Cohesity extends Microsoft data resilience and AI access

Cohesity expanded its data protection and recovery capabilities across Microsoft environments, including Azure, Microsoft 365 and DevOps. The work extends into AI and analytics through an integration with Azure Databricks, creating new ways for organizations to securely derive value from enterprise data. Organizations now rely on more applications and data to run their operations, which makes resilience across those environments more pressing.

Cohesity's Azure coverage now includes Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Kubernetes Service, with application-consistent backups and granular recovery for Kubernetes resources. These additions build on existing protection for Azure VMs and database-as-a-service offerings. In Azure Government, cloud-native protection extends to Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Table Storage and Cosmos DB.

Preview access covers GitHub repositories and complete Azure DevOps organizations, including pull requests, boards, wikis and pipelines. Microsoft 365 coverage adds threat scanning across Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. Entra ID recovery restores permanently deleted objects synced to on-premises Active Directory, and a new password can be assigned when restoring a user account to prevent continued use of compromised credentials.

Cohesity Gaia Catalog integrates with Azure Databricks so organizations can find, curate and publish enterprise data into Azure Databricks for AI and analytics. Curated datasets appear as an external data source while the underlying data stays in Cohesity Data Cloud, without new extract, transform and load pipelines. The catalog builds on Cohesity Gaia's existing Microsoft 365 Copilot integration, allowing queries of enterprise data in natural language within Copilot, with role-based and file-level controls reflecting existing permissions.

“Organizations depend on more applications and data than ever to keep their businesses running, making resilience across those environments increasingly critical,” said Vasu Murthy, chief product officer, Cohesity. “Our work with Microsoft is focused on giving customers greater confidence in the systems and data they rely on, while creating new opportunities to put that data to work as AI becomes more central to the business.”

Cohesity will also participate in a Microsoft Ignite session on November 19 covering cyber resilience for Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory and Entra ID.