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Abstract
Lenovo offers a broad suite of Cohesity modern data security and management solutions to help organizations enhance their cyber resilience. The bundling of Cohesity’s AI-powered data security and management platform with Lenovo’s highly reliable and performance-centric ThinkSystem servers helps organizations simplify, protect, and recover their data across on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
The Cohesity portfolio available from Lenovo includes:
- DataProtect - Simplify data protection, ensure recovery, and defend against ransomware with a modern, hyperscale solution.
- DataHawk - Protect against ransomware with threat intelligence and scanning, cyber vaulting, and AI-powered data classification.
- FortKnox - Boost ransomware resilience with award winning, highly secure cyber vaulting.
- SmartFiles - Take advantage of software-defined file and object services with next-level intelligence, scalability, and efficiency.
- Cohesity Gaia - Make smarter business decisions faster with AI-powered conversational search.
- Cohesity Cloud Services – a portfolio of fully-managed, cloud-native, as-a-service (aaS) offerings.
- IT Analytics - Unified IT analytics and insights across multi-cloud environments now available as a cloud-delivered analytics platform.
- NetBackup - Enterprise data protection and security solution.
The combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, closed at the end of 2024 (read more) created the largest data protection and management organization globally with a significantly expanded market presence, serving over 13,000 customers, including more than 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500.
Introduction
Cohesity and Lenovo have been partnering for over five years. The integration of Cohesity DataProtect with industry-leading Lenovo ThinkSystem servers delivers the most comprehensive backup and recovery solution to protect cloud-native, SaaS, and on-prem data at scale and simplify hybrid cloud data protection across the enterprise and its multiple workloads, from legacy to containers.
Cohesity backup and recovery capabilities defend against ransomware attacks with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based early detection, threat detection, user behavior monitoring, and rapid recovery at scale. Our enterprise backup software offers a full range of features to help facilitate data recovery processes, promote early threat detection, and keep enterprise data safe from continuously evolving ransomware threats.
Lenovo has a proven track record in delivering Cohesity-based solutions in dozens of customers around the world and these jointly validated solutions are available globally through select Lenovo and Cohesity partners, backed by collaborative, best-in-class support from both industry leaders.
Did you know?
Cohesity has been named as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection for the sixth year. Through its recent combination with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, Cohesity is the only vendor Gartner has named a Leader in each of its last 20 backup and data protection platform reports.(read more).
Why buy Cohesity software from Lenovo?
Lenovo offers a comprehensive range of Cohesity solutions through flexible annual subscriptions for both public cloud and on-prem licenses. This empowers organizations and partners to fully leverage Lenovo’s secure, high-performance server platforms—building agile and resilient IT infrastructures with flexible payment options tailored to their needs. For many customers, choosing a Cohesity OEM subscription through Lenovo is the most straightforward and cost-effective path forward.
Here are some of the key benefits of the Lenovo and Cohesity partnership:
- Certified and pre-tested solution: Cohesity and Lenovo have certified a number of solutions that combine Cohesity’s software with Lenovo’s hardware. These solutions are pretested and validated, ensuring they’re both compatible and interoperable. This helps reduce deployment time and risk.
- Best of both worlds: With Cohesity now certified on a range of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers that are powered by both Intel and AMD processors respectively, our customers enjoy added resilience and improved security against ransomware threats while getting diverse choices for different sites.
- Proven success and global support: Many organizations across the globe have already benefited from Cohesity and Lenovo joint solutions. A world-class network of Lenovo and Cohesity experts provides global support for seamless deployment and operations.
- Simplified procurement and support via Lenovo: easily find Cohesity SKUS on Lenovo Data Center Solutions Configurator (DCSC) allowing for one stop configuring of certified solutions.
Together, Lenovo Data Center solutions and the Cohesity Data Cloud provide the simplicity, performance, and agility needed to meet the ever-growing demands of today’s data-centric, Always-On world. Customers benefit from Lenovo’s decades of data center expertise, industry-leading support services, and the option to engage Lenovo’s consultative, professional, and managed services to accelerate their transformation.
Lenovo Cohesity licenses:
Cohesity DataProtect, SmartFiles, DataHawk, Fortknox, Gaia, and more
Cohesity Cloud Services for AWS and Azure
Cohesity Third Party Software and respective support
Cohesity Installation Services
Cohesity PS Dedicated Resources
Cohesity PS Shared Resources
Cohesity Other Professional Services
Cohesity Training Classes
Cohesity subscription & licensing model
This section provides an overview of Cohesity Cloud Services license model and how it works. It is designed to be an ongoing resource for Lenovo employees, partners, and customers, and may be updated from time to time.
