What is Cove Data Protection?

Cove Data Protection is a cloud-first backup and disaster recovery solution from N-able, delivered by Kick as a fully managed service. It protects physical and virtual servers, workstations, and Microsoft 365 data from a single web-based management console, with cloud storage included in the price.

How is Cove different from traditional backup solutions?

Traditional backup products typically rely on on-site appliances and were built for on-premise environments. Cove was designed cloud-first, which means backups are stored off the local network by default, making them inherently more resilient against ransomware. Its TrueDelta architecture also moves significantly less data than image-based backup, allowing more frequent backups without the network overhead.

Does Cove protect against ransomware?

Yes. Because Cove stores backups directly in its private cloud — off your local network — they are out of reach of ransomware attacks that target locally stored backup data. Mandatory two-factor authentication and AES 256-bit end-to-end encryption add further layers of protection around access and data security.

Can Cove back up Microsoft 365 data?

Yes, Cove includes Microsoft 365 backup as part of its solution, covering Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. For organisations whose primary concern is protecting Microsoft 365 data, Kick also offers Datto SaaS Protection as a dedicated Microsoft 365 backup solution at kickict.co.uk/it-services/datto/.

Is there a local backup option, or is everything stored in the cloud?

Cove is cloud-first but not cloud-only. Organisations can optionally maintain a local copy of backups using a network share or their own hardware, enabling faster LAN-speed recovery for scenarios where that is more practical. Cloud and local copies are managed together from the same console.

What is automated recovery testing?

Automated recovery testing is a Cove feature that regularly and automatically verifies your backups are actually recoverable — not just stored. It produces reports confirming recoverability, which means you can have genuine confidence in your disaster recovery plan rather than discovering problems during an actual incident.

What environments does Cove support for recovery?

Cove supports recovery to local storage, a secondary site, or Microsoft Azure. Bare-metal recovery and virtual machine restore are both supported, including Virtual-to-Physical and Physical-to-Virtual conversions, giving your IT team maximum flexibility when an incident occurs.

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Q: How quickly can we recover if something goes wrong?

Cove supports recovery point objectives as tight as 15 minutes with automated backups running throughout the day. The Standby Image feature creates a bootable image after every backup, meaning recovery can begin almost immediately. Depending on your environment and recovery target — local, secondary site, or Azure — your systems can typically be restored within hours.

Most businesses have a backup solution. Far fewer have one that actively defends against the threats most likely to target it. We deliver Cohesity as a fully managed service, combining enterprise data protection with AI-powered security in a single platform, giving your business one solution to protect, detect, and recover.

What makes Cohesity different?

Most backup products protect your data. Cohesity protects your data and actively works to detect and contain threats before they cause irreversible damage. Its AI-powered anomaly detection monitors backup data for signs of ransomware activity, flagging unusual patterns early — before an attack has the chance to spread across your environment.

At the platform level, Cohesity operates on zero-trust principles, with immutable backup snapshots that cannot be altered or deleted by an attacker, even if they gain access to your network. Every backup is encrypted, and access is controlled through strict identity and authentication policies. The result is a backup environment that is not just a safety net, but an active layer of your cyber resilience strategy.

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What does Cohesity cover?

Cohesity protects 1,000+ workloads across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments from a single management interface, replacing fragmented point solutions with one unified platform.

The problem it solves

"Most organisations have built their data protection estate piece by piece - one tool for virtual machines, another for cloud, another for SaaS. Managing them means managing multiple dashboards, multiple contracts, and multiple points of failure. Cohesity replaces all of that with one platform that covers your entire environment, with AI-powered security built in from the ground up."

What it covers

Virtual and physical server backup
Cloud workloads — Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
Microsoft 365 — Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams
NAS and unstructured data
Databases — SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA and more
Kubernetes and containerised environments

1000+

Workloads supported across hybrid cloud and SaaS

18x

Faster backups vs legacy solutions

50%

Lower total cost of ownership vs traditional approaches

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What to expect from Cohesity

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights connects your marketing, sales and customer data in one platform, automating lead nurturing, tracking campaign ROI and deepening customer engagement through LinkedIn, event management and real-time dashboards.

