Cohesity, experts in data security and management, and OwnBackup, a SaaS data protection platform, have announced a strategic technology partnership to deliver customers a modern data security and management solution for their essential SaaS applications.
Cohesity and OwnBackup are partnering to simplify this effort for their joint customers across an array of popular SaaS applications including Salesforce, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Sanjay Poonen, CEO, Cohesity said, “OwnBackup understands the need to give customers the data security controls they need and expect when it comes to their data backups and provide solutions that best suit their business needs no matter their environment. As a leader in enterprise data security and management, we want to partner with the best-in-class in their area. We’re excited to partner with a leader in SaaS data protection to continue to deliver innovative solutions that our customers can confidently rely on.”
The partnership will provide customers of both OwnBackup and Cohesity with enhanced capabilities to backup and seamlessly recover multiple data types, across a wide array of SaaS applications. With Cohesity and OwnBackup, customers will be able to choose to back up their data to their on-premises environment, or to a fully managed cloud environment.
This partnership is also intended to help joint customers advance cyber resiliency within their organisations.
Sam Gutmann, CEO, OwnBackup added, "partnering with Cohesity is a natural fit, as they share our commitment to helping organisations protect the data that they rely on every day. Together, we’ll enable customers to take ownership of more of their data and leverage it to improve their business.”
“Customers are using an increasing number of SaaS apps. Recent research we conducted at Enterprise Strategy Group shows that while many of these SaaS applications are considered mission-critical, data protection is lagging there is a disconnect that could lead to serious SaaS data loss consequences, said Christophe Bertrand, Practice Director, ESG Research. That’s why the (strategic) partnership between Cohesity and Ownbackup is not only timely but also critical for helping organisations simplify and optimise the protection of their key data assets, wherever they live.”