Cohesity software is packaged as Services that can be run on any supported Cohesity cluster. Each Service entitles customers to all the cluster services, storage capacity, and data management features needed for the use case. Service licenses are licensed in backend terabytes (BETB) unless otherwise noted.
Customers can mix and match any Services on a cluster. Customers can also mix and match earlier Cohesity software licenses such as DataPlatform within a cluster since license usage measurements are done across clusters in Helios.
A Cohesity cluster requires a minimum of 3 Lenovo ThinkSystem server nodes and can be deployed on physical, public cloud, or virtual environments. For physical deployments, customers can run Cohesity software on certified ThinkSystem nodes from Lenovo.
Cohesity Cloud Service (Cohesity managed) means the customer can run the SaaS version of the product, on Cohesity Data Cloud, and Coheisty manages all overhead and operational costs and complexity.
The following is a high level of the Cohesity Platform
Figure 2. Cohesity Platform
Cohesity software
This section provides information on Cohesity software and subscriptions available from Lenovo.
Cohesity Third Party Add-ons
This section provides information on Cohesity Third Party Add-ons and subscriptions available from Lenovo.
Cohesity Cloud Services
This section provides information on Cohesity Third Party Add-ons and subscriptions available from Lenovo.
Cohesity Professional Services
This section provides information on Cohesity Installation, Shared and Professional Services available from Lenovo.
Cohesity Training
This section provides information on available Cohesity Training.
Cohesity Data Cloud Licensing Summary
The following figure shows the Cohesity Data Cloud licensing and software subscriptions currently available.
Figure 3. Cohesity Data Cloud Licensing Summary.
Promo Terms & Conditions
Promos are with Enterprise Edition for 1 year only - Cohesity has the right to delete the customer data if the product is not renewed after the promo ends (within the standard grace period).
Promo is one time and not extendable at renewal.
Promo is only for customers with no existing vaulting or data insights entitlements.
Promo offered only once per SFDC account – multiple purchases by the same SFDC account will not be eligible for multiple promos.
Only one promo option per customer. 200 TB Cyber Vaulting capacity is not allowed to be split between warm/cold storage and/or AWS/Azure data planes. Same applies to Data Insights.
DataProtect
Cohesity’s converged backup and recovery software that provides instant mass restore, asynchronous replication and continuous data protection among other features.
The following table lists the DataProtect licensing.
* The following are offered in BETB:
- Unlimited use of CloudArchive, CloudSpin and Cloud Snapshot Manager
- Supports multiprotocol Views with NFS, SMB, S3
- Each 1 BETB of this license may be used either for the purpose of 1 BETB of standard adapter-based backups OR 4 BETB of CAD
- Archive to tape requires a separate QStar license
- If replicating from DataProtect to elsewhere, purchase a corresponding Replica Service license for the replicated data
SmartFiles
SmartFiles is Cohesity’s file and object services with integrated data management applications. Appropriate for file shares, object stores, actively-used archives, backup targets, and application dumps.
The following table lists the SmartFiles licensing.
* The following are offered in BETB:
- Supports multiprotocol Views with NFS, SMB, S3, and/or Swift
- Unlimited Cloud Archive
- Supports external NAS tiering
Replica
Replica can be used for the following:
- The replication target cluster—for data backed up with DataProtect
- Restore and clone from backup or CDP requires DataProtect or SmartFiles license.
The following table lists the Replica licensing.
| Licensing Model | Subscription | Subscription SKU |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Terms | 1 Year | Sold thru Partners
|
| License Measure | BETB* | Sold thru Partners
|
* There must be a corresponding DataProtect license for the primary copy of data for backup use case
Archive
Archive Service is a basic file or object storage service for the storage of cold, inactive data. Appropriate for use cases such as cold archives and video surveillance.
The following table lists the Archive licensing.
General Licensing FAQs
Additional information about Lenovo resale of Cohesity products.
Q: A customer has both perpetual and subscription self-managed products. How is license consumption calculated?
A: License consumption is aggregated across subscription SKUs and perpetual SKUs and shown under the SUB SKUs in Helios license dashboard.
Q: A customer has both the SUB and SVC SKUs under their entitlement. How is license consumption calculated?
A: License consumption is calculated by applying a pecking order where the usage is first attributed to SVC SKUs and then SUB SKUs. Overages are attributed to SVC SKUs after all entitlement quantities are consumed.
