Protect and secure your data from cyber attacks
Data Protection
Data Security
Data Insights
The 5 Steps to Cyber Resilience
Cloud & SaaS
Enterprise
Industries
Cohesity customers can rapidly recover from ransomware and disasters, benefit from AI/ML-driven data security, and experience incredible ease of use.
With today’s sophisticated cybercriminals trying to encrypt, exfiltrate, and ransom your data, the need for Zero Trust is a given. You need AI/ML-enabled defense capabilities that minimize your attack surface.
When your business is down, every second counts. Recover VMs, databases, and file shares rapidly and at scale, without single points of failure risking VM crashes or data loss.
Get modern data security and backup, either SaaS or self-managed. Use one platform with limitless scale—so you can expand with file services, repurpose data for dev/test, and generally do more.
A leader in all the top analyst reports. Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Omdia, GigaOm, and KuppingerCole recognized Cohesity as an industry-leading vendor in security posture, ransomware protection, unstructured data management, cloud backup, scale-out file storage, and data protection.
5X Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions
GigaOm Ranks Cohesity the top Leader in GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection
ONLY vendor to be selected Customers’ Choice 5X running for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions
Highest Leaders score, Strategy and Market Presence, Q4,’22 Forrester Wave for Data Resilience Solution Suites
Cohesity brings vast workload coverage for on-premises, multi-cloud and SaaS environments with consistency in efficiency and immutability. Public Cloud native and Private Cloud Object store workloads supported by Cohesity are twice that of Rubrik.
Rubrik Security cloud has inconsistencies in already limited workload coverage for cloud native workloads, with some relying only on export and replication, thus creating challenges for consistent protection.
Cohesity brings solution options with elastic scalability without compromising efficiency features of the core technology, like deduplication. Cohesity's Elastic solution has workload coverage parity with our non-elastic solution. Compared to Rubrik's non-elastic solution, Cohesity's elastic solution can provide 25% to 600% lower static compute footprint
Rubrik brings solution options with elastic deployment in the cloud but only for subset of workloads. Other workloads need to be protected by non-elastic solution. Some cloud native workloads do not offer global deduplication such as AWS S3 and Azure Files. This increases cloud costs just for protection alone.
Cohesity lets Database Administrators to retain control of the protection of their DBS, while ensuring adherence to strict SLAs and backup security with immutability. Native tooling for DBAs avoids friction between global control and the convenience DBAs desire. Cohesity uniquely offers backing up on S3 protocol natively to increase protection speeds without siloed storage.
Lack of native tooling for DBAs creates hurdles to global protection for databases. Lack of native S3 storage option takes away convenience from DBAs for choice of S3 vs. block storage.
Typical for most workloads due to superior sliding-window dedupe, Zstd compression1
Typically due to fixed block sizes, limited dedupe across source types and less compression. No dedupe supported for flash media.2
Cohesity brings solution options which does not add restrictions or noticeable overheads to help organizations get assured recoverable backups with immutability. Many third- party archive object storage targets in multiple public and private clouds are available with object level locking.
For immutability, Rubrik’s advice is to align locking periods with backup frequencies forcing creation of multiple sets of policies, or SLA domains. This forces customers to adopt complexity to achieve efficiency for ensuring backup recoverability. While multiple archive targets based on object storage are supported, very few support locking, with current blob (object equivalent) locking supported only for Azure. This creates indirect lock-in.
Cohesity brings solution option with uninterrupted protection which is designed to support large enterprises unable to afford interruptions even for critical security updates. Thus, Cohesity ensures continued SLA compliance reducing data loss risk.
Rubrik uninterrupted protection has different types of exceptions where the protection restarts instead of continuing uninterrupted for some workloads during upgrades, or simply upgrades get blocked for some enterprise workloads, during upgrades. This increases SLA non-compliance and data loss risk.
Cohesity-managed key option takes away risk of lost or tampered key, thus reducing attack surface and shared burden. Sheltered Harbor endorsed solution option for Banks and financial institutions helps increase customer confidence.
Customers are still responsible for managing multiple risks themselves, having to guard increased a larger attack surface. No solution option with Sheltered Harbor endorsement is available.
Cohesity solution options can bring increased threat awareness covering Hypervisors, NAS, S3, Cloud VMs and Kubernetes workloads for threat scans.
Rubrik, despite multiple ways to look for threats, has limited coverage when it comes to multi-cloud and Kubernetes workloads.
Cohesity features a secure way to store first response tools like contact lists, insurance details, and forensics tools with granular data locks.
Without granular data lock, Rubrik lacks easy yet secure access methods for contact lists, insurance details, and forensics tools requiring restores of larger data sets to find the tools for the first response.
Immediate and scalable restore of VMs and databases for faster forensics, sandboxing, and recovery with the superior design to access latest and previous recovery points with unmatched speeds.
Chain-based metadata processing requires background “stitching together” of snapshots when restoring at scale, slowing down sandbox population for forensics. Unless thorough investigation is done, jumping to last non-infection indicated recovery images only causes leads to possible future reinfection.
Resuming NAS file share access immediately without restore, enables staging restores of infrastructure with clean images for rebuilding your environment post attack
Without instant NAS access feature, figuring out a “place to land” rebuild images and then restoring those adds to downtime.
Recovery is never interrupted by unexpected reboot or hardware failure
VM interruption or data loss due to node loss or unplanned reboot can add to recovery times.
Rapidly restore latest and previous VMs, Databases and NAS shares for dev/test or analytics
Enables multiple use cases with file & object services beyond backup target use case with security features like file level data lock and efficiency features like deduplication. Example use cases are archiving and legal holds for data, medical image archive and multi-protocol target for video surveillance and Splunk SmartStore.
Single-purpose, non-platform architecture requires additional silos for use cases beyond backup, recovery and security. APIs alone do not make any solution a platform.
Pluggable integrations with solutions like Cisco XDR enable forensics with automated snapshots for various stages of attack chain and not just confirmed attacks without added costs. This enables forensics for security and response teams to “feel and touch” the point-in-time for objects at various stages of an attack.
Integration is limited to metadata exchange and manual on-demand snapshot triggering after the fact. Previous snapshot times are not synced with attack chain event, creating “loss of time” effect during forensics, prolonging the investigation phase and in turn the downtime.
1Space saving estimate based on a typical mix of VMs, databases, and file shares as observed in head-to-head sizing and as relayed to Cohesity by prospects. 2When Cohesity needs 25% less space, if Rubrik needs 100 TB then Cohesity needs 75 TB; compared to the 75 TB that Cohesity needs, Rubrik needs 25 more TB, which is 33% more than Cohesity needs; if Rubrik has not quoted 33% more license than Cohesity, then Rubrik is likely not quoting enough license to provide sufficient in-cluster retention to recover rapidly from sophisticated attackers.
Software Capabilities
Enterprise Data Protection
Instant Mass Restore
Multi-Protocol Backup Target
Instant NAS volume access
AI Operational Assistance
Digital Jump Bag TM
Ransomware Anomaly Detection
Cohesity Event Response Team (CERT) Service
Threat Containment
Threat Hunting and Monitoring
Sensitive Data Classification & Monitoring
Cyber Recovery Orchestration
Cyber Vaulting
Rubrik Foundation
Limited
Cohesity Core
Rubrik Business
Cohesity Enterprise
(200 TB for yr. 1)
(1 GB Index + 2000 queries for yr. 1)
Rubrik Enterprise
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