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Techday NZ
12 hours ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Cohesity & MongoDB expand integration for enterprise data resilience
Cohesity has announced an expanded integration with MongoDB to deliver enhanced data protection and recovery performance for large enterprise workloads. The deepened integration allows Cohesity customers to utilise the MongoDB Third Party Backup Ops Manager API, offering new controls and capabilities tailored to scenarios involving extensive datasets and stringent resilience requirements. This is particularly targeted at sectors such as financial services and the global banking industry, alongside Fortune 500 organisations, that demand minimal downtime and heightened security. According to Cohesity, this functionality is now available for users of its DataProtect solution. By leveraging the new API-based integration, the company states that enterprises can better address data recovery speed and backup process efficiencies. Cyber resilience focus Vasu Murthy, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Cohesity, commented on the growing challenges faced by large organisations due to the increasing threat of ransomware attacks and the related business risks. "With ransomware attacks now commonplace, cyber resilience is a strategic priority for all organisations. This is particularly true of large enterprises, which have a very low tolerance for risk," said Vasu Murthy. "Downtime for any reason can mean millions of dollars and massive reputational damage. As trusted providers for many of the world's largest companies, Cohesity and MongoDB are working together to strengthen our customers' ability to bounce back fast." This expanded partnership between Cohesity and MongoDB aims to address the growing need for robust, enterprise-grade data protection. Paul Henaghan, Managing Director, Cohesity, Australia and New Zealand, highlighted the benefits for institutions across the region in the context of the evolving cyber threat environment. "In today's cyber threat landscape, organisations across Australia and New Zealand require data resilience that goes beyond basic backup, especially among large enterprises with complex technology environments and systems. Our expanded integration with MongoDB gives customers the enterprise-grade speed, scale and security needed to confidently protect and recover their most vital workloads. This is a powerful step forward in helping ANZ businesses reduce downtime risk and maintain trust in the face of escalating cyber threats," said Paul Henaghan. Industry research and capabilities Cohesity's own research indicates a gap between organisations' perceived and actual cyber resilience. Only a small fraction—2%—of participants in a global survey reported being able to recover data and restore business processes within 24 hours following a cyberattack. The company suggests that the new MongoDB integration helps close this gap for customers seeking to meet rigorous recovery point and time objectives. Some of the advanced features introduced through this integration include improved speed, as parallel data streams allow for the simultaneous processing of billions of objects. Cohesity states that intelligent backups can bring MongoDB databases online four times faster than traditional approaches. The system also boasts a scale-out architecture capable of accommodating petabyte-sized workloads on a single platform, introducing efficiencies such as global, variable-length deduplication and compression to reduce data footprint. Additional security measures include support for immutable write once, read many (WORM) storage, end-to-end data encryption, continuous data protection, and secure SSL authentication—all underpinned by Zero Trust principles and a multi-layered defence model. Collaborative efforts Representatives from MongoDB and its partners echoed the significance of the collaboration. Benjamin Cefalo, Senior Vice President of Product Management at MongoDB, highlighted the broader mission of supporting performance and agility without sacrificing enterprise resilience. "As the leading document database for modern applications, MongoDB empowers organisations to build, scale, and innovate faster," said Benjamin Cefalo. "Our collaboration with Cohesity reinforces that mission by helping customers protect their data with robust, enterprise-grade resilience—without compromising the agility and performance developers expect from our platform." Juan Orlandini, Chief Technology Officer for North America at Insight, commented on the immediate applicability of these improvements to large organisations operating with critical datasets. "Cohesity continues to broaden and enhance its support for enterprise workloads, including those with critical customer datasets at petabyte scale. The deepened integration with MongoDB addresses the most pressing data security concerns for large enterprises and financial organisations by delivering the speed, scalability, and security they require." Market demand The integration between Cohesity and MongoDB is geared towards organisations with large-scale, mission-critical database workloads that cannot afford significant interruptions. Cohesity cites ongoing demand among its global enterprise customer base, which includes over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, for enhanced backup and recovery processes.
