Cohesity

Cohesity
Private
Industry Data backup, Computer data storage
Founder Mohit Aron
Headquarters San Jose, California, United States
Key people
 Mohit Aron, CEO & Founder[1]
Number of employees
 800[2]
Website www.cohesity.com

Cohesity is a privately held enterprise storage company headquartered in San Jose , California.

Cohesity was founded in June 2013 by Mohit Aron, who previously co-founded Nutanix.[1] Cohesity launched publicly in June 2015, introducing a platform designed to consolidate and manage secondary data.[3] Cohesity raised $70 million in venture funding in two rounds with Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Sequoia Capital since its founding in 2013.[4]

In October 2015, Cohesity announced the public launch of its products, Cohesity DataPlatform and DataProtect.[5] DataPlatform is a platform designed to consolidate secondary storage and associated workflows.[6] DataProtect provides a data protection solution converged on DataPlatform.[7] The second generation of DataPlatform and DataProtect was announced in February 2016 with new capabilities and features including SMB Protocol Support, CloudArchive, and Site-to-Site Replication.[8] In June 2016, the launch of Cohesity 3.0 products (DataProtect, DataPlatform) expanded data protection to physical servers.[9]

On April 4, 2017, Cohesity announced additional funding of $90 million.[10] This was led by GV, the venture capital arm of Google parent Alphabet Inc., and Sequoia Capital.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 Bob Brown (June 17, 2015). "Google-infused storage startup Cohesity reveals itself". Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Bay Area News Group Top Workplaces 2016". Bay Area News Group. June 26, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/06/17/flush-with-70m-cash-cohesity-launches-to-shake-up-storage/amp/?client=safari
  4. ↑ Kevin McLaughlin (June 29, 2016). "Storage Startup Cohesity Says It's Attracting Enterprises, Unveils Wave Of Features To Get More On Board". CRN Magazine. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  5. ↑ Garry Kranz (October 19, 2015). "Cohesity founder: Secondary data needs a new approach". TechTarget. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ Dave Raffo (June 28, 2016). "Cohesity gets physical with converged data protection". TechTarget. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Mark Cox (October 14, 2015). "Cohesity's revolutionary converged secondary storage platform hits general availability". ChannelBuzz. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ Paul Alcorn (February 10, 2016). "Hyperconvergence Expands In Secondary Storage, Cohesity Announces Ver 2.0". Tom's IT Pro. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ Mike Vizard (July 1, 2016). "Cohesity Extends Effort to Consolidate Secondary Storage". IT Business Edge. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ Julie Bort (April 4, 2017). "Cohesity, the four-year old startup from Nutanix's cofounder, has now raised $160 million". Business Insider. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Startup Cohesity Banks $90M in VC, Refreshes Storage Platform". eWEEK. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
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