SOLUTION BRIEF

Modernize Archive andTiering with SmartFiles
Key Benefits• Enterprise-grade retention,archival, and data retrieval• Unified file and object
support• Software-defined multicloud
solution• Unlimited scale

Data is the lifeblood of every business, with unstructured data being thebasis for many of the latest data driven innovations across all major markets.
Indeed, Gartner estimates that unstructured data represents up to 90% of newenterprise data, and it’s growing three times faster than structured data.
Managing fast-accumulating unstructured data amid new business demandspresents a serious challenge for many organizations. Long-term retention andarchival of infrequently accessed unstructured data is required for regulated• Singular management

industries, but is also prudent and practical for all organizations in order to• Superior storage efficiency

resistant accessibility to data for productivity and analytics. However, the realityinterface• Strong security andresiliency• Policy-based automation

maintain governance, reduce IT overhead, and provide reliable and threat
is that manual efforts to manage application data across multiple silos remains
common and cloud integration remains a challenge, which increases data

• Unified, global visibility &storage and management costs and accelerates inefficiency. Cohesity SmartFiles• Streamlined complianceaddress data management challenges, including archiving, retention, security,control

transcends traditional file and object platforms to provide a singular solution tocompliance, and more.

Cohesity SmartFiles
Cohesity SmartFiles simplifies long-term
unstructured data retention for cold andactive archives with a software-defined,

App Data andTier 1 Data

data-centric, multicloud, unified file andHot DataArchiving

object repository. SmartFiles modernizes
and simplifies data and application
management, privacy, and control by

Archived Filesand Objects

Warm andCold Data

providing one platform for consolidatingarchival data from application workloads.

TieringEnterprises are uniquely empowered
to efficiently manage data at scale

SmartFiles

Cloud TierS3 Object
Datastore

for governance and compliance, withCold Data
SmartFiles

policy-based controