Cohesity wins Google Cloud award for disaster recovery

Cohesity has won a 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award for Infrastructure Modernisation: Disaster Recovery/Backup, recognising its work with Google Cloud.

The award comes as the two companies expand their relationship across product integration, engineering and sales. Recent efforts have focused on backup security, cyber recovery and the use of artificial intelligence tools on protected data.

Cohesity has added Google Threat Intelligence and secure sandbox analysis based on Google Private Scanning to its Data Cloud platform. The additions are intended to help customers identify threats hidden in backup data before recovery begins.

It has also expanded support for organisations with cloud residency and sovereignty requirements. This includes deployment options within the Google Cloud Data Boundary and the availability of the FortKnox cyber vaulting product on Google Cloud, allowing customers to keep isolated copies of critical data within specified geographic regions.

Another part of the partnership focuses on software running natively on Google Cloud Platform. Cohesity Cloud Services now supports Google Workspace, giving customers a way to protect data stored in applications such as Gmail and Google Drive.

The company has also added protection and recovery support for Google BigQuery and Vertex AI. This extends the partnership beyond backup for collaboration software into analytics and AI workloads, which many businesses now treat as core operational systems.

AI focus

Cohesity and Google Cloud are also linking their products around enterprise AI. Cohesity is incorporating Google's Vertex AI and Gemini into Cohesity Gaia, its enterprise AI offering, so customers can draw insights from unstructured company data while keeping governance and resilience controls in place.

The move reflects a broader shift in the data protection market, as suppliers position backup and recovery platforms not only as safeguards against ransomware and other cyber incidents, but also as sources of governed data for AI applications. For cloud providers and software vendors alike, the aim is to tie security, storage and AI services more closely together.

Google Cloud described the award as recognition of partner performance over the past year. "The Google Cloud Partner Awards honour the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers," said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. "We are proud to name Cohesity a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year."

Regional push

Cohesity also pointed to demand in Australia and New Zealand for tighter links between AI adoption and cyber resilience. Businesses in the region face growing pressure to secure cloud data, maintain local control over sensitive information and recover quickly from attacks or outages.

James Eagleton, Managing Director, ANZ Cohesity, said, "Across Australia and New Zealand, customers want to harness AI to drive efficiency and growth with minimal cyber risks. Our expanded partnership with Google Cloud across engineering, product integration, and go to market initiatives enables organisations to confidently accelerate their adoption of AI and cloud technologies, simplify operations while maintaining a strong cyber resilience posture."

The award also highlights how large cloud providers are relying on specialist software partners to strengthen their position in backup and disaster recovery, particularly for hybrid environments spanning on-premise systems, public cloud infrastructure and software-as-a-service applications. The market has become more competitive as cyber attacks increasingly target backup repositories and recovery processes.

For Cohesity, the recognition comes as it continues to position itself as a supplier focused as much on data security as on traditional backup. Its messaging around the Google Cloud partnership centres on cleaner recovery after cyber incidents and tighter controls over how protected data is used.

Vasu Murthy, Chief Product Officer, Cohesity, said, "Our partnership with Google Cloud has delivered critical innovation for customers modernising backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience across hybrid multi-cloud environments. By combining Cohesity's data security platform with Google Cloud's security and AI capabilities, customers gain greater confidence to recover cleanly from cyber incidents while also responsibly deriving insights from the data they protect. We're proud of what this partnership has enabled and honoured to receive this award."