Sanjay Poonen, President & CEO of Cohesity, talks with John Furrier at RSAC 2025 Conference about how the Cohesity-Veritas fusion is reshaping cyber resilience. Poonen emphasizes the integration that positions Cohesity at the forefront of the industry, with a focus on faster recovery and stronger security innovations.
Reflecting on his experience leading major company integrations, Poonen discusses how Cohesity’s platform evolution accelerates post-merger. He highlights new advancements such as the recovery agent, which leverages NetBackup’s strengths, and how AI now plays a pivotal role in creating a smarter, more secure data protection ecosystem.
The conversation also explores strategic partnerships with Nvidia and Google, which Poonen says are critical to Cohesity’s AI-driven roadmap. As AI reshapes cybersecurity, these alliances are helping Cohesity move faster, smarter and with greater connectivity across workloads, strengthening its position as a leader in cyber resilience.
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Sanjay Poonen, Cohesity
Sanjay Poonen, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cohesity, joins theCUBE at RSA 2025 to discuss the transformative fusion of Cohesity and Veritas, highlighting significant industry advancements. In conversation with John Furrier, co-founder and co-Chief Executive Officer of SiliconANGLE Media, Poonen elaborates on the strategic positioning of the company at the forefront of cyber resilience due to this integration.
Poonen brings years of expertise in scaling businesses and leading successful company integrations. During this discussion on theCUBE, hosted by Furrier and theCUBE Research analysts, Poonen shares insights into the innovation trajectory following the Veritas merger. Key topics include the seamless integration of product platforms, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing data security, and the impact on Cohesity's market positioning.
Poonen states that the merger has expanded technological capabilities, resulting in innovative offerings focused on cyber resilience and speed of recovery. The introduction of products such as the Recovery Agent demonstrates the company's ability to integrate NetBackup seamlessly, benefiting from an enhanced security framework and extensive workload connectivity. The conversation also touches on the strategic alliances with technology giants such as Nvidia and Google, emphasizing collaboration in AI advancements.
Sanjay Poonen, President & CEO of Cohesity, talks with John Furrier at RSAC 2025 Conference about how the Cohesity-Veritas fusion is reshaping cyber resilience. Poonen emphasizes the integration that positions Cohesity at the forefront of the industry, with a focus on faster recovery and stronger security innovations.
Reflecting on his experience leading major company integrations, Poonen discusses how Cohesity’s platform evolution accelerates post-merger. He highlights new advancements such as the recovery agent, which leverages NetBackup’s strength...Read more
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>> Welcome back everyone to
theCUBE's coverage here in San Francisco here for RSAC 2025. It's our ninth year of
live coverage of RSA. My 15th year covering it, and of course this is
SiliconANGLE's theCUBE where we extract the
signal from the noise. We were doing it for 15 years. Our next guest has been
a CUBE alumni on all 15 years of theCUBE. He's got legacy status, OG
status, Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO of Cohesity. He's running a company right
now scaling up his playbook. Sanjay, 15 years extracting
the signal from the noise, you've been a key contributor. Thank you for coming on and supporting us, and congratulations on continued
success at Cohesity now with Veritas' combination.
Great to have you back.
Sanjay Poonen
>> Thank you, John. I think
I was there in your first or second show at Sapphire 15 years ago where I heard you use the same expression, extracting the signal from
the noise, and here you are. You're in your setup, you're at RSA and you still have that great expression. You should trademark it. >> It's funny, I went back and
found an old blog post from >> 2005 where I said, "Open
source media is on an old type pad blog," but I also went back and looked at the old SiliconANGLE. Our original motto was where computer science
meets social science, selecting the signal from the noise. Open source media is now a big thing. Our NYSE wired relationship, open community trust networks are forming. A lot of this stuff is
evolving and with Gen. AI, this is a big part of
this whole generational shift. I guess it took 20 years
to figure out podcasting and all the openness that's going on. We're so proud to just do this, and I get a lot of emails, "Thank you for being the top executive."
