Customer obsession is one of our core values here at Cohesity. Our inaugural Cohesity Customer Excellence Awards celebrate their innovation, forward-looking leadership, and impactful achievements in safeguarding their company data to protect their business.
It was challenging to choose the finalists from the impressive nominations we received from organizations across industries and around the globe. Today we are excited to announce our award finalists across our five global award categories.
Cyber Pioneer: Most Innovative Data Security and Cyber Resilience Deployment
This award recognizes a customer advancing the “state of the art” in data security and cyber resilience (protection, detection, containment, recovery) at a time when the threat landscape has so rapidly evolved.
Award finalists:
- City of Yonkers
- Sky Lakes Medical Center
- Spring Independent School District (IDS)
Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Hero: Best Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Deployment
This award recognizes a customer fully embracing hybrid cloud—protecting their cloud-native, SaaS, and on-premises data with our self-managed and Cohesity-managed (Cohesity Cloud Services) solutions—while also highlighting measurable outcomes (ROI, TCO, etc).
Award finalists:
- GES Systemhaus
- Infosys Limited
- MassMutual
Cloud Conqueror: Best Cloud-First Deployment
This award recognizes a customer operating their business with a cloud-first IT environment. It honors forward-looking leadership and cloud architecture—whether Cohesity Cloud Services or self-managed across the leading public cloud providers—and their outcomes (TCO/ROI, staffing optimization, etc).
Award finalists:
- California Department of Finance
- Harvard University
- Paramount Global
Trailblazer: Rookie of the Year
This award recognizes an organization that made its first Cohesity purchase on or after January 1, 2022 and has innovated in groundbreaking ways, including driving exceptional early outcomes and/or charting a new course in how data is protected, secured, and managed.
Award finalists:
- Florida State University
- Northwestern Medicine
- Pearl River Community College
DEI Champion: The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Award
The DEI award celebrates a customer whose exemplary leadership in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the InfoSec community yields clear, positive, and demonstrable impacts.
Award finalists:
- Conagra
- Macy’s
- NRG
Winners will be announced on June 23. Congratulations to all our award finalists!