Techday NZ
20-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Cohesity expands Google Cloud partnership for cyber resilience
Cohesity has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud aimed at improving cyber resilience and data insight capabilities for organisations. The partnership will introduce multiple new capabilities designed to help organisations better prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber threats, as well as harness more value from their business data. According to industry data cited by Cohesity, enterprises incur an average cost of USD $540,000 per hour in downtime, highlighting a significant need for comprehensive cyber resilience solutions. Through this enhanced collaboration, organisations will be able to leverage advanced artificial intelligence-driven tools and integrated threat intelligence to accelerate the detection and recovery from cyber incidents. New developments will focus on reducing business risk and operational disruptions that often accompany such events. Paul Henaghan, Managing Director of Cohesity Australia and New Zealand, stated: "Australian businesses are facing mounting pressure to strengthen their cyber resilience strategies in an increasingly complex threat landscape. Through our expanded partnership with Google Cloud, organisations can now harness advanced AI-driven capabilities and integrated threat intelligence to detect and recover from cyber-attacks faster than ever. This collaboration delivers the security and speed needed to protect critical data while enabling organisations to gain greater data insights." Among the upcoming features, Cohesity is launching the integration of Google Threat Intelligence within the Cohesity Data Cloud. This integration aims to provide customers with faster detection of threats within their backup data, using intelligence from a network of over 450 threat actors and insights based on more than 1,100 incident investigations annually. The goal is to enhance threat detection and incident response, boost containment, and minimise the impact of potential breaches. The expanded partnership will also see increased cooperation between Cohesity's Cyber Events Response Team (CERT) and Google's Mandiant Incident Response teams. By combining resources, the two organisations aim to offer comprehensive incident response services, facilitating the containment, investigation, and mitigation of cyber attacks from both primary and backup infrastructures and helping to minimise business downtime. Another feature being introduced is the establishment of a Cloud Isolated Recovery Environment (CIRE) in Google Cloud, collaboratively set up and validated by Cohesity customers and Mandiant. This measure is intended to allow rapid and trusted restoration of data and business operations following a cyber incident, aiming to help organisations maintain customer trust and reduce the broader impact of such events. There will also be integration between Cohesity Data Cloud and Google's Security Operations, consolidating Cohesity's data protection features with Google's security management capabilities to promote improved data resilience and an enhanced security posture for joint customers. As organisations continue to amass large volumes of data, the need to efficiently manage, analyse, and extract value from this data grows more pronounced. Cohesity is addressing this through the integration of its Data Cloud platform with Google Agentspace, introducing Cohesity Gaia as an artificial intelligence agent. This functionality will allow enterprises to securely search and analyse data across multiple hosting environments, utilising Google Cloud's Gemini models for advanced insights. The integration is designed to enhance compliance, data security, and the discoverability of trusted data assets. Additionally, Cohesity Gaia will incorporate Google Gemini models to further its AI-powered enterprise search assistant, enabling more advanced data analysis, discovery, and management capabilities for users. Stephen Orban, Vice President of Migrations, ISVs, & Marketplace at Google Cloud, commented: "In today's rapidly evolving threat landscape, organisations need comprehensive solutions that not only protect their data, but also help them derive value from it. Our collaboration with Cohesity will enable customers to strengthen their cyber resilience posture while accelerating their digital transformation journeys." Vikram Kanodia, Vice President of Technology and Cloud Alliances at Cohesity, also addressed the significance of the agreement: "Cyber threats like ransomware continue to plague global organisations, putting their businesses at risk and limiting their ability to focus on new, value-driving activities and services. Cohesity is committed to offering the most comprehensive solution to keep our customers' businesses resilient, protect their critical data, help them quickly recover from incidents, while enabling them to find new insights into their data. Working closely with Google Cloud, we're strengthening that commitment, giving our joint customers the tools to not only protect their business data but transform it into a strategic asset." Integrations with Google Cloud for cyber resilience and data insights are projected to be available by the summer of 2025, while the incident response partnership with Mandiant and integration with Google Security Operations are already available to customers.