Sanjay Poonen
>> You've done well. You and Dave been friends for many years. Great to watch your progress in this and at the various different
events, whether it's re:Invent or Google, you guys are there. It's great. >> Some call us the ESPN of
tech and you're a tech athlete. We've been following your career.
Sanjay Poonen
>> Thank you.
- Sapphire, SAP, VMware, Cohesity, Sanjay, >> you are well known for scaling businesses. You're bold, you make bold
moves, you make pragmatic moves, organic inorganic growth. Cohesity is a company that
has great technical DNA. We've covered it here on
theCUBE, but with Cohesity and Veritas' combination
with cyber resilience, now distributed computing,
full hybrid, the convergence of cloud native and Gen. AI and infrastructure all coming
together at the same time. It's a societal impact. There's real impact on humanity,
but there's innovation now. So I really want to ask you,
one, since we last spoke, you got Veritas under your wings. What's the lift look like? What's the integration been like and where's the innovation?
What are you eyeing?
Sanjay Poonen
>> Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, John. I mean, listen, when I
joined the company two and a half years ago, Cohesity
built the best platform for cyber resilience,
a zero trust platform. In 2013, Mohit who was on
a show when the company, I did a good interview with
him, invented this notion of hyper-converged
zero-trust platform for data and all the companies that came after us cloned his architecture. So we were the first to that in 2013. And what Veritas had done many decades before is built a really
good backup application that stored data on a separate
appliance like a Data Domain. Now, you take that very
powerful backup application with thousands of connectors and snap it onto our platform,
which is what we're doing, and offer customers a
seamless way to be able to get to the next generation platform, which is this Cohesity data platform at their time and leisure. We don't have to build
new platform, we have it. It's wins because of speed,
of scale, of security. Its simplicity. It's smart. It's the 5S's, we like to call it. So we began thinking over
the course of 2024 about how fast we could
accelerate the integration because we had about 10, 11 months to wait for regulatory approvals, and then we closed the
deal on December 10th and here we are 90, 100 days
and innovation's flowing. We announced our first product that's come together from the
combination called recovery agent at this conference, it's all focused on cyber
resilience and speed of recovery. You're going to see us snapping together. NetBackup on top of our platform, they have a supersonic
API called OST that we... I saw the first fruits of that being integrated into
our platform last week. It's beautiful. It's going
to come out in the fall and it's the same thing that NetBackup wrote on top of Data Domain. We will now build it only to our platform and a few others, nobody else. So we have a tremendous sense
of how this is going to view. The new company is about
three times the size of what Cohesity was before. We were about a $550 million company. Now we're close to a $2 billion company, rule 40 characteristics. So profitable growth and we think we... Number 1 in market share,
13,000 customers, 85% of the Fortune 100 and
170% of the Global 500. Here's the killer part.
We protect hundreds of exabytes of the world's data. That's almost 10 times all of
our competitors put together. So we're in a very good
position now to take this to the next level as we look at the next coming quarters and years. >> I was talking with Brian
Baumann, who's the founder of NYC Wired, part of our
collaboration at CUBE. We put the NYC and theCUBE
together from a community standpoint, and he had an
expression I love, which was, "You plant the soil and watch
the fruit come off the tree. " What has been some of that fruit? Can you point to something on
the results? What's different? The new products, you
mentioned a few of them, what's been the big
breakthrough when you look at Veritas plus Cohesity? Of course, we were
speculating out of the gate, obviously install base. What's that horizontal? Because once you connect, it's
like there's enough overlap where it takes and then things just flow
across cross-pollinate. What has been some of the breakthroughs?
Sanjay Poonen
>> Yeah. I think first off,
reflecting on the fact that we didn't have to
build something new. When Oracle bought PeopleSoft,
Siebel, Hyperion, they had to build a new Fusion application platform and it took them five days. We already have the world's best platform. This was Mohit's invention.
