Cohesity in India: DataProtect, NetBackup and FortKnox After the Veritas Merger
Cohesity now owns the Veritas data protection business, so NetBackup customers and Cohesity customers deal with the same company. Invitty helps Indian organisations choose between DataProtect and NetBackup, plan cyber vaulting with FortKnox, and renew without surprises.
Reviewed 13 November 2026 · Rathish Kumar, Invitty
Cohesity combined with Veritas's data protection business in December 2024, bringing NetBackup and its appliances under Cohesity. In March 2026 Cohesity announced Cohesity DSPM powered by Cyera, a simpler Cohesity Essentials package for midsize organisations, and upcoming threat scanning for self-managed FortKnox vaults. If you run NetBackup today, your roadmap now comes from Cohesity.
Cohesity products at a glance
| Product | What it does | Good fit for |
|---|---|---|
| Cohesity DataProtect | Backup and recovery for VMs, databases, files and SaaS on the Cohesity Data Cloud | Organisations consolidating several backup tools |
| Cohesity NetBackup and Flex Appliance | The former Veritas NetBackup line, now Cohesity's, with appliances | Large estates already invested in NetBackup |
| Cohesity FortKnox | Isolated cyber vault copy of backup data, with a managed option on Google Cloud | Anyone who needs a copy attackers cannot reach |
| Cohesity Gaia | AI search and insights over data already protected in Cohesity | Teams that want to query backup data safely |
| Cohesity DSPM powered by Cyera | Discovery and classification of sensitive data across cloud and SaaS | Compliance and DPDP Act data mapping work |
If you run Veritas NetBackup today
NetBackup is now a Cohesity product, while Backup Exec went to a separate company, Arctera. For NetBackup customers the practical question is not whether to move but when to review. At your next renewal, ask whether to stay on NetBackup, add FortKnox vaulting, or consolidate onto DataProtect. Our Veritas installed-base page explains the split in more detail.
Cyber vaulting: why a backup is not enough
Ransomware crews now look for backups and delete or encrypt them first. A vault keeps a copy that is isolated from the production network and from the backup admin's everyday credentials. Cohesity's March 2026 announcement adds threat scanning for self-managed FortKnox vaults, so recovery points can be checked for malware before restore. Treat vaulting as a recovery plan, and test a restore from the vault at least once a year.
What to prepare before a Cohesity proposal
- Front-end capacity to protect, by workload: VMs, physical servers, databases, Microsoft 365.
- Retention rules: daily, monthly, yearly, and any legal holds.
- Current backup product, licence end date and appliance age.
- Recovery time targets for your top five systems.
- Whether a copy must stay in India for data residency reasons.
Where Invitty supplies and supports Cohesity
From our office in Ambattur, Chennai we can join backup design workshops and restore tests on site across Tamil Nadu. For customers in Hyderabad, Bangalore or Kerala, design and configuration are remote, with visits for appliance installs and migration cutovers. See our Andhra Pradesh page for how we work across Telangana and Andhra.
Cohesity: questions buyers ask
Is NetBackup now owned by Cohesity?
Should we move from NetBackup to Cohesity DataProtect?
What is Cohesity FortKnox?
Who supplies Cohesity in Chennai?
Sources
Product facts on this page come from these pages, checked on 13 November 2026. Vendors change products and licensing, so we confirm current details in every quotation.
- StorageNewsletter: Cohesity strengthens data protection and security (March 2026)
- ChannelLife: Cohesity boosts AI-ready data security and sovereignty (March 2026)
- Cohesity newsroom press release (March 2026)
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