Cohesity Expands Cyber Resilience and AI Data Capabilities for Microsoft Environments 

Recent innovations strengthen data security and recovery across Azure, Microsoft 365 and DevOps environments while expanding access to enterprise data for AI and analytics

Cohesity the leader in AI and data security, is advancing data protection and resilience across the Microsoft ecosystem while creating new opportunities for organisations to securely derive value from their enterprise data. Recent innovations span cloud, productivity and DevOps environments. That progress also extends to AI and analytics through the Cohesity Gaia Catalog integration with Azure Databricks.

“Organisations depend on more applications and data than ever to keep their businesses running, making resilience across those environments increasingly critical,” said Vasu Murthy, chief product officer, Cohesity. “Our work with Microsoft is focused on giving customers greater confidence in the systems and data they rely on, while creating new opportunities to put that data to work as AI becomes more central to the business.”

Cyber Resilience Innovations 

Cohesity continues to broaden its capabilities across Azure and Microsoft 365. Recent enhancements include:

• Resilience for critical data in Azure services: Extended protection for Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Kubernetes Service, with application-consistent backups and granular recovery for Kubernetes resources. These additions complement Cohesity’s already broad coverage of Azure workloads, including Azure VMs and database-as-a-service offerings.

• More support for public sector deployments: Extended cloud-native protection in Azure Government to include Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Table Storage and Cosmos DB.

• Resilience for DevOps environments: Preview access to new capabilities for GitHub and Azure DevOps that help safeguard source code and development assets. The initial release covers GitHub repositories and complete Azure DevOps organisations, including pull requests, boards, wikis and pipelines, with flexible recovery options and the ability to maintain an isolated, immutable copy.

• Compliance-grade Microsoft 365 recovery: Threat scanning across Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive and protection of the Preservation Hold Library in OneDrive and SharePoint Online. Recovery capabilities also preserve metadata across OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams and Groups. Additional Microsoft 365 enhancements include expanded use of Microsoft Graph APIs and multi-geo support.

• Resilience for Microsoft Entra ID: Recovery of permanently deleted objects synced to on-premises Active Directory restores trusted access across hybrid identity environments. Organisations can also assign a new password when restoring an Entra ID user account to prevent continued access using compromised credentials. Support extends resilience to Microsoft Intune configuration objects as part of Entra ID backups.

• Microsoft 365 data optimization and governance: Capabilities to discover redundant, obsolete and trivial (ROT) data and automatically tier the data to archive storage based on policy. Cohesity DSPM identifies ROT data, and Cohesity Cloud Services can stub the data to keep active Microsoft 365 environments focused on current, relevant data for use with AI tools like Microsoft Copilot.

Expanded Access to AI-Ready Data

Cohesity’s Microsoft momentum also extends to AI and analytics. The integration between Cohesity Gaia Catalog and Azure Databricks allows organisations to find, curate and publish enterprise data directly into Azure Databricks for AI and analytics. Curated datasets appear in Azure Databricks as an external data source while the underlying data remains in Cohesity Data Cloud, eliminating the need for new extract, transform and load pipelines to move or duplicate the data.

Gaia Catalog builds on Cohesity Gaia’s existing integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving employees the ability to query enterprise data using natural language without leaving Copilot. Role-based and file-level access controls ensure responses reflect existing user permissions.

“Microsoft environments underpin critical work, data and identity for a significant proportion of UK organisations. Stronger protection and trusted recovery, combined with governed access to data for AI, can help businesses protect what matters most, while making them more resilient to cyberattacks,” said Fraser Hutchison, VP UK&I, Cohesity.

Cohesity at Microsoft Ignite 2026

Visit Cohesity at booth 5215 in the Microsoft Ignite Hub at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Cohesity will also participate in the session “Build resilience and recover Microsoft operations after compromise” on Thursday, November 19, from 10:45–11:10 a.m. PT. The session will cover a practical cyber resilience framework for Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory and Entra ID, including protecting critical data, detecting threats and recovering trusted applications, identities and data.

Learn more about Cohesity at Microsoft Ignite.

The expanded partnership with Microsoft builds on Cohesity’s broader partner momentum. The company was named Cisco’s Top Durable Growth and Innovation Partner for the second consecutive year, underscoring its commitment to deepening strategic partnerships.