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Cohesity ups investment in Canada and looks to drive deeper into midmarket

March 18, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity ups investment in Canada and looks to drive deeper into midmarket
Cohesity hopes to outgrow its new offices in the GTA, which will be filled both with new engineers for the company’s R&D operations, and new sales people working with the partners who are their sole route to market. 

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Cohesity enables customers to run third party apps on Cohesity platform with SDK and App Exchange

February 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity enables customers to run third party apps on Cohesity platform with SDK and App Exchange
Cohesity believes that their bringing compute to where the data sits will allow customers to illuminate previously Dark Data and put it to use in generating better business outcomes.

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Cohesity announces multi-stage anti-ransomware capability

January 23, 2019 Mark Cox 1
The anti-ransomware components, which are built into the core Cohesity backup platform and not a separate line item, gives their partners the ability to come to customers’ rescue and provide peace of mind against a well-publicized problem.

Distribution

Tech Data secures sole North American distribution for Cohesity

December 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tech Data secures sole North American distribution for Cohesity
Cohesity has tabbed Tech Data as their first comprehensive distribution partner in North America, after soliciting bids through an RFP process. Cohesity says that bringing on distribution won’t change its fundamental principles towards partnering, and using a value-focused channel.

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Expanded HPE partnership makes Cohesity an OEM partner and greatly expands go-to-market motion

November 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Expanded HPE partnership makes Cohesity an OEM partner and greatly expands go-to-market motion
Long-time HPE partner Cohesity expects to see major go-to-market gains from the expanded relationship, which makes HPE more likely to position Cohesity aggressively in takeaway deals, and further encourages HPE salespeople to sell Cohesity.

Cloud

Extension of HPE InfoSight across infrastructure highlights flurry of intelligent storage news at HPE Discover

November 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Extension of HPE InfoSight across infrastructure highlights flurry of intelligent storage news at HPE Discover
Several other significant intelligent storage announcements were also made, including a new Workload Planner utility for InfoSight, new Docker and Kubernetes support for HPE Cloud Volumes, the extension of Peer Persistence from HPE 3PAR to HPE Nimble – and the introduction of HPE Memory-Driven Flash, first for 3PAR, and for Nimble next year.

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Cohesity announces additional AWS integrations around Snowball, DR and cloud backup

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox 1
At the AWS Re:Invent event, Cohesity is emphasizing the significance of the AWS partnership to the company’s growing cloud business, by formally announcing and emphasizing the significance of AWS-related enhancements that have become available.

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Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources
Cohesity has doubled the amount of dollars allocated to their partner program, with new perks like rebates for sales to very large customers and formalized and expanded MDF. They have also established a model for service providers within the program, which provides mechanisms like consumption-based pricing suited to this business model.

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Cohesity announces new Microsoft integrations at Ignite event

September 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity announces new Microsoft integrations at Ignite event
Cohesity says a new integration with Office 365 Exchange Online, support for the new Azure Data Box, and new failover and failback capabilities for Azure DR should make it easier to sell joint Azure-Cohesity solutions, which have shown strong recent momentum.

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Cohesity introduces Helios SaaS-based orchestration and management solution

August 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity introduces Helios SaaS-based orchestration and management solution
Helios is the first SaaS-based application on top of the Cohesity platform, something that was always part of the company’s vision, and which provides new data and app orchestration and management capabilities.