Cohesity marks sixth year as Gartner Leader for data protection
The company's merger with the enterprise data protection business of Veritas has established it as the only vendor to be recognised as a Leader in every one of Gartner's last 20 backup and data protection platform reports. This milestone covers numerous Gartner market assessments stretching back to 1999, with titles and criteria reflecting changes in the data protection sector over time.
Industry landscape
As organisations globally face the ongoing challenge of safeguarding and managing increasing volumes of data, the need for reliable and scalable data protection platforms continues to grow. Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms evaluates providers based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute, highlighting the complex and evolving nature of data security requirements.
The Magic Quadrant report takes into account several factors, including product capability, customer experience, and market responsiveness. With more than 200 zettabytes of the world's data said to require protection and cyber threats advancing in scale and sophistication, Gartner's analysis reflects a sector where customers seek robust, comprehensive solutions.
Gartner's ongoing evaluation of vendors is considered significant by buyers in the IT procurement process, where factors such as cyber resilience, support for hybrid environments, and the ability to draw actionable insights from data are high priorities for technology leaders.
Company leadership comment "Being recognised as a Leader in this report for six consecutive years underscores our innovation commitment to protecting the world's data -- while driving the future of AI-powered data security and insights," said Kit Beall, chief revenue officer, Cohesity. "Cohesity's success is driven by a unique ability to execute at scale with a comprehensive cyber resilience portfolio for complex on-premises, multicloud, and SaaS environments. These strengths underpin our mission to protect, secure, and provide insights into the world's data."
The company's approach integrates artificial intelligence to build on its traditional data security portfolio, with coverage for on-premises, multicloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments. Cohesity's focus also includes providing insights drawn from enterprise data, responding to growing demands for analytics and intelligence that go beyond basic backup and recovery.
Customer recognition
Cohesity has also been recognised as a Customers' Choice for the seventh consecutive time in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report, which is based on customer experience, user interest, and adoption.
The Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report collects feedback from end users to gauge levels of satisfaction with various technology solutions. This consistent recognition suggests a positive reception among enterprise clients, spanning sectors and organisational sizes.
Market position
Formed following the combination with Veritas' enterprise data protection business, Cohesity states its offerings are aimed at strengthening resilience while enabling AI-driven insights across significant volumes of enterprise data. The company's customer base includes more than 13,600 enterprise organisations, among them over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500.
Cohesity's portfolio is designed to support organisations in securing and managing data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. The company also notes ongoing backing from technology partners across the sector, including NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Gartner research publications offer opinions of the research organisation and do not constitute formal endorsements of any vendor, product, or service. Gartner states it does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designations, and cautions that its reports should not be construed as statements of fact.
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