<p>Cohesity, a Silicon Valley-based pioneer of converged secondary storage, announced an investment of $10 million in Bengaluru by opening an R&D centre.<br /><br /></p>.<p>It is also scouting for more opportunities by engaging with government and enterprises. In an interaction with Deccan Herald, Cohesity founder and Chief Executive Officer Mohit Aron said the company with its disruptive technology is looking to partner with India’s digital initiatives on the Cohesity Data Platform.<br /><br />“We are the only player which has built a platform that helps government and enterprises manage backup data and other non-mission critical data called secondary storage. Besides helping in the function like testing, development, and recovery, the Cohesity platform helps also in analytics which can be managed via one interface,” said Aron.<br /><br />Cohesity, founded in 2013, pioneered the convergence of architecture to compute and storage to simplify virtualisation. “Because of fragmentation, when you drop insights into data that is stored, you have to copy it out and then do the analytics.<br /><br />Here we are moving computation to data and thus end the probability of duplication of data and easiness of work flow,” he said.On the revenue front, he said the company will register $1million and reach $10 million next fiscal.<br /><br />Cohesity is currently present in the US, Canada and India. Apurv Gupta is the head of the India team and will spearhead all the R&D and Engineering efforts with a five-member team. India to be the Hub for South-east Asia. <br /><br />The company employs 50 people and plans to scale up to 100 during the current year, out of which 10 per cent will be in India, Aron said.</p>
<p>Cohesity, a Silicon Valley-based pioneer of converged secondary storage, announced an investment of $10 million in Bengaluru by opening an R&D centre.<br /><br /></p>.<p>It is also scouting for more opportunities by engaging with government and enterprises. In an interaction with Deccan Herald, Cohesity founder and Chief Executive Officer Mohit Aron said the company with its disruptive technology is looking to partner with India’s digital initiatives on the Cohesity Data Platform.<br /><br />“We are the only player which has built a platform that helps government and enterprises manage backup data and other non-mission critical data called secondary storage. Besides helping in the function like testing, development, and recovery, the Cohesity platform helps also in analytics which can be managed via one interface,” said Aron.<br /><br />Cohesity, founded in 2013, pioneered the convergence of architecture to compute and storage to simplify virtualisation. “Because of fragmentation, when you drop insights into data that is stored, you have to copy it out and then do the analytics.<br /><br />Here we are moving computation to data and thus end the probability of duplication of data and easiness of work flow,” he said.On the revenue front, he said the company will register $1million and reach $10 million next fiscal.<br /><br />Cohesity is currently present in the US, Canada and India. Apurv Gupta is the head of the India team and will spearhead all the R&D and Engineering efforts with a five-member team. India to be the Hub for South-east Asia. <br /><br />The company employs 50 people and plans to scale up to 100 during the current year, out of which 10 per cent will be in India, Aron said.</p>
