Alternatives to Cohesity
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If you're comparing Cohesity with other companies in Storage & Data Protection, start here. These are the 19 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the Cohesity profile.
Storage & Data Protection: Cohesity's main category
19 companies sit alongside Cohesity here, busiest first.
- Dell Technologies#1 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services…
- 48 stories in the last 90 days
- Everpure#3 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is a data storage company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2009. It sells all-flash storage systems and software, including…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- HPE#4 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…
- 33 stories in the last 90 days
- Lenovo#8 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- Nutanix#9 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- Backblaze#18 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Backblaze is a US cloud storage company founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It offers B2 Cloud Storage, an S3-compatible object storage service, and…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Commvault#10 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Commvault is an American data protection and cyber-resilience software company headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Its Commvault Cloud platform provides backup, recovery…
Evidence is still building for Commvault.
- DDN#16 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
DDN (DataDirect Networks) is a data storage company founded in 1998 by Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch and headquartered in Chatsworth, California. It builds high-performance storage…
Evidence is still building for DDN.
- Hitachi Vantara#6 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Hitachi Vantara is the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud subsidiary of Japan's Hitachi, Ltd. It sells the Virtual Storage Platform (VSP One) family of block, file and…
Evidence is still building for Hitachi Vantara.
- Huawei#7 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its…
Evidence is still building for Huawei.
- IBM#5 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
- MinIO#19 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
MinIO is a software company that develops high-performance, S3-compatible object storage designed for private cloud, hybrid cloud and AI data workloads. Its commercial product…
Evidence is still building for MinIO.
- NetApp#2 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS…
Evidence is still building for NetApp.
- Qumulo#14 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Qumulo is a data storage software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2012. It develops a scale-out file and data platform for large volumes of unstructured…
Evidence is still building for Qumulo.
- Rubrik#13 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Rubrik is a cybersecurity and data protection company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2014. Its Rubrik Security Cloud combines backup and recovery, immutable…
Evidence is still building for Rubrik.
- VAST Data#15 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
VAST Data is a US data infrastructure company founded in 2016 by Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit and Jeff Denworth, and headquartered in New York City. Its VAST Data Platform…
Evidence is still building for VAST Data.
- Veeam#11 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Veeam is a data protection and data resilience software company founded in 2006 by Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov. It sells the Veeam Data Platform, including Veeam Backup &…
Evidence is still building for Veeam.
- Wasabi#17 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
Wasabi is a US cloud object storage company, Wasabi Technologies, founded in 2015 by David Friend and Jeff Flowers, co-founders of Carbonite, and headquartered in Boston…
Evidence is still building for Wasabi.
- WEKA#20 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with Cohesity
WEKA (WekaIO) is a data platform and storage software company founded in 2013, with headquarters in Campbell, California and research and development in Israel. Its…
Evidence is still building for WEKA.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Cohesity. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Cohesity's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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