Protect Your Data from Edge to Cloud: Cohesity

More than 80 percent of an organization’s enterprise data is considered secondary or non-mission critical. Backups, test/dev, files, and objects, as well as analytics, are all in this category, yet increasingly secondary data is giving businesses a competitive edge. Traditional, legacy products to store and manage secondary data and applications are siloed and inefficient, making them difficult to access and use. Cohesity is redefining enterprise infrastructure for secondary data and applications with one software-defined, hyper-converged solution for backups, files, objects, test/dev, and analytics.

All Secondary Data and Applications, From the Edge to the Cloud

Cohesity delivers web-scale simplicity for secondary data that eliminates silos and puts data to work. Enterprises rely on its software-defined, hyper-converged platform to radically streamline backup and data protection, converge file and object services, quickly deliver test/dev instances, and provide analytic functions on a single, global data store.

Tired of data center complexity, Global 2000 companies and federal agencies are modernizing and scaling with two award-winning Cohesity solutions:

• Cohesity DataPlatform: The only secondary data and applications solution built on a hyper-converged, scale-out platform. Designed with Google-like principles, it delivers true global deduplication and impressive storage efficiency that spans edge to the core to cloud, solving for backups, files, objects, test/dev, and analytics.
• Cohesity DataProtect: The only end-to-end backup and recovery solution fully integrated with Cohesity DataPlatform, providing simple data protection with under five-minute recovery point objectives (RPOs) and instantaneous recovery time objectives (RTOs) while cutting the cost of data protection in half.

Cohesity’s modern, cloud-first architecture furthers enterprise objectives to leverage the cost and economic efficiencies of public cloud while staying in control. Cohesity includes native integration with the most popular public clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, for multiple use cases.

Why Cohesity: Remark Secondary Storage

Cohesity provides the only hyper-converged platform designed to eliminate secondary storage silos. It consolidates all secondary data and associated management functions on one unified solution – including backups, files, objects, test/dev copies, and analytics.

The Problem: Secondary Data Sprawl

Secondary data consumes about 80% of enterprise storage capacity and imposes a huge burden on enterprise IT budgets. Secondary data is traditionally stored on a complicated patchwork of point appliances for backups, files, objects, test/dev copies, and analytics data. This infrastructure is fragmented, complex to manage, and inefficient.

Cohesity Hyper-Converged Data Platform

Cohesity DataPlatform is the only hyper-converged platform designed to consolidate and manage all your secondary data at web scale – including backups, test/dev copies, files, analytics data, and objects. DataPlatform provides distributed storage with best-in-class space efficiency, efficient copy data management, and native cloud integration. The platform incorporates data management functions for converged data protection, in-place analytics, and copy data management to automate DevOps workflows

• Simplicity: Eliminate secondary storage silos and consolidate backups, files, objects, test/dev, and analytics data
• Control: Control all your secondary data operations with converged data protection, automated DR and cloud migration, and DevOps automation
• Cost Reduction: Reduce your secondary storage TCO. Cut hardware requirements, eliminate software licenses, and simplify management.

Simplifying Secondary Storage

Traditional secondary storage is fragmented and inefficient. It consumes about 80% of enterprise storage capacity as data is copied on average 10 to 12 times across individual storage appliances in support of different use cases like backup, analytics, test/dev, files, and objects. To move data to the public cloud, organizations have to deploy yet another silo in the form of a cloud gateway.

Cohesity transforms this complex infrastructure with a simple, elegant solution. Cohesity DataPlatform eliminates secondary storage silos with a single, purpose-built hyper-converged platform. The Cohesity solution enables organizations to cut their total cost of ownership by 80% or more compared to traditional solutions.

Not Just a Backup

Traditional data protection is complex, slow and inefficient. It requires multiple infrastructure silos for backups, target storage, and long-term data retention. Backups are typically only done once a day and recovery times can take multiple hours, far slower than required by most mission-critical applications.

It’s no surprise that many Cohesity customers first choose to adopt Cohesity to simplify their data protection environments. Cohesity eliminates data protection silos with a converged, web-scale platform for end-to-end data protection – including target storage, backup, replication, and cloud integration. With Cohesity, backups can be taken as frequently as every 5 minutes, and recovery times reduced to a few seconds. All with native public cloud integration and at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.

Beyond Backups: Making Your Data Productive

Traditional data protection solutions only provide an expensive insurance policy. The data is unproductive until disaster strikes. Cohesity takes a completely different approach. Data is valuable, and Cohesity puts backup data to productive use. Once the data is protected on Cohesity, it can be used to support multiple use cases.

Multicloud Integration

Cohesity integrates natively with all the leading public clouds for data archival, tiering and replication. Leverage the economics and convenience of the public cloud as an alternative to tape for long-term data retention. Build a multi-cloud data fabric to support disaster recovery, test/dev, and application migrations across multi-cloud environments.

Test / Dev

Developers need fast access to copies of production data throughout the test/dev process. With Cohesity, provide developers with instantaneous access to zero-cost copies of your VM and database backups. Replace traditional test/dev storage with Cohesity and eliminate the cost and effort of creating copies across silos.

Analytics

Traditional backup data typically remains ‘dark’ because it can’t be analyzed easily. With Cohesity, perform custom analytics jobs of your protected data directly on the Cohesity cluster, without having to copy data to a separate analytics cluster. You can now easily analyze your data, whether to ensure compliance or to extract valuable insight from your backups.

Files & Objects

Files and objects are typically stored on yet another dedicated storage silo. Cohesity exposes distributed NFS, SMB and S3 interfaces to provide file and object storage. Eliminate the need to manage multiple silos, and converge your files and object storage on the same platform used for your data protection.

Meet the Leader

Mohit Aron, CEO, and Founder: Mohit has over 15 years of experience in building scalable, high- performance distributed systems, and has been attributed as the father of hyper-convergence.

Aron graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University with a focus on distributed systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi India.

“Every organization protects essential data, but not every business can make it instantly available when it's needed, where it's needed. That's why there's Cohesity.”