Cohesity expands HPE alliance on cyber resilience deals

Cohesity has expanded its strategic alliance with HPE, adding new resale agreements and broader technical integration.

The expanded arrangement focuses on cyber resilience, data protection and hybrid cloud operations, with each company agreeing to sell more of the other's software.

Under the deal, Cohesity will resell HPE Zerto software for continuous data protection and disaster recovery across virtualised and cloud workloads. HPE will continue reselling Cohesity DataProtect and will also begin reselling Cohesity NetBackup.

The products will be offered through authorised HPE and Cohesity partners and are available now, apart from deeper integration work involving HPE Morpheus software, which is expected in mid-2026.

Resale expansion

The new resale terms broaden a relationship that has run for seven years. They bring Zerto more directly into Cohesity's portfolio while giving HPE a larger role in selling Cohesity's backup and recovery products alongside its own infrastructure.

NetBackup is being positioned for use with disaggregated backup and storage architectures, including HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 and HPE StoreOnce systems. DataProtect will continue to be sold with HPE storage and server products.

Another part of the alliance covers tighter integration with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software. The work is intended to support customers using HPE's virtualisation and cloud management tools alongside Cohesity's data protection products.

Federal contract

The companies also highlighted their work on a US federal hybrid cloud modernisation programme for the Defence Information Systems Agency. HPE secured the contract, with Cohesity providing data protection across the platform under a consumption-based model aligned with HPE GreenLake.

The project involves a secure sovereign cloud architecture designed to consolidate legacy systems into a hybrid cloud environment spanning multiple security domains. It gives Cohesity a defined role in a large government modernisation effort and provides a reference point for the broader alliance.

"This collaboration puts HPE and Cohesity in pole position to bring even more powerful and integrated cyber-resilient solutions to our customers," said Sanjay Poonen, Chief Executive Officer and President, Cohesity. "Enterprises everywhere want to confidently and quickly protect and recover their most critical data, and that's precisely what we're going to enable by pairing HPE's trusted hybrid cloud infrastructure with Cohesity's AI-powered data security platform."

HPE positioned the expanded partnership as part of its broader hybrid cloud strategy, in which infrastructure, software and data management tools are increasingly sold together. It has been building that approach around GreenLake and related software assets.

"Together, Cohesity and HPE are helping organisations modernise data protection while improving resilience and operational efficiency across hybrid and multicloud environments," said Fidelma Russo, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Cloud, and Chief Technology Officer, HPE. "This collaboration supports a simplified hybrid cloud operating model that secures and manages data wherever it lives, with greater performance and flexibility."

Regional focus

The expanded alliance also has relevance in Australia and New Zealand, where cyber recovery and data sovereignty have become more prominent issues for businesses and public sector bodies. Cohesity linked the regional opportunity to demand for fast recovery and continuous protection in increasingly complex IT environments.

James Eagleton, the company's regional head, also pointed to sovereign cloud work with HPE for critical infrastructure. That reflects a market in which vendors are increasingly tying backup, recovery and cloud architecture together as customers look to reduce operational disruption from cyber incidents.

"This partnership tackles exactly what organisations in Australia and New Zealand are telling us they need: the ability to protect data continuously and recover rapidly from attacks," said James Eagleton, Managing Director ANZ, Cohesity. "By combining HPE Zerto's continuous data protection with Cohesity's AI-powered cyber resilience and recovery platform, customers can detect and isolate threats faster while maintaining near-instant recovery capability, something increasingly important for those operating in complex hybrid cloud environments. Alongside the sovereign cloud architecture we're delivering with HPE for critical infrastructure, we have built a genuinely integrated approach to resilience, one that treats data protection and rapid recovery as non-negotiable operational infrastructure, not add-on security."