes.com. 2015-06-17. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  7. Garry Kranz (2015-10-19). "Cohesity founder: Secondary data needs a new approach". TechTarget. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  8. "Cohesity converged secondary storage adds automation". techtarget.com. 2016-02-11. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  9. Mike Vizard (2016-07-01). "Cohesity Extends Effort to Consolidate Secondary Storage". IT Business Edge. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  10. Kevin McLaughlin (2016-06-29). "Storage Startup Cohesity Says It's Attracting Enterprises, Unveils Wave Of Features To Get More On Board". CRN Magazine. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  11. "Startup Cohesity Banks $90M in VC, Refreshes Storage Platform". eWEEK. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  12. Julie Bort (2017-04-04). "Cohesity, the four-year old startup from Nutanix's cofounder, has now raised $160 million". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  13. Natasha Lomas (2018-06-11). "SoftBank Vision Fund leads $250M Series D for Cohesity's hyperconverged data platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  14. "Cohesity's Helios tool tells you when your cluster's in a fluster". theregister.co.uk. 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  15. "Cohesity applications available through Cohesity MarketPlace". techtarget.com. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  16. "Cohesity Acquires Imanis Data In Big Hadoop, NoSQL Data Protection Play". crn.com. 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  17. "Cohesity CEO: We're more than a backup company". techtarget.com. 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  18. "Cohesity DataPlatform". techtarget.com. 2019-02-10. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  19. Dave Raffo (2016-06-28). "Cohesity gets physical with converged data protection". TechTarget. Retrieved 2019-11-01.

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