Ransomware defence, not just recovery

There is a meaningful difference between being able to recover from a ransomware attack and being able to detect and contain one before the damage is done. Cohesity is built to do both.

Immutable backups your recovery data stays protected

Cohesity's backup snapshots cannot be altered, encrypted, or deleted - even if an attacker gains access to your network. Whatever happens to your live environment, your recovery data remains intact and clean.

AI-powered threat detection

Cohesity continuously analyses backup data for unusual patterns consistent with ransomware activity, flagging threats early so your team can act before an attack fully executes.

Cyber vaulting with FortKnox

For organisations that need the highest level of isolation, Cohesity FortKnox stores an additional copy of your data in a logically air-gapped cloud vault. Even in a worst-case scenario, a clean recovery point is always available.

Clean room recovery

Restore systems into an isolated environment to remove the risk of reinfection during recovery - so you're not bringing a compromised system back online alongside everything else.

Common Questions

What is Cohesity?

Cohesity is an AI-powered data security and management platform that combines enterprise backup, ransomware detection, cyber vaulting, and data insights in a single solution. Delivered by Kick as a fully managed service, it protects 1,000+ workloads across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments from one management interface.

How is Cohesity different from a traditional backup solution?

Traditional backup products store copies of your data — and that's largely where their role ends. Cohesity adds an active layer of security on top of data protection, with AI-powered threat detection that monitors for signs of ransomware, immutable snapshots that cannot be tampered with, and cyber vaulting capabilities that keep a secure, isolated copy of your data even in worst-case scenarios.

Does Cohesity protect against ransomware?

Yes, and more actively than most solutions. Cohesity's AI-powered anomaly detection continuously analyses backup data for unusual patterns consistent with ransomware activity, flagging threats early. Immutable snapshots ensure your recovery data cannot be encrypted or deleted by an attacker, and FortKnox cyber vaulting provides an additional air-gapped copy for organisations that need the highest level of protection.

What workloads and environments does Cohesity support?

Cohesity protects over 1,000 workloads, including physical and virtual servers, cloud environments (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud), Microsoft 365, databases (SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA), NAS and unstructured data, and Kubernetes. All are managed from a single platform and interface.

How quickly can we recover if something goes wrong?

Cohesity is designed for fast recovery at scale - supporting recovery of 1,000 virtual machines simultaneously where required. Its clean room recovery capability allows systems to be restored in an isolated environment, removing the risk of reinfection from compromised systems during the recovery process.

Build a complete data protection strategy

Cohesity handles enterprise-scale data protection and security across your hybrid environment. For a fully rounded approach to protecting your business, Kick also provides:

Cove Data Protection

Cloud-first backup for servers, workstations, and Microsoft 365 - a simpler, streamlined solution for organisations with straightforward backup requirements. Explore Cove

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Cyber Security

Ransomware and malware protection, endpoint security, and multi-factor authentication - your first line of defence before backup is ever needed.

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Managed IT and Support

Many Kick customers include Cove as part of a fully managed IT service. We handle the monitoring, alerting, and recovery so your team doesn't have to think about it.

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Not sure if Cohesity is the right fit for your environment?

Cohesity is particularly well suited to organisations managing complex, multi-environment estates - businesses running a mix of on-premises infrastructure, cloud workloads, and SaaS applications that need a single platform to bring it all together. It's also a strong fit for organisations with elevated cyber risk, those operating in regulated industries, or IT teams looking to consolidate a fragmented backup estate onto one supported, manageable solution.

If your environment is primarily Microsoft 365, our Datto SaaS Protection solution may be a more focused starting point. If you need a broader conversation about your data protection strategy, our team can walk you through the options - with no jargon and no pressure.

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