Cohesity Integration Adds Protection for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Workloads

AI-powered data security company Cohesity has expanded its collaboration with Red Hat to enhance data protection and cyber resilience for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization workloads.

This integration allows customers to secure and protect data from virtual machines (VMs) and containers within their Red Hat OpenShift environments using Cohesity DataProtect and NetBackup.

OpenShift is a Kubernetes-based container platform developed by Red Hat that provides an enterprise-grade environment for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications. It offers a developer-friendly interface with additional tools, automation, and security features that extend beyond standard Kubernetes.

By incorporating Cohesity's platform, which is built on zero-trust principles and includes features like immutability, strict access controls, and clean room technology, organizations can simplify backup and recovery operations. This collaboration aims to bolster data resilience against cyber threats such as ransomware, ensuring more robust protection for critical workloads.

In addition, Cohesity recently announced Cohesity Data Cloud 7.2.2, which features the expanded Red Hat support as a major feature of the update.

"With the Cohesity Data Cloud 7.2.2 release, we are excited to announce the support of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments," that announcement said. "Customers can now more confidently secure and protect data from their OpenShift Virtualization environments with Cohesity DataProtect."

Cohesity said customers who've adopted Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a new/alternate hypervisor can expect:

  • Operational simplicity: Protect Red Hat OpenShift virtual machines (VMs) and containers using the same policy-driven workflows as existing data sources on Cohesity Data Cloud.
  • Hypervisor flexibility: Enjoy guaranteed backup and recovery whether you choose a preferred hypervisor or a mixed vendor strategy. We support VMware ESXi, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV.
  • All the Cohesity benefits: Get enhanced cyber resilience, robust data protection, global deduplication across workloads, and faster recovery — now on Red Hat OpenShift workloads.

"We are excited to expand our relationship with Cohesity to bring their data protection and cyber resilience capabilities to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization customers," commented Matt Hicks, president and CEO at Red Hat, in a statement. Virtualization offers organizations a streamlined path to infrastructure modernization with a unified hybrid cloud platform to help them build and deploy applications at scale. Now, with the added support of Cohesity's leading cyber resilience capabilities, those customers can have greater confidence that their most critical IT systems can be protected and secured with the solutions they already rely on to keep their business resilient."

For more information, visit the Cohesity site.

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David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.

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