Incredible. It's faster. It scales better, and it's built with zero trust principles
from the get-go. So that's number one. Number
two, NetBackup brings these 1, 100 connectors. Over 1,000 connectors to
all the source systems, the largest workload
connector list so we can get to any source of data and
ingest that into our platform. That's a huge advantage, and
that brings you the combination of security and scale. Then the third is Nvidia was watching what we were doing in
AI, and I think I talked to you the last time we talked about this. We were building a retrieval
augmented generation capability to directly interrogate
data that's in our platform. Never been done before. We
were the first to do it. Nvidia noticed that and
invested in one company, John the space, Cohesity. Jensen featured us at the GTC
Conference in 2024 last year and again 2025. So we're excited to have
them in our tap table. We're working closely with them. You were at Google, we were
announced in Thomas Kurian's show, one of the most prominently
featured companies in our space. So Nvidia, Google, Microsoft,
Amazon, all working closely with us in this AI move. I think you could think of us like a Palo Alto meets Databricks. We are an AI-powered
data security company, and that's a very special place to be in. >> It is funny. >> A lot of the data back in
recovery, people just put rebrand, put new paint on the logo and
saying we're cyber resilience. You guys had the platform,
Mohit, it's very technical. You mentioned you have the architecture. One of the top trends that
we were talking about on the kickoff today was cloud
security and the on-prem is hot. That's basically hybrid cloud. So that's a hot area here this week. Obviously, all this stuff like ransomware, social engineering, but cloud security is still front and center. The network, so storage has
certainly changed in the relationship to AI
factories, Nvidia's big play. So with all that as a backdrop, you got the distributed
computing cloud security on-prem, which essentially is a private cloud, but we won't parse the semantics. What does that mean to you guys? Because you had a saying
last time we talked, no customers left behind. In a lot of these ways,
customers can be left behind if they make the wrong choice. How are you looking at
the customer position vis- a-vis the landscape that they got challenged the
cloud security, I got the on- prem, how does my data be ready for AI? All these things are complex.
Sanjay Poonen
>> Yeah. So first off, when
we think about workloads, they're going to be I think
three in the private cloud. I would've said only VMware,
but right now it's VMware and Nutanix and Red Hat,
OpenShift virtualization, and then four in the public
cloud, AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and appropriately
SaaS apps that run on top of them like Salesforce,
M365, Google Workspace. We have the largest workload
coverage of any of them to protect those workloads. Now, one of the things that
we've been able to crack that allows this customer of
either Veritas, NetBackup, which is 9,000 of them or the 4,500 that came
from Heritage to Cohesity to get innovation seamlessly. I've been through this
with VMware, with AirWatch, SAP with business objects. It's not my first road
here to do in big deals. You've got to find a seamless way by which customers can move
from their current state to a new state in a non- disruptive fashion, and
that's what we're doing. So at a NetBackup customer,
you're going to be able to snap onto the Cohesity
platform seamlessly. We're going to build that OSD
APIs to only that platform and nobody else among our competitors- >> Define seamlessly. What does that mean?
Sanjay Poonen
>> So NetBackup today was writing >> to another storage
platform like Data Domain. It can run seamlessly to our platform without
doing anything the same NetBackup version that you're writing. So now you get the power of all that wonderful software platform
that Mohit built for free. In fact, we have a special renewal program that tells our customers,
"Renew with us for three years, we'll give you the Cohesity
data platform for free with just your ability to renew with us for a couple of years. " Okay. So that's one example. Secondly, if you're a Cohesity customer, what are you getting from this for free? You're getting all of
these wealth of connectors that NetBackup built, thousands
that just add the platform. So when you look at this, both customer bases are getting
innovation much faster than either company could
have done on their own. >> So it's not just cross pollination, it's seamless integration
and capabilities?