Q: A customer has SUB, SVC, and PPU SKUs under their entitlement. How is license consumption calculated?
A: License consumption is calculated by applying a pecking order, where the usage is first attributed to SVC SKUs and then SUB SKUs. Overages are attributed to PPU SKUs after all entitlement quantities are consumed.
Q: Are subscription licenses tied to specific clusters in an account?
A: No, subscription licenses are entitled at the account level and are applicable for all clusters under a given account.
Q: Are there any trial licenses for Cohesity Data Cloud bundles?
A: No, however customers can request a trial license for each individual SaaS product.
Q: I need to protect my M365 workloads only. What license should I purchase?
A: You can purchase per-user licensing in the appropriate user band (SAAS-M365-UNL).
Q: I have both M365 and Non-M365 workloads to be protected. What license should I purchase?
A: You should purchase capacity-based licensing (SAAS-DPRT-AWS or SAAS-DPRT-AZURE) for Non-M365 workloads, and per-user licensing (SAAS-M365-UNL-AWS or SAAS-M365-UNL-AZURE) for M365 workloads.
Q: Can I purchase capacity-based licensing for Entra ID?
A: No. Only per-user licensing is allowed for Entra ID. Note that Entra ID is supported only on Azure.
Q: Can I move data from FortKnox warm storage to cold storage? What are the licensing implications?
A: There is no direct tiering supported. Customers can stop vaulting to warm storage and start vaulting to cold storage by purchasing a cold storage entitlement. Customer will need to have entitlements to both products during transition period.
Q: Is there a trial license for FortKnox cold storage?
A: No. The functionality between FortKnox warm and cold tiers is similar, with the only difference being lower SLA to recovery and longer retention on FortKnox cold tier.
Q: Why am I not seeing the following SKUs in the list of SKUs for DataProtect-as-a-Service?
SAAS-DPRT-30, SAAS-DPRT-30-AWS, SAAS-DPRT-FLEX, SAAS-RET-FLEX, SAAS-DPRT-FLEX-AWS, SAAS-RET-FLEX-AWS
A: The above SKUs can no longer be quoted, except for existing customer amendment or expansion scenarios. All customers should move to the new BETB-based SKU at the point of renewal.
Cohesity Data Cloud Licensing Policies
This section provides information on Cohesity Data Cloud Licensing Policies.
Cohesity-Managed Cloud Products:
- For M365 workload, customers can purchase either the BETB SKU or the per-user SKU but not both.
- For Entra ID workload, customers can only purchase the per-user SKU; no BETB option is available.
- ThreatProtection, FortKnox, DataClassification, and SiteContinuity cannot be purchased with DataProtect-as-a-Service.
Cohesity Data Cloud Bundles:
- All products within a Cohesity Data Cloud bundle need to be licensed at the same capacity.
- Customers can purchase different Cohesity Data Cloud packages on the same contract (e.g., 50TB of Core edition & 100TB of Enterprise edition).
- If customer requires additional capacity for one or more of the capabilities within the bundle, they should purchase additional bundle licenses (Enterprise edition or the upgrade SKU).
Additional Resources
Useful resources:
- Cohesity DataProtect overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/platform/dataprotect/ - Cohesity SmartFiles overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/platform/smartfiles/ - Cohesity Archive overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/solutions/long-term-retention-and-archival/ - Cohesity Replica overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/solutions/data-replication/ - Cohesity DataProtect as a Service overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/platform/dataprotect-as-a-service/ - Cohesity ThreatProtection overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/platform/threat-protection/ - Cohesity DataClassification overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/platform/data-classification/ - Cohesity FortKnox overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/platform/fortknox/ - Cohesity Gaia overview:
https://www.cohesity.com/solutions/ai-conversational-search/ - Lenovo Press solution briefs and validated guides:
https://lenovopress.lenovo.com - Cohesity and Lenovo:
https://www.cohesity.com/partners/lenovo/ - Cohesity data security and management multicloud:
https://www.lenovo.com/content/dam/lenovo/dcg/global/en/alliances/cohesity/modern-data-security-and-management-with-lenovo-cohesity-nutanix.pdf?refId=d443ec6b-e97c-44a3-9bbe-931da27fb3f9 - Cohesity enhances cyber resilience:
https://www.lenovo.com/content/dam/lenovo/dcg/global/en/alliances/cohesity/ai-powered-cyber-resilience-with-lenovo-and-cohesity.pdf?refId=6187d50f-fe98-44eb-951f-e8a553425d25 - Cohesity and Lenovo partnership:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSA-yzat2ZY
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