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The strategic alliance between a data security leader and a cloud giant is yielding substantial results. Cohesity, a provider of AI-powered data security, has announced significant growth and innovation milestones achieved through its partnership with Microsoft. In its fiscal year 2025, the collaboration led to a more than tenfold year-over-year increase in co-sell engagements, accelerating the adoption of Microsoft Cloud services and Cohesity's data security solutions for thousands of global enterprises.
Cohesity's partnership with Microsoft drove over 10X YoY growth in co-sell engagements.
The company saw nearly 200% growth in sales through the Microsoft Marketplace.
Joint innovations integrate Cohesity with Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Security.
Cohesity's AI assistant, Gaia, leverages Azure OpenAI and Copilot Studio.
The partnership helps organizations achieve cyber resilience and unlock AI-driven insights.
Cohesity protects over 13,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune Global 500.
The partnership has generated remarkable commercial momentum. Cohesity's business with Microsoft expanded rapidly across North America, LATAM, Europe, and Asia Pacific. This was driven by a strategic partnership agreement and a multi-year commitment to joint innovation. The nearly 200% growth in Microsoft Marketplace sales indicates strong customer preference for integrated, easily deployable solutions. This global go-to-market effort is helping customers in healthcare, financial services, and the public sector strengthen their data security posture using the combined power of both platforms.
A key driver of this success is deep technical integration. Cohesity itself uses Microsoft technology, including Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot Studio, to build its own AI capabilities. This co-innovation is reflected in products like Cohesity Gaia, an AI assistant that provides natural language search, classification, and summarization for legal and security teams. Furthermore, Cohesity DataProtect and SmartFiles on Azure provide comprehensive data security by leveraging Azure-native services for threat detection and intelligent data management, creating a unified security fabric. “Our work with Microsoft is transforming how organizations everywhere protect and manage data in the era of AI,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President of Cohesity.
The partnership's value is demonstrated in real-world scenarios, such as the deployment at Bethany Children’s Health Center (BCHC). By using Cohesity on Azure, BCHC achieved AI-powered cyber resilience that proactively detects anomalies and prevents data compromise. The solution also enabled faster ransomware recovery with immutable restore points and improved compliance readiness through PHI/PII classification and HIPAA dashboards. “Partnering with Cohesity has strengthened our security posture and improved our ability to respond to potential threats,” said Kevin Chambers, Chief Information Executive at Bethany Children’s Health Center.
The accelerated growth between Cohesity and Microsoft underscores a critical market trend: the convergence of data security, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence. By building a secure foundation for AI together, the two companies are empowering global enterprises to not only defend against modern cyber threats but also to safely unlock the value of their data for generative AI initiatives.
About Cohesity
Cohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into the world’s data. As the leader in AI-powered data security, Cohesity helps organizations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and reduce IT costs. With Zero Trust security and advanced AI/ML, Cohesity Data Cloud is trusted by customers in more than 140 countries, including 70% of the Global 500. Cohesity is also backed by industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco, and HPE.
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