IBM and Cohesity announce new data security and resiliency collaboration

IBM and Cohesity have announced a new collaboration to address the critical need organisations have for increased data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. Combining data protection, cyber-resilience and data management capabilities from both companies, IBM will launch its new IBM Storage Defender solution which will include Cohesity’s data protection as an integral part of the offering. 

IBM Storage Defender is being designed to leverage AI and event monitoring across multiple storage platforms through a single pane of glass to help protect organisations’ data layer from risks like ransomware, human error and sabotage. Additionally, it will feature cyber vault and clean room features with automated recovery functions to help companies restore business-critical data in hours or minutes from what used to take days. 

The most recent Cost of a Data Breach report released by IBM Security revealed costlier and higher-impact data breaches than ever before, with the global average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of US$4.35 million for studied organisations, increasing nearly 13% over the last two years of the report. The report also showcased hybrid cloud environments as the most prevalent (45%) infrastructure among organisations studied. Averaging US$3.8 million in breach costs, businesses that adopted a hybrid cloud model observed lower breach costs compared to businesses with a solely public or private cloud model, which experienced US$5.2 million and US$4.24 million on average respectively. 

IBM Storage Defender is being architected to give clients the ability to rapidly find their most recent clean copy of data. It is IBM’s first offering to bring together multiple IBM and third-party solutions unifying primary, secondary replication and backup management. Leveraging advanced storage capabilities, such as IBM Storage FlashSystem Safeguarded Copy for logical air gap, can help companies recover their most mission-critical data within hours in the event of an attack. The first of such ecosystem integrations, Cohesity brings world-class virtual machine protection managed in the hybrid cloud. Cohesity on-premises cluster managed with a cloud-based control plane supports a multi-vendor strategy optimised for data recovery to improve Business Continuity.