Sanjay Poonen
>> And having a pathway, all of
you said by which they can go to the next version of what they have without disruption at all, and when you talk to both
customer bases, they love this. Now, all of this will work
from one user console, our management control plane called Helios that launches these. So when you show customers the product, you show them innovation, I
mean it's been really good. And yeah, the no customer
left behind message is one where all of those 9,000
customers of Veritas, we want to lock them in, put a motor
around them, take care of them, take them to the promised
land so to speak, but then take off 4,500 customers of Cohesity and continue to grow that. We think we're now about 13,000
customers, so we've added 9, 000 customers on December 10th
the day we close the deal, I think we could take this
to 15, 18, 20,000 customers. We're focused on the enterprise, so we're really focused on the
top customers in the Fortune 1000 and the global 2000. >> So your business metrics
are hitting your marks.
Sanjay Poonen
>> We're very happy with it. I mean, >> good renewals are looking really good. We're looking at customers. I mean the conversation, I set
myself a goal to talk to 1, 000 customers of Veritas. I haven't quite gotten them. About 6, 700 in the last 12 months or so, but that was a goal for this year too. I think we can make something and we're not going to
go public this year, but the idea is to get the setup so that we could possibly
think about that next year. >> I think the last time we chatted you >> called it rarefied air. This is like you're hitting the numbers, you have the benchmark to go public, but you still got more word to do. We've got more touches, more-
Sanjay Poonen
>> I mean, Cohesity was about
a $550 million company last year, growing the fastest any in space and just turned profitable. When I got to the company, we were a little over
300 million in revenue, but highly unprofitable. And now we got to the point where we were growing well very fast,
but just turned profitable. Now, you add the Veritas
business, which was NetBackup, which was immensely
profitable and growing some. You now have a rule of 40 company that's approaching 2 billion, rule of 40, at the right point in time. We'll take it out and it's
the market share leader. Number seven, combined with
number two, you're number one. >> It's not like you're not pivoting anything, you're just growing. I love this business
school conversation too. At the same time you
have Beachhead to secure because you got an
integration by default, you made your company much bigger with the combination, three times bigger. You got to lock that Beachhead down and then you have to grow strategy. So my next question is,
okay, what's coming on here? You're in the midst of doing that, hitting the numbers, rule 40, et cetera. What's the core news here at RSA? What are some of the meetings you got? I know you were at an investor conference. You mentioned Recover Agent is here. What are some of the big news? What's the talking points for you here? What's the top track?
Sanjay Poonen
>> Yeah. First off, Recover
Agent's a hot product. We won an ounce product here. We were awarded by one of
the Cyber Resilience Awards, the best in our category. We're proud of that award. One of our prominent board
members was probably one of the best cyber fighters
in the world, Kevin Mandia, he's all over the show here
talking in many of the keynotes. So I've told him to
shamelessly plug Cohesity. We love it when Kevin
Mandia's talking about the one company's on the board off. And then we've got a
lot of brand awareness. If you watch the buses and cars and the number of Cohesity cars that talk about cyber
recovery and resilience and recovery assurance. So we're bringing the brand. >> Can't miss green. Green
is money, and green is go. >> There you go.
- Green is not brand.
Sanjay Poonen
>> So we like both of those.
It's both money and go. >> And we think that the
brand awareness, part
Sanjay Poonen
>> of the reason we picked
Cohesity is it's a modern brand, and we think we can really make
this the most indispensable iconic company in AI power data security. So we're excited about this. I think we're coming off
the heels of a great GTC with Nvidia, a good Google
cloud with Thomas Kurian and Jensen featured us in their keynotes and now, here we're going to have a lot of presence here And we're
just building momentum, step by step, quarter by quarter, year by year. >> I think one of the things
that it's not well known but should be, and we'll be
known, we'll amplify it for you. You guys are a leader in the ecosystem. Ecosystems are changing. Our data is showing that in
this AI generation ecosystem partners are much more
engineering-oriented partners, not just sales partners. Talk about that change because you have a good
nose for growth, how to scale companies,
certainly acquisitions, but being a good ecosystem
partner, what does that mean now? And now that we're in
this modern era of Gen. AI, you got to be technical,
you got to be smart, you got to use words like frictionless,
non-disruptive, seamless. These just seem to be characteristics that
you guys are winning at.
