SOLUTION BRIEF

SmartFiles: Secure Active
Archive for Manufacturing
Key Benefits• Unlimited scale with hybrid
cloud data mobility• Cyberthreat protection,detection, and recovery

The manufacturing industry has been completely revolutionized by data. This
digital transformation has converged traditional Information Technology (IT)systems with data-intensive Operational Technology (OT) systems—empowering
manufacturing organizations to optimize processes, create better products,
and accelerate time to market. As manufacturing organizations strive to gain a• Software-defined unified filecompetitive edge with analytics, AI/ML, cloud, and IoT, this rapid shift has placed a• Reduced costs with superior

can’t keep pace with today’s data demands and scale.

and object services
storage efficiency• Reliable compliance and longterm retention• Integrated search andanalytics tools

huge burden on traditional infrastructures, as these solutions of yesteryear simply

Manufacturing systems and applications collect and store massive amounts of
unstructured data from a variety of sources and formats including: end-users,
new manufacturing technologies, suppliers, vendors, partners, and customers.
These mountains of data are crucial to manufacturing operations and commonlycomprises design files, project docs, IoT data, media, images, video, andmore. Manufacturing organizations are increasingly challenged with trying tomanage and integrate data from these different systems—each with varying
protocols, strict security requirements, and unique compliance needs. Today’s
manufacturing data landscape has led to silos of information that can be difficult
to manage, secure, and analyze. There is a tremendous need to securely and costeffectively retain this data—to maintain compliance, accelerate productivity, andpower future decisions and innovations.
Manufacturing was the #1 ransomware target in 2021. Manufacturing plays a critical role in today’s
already-fragile global supply chains, which makes the industry an obvious target. Cyber attackers are
increasingly trying to exploit manufacturing data vulnerabilities because of the ripple effect it createsacross other industries, which further pressures victims to pay a ransom. Manufacturing companies
must also deal with a multitude of sensitive data such as product designs, customer information, andpricing. Ensuring this data is protected against cyber threats and data breaches is a top priority.
Manufacturing organizations must comply with many regulations, including data privacy regulations
like GDPR and CCPA. Maintaining data governance can be difficult, as it requires the managementof data across various stakeholders and systems. Unauthorized access and loss of data can result
in serious lawsuits and hefty fines, and also pose risks to safety. Protecting manufacturing datafrom these risks has become onerous and expensive due to the inflexibility and high costs of legacy
systems and storage silos. The lack of native search and audit capabilities in these aging products
further complicates compliance with data privacy regulations. Meanwhile, the skyrocketing costs
associated with managing these older storage systems make it difficult to satisfy data retention andresidency requirements, and impede the ability to analyze historical datasets.

SOLUTION BRIEF | SmartFiles: Secure Active Archive for Manufacturing

Design Files

Project andUser Docs

Multimedia

Applications

Secure Active Archivefor Manufacturing

IoT

SmartFiles

VideoSurveillance

Cloud- Archive- Replicate- Tier- IsolateCohesity Data CloudEnterprise Backup TargetFigure 1: SmartFiles as a Secure Active Archive for Manufacturing and Enterprise Backup Target

Quality data insights are the key to enabling manufacturing firms toultra-long-term retention, manufacturing firms can significantly

make quick and informed decisions related to products, maintenance,

reduce costs by up to 51% while maintaining fast local access to theirand even safety, with more confidence in the outcomes. Data

data. SmartFiles protects data against the latest cyberthreats toinsights can also serve to reduce operational costs, increase productmitigate ransomware, with robust compliance features to satisfy data

sales, and improve overall customer experiences. The prevalence

residency needs and regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

of connected machines and IoT devices in the manufacturingindustry has created an explosion of data that provides tremendous
opportunity to derive more value from it. But, analyzing this data may
require additional tools and expertise to extract the right insights

Intelligent Data Management for
Manufacturing

required to make the best data-driven decisions.

Consolidate data from manufacturing applications and systems

Many manufacturing companies rely on legacy systems that weresurveillance, archives, big data, and more. SmartFiles delivers thenot designed to handle the volume of data being generated today.

capacity, performance, and scale to help manufacturing organizations

The design limitations of legacy storage products make it difficult

eliminate data silos with a data security and management platformto keep up with capacity needs. This jeopardizes data retention

and unified management console that is ideal for: secure and cost-compliance and analytics efforts, and creates considerable

effective long-term retention of manufacturing data, optimizing costmanagement complexity. Leading manufacturers realize there isand performance for backups, and streamlining disaster recovery withtremendous opportunity in modern cloud-based solutions that use

hybrid cloud data mobility across multiple sites and clouds.

a hybrid cloud approach to bring the scalability and cost benefits ofthe cloud to their data. However, most legacy storage products lackadequate cloud support and require multiple third-party application
integrations for data management and security, which further
increases costs and complexity.

Why Cohesity SmartFiles for Manufacturing?

