Cohesity, Inc.
AI-powered data security and management platform for backup and threat detection.
Updated April 2026
Overview
- Website
- cohesity.com
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Segment
- Vertical AI
- Posture
- Data Protection
Product overview
Cohesity is an American information technology company that develops software for data protection, management, and security across multiple systems and cloud providers. The company's main product, DataPlatform, is a hyper-converged software solution that consolidates backups, archives, analytics, and disaster recovery onto a single cloud-native platform. Cohesity serves over 70% of the Global 500 across more than 140 countries and offers advanced features including anti-ransomware protection, AI-driven threat detection, and data security posture management.
Revenue model
Enterprise software licensing for data protection, backup, and security solutions with cloud-based delivery options.
Moat
- Scale Advantages
- Proprietary Technology
- Brand
- Distribution
- Ecosystem Lock-in
Cohesity's competitive moat stems from its market leadership as the world's largest data protection software provider by market share, rapid revenue growth to $1.5B in 11 years, AI-powered innovations, broadest workload support, massive scale protecting hundreds of exabytes for 12,000+ customers including 70% of Global 500, and a large partner ecosystem backed by industry leaders like NVIDIA and Google.
Headwinds
Hyperscale cloud providers could integrate similar data protection capabilities natively into their platforms.