Sanjay Poonen
>> Well, John, you've known me for years and I've always used this
expression from Isaac Newton. "You see clearly because you stand on
the shoulders of giants. " So who are the giants in that space? You start with the cloud players,
Amazon, Microsoft, Google. Amazon, Google are
investors in our company. I've invited Microsoft to also
be an investor in a company. We're private, so the cloud
player is going to work with us as also private cloud,
VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat. Red Hat, we did a good
partnership with them. Nutanix are going to do more with them and VMware, Broadcom now is
a big customer of ours too. In the hardware world,
we started in video. There's no important multi- trillion dollar market cap company. They're working with
one company, the space that we're working with, excited. IBM's an investor in us, HPE
and Cisco investor in us. We also partner with Dell even
though there's some overlap. We love the hardware partners
who are going to work with us in computing storage. Then you get the security players. That's the third category. Palo
Alto, CrowdStrike, Mandiant, Zscaler, Wiz, all core partners. We created this partnership
framework called the Data Security Alliance. It's the biggest and the largest number of security partners partner with us. Then you get to the VARs,
the SIs, the distributors, very strong partnerships there. So I believe that when you look at this, we have the ecosystem that
all our competitors envy. We're going to continue.
It's a priority to me. As you know, I made that
my calling card at VMware. We did some amazing things
with the cloud players, including Amazon, which you watched, and I'm playing that bringing
that same playbook here. Ultimately, the ecosystem are
force multipliers because why? If we get Amazon and Google and Microsoft and Nvidia to talk about
us to work with us, they multiply our voice
by a factor of 1,000 or 10,000 in ways I can never do and that's why we love the ecosystem. >> Yeah. And you mentioned
Kevin Mandia is on your board. Obviously, CUBE alumni, Ballistic Ventures got some
new talent with Google. Phil Venables just joined. The other man you mentioned
is not yet a CUBE alumni. Jensen, if you're watching, you'll be on theCUBE
soon. We'll get you on.
Sanjay Poonen
>> Get him on. He's fantastic. >> Jensen's one of the only CEOs
that I've ever seen on stage >> during a mainstream keynote, by the way, who says computer science multiple times. There's a real computer
science edge right now. It's a systems' revolution
we've been saying over and over on theCUBE. So a lot more talents coming in. I call old school systems thinkers as well as young guns coming out of school or entrepreneurs who are building
systems, not just coding. So they're getting down to the root level. So I have to ask you, you've
been a great scale executive, but also you've been good at M&A. You mentioned AirWatch and
others, you took VMware to new heights. Is there an eye for some organic and inorganic growth on the horizon, or is that a little bit too far out? Are you thinking there's some
holes in the product line you want to fill or
opportunities in this market?
Sanjay Poonen
>> Yeah. We always keep our
eye to inorganic organic, but I think similar to what at SAP, the big deal was business objects. At VMware, it was Nyansa and AirWatch. I was very involved with
AirWatch. This is a big deal. We bought a company that's
twice our size, okay, we got to digest this. We're just early days. So we will look at inorganic
moves, tuck in acquisitions, but I think the bulk of our innovation has
always been organic first, partner second and acquisition third. This is the biggest deal
in the history of Cohesity, but we'll keep innovating and I think our engineers, what I'm really excited about when I go and spend time with our engineers, we now have an engineering team that's two or three times the size of what I had in December 9th
before the deal closed. These engineers are moving,
John, at the speed of a startup, and that to me is fantastic. When you can get a bigger team
to move faster, I don't know, I was telling them it's like a cheetah and an elephant in one. There's not many animals that
can move fast and be big, and that's what I want to
create with the company. >> Sanjay, I just talked
about this on my podcast last >> week with Dave. We were saying that in these
big shifts, the incumbents of the slow used to call it
at HP when I worked there, the aircraft carrier
doesn't move very fast. The stars would come in and take out some of the slow incumbents or old guard as the
Andy Jassy used to say, "But AI levels the playing field to your point about
elephants being a cheetah. " So now you're seeing innovation
with the big incumbents because they're not
resting on their laurels. Now, if you're resting on your laurels, you're going to get eaten up. >> They're going to get eaten up.
