Cohesity, AWS Extend Partnership with SaaS Data Management Offer

Cohesity and AWS are partnering to take on data management costs and complexity. In a strategic collaboration, the two companies are delivering data management as a service (DMaaS).

AWS not only is the preferred partner for DMaaS, but Amazon has made an equity investment in Cohesity. The companies didn’t disclose additional details.

Cohesity’s Doug Ko

“We’re starting a new chapter in our relationship with Amazon Web Services,” said Doug Ko, director, product marketing at Cohesity. “We think this collaboration charts a new course for data management, moving it into the modern hybrid cloud, multicloud era.”

The Cohesity-AWS collaboration has been in the works for about a year and a half. As part of the team-up, Cohesity and the AWS Partner Network (APN) are investing in resources to design the DMaaS solution on AWS and to engage in joint go-to-market activities.

“AWS is delighted to establish a strategic collaboration with Cohesity as we share common goals — helping customers lower costs, become more agile, innovate faster and do more with data,” said Doug Yeum, head of worldwide channels and alliances, AWS. “Working with Cohesity, we are charting a new course in how data is managed in an as-a-service model, leveraging disruptive, modern data management capabilities from Cohesity, and industry-leading cloud services from AWS.”

The offer targets midsize and enterprise customers. Cohesity manages the new service, which AWS hosts on its cloud.

More on DMaaS

The foundation for the new DMaaS is Cohesity Helios. Data goes into the Helios cloud, which runs in and is powered by AWS.

The comprehensive DMaaS is about backup, but particularly backup of mission-critical legacy on-premises environments and workloads. Additionally, DMaaS is about protecting cloud and SaaS apps, many of which are also mission-critical to businesses. Other use cases are disaster recovery (DRaaS), file services (files as a service) and test data management as a service, Ko said.

There are multiple user benefits from DMaaS:

• Customers will be able to subscribe to discrete data management offerings addressing a wide range of use cases from a single provider.
• Advanced security and ransomware detection.
• Customers have the ability to easily and seamlessly manage their existing on-premises and cloud environments, as well as the policies for their data through Cohesity Helios.
• Consumption-based pricing provides cost predictability and eliminates overprovisioning.
• Once on AWS, customers can take advantage of cloud-based services provided by AWS. They can use these services to help ensure compliance, enhance security, and extract additional insights and business intelligence through machine learning and analytics.

The new DRaaS offer rolls out with backup as a service (BaaS). The preview phase for AWS U.S. East and West is this month. International expansion will happen in the first half of next year.

Cohesity will offer a free trial. The company will announce pricing when the service becomes generally available. At that time, Cohesity will offer consumption-based pricing and a prepaid model.