Cohesity deepens Google Cloud alliance for across ANZ

Cohesity has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud in a multi-year agreement that targets cyber resilience, data sovereignty and artificial intelligence adoption for enterprise customers, with a particular focus on Australia and New Zealand.

The collaboration centres on new integrations between Cohesity's data security and management software and a range of Google Cloud services. These include AI platforms, threat intelligence tools, and security operations products.

Cohesity and Google Cloud plan to deliver new joint offerings in areas such as AI-driven search over enterprise data, cyber incident response and digital sovereignty. The companies will also run joint go-to-market and co-selling initiatives.

The move comes as organisations in regulated sectors face stricter rules on data residency, along with a rising volume of cyberattacks and growing interest in generative AI.

"Enterprise organisations across Australia and New Zealand are under growing pressure to strengthen cyber resiliency while also meeting stringent data sovereignty requirements. Our expanded partnership with Google Cloud enables customers in this region to protect their data confidently, comply with local regulations, and accelerate AI-driven insights, all without compromising security or performance. Through this collaboration, we're helping organisations turn current security-related and AI challenges into opportunities for innovation and growth," said James Eagleton, Managing Director ANZ, Cohesity.

Cohesity describes the updated agreement as an evolution of an existing relationship built around previous product integrations. The companies are now extending this across AI services, security tooling and regional cloud infrastructure.

"This collaboration with Google Cloud represents a bold step forward in redefining how enterprises protect, secure, and gain insight from their data, while reframing sovereignty from a regulatory burden into a source of trust and advantage," said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and president, Cohesity. "By combining the power of AI, cyber resilience, and cloud innovation, Cohesity is not just working to solve today's challenges-we're building the foundation for a smarter, more secure digital future."

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said the partnership aligns with the cloud provider's broader focus on AI and security.

"Our deepened partnership with Cohesity reflects a shared commitment to helping organisations unlock the full potential of their data-securely, and at scale," said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud. "By combining Google Cloud's AI and security innovations with Cohesity's cyber resilience foundations, we're enabling enterprises to accelerate AI transformation while building a more resilient, compliant future for customers everywhere in the world."

AI and data

On the AI side, customers can already use Google's Gemini models with Cohesity Gaia, the company's AI assistant for enterprise data. Gaia runs across cloud and on-premises environments and uses natural language search over unstructured data.

Cohesity plans to add Google Cloud's Vertex AI Search into Gaia. This will provide direct answers to user queries based on content stored in Cohesity's data lake. The platform will present citations from source files alongside those answers.

Cohesity also plans to integrate Gemini Enterprise, Google's agentic AI platform. This will give AI agents access to historical enterprise data stored in the Cohesity Data Cloud. The companies say this will support AI use cases within existing business workflows.

A version of Gaia hosted on Google Cloud is already available. The companies say this setup uses Google Cloud's global infrastructure to improve response speed and availability.

Security tie-up

In cybersecurity, Cohesity's Data Cloud platform already incorporates Google Threat Intelligence. The integration uses indicators of compromise from Google to support threat hunting and scanning within backup and archived data.

Cohesity's Cyber Event Response Team works with Google Cloud's Mandiant Incident Response group. The two teams assist mutual customers with recovery from destructive cyber incidents.

The partners plan a deeper connection between Cohesity Data Cloud and Google Security Operations. The aim is to surface threats within backup data and automate parts of the incident response workflow.

Cohesity also plans a cyber resilience software-as-a-service offering with cloud-isolated recovery hosted on Google Cloud. The service is expected to maintain clean recovery environments even when primary systems are compromised.

Data sovereignty

The partnership has a strong focus on digital sovereignty and regulatory compliance. Google has certified Cohesity as a Google Cloud Ready - Regulated & Sovereignty Solutions partner.

Customers can deploy Cohesity Data Cloud inside the Google Cloud Data Boundary framework. This design supports data residency and sovereign control requirements by keeping data within specified geographic regions and under defined access controls.

Cohesity will also make its FortKnox cyber vaulting product available on Google Cloud. The service keeps immutable, isolated copies of critical data in defined locations and enforces policy-based controls on where those vaults can be stored and recovered.

The companies state that using FortKnox together with Google Cloud's regional infrastructure will give enterprises a way to combine local residency with offsite protection for disaster recovery and cyber response.

Broader protection

The collaboration extends existing protection for workloads running on Google Cloud. Cohesity DataProtect supports services such as Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage and a range of databases. It stores immutable backups either on Google Cloud or in a customer's own environment.

Cohesity plans to expand support to additional Google Cloud services including Google Kubernetes Engine and BigQuery. It will also add more regional storage options. These additions are designed to provide more choice in how organisations structure backup and recovery across regions.

All elements of the Cohesity Data Cloud are available through the Google Cloud Marketplace. Customers can procure the services through existing cloud agreements.

The two companies will back the technology roadmap with joint marketing programmes and co-selling efforts. They plan to target large enterprises in highly regulated sectors and organisations that are scaling use of AI while tightening cyber controls.