Sanjay Poonen
>> So put that aside. >> So startups and the big players are integrating for the first time. I've never seen this in the industry, 30 years in the business,
you now have innovation speed with leverage resources like
data for these companies, large scale enterprises,
Cohesity, established companies, you can't just get taken out by a startup, but the startups are moving in fast too.
Sanjay Poonen
>> I mean, you have to respect that. I think it's also AI is one element, but it's also leadership. I mean, if you look at the
leadership principles of Amazon, which I really respect,
people like Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy and now Matt Garman, they believe it's always day one and as a leader, I've only
known one year since I came to this country as an
immigrant, move fast. I built innovation inside
SAP, inside VMware. Now, of course I'm getting
to do it at an even smaller company now as a CEO, but I've known only one gear in my life, which is to move fast. And I think Andy Jassy was a classmate of mine in business school. He has that same DNA, but so does Satya Nadella, so
does Thomas Kurian, Jensen, and these are the folks who are never satisfied with the status quo. They're taking an axe to
the root of bureaucracy and they're constantly getting
their engineering teams. So whether we're about a 5, 800 employee company at the new Cohesity, 30,000 at VMware, 80,000 at SAP, you can get those ships to move fast. It's about leadership and about building and two engines that I
think are very important. Product innovation, building products that 10 X better than your competitors and customer obsession. You put those two jets on
fire, you can go a long way. >> The speed is so amazing.
Speed up and down the stack. In fact, we're going to
have Matt Garman in June. We're going to do a first ever
AWS re:Invent halftime report because what Amazon's done in the first years already been fantastic. Google next, you mentioned
them, came off next. The pace of play is so fast right now that we have to do this event. And even here in the security industry, we were commenting about
some of the change here. There are so many story
lines at RSA this year because of the change. I call it a re-platformization
era of security. In fact, I asked Pat Gelsinger with Dave on theCUBE once at
VMware, is security a do-over? He said, "Absolutely, it's a
do-over, but it's hard to do. " It's hard to a do-over, but it seems like it's a
re-platforming opportunity. So I have to ask you, what are
you looking at here at RSA? Are there any mega-trends? Do
you think that we're in a re- platforming era of security? Because if Jensen's vision
continues to accelerate, the AI infrastructure systems will have a different relationship to data. The storage will look differently. Networking's going look differently, multiple systems talking to,
the caching is different, it's like the nineties at a large scale. What's your take on RSA this
year? What are you serving? >> Yeah. I think, listen, I respect many
Sanjay Poonen
>> of the other security CEOs, and I agree with Nikesh, who's
CEO of Palo Alto, on the fact that platforms win. Now, part of his use, the word platforms might
be a little self-serving to just Palo Alto, but Palo Alto's a very legitimate platform. We're building the world's
best data platform. CrowdStrike is a very good
endpoint security platform. So there's going to be
a few of these companies that build incredible platforms. Databricks, Snowflake
building incredible platforms for structured data. So I think as we build
that, if we can stay true to workforce, we're building an AI- powered data security company, work with these other key members
of the security community. I mean, the one thing about the
security industry is there's 5,000 plus vendors. You can go down the expo
hall, you see so many of them. So it can sometimes be hard
to use your description, extract signal from the noise. But I think as companies
get to critical mass, if they're innovating
and customers are voting with their wallet for spend
on Palo Alto or CrowdStrike or Cohesity or whoever have
you, Nvidia and AI and so on and so forth, you start
to build a platform that is indispensable, that's sticky, and then integrates with
other core platforms, enterprise. That's what
we're trying to get done. >> Sanjay, final question
for the folks watching, data security platform,
define what that is because it's nuanced, but when you look at some of the things you mentioned
about non-disruptive and seamless across multiple
platforms and disparities and Cohesity, customers want that same experience too
across their other platforms. So what's different
about data security today and how does cyber
resilience fit into all that? Because there is a storage
element, there's a little bit of backup element that's just recovery. Ransomware, big market
there still exploding. But what is a data
security platform mean... What does it mean to the customer?
