SOLUTION BRIEF

Backup as a Service,
Powered by Cohesity for
Service Providers
Key Benefits• Protect customer data

without disrupting yourbusiness• Scale your data protection
services on-demand andgrow revenue• Quickly tap into growing
market opportunities,
including M365

Data is an organization’s most valuable and yet, vulnerable asset. That is why business leaders arelooking to service providers to help them improve the management and protection of all of theirdata. Top of mind is how to efficiently backup and quickly recover their data across hybrid clouds
when needed.
Service providers offering Backup as a Service, powered by Cohesity DataProtect are converging
silos and modernizing legacy backup infrastructure to safeguard their customer data against
outages, cyber breaches, and advanced ransomware attacks. Grow your managed service revenue byoffering a catalog of next-gen data management services including Archival, Disaster Recovery, Fileand Object, Data Security and more—all delivered as services to help customers protect, manage andderive more value from their data.

““The partnership with Cohesity gives our customers access to a proven,robust data protection solution that eliminates legacy backup silos andprovides comprehensive protection against the array of rising data threats
they are facing, including ransomware,”“Customers can now manage and control data recovery from a single source,
more efficiently store data, and eliminate potentially costly disruptions.”
Josh Prewitt, Chief Product Officer at Rackspace Technology

Service-Provider Ready Platform
Secure Multi-Tenancy with Self-Service Option
All Cohesity-enabled services, including BaaS, run on topof Cohesity Helios. Its unified global management withnative multi-tenancy segregates every customer’s data forprivacy and security protection. Cohesity Helios integrates
seamlessly with VMware Cloud Director, VMware vRealize
Suite, ServiceNow and a full suite of APIs to empower
customers with self-service options through Cohesity or
third-party portals.

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Simple Data Protection for Multiple Opportunities
Backup as a Service

Microsoft 365 Protection

Ransomware Protection as aServiceSimple converged backup andQuickly tap into growing M365

Integrated ransomware detection

recovery services to protectmarketand remediation for all customer

customer data at provider-scale

data

Deliver comprehensive, policy-based

Gain a business footprint in theStrengthen data protection withdata protection for traditional and300 million active M365 users

Cohesity’s multi-layered Threat

modern data sources—virtual andby protecting their data beyond

Defense architecture.

physical workloads, containerized

Microsoft terms.

applications and cloud-native

Protect - data from unauthorized

databases.

BaaS, powered by Cohesity,encryption and deletion with Filecomplements the data retention

Immutability and DataLock (WORM).

Backup as a Service (BaaS), powered

limits for Exchange Online, OneDrive,

defined and delivered directly fromand SharePoint Online. Organizations Detect - potential ransomware hiding
in customer backups with machinealso have the flexibility to archive

the cloud without on-prem devices.

M365 data to a different site,

by Cohesity DataProtect, is software-

The multicloud architecture scales

including another cloud.

easily for you to serve tens toBest of all, you get added protection

hundreds of customers simplifying

against accidental data deletion andupgrades and reducing businessfull-scale ransomware attacks.

learning-driven anomaly detection.
Restore - business productivity

quickly by selecting actionable alerts
to rapidly restore hundreds of VMs
and large data volumes.

disruptions.

Technical Advantages
Lightning Fast Recovery• Fast search and data recovery by IT admins on any Cohesity cluster located globally• Near-zero recovery point objectives and near-instant recovery time objectives (RPOs/RTOs) to meetstringent service-level agreements (SLAs)• Rapid restoration of hundreds of virtual machines (VMs), large data volumes and any size databasewith Cohesity Helios

Global Actionable Search• Global search across all clusters for the complete inventory of VMs, NAS Volumes, M365 Exchange
Online mailboxes and other supported objects.

• Inspection for anomalies with AI-powered insights• Appropriate remediation, for example, searching for all unprotected VMs and creating jobs to protect
them, or auditing of recently accessed files

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API

API-first Architecture• Automation with multi-tenant awareness enabled by Cohesity API-first architecture and full-featured
REST-API support for backup workflows as code or script• Fully compatible with Cisco SecureX, PagerDuty, Ansible and ServiceNow
Global Deduplication• Securely isolated tenants• Cross-tenant, global, variable-length dedupe for maximum efficiencies from identical data sets acrosscustomers• Industry-leading efficiencies in VM and file backups lowers service provider costs
Hybridity provided by Cohesity Hybrid Extender (on-prem proxy VM)• Secure TCP/IP channel between the tenant’s local network and the service provider data center• Source-side dedupe reduces egress volume and service provider compute load
• Assigns unique VLAN and storage domains for each tenantRole-based Access Control (RBAC)• Granular control by admins over what users can access• Ability to create storage and network resources organizations• Capabilities to set up individual sources, protection jobs, and reports
Multi-cluster Management• A single dashboard draws information for multi-cluster monitoring, reporting, and orchestrated
upgrades from a secure tunnel connection

SmartAssist• Automatic scheduling and orchestrating of jobs and workloads to meet SLAs with recommendations
based on capacity forecasting and disk failure prediction• Important field notices
Reporting and Analytics• Accurate pricing and chargeback mechanisms, isolated per tenant, with deep visibility into backupstatistics• Custom reporting app to generate detailed performance and usage reports on-demand or onschedule.

Flexible Service Delivery Model
Cohesity offers different deployment options to fit any customer site requirements. Our unique approach empowers
service providers to address customers’ needs wherever data resides—whether in a provider data center, on customerpremises, or in public clouds, or a combination.

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Hosted Backup

Service Provider

Hyperscaler

Hosted Backup

Local Backup

Local Backup

Cohesity CE

Remote Backup

Cloud Backup
Public Cloud-hosted

Multi-modal BaaS across customer-prem, SP datacenter, and public cloud

Consumption-Based Pricing
Cohesity Pay-per-Use (PPU) is created exclusively for service providers to help keep the procurement process simple
and costs in check. Unlike subscription-based pricing, it allows different managed service offerings under one
subscription agreement. With Cohesity PPU, your consumption-based payment increases only when the service
demand rises.

Get Started with CohesityCohesity is 100% partner-focused. Your path to delivering services to customers that radically simplify data protection
begins by joining the Cohesity Partner Program for Service Providers. In addition to comprehensive technology
benefits, it includes:•Co-design workshops•

Training programs•

Premier technical support•

Proposal-based funding opportunities•Flexible pay-per-use pricing options•Reference architectures for leading cloud,hardware, and app vendors•Discover more solutions on cohesity.com/serviceproviders

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