Cohesity CEO Speaks on Leadership at VMworld 2020, Principal Technologists Lead Session on Avoiding Ransomware Attacks

Cohesity today announced CEO Mohit Aron and principal technologists Michael Letschin and Chris Colotti will lead sessions and panel discussions at the upcoming VMworld 2020 event. Cohesity, a leader in modern data management and a platinum sponsor of this year's event, will be featured in four speaking sessions and will showcase its latest innovations during the virtual conference from September 29 to October 1.

Cohesity founder and CEO Mohit Aron will discuss the books, blogs and podcasts that inspired his journey in "The CEO Book Club: Essential Reading for a Leader's Mindset." In addition, principal technologists Michael Letschin and Chris Colotti will lead the ransomware-focused session "Your First, Last, and Only Line of Defense Against Ransomware," while Letschin will lead two separate panel discussions in which VMware vExperts will discuss the announcements of the day.

What: VMworld 2020

Who: Cohesity founder and CEO Mohit Aron, principal technologist and director of technical advocacy Michael Letschin, and principal technologist Chris Colotti

When: VMworld takes place Tuesday, Sept. 29 through Thursday, Oct. 1. Cohesity's live individual sessions are as follows:

• Birds of a Feather: vExpert Daily with Michael Letschin [PD3068], Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 2 p.m. EDT
• The CEO Book Club: Essential Reading for a Leader's Mindset [ETPD2928S] with Mohit Aron and Chris Colotti, Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 1 p.m. EDT
• Birds of a Feather: vExpert Daily with Michael Letschin [PD3067], Thursday, Oct. 1 at 9 a.m. EDT

Where: Event registration is available on the VMworld website

Cohesity will also host a VMworld 2020 Demo Zone, a virtual booth where attendees can chat live with and learn more about Cohesity during conference hours. The Cohesity Demo Zone will feature a number of interactive assets, including written content on topics including modern data management and best practices to prevent and respond to ransomware attacks, as well as videos on why architecture matters.

Complete schedules and event descriptions are available in the VMworld content catalog here. Cohesity will also host a microsite featuring additional activities.

Cohesity Showcases Data Protection for VMware Cloud Foundation

During the conference, Cohesity will highlight Data Protection for VMware Cloud Foundation, a new VMware-certified solution available as an app on the Cohesity Marketplace. The solution not only backs up workloads, but also the management components of VMware Cloud Foundation, all with an intuitive user interface. The solution provides business continuity, compliance, and easy restores for VMware Cloud Foundation. For more information on this exciting app and solution, please read this blog.

About Cohesity

Cohesity ushers in a new era in data management that solves a critical challenge facing businesses today: mass data fragmentation. The vast majority of enterprise data ? backups, archives, file shares, object stores, and data used for dev/test and analytics ? sits in fragmented infrastructure silos that make it hard to protect, expensive to manage, and difficult to analyze. Cohesity consolidates silos onto one web-scale platform, spanning on-premises, cloud, and the edge, and uniquely empowers organizations to run apps on that platform ? making it easier than ever to back up and extract insights from data. Cohesity is a 2019 CNBC Disruptor and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Visit our website and blog, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and like us on Facebook.

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