Effective data management is essential for virtually all modern businesses. The information companies store and process is some of their most valuable resources. Organizations must manage these resources securely and protect them efficiently to align with and support business objectives. Companies must avoid inefficient data protection and management, which can cause irreparable damage to their businesses.
Cohesity and Veritas have proven track records of providing enterprise IT solutions. Cohesity has been a leader in data security and management solutions required by modern organizations. Veritas has a large data protection business, including popular products like NetBackup and the Alta data protection suite. These two organizations have merged to create a formidable new company, leveraging their complementary capabilities.
Details of the Cohesity/Veritas Merger
Cohesity and Veritas were major players in data management and protection before the merger. Cohesity will acquire Veritas’ NetBackup and Alta Data Protection solutions in the merger, and its name will identify the new company in the future. The company will offer enhanced data protection and management solutions tailored for modern public cloud and on-premises workloads.
Sanjay Poonen, Cohesity’s current CEO, will lead the company. Veritas’ CEO, Greg Hughes, will transition into a board role and strategic advisor to the new organization. The deal was finalized in December 2024, resulting in the world’s largest data protection software provider, measured by market share.
The best capabilities of the Cohesity Data Cloud and Veritas’ NetBackup and Alta data protection solutions will form the foundation of the company’s long-term strategy. The new organization’s guiding principle is ‘no customer left behind’ while continuing to innovate in the data protection field.
Following are some highlights of the merger:
- The company serves over 12,000 enterprise customers and is responsible for protecting and managing hundreds of exabytes of the world’s data resources.
- The new company’s long-term solution will continue to support all on-premises and cloud workloads currently supported by the two companies. Customers will not be forced to move off their preferred platforms.
- Cohesity will develop simplified migration plans and provide them to its customers for a seamless transition to the company’s long-term solutions.
- Cohesity will leverage a dynamic universal adapter framework to enable enhanced data protection for on-premises and cloud workloads.
Business Benefits of the Cohesity/Veritas Merger
The merger of these two industry leaders promises multiple business benefits to existing and new customers.
- Innovative data management capabilities – Cohesity now supports a broad range of workloads utilizing a modern and highly scalable architecture. The new company has combined AI-powered data security and management capabilities, insights driven by generative AI, an intuitive management interface, and a portfolio of multi-cloud data protection solutions.
- Stability for current customers – Cohesity has committed to continued investment and advancement of the strategy for all products each company contributed to its new portfolio. This commitment provides peace of mind for customers using existing Cohesity products and Veritas solutions such as NetBackup, NetBackup appliances, and Veritas Alta data protection.
- Advanced AI capabilities – Cohesity’s patent-pending and innovative AI capabilities will provide customers with enhanced data management protection, excellent resiliency, and significant insights to create value from data resources. The company plans to harness the power of emerging AI solutions to provide improved data protection and management to address the complexities of modern IT infrastructures.
- Global scale and a strong partner ecosystem – The merger results in a company with a worldwide go-to-market footprint focused on providing positive outcomes for customer success. The new company features an extensive partner ecosystem comprised of cloud service providers (CSPs), managed service providers (MSPs) like VAST, system integrators, hardware OEMs, and distribution partners.
How VAST Can Support Your Business in Maximizing the Merger’s Potential
VAST is uniquely positioned to help your company take advantage of the merger’s capabilities. The merger will consolidate the fragmented data management, security, and protection space and deliver enhanced results to our customers. Our goal is to help tailor innovative solutions in data security, cyber resilience, and AI to improve your business and its valuable information management and protection capabilities.
We are long-time Cohesity and Veritas partners and have extensive knowledge and experience implementing their products to solve your business requirements. We can help your company navigate this merger and maximize the benefits to protect and safeguard your data. VAST’s market position lets us help both current and prospective customers. Our team has the most accredited and capable engineers in the market.
We have partnered with Veritas for over 20 years and were awarded their ‘Top Growth Regional Business Partner in the U.S.’ in 2022. The award highlighted our consistent growth in offering and implementing Veritas solutions across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
Our credentials include membership in the Veritas Technical Support Partner Program (TSPP), which enables us to provide local support to resolve customer issues with Veritas products. We have deeply skilled Veritas experts on our staff who can resolve most technical issues without escalating to Veritas. VAST optimizes your investment in Veritas data protection solutions.
VAST has extensive qualifications that make us an excellent source for your Cohesity support. We are members of the Cohesity Partner Support Program (PSP) and offer our experience and skills to our customers. Our team can address Cohesity issues quickly and efficiently to ensure consistent data management and security.
Cohesity recognized VAST in 2023 as a Cohesity Professional Services Authorized Partner for data protection and file and object support. Professional Services Authorization demonstrates the experience of VAST’s engineers and their ability to install and configure our customers’ Cohesity cluster architecture successfully.
VAST has your back and handles the technical side of data protection and management so you can concentrate on your core business competencies. We understand the value of protecting and managing your data for your business and customers.
Contact us today and start enjoying the maximum business benefits from the merger of Cohesity and Veritas.
