Cohesity Achieves Blockbuster Growth in the Year After Its Public Launch

Since Emerging From Stealth, the Secondary Storage Leader Has Reached Major Corporate, Customer, and Partner Milestones

Santa Clara, CA. – June 28, 2016 Cohesity, the pioneer of hyperconverged secondary storage, today announced dramatic growth in the year following its public launch, with revenue increases of more than 100 percent each quarter and a workforce that has tripled in size. The Cohesity Data Platform has garnered acclaim from customers and industry analysts as the first solution to consolidate all secondary storage use cases, including backup, file services, test/dev, and analytics, onto an intelligent, unified platform with infinite scalability.

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Marquee brands including Brown & Brown Insurance, Ultimate Software, Genex Services, Tribune Media, Credit Acceptance, Cvent, GS1 Canada, and the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania have leveraged the Cohesity Data Platform to simplify operations and reduce costs for secondary storage. Eighty percent of its installations serve enterprise companies with more than 1000 employees, and Cohesity has achieved a 100 percent customer retention rate. Many of its customers, such as Tribune Media, GS1, and Credit Acceptance, have expanded their deployments within the first year to realize greater efficiency and savings. Cohesity has achieved more than 60 site installations to date, representing greater than 10 petabytes of protected storage capacity.

“We’re extremely pleased by the rapid adoption of Cohesity products,” said Cohesity Chief Operating Officer Riccardo Di Blasio. “Within two quarters of shipping our first GA systems, we have 50 new incremental installations, with two-thirds of our bookings from large enterprise companies with greater than $1 billion in annual revenues. Customers appreciate the simplicity and enduring value we bring to their data centers. In fact, more than one third of our customers have made repeat purchases, as they consolidate more of their secondary storage onto Cohesity’s data platform”.

Over the past year, industry experts have validated Cohesity’s radically efficient approach to data storage and management with awards and certifications. Cohesity was named a TiE50 Top Startup by the premier Silicon Valley-based network for global entrepreneurs, and the Enterprise Strategy Group validated the linear scalability of the Cohesity DataPlatform in 32- node cluster lab tests. Cohesity was also recognized as a 2016 Top Workplace by the Bay Area News Group.

Cohesity has forged relationships with a growing number of channel partners as part of the company’s Revolution Partner Network. Most recently, Cohesity has announced partnerships with Trace3, Kovarus, IMPEX, Denali Advanced Integration, World Wide Technology, Datalink and SHI to add to a growing list of over 50 channel partners in North America. Cohesity has also expanded globally, partnering with Ethos Technology and DataSolutions, to serve customers in the Northern EMEA region.

On the technology front, Cohesity has doubled down on key partnerships with innovative storage providers. In March 2016, Cohesity announced that it is helping customers deploy all- flash arrays from Pure Storage for mission-critical operations alongside Cohesity’s hyperconverged data platform to manage the other 80 percent of data typically held in secondary storage. Building on its hybrid cloud strategy, Cohesity also unveiled new cloud storage capabilities through a set of pre-built integrations with Amazon S3 and Glacier, Google Nearline, and Microsoft Azure.

What Customers and Partners Are Saying About Cohesity

“To reliably deliver insurance products and services to our large network of independent agents requires a robust data protection and rapid restore capability within our IT operations. Cohesity delivers significantly improved recovery times (RTOs) for restoring business critical VMs, while simplifying our backup operations with its fully integrated, policy-based data protection solution.” – Karen Bailey, Transformational CIO/CTO, Brown & Brown Insurance.

“As a leading provider of medical case management and cost-containment services, Genex Services relies on world-class IT infrastructure to service customers 24×7. Cohesity’s intelligent data platform brings a new level of efficiency to our secondary storage, allowing us to simplify our backup information, including images, and rapidly provision dev/test systems. We appreciate the cost effectiveness of Cohesity’s products which allows us to consolidate our VM and database backups and dev/test instances into a single, protected, web-scale system that automatically deduplicates, compresses, and encrypts our data.” – David Dietz, IT Manager, Genex Services

“The Cohesity system complements our industry-leading All Flash products with its scale-out distributed system for secondary storage workloads. We power mission-critical apps and high- performance file system workloads, while Cohesity delivers a scale-out secondary storage offering for backups, archive, and object storage that extends across private data centers and into public clouds. Together we can provide our joint customers with industry-leading data center storage solutions.” – Matt Kixmoeller, Vice President of Products, Pure Storage

“VMware Virtual SAN and our Hyper-Converged Software stack, with more than 3,500 customers, provide a higher-performance, more cost-effective and simpler platform for the Software-Defined Datacenter. While VMware Virtual SAN solves the primary storage use case, many of our customers are looking for a better way to manage their secondary data for backups and test/dev. Cohesity is a great complement to Virtual SAN by bringing the simplicity and efficiency of hyperconvergence to secondary data in SDDC environments.” – Skip Bacon, Vice President of Products – Storage and Availability, VMware.

About Cohesity
Cohesity delivers the industry’s first hyperconverged secondary storage backup, test/dev, file services, and analytic datasets, onto an infinitely scalable, intelligent data platform. With Cohesity, IT organizations achieve far greater operational efficiency and agility in managing their data assets on-premise and in the cloud. Cohesity counts Credit Acceptance, Cvent, GS1, and Tribune Media among its growing base of enterprise customers. For more information, visit www.cohesity.com.

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