Sanjay Poonen
>> Has three characteristics
and I'll make it very simple for you. Number one, it's multi-cloud
in all workload coverage. VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat,
OpenShift, AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and SaaS apps. You need to cover the
workloads of the world, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, number one. Number two, you have security
baked into the platform, but also advanced security on top of that. Think of it, some of the
securities, your seat belts that come for free, but then
there's advanced security services like roadside safety things, in the way you drive a car and that advanced security
can go very sophisticated. Threat hunting, ransomware
detection, classification of data security, posture
management, so on and so forth. And the third is you
use that data for Gen. AI to search and summarize that data and get advantage out of it. Treat this like the gold as opposed to just something data
you're put in a bunker. You know those three things. You've built a data security pattern. So what we're doing
multi-cloud data protection, core security built in and advanced security, data
security on top of that, and AI, especially Gen. AI. And that's to me what
our focus is the company. What we message to our customers and what they tell us is they typically on that platform pick us, Cohesity, because of 5S's, our speed,
our scale, our security, our simplicity, and our smarts. So when you hear that from our customer, we just keep investing in that. And the good news in our base, we've got 13,000 amazing customers. I spent time with them and they are guiding us, John, on where to take the platform. You listen to those customers,
these are the biggest banks, biggest public sector,
the biggest healthcare, the biggest tech and telco companies. We're guiding our platform with the feedback
of these customers- >> And they're making
big decisions right now >> how their future's going to be architected. Foundational decisions. >> The biggest logos in the
enterprise are picking up
Sanjay Poonen
>> platform and then telling us where to go. You keep doing that. That's how great companies have
formed, whether it's Amazon or Microsoft or Google or Nvidia. >> Work package from the
customer, you know that. Final, final question. In
short, what are you focused on? What's your goals?
Obviously, you got to get to those thousand customer touches. What's on your agenda? What are you personally working on right now? What are your goals for
the rest of the year?
Sanjay Poonen
>> Well, listen, we've
got 13,000 customers. I want to make sure
they're extremely happy. No customer left behind, and grow the company relative to our plan and our goals as a rule
of 40 type of company. And we feel we're really on a good start. Keep our market share.
When you're number one, people are attacking you, they
all want to be number one. So you want to keep that
market share growing, and then build an incredible
company in terms of employees, an iconic company in places
where the employees are engaged. I start with if our 5,800
employees could be engaged, if they're excited about this mission, we'll build an incredible
company that has innovation and customer obsession as it north stars. >> Sanjay, great to have you
on take athlete on theCUBE. Here, extracting the
signal from the noise, I'm John Furrier, host with Dave Vellante. We've got Jon Oltsik, Jackie McGuire, our whole CUBE team is here. 15 years Sanjay's been
with us, watching him build and grow companies. Again, Cohesity and Veritas, now one big
monster growth opportunity, soon to be public company. When you're ready, keep us posted, Sanjay. Thank you so much. >> Appreciate it.
- We'll be right back. More live from the >> RSA Conference here in San
Francisco after this short break.
