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Cohesity licenses customer-managed software as perpetual licences tied to the original hardware or as portable term subscriptions, mostly measured by capacity (front-end terabytes for NetBackup, capacity-limited terabytes per cluster for DataProtect and SmartFiles), with SaaS sold per user or per back-end terabyte, all under General Terms that include a 15-day-notice audit clause and a 5% cost-shifting threshold.

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Overview articleCohesity licensingCohesity licenses customer-managed software as perpetual licences tied to the original hardware or as portable term subscriptions, mostly measured by capacity (front-end terabytes for NetBackup, capacity-limited terabytes per cluster for DataProtect and SmartFiles), with SaaS sold per user or per back-end terabyte, all under General Terms that include a 15-day-notice audit clause and a 5% cost-shifting threshold.Cited · Edited 2026-10-02 · 15 references

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Cohesity NetBackup licensingCited · Edited 2026-10-02Cohesity DataProtect, SmartFiles and SaaS licensingCited · Edited 2026-10-02Cohesity general terms, audit and renewalsCited · Edited 2026-10-02

Licensing Data

From the Cohesity catalog: how usage is counted, the rules that apply, the programs licences are bought through and the SKUs. Backed by 106 verbatim excerpts from 24 Cohesity documents.

Products

All 39 Products

Data Recovery Software 35

Alta SaaS Protection, Cohesity Data Cloud, Cohesity Data Cloud Core, Cohesity Data Cloud Enterprise, Cohesity DataProtect, Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service, Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service (M365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Okta), Cohesity Replica, and 27 more

Generative AI Software 2

Cohesity Gaia, Cohesity Gaia Self-Managed

Enterprise Information Archiving Software 1

Cohesity Archive

Storage Management Software 1

Cohesity SmartFiles

Product History

All acquisitions
  1. Cohesity acquired VeritasAnnounced 2024-02-08 · Closed 2024-12-10 · Combined company valued at about USD 7 billion (as announced)

    Cohesity combined with Veritas' enterprise data protection business, which was carved out of Veritas. Veritas' InfoScale, Data Compliance and Backup Exec businesses were retained in a separate company.

    Legacy productBecame
    Veritas NetBackupKept Veritas NetBackup (Cohesity) · roadmap and support continued alongside Cohesity products
    Veritas NetBackup appliancesKept NetBackup appliances (Cohesity)
    Veritas Alta data protectionKept Alta data protection (Cohesity)
    Veritas InfoScale, Data Compliance and Backup ExecDivested Separate company (DataCo) led by Lawrence Wong · not part of the Cohesity combination
    Licensing impact
    • The parties stated that Cohesity products and Veritas NetBackup, appliances and Alta data protection would each continue to be invested in and supported, while work proceeded toward an integrated solution.[1][2]
    • Cohesity's letter to customers stated that most customers would keep working with the same sales, support and services teams for the next few months and that the announced product roadmaps were unchanged.[3]
    • Customers of Veritas InfoScale, Data Compliance and Backup Exec were placed in the separate company rather than with Cohesity, so their vendor differs from that of NetBackup.[1]
    Sources and full product history
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