—as well as unstructured data from enterprise backups, video

Streamline productivity with native search features so manufacturingleaders can easily correlate and instantly search across application
data and project assets to accelerate time to market, as well as
respond immediately to compliance and security investigations.
Reduce costs up to 51% or more, while achieving up to 96x or greater
storage efficiency. SmartFiles delivers global deduplication, advanced

Cohesity is a leader in data security and management withcompression, and small file optimization for superior space efficiency

comprehensive cyber threat protection and detection, rapidand data reduction. Cohesity SmartFiles significantly reduces yourransomware recovery, and hybrid cloud mobility.

data footprint, lowers operational costs, and minimizes the attack

Cohesity SmartFiles offers a scalable and economical Secure Active

surface to protect your critical manufacturing data from cyber threats.

Archive for Manufacturing data with reliable access on-demand.

Optimize cost and performance throughout the manufacturing

With unified file and object services and the flexibility to tier anddata lifecycle. Uncover powerful data insights and lower Total Costarchive with unlimited cloud scalability for secure data isolation andof Ownership (TCO) by analyzing hot, warm, and cold data utilization

SOLUTION BRIEF | SmartFiles: Secure Active Archive for Manufacturingon third party NAS systems with policy-based tiering of data torole-based access controls, multi-factor authentication, and quorum

SmartFiles, and automated lifecycle management to place data on

approvals to prevent unauthorized administrative changes.

the most appropriate or economical tiers or clouds.

Detect anomalies like ransomware with ML-based threat intelligence

Integrate seamlessly with existing manufacturing and backup

and scanning to detect risks, malware, and other indicators ofapplications. Simplify management and interoperability with thecompromise (IOCS) across the manufacturing data landscape.

applications manufacturing firms rely on most– with unified file andAdditionally, with comprehensive logging of all file operations,object support for SMB, NFS, and S3.

manufacturing organizations can respond easily to compliance andSatisfy compliance with data privacy and residency regulations

security investigations related to suspicious user behaviors.

with secure, long-term, and cost-effective data retention across on-Recover instantly at scale from data outages and attacks, withpremises locations and clouds of choice. Avoid compliance violations

confidence that the recovery data is clean and free of cyberand costly fines by protecting sensitive data from unauthorized

vulnerabilities. Reduce downtime, help ensure continuous

access and loss with data lifecycle management automation features

manufacturing operations, and mitigate safety risks by recoveringthat help manufacturing organizations economically secure historical

data quickly to any historical point-in-time.

project assets and other critical data.
Scale and mobilize manufacturing data with software-defined
hybrid cloud flexibility. Stay ahead of tomorrow’s demands andavoid vendor lock-in with the freedom to choose hardware deployedat the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud. Powered by a cloudscale architecture that can handle billions of files, with options
for heterogenous disk and all-flash platforms, SmartFiles has theversatility to scale on-demand to support the most-critical workloads
for enterprise manufacturing organizations.
Keep manufacturing operations running smoothly. In
manufacturing, loss of data access and system downtime can becatastrophic to day-to-day operations and safety. SmartFiles isdesigned with a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture
to deliver enterprise-class system and data integrity for themanufacturing industry. Eliminate forklift operations with nondisruptive upgrades to radically simplify future expansions without
costly downtime and burdensome data migrations.

Secure Sensitive Data and Intellectual Property
Protect sensitive design files, critical project assets, andmanufacturing application data from cybercriminals. Cohesity offersa multilayered approach to defending data. Unlimited immutable
snapshots and DataLock features (WORM) keep data safe bypreventing it from being modified or deleted. Based on Zero Trustdata security principles, Cohesity’s architecture helps mitigate risks
from malicious attacks with at-rest and in-flight data encryption,

Do More With Manufacturing Data
Improve manufacturing cyber-resiliency with an extra layer ofransomware protection with Cohesity FortKnox, a highly-secure
SaaS-based data isolation and recovery solution. Simplify protection
for your most-critical manufacturing data, and recover confidently
from immutable copies in a Cohesity-managed cloud vault.
Gain deeper intelligence against malicious threats with Cohesity
DataHawk. Further investigate security and compliance events withcustom alerting, visualizations, and reporting of user activities - withaudit trails for rogue behaviors like mass deletions, failed accessattempts, and other possible data exfiltration indicators.
Put your manufacturing application data to work with integrated
Marketplace apps. These apps run directly on data in-place to:mitigate risk from cyber threats, accelerate content searches,
streamline compliance and eDiscovery, detect anomalies, develop
actionable insights with analytics, and more – all without requiringextensive infrastructure.

The Smart Choice
Leading manufacturing organizations choose Cohesity SmartFiles
because it is the smartest way to optimize cost, scale and efficiency
for your unstructured data. It is a simple, singular solution that lets
you manage, secure, and do more with your data with next-levelsoftware-defined file and object services for the hybrid cloud.

Learn how a manufacturing organization switched to Cohesity to reduce TCO by 25%, achieve
50% faster backups and restores, and accelerate innovation with 98% faster searches.

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