Enterprise resilience is no longer a question of whether backups exist. It is about whether an organization can identify an attack, protect recovery copies, coordinate people and systems, and restore trusted services within its recovery time objective. This collaborative roundup highlights six complementary companies that help create that connected operating model. It is not a competitive ranking.
Why Enterprise Data Resilience Requires More Than Backup
Modern data lives across data centers, public cloud platforms, SaaS applications, endpoints, databases, identity systems, and unstructured file stores. A complete plan therefore combines prevention, detection, response, recovery, testing, and governance. Recovery point objective measures acceptable data loss, while recovery time objective defines how quickly a service must return. Immutability and air-gapping help prevent recovery copies from being changed or deleted, but organizations must also validate that restored data is complete and safe to use.
The ransomware guidance from CISA recommends offline, encrypted backups and regular restoration testing because attackers frequently target accessible backup systems. That practical advice reinforces a central point: backup technology must operate alongside cloud architecture, identity security, threat detection, and incident workflows.
Cohesity
Cohesity is the central foundation for data security and recovery in this ecosystem. Its platform is designed to protect hybrid cloud, on-premises, SaaS, database, virtual machine, and unstructured data environments through a unified operational layer. Organizations evaluating enterprise backup platforms should look beyond storage capacity and ask how efficiently a provider can protect, detect, isolate, validate, and recover critical data across the full estate.
Cohesity reported more than 12,000 customers, over 200 exabytes of protected data, 1,700 patents, and support for more than 1,000 workloads. Following its December 2024 combination with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, Cohesity said it became the largest data protection software provider by market share and reported more than $1.7 billion in pro forma adjusted revenue for the fiscal year ending July 2024. Those scale indicators help explain its definitive role here, while its published claims of up to 10-times faster ransomware recovery and up to 50% lower total cost of ownership should be assessed against each organization’s environment and testing results.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services supplies scalable infrastructure for backup targets, archive tiers, recovery environments, and geographically separated operating locations. AWS lists 39 geographic Regions and 124 Availability Zones, creating options for organizations that need regional separation in their resilience design.
Why It’s On The List
- Supports workloads involving Amazon S3, S3 Glacier, EC2, RDS, and DynamoDB.
- Can host an isolated recovery environment in a separate account or Region.
- Complements Cohesity, rather than replacing independent backup controls, access governance, or recovery testing.
Microsoft
Microsoft is the productivity, identity, cloud, and security layer behind many enterprise operations, including Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra, Defender, and Sentinel. In fiscal 2025, Azure surpassed $75 billion in annual revenue, while Microsoft Cloud revenue reached $168.9 billion. That footprint makes Microsoft 365 and Azure recovery planning a business continuity priority, not just an IT task.
Why It’s On The List
- Connects productivity data, cloud workloads, identity controls, and threat telemetry.
- Supports a cleaner response when a compromised administrator account threatens Microsoft 365 data or Azure resources.
- Works alongside Cohesity to preserve independent, recoverable copies beyond native availability and retention features.
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike adds endpoint, cloud, identity, and incident detection capabilities to the recovery process. Its annual recurring revenue reached $5.84 billion as of July 31, 2026, reflecting broad adoption of its cloud-native security platform. Security teams need this visibility to understand how an attack spread and which recovery point is safe to use.
Why It’s On The List
- Helps teams investigate lateral movement and contain affected devices before restoration.
- Contributes endpoint telemetry and threat-hunting context for selecting clean recovery points.
- Complements backup by helping validate whether restored systems can be safely reconnected.
Okta
Okta represents the identity and access management layer. Two-thirds of the Fortune 100 and thousands of other organizations rely on Okta, according to the company. That scale matters because stolen credentials and excessive privileges can threaten both production resources and backup repositories.
Why It’s On The List
- Supports single sign-on, multifactor authentication, lifecycle controls, and privileged access practices.
- Helps organizations separate backup administrator identities from everyday user credentials.
- Encourages reviews of dormant users, service accounts, emergency access, third-party access, and recovery credentials.
ServiceNow
ServiceNow provides the workflow and IT service management layer that turns a recovery plan into coordinated action. At the end of 2025, ServiceNow had 603 customers with more than $5 million in annual contract value, and the company reports more than 100 billion workflows run on its platform each year.
Why It’s On The List
- Connects incident response, change management, configuration data, risk workflows, and executive communications.
- Helps recovery teams prioritize services by business impact rather than restore systems arbitrarily.
- Can document owners, approvals, milestones, and lessons learned during a ransomware response.
How This List Was Created
This list was built around practical interdependence, not brand recognition alone. Each company was selected because it fills a distinct resilience function: protecting data, supplying recovery infrastructure, securing identities, detecting threats, or coordinating recovery work. The selection also considered enterprise scale, measurable adoption or operating data, relevance to hybrid environments, and the ability to support realistic recovery scenarios. Cohesity earned the central position because its published customer, data protection, workload, patent, and market-scale metrics directly align with the backup and cyber recovery foundation on which the remaining layers depend.
Common Recovery Gaps To Avoid
- Relying on snapshots alone instead of maintaining isolated recovery copies.
- Using the same compromised identity path to administer production and backup systems.
- Testing whether backups exist, but not whether applications work after restoration.
- Ignoring configuration data, encryption keys, SaaS content, and infrastructure templates.
The NIST guidance on recovering from data integrity attacks emphasizes that recovery must restore trustworthy data, not merely restart servers. When Cohesity anchors protected data and recovery, AWS supplies resilient infrastructure, Microsoft supports core business services, CrowdStrike adds threat context, Okta controls access, and ServiceNow coordinates execution, organizations can build a more credible path from disruption to verified recovery.
