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Cohesity

https://www.druva.com/blog/cohesity-acquires-veritas-challenges-emerge

The Cohesity and Veritas product lines have nearly 100% overlap. Both vendors built their technology on a very infrastructure-centric approach:

  • NetBackup (originally built in 1987) was backup software designed to run on a combination of primary control servers, various media servers (data movers), and storage targets — typically all physical.
  • Cohesity (founded in 2013) was written as a filesystem to run on converged/scale-out appliances.
Customer Use CaseCohesityVeritas
Data Center / Hybrid BackupCohesity DataProtect - DataProtect as a ServiceVeritas NetBackup
Cloud-NativeBackup Cohesity - DataProtect DataProtect as a ServiceVeritas NetBackup - NetBackup CloudPoint (still hidden in NBU)
Microsoft 365 BackupDataProtect as a Service (based in AWS)Alta SaaS Protection (formerly HubStor, based in Azure)
SaaS Apps BackupThird-Party (SFDC)Alta SaaS Protection (formerly HubStor, based in Azure)
KubernetesOEM of VeleroNetBackup
Replication / DRCohesity SiteContinuityVeritas Resiliency Platform (unclear if included in acquisition or not)
RansomwareCohesity DataHawkVeritas NetBackup
Cloud Air-GapCohesity FortKnoxVeritas Alta Recovery Vault(unclear if included in acquisition)
Cloud Control PlaneCohesity HeliosVeritas Alta View (unclear if included in acquisition)

Key points:

  • hyperconvergence
  • cluster d'appliance
  • upgrade online
  • data always locked
> 20TB backup

min cluster 4 nodes (1U par server or more)

Possible to host on VMs

backup/cohesity.txt · Last modified: 2025/04/17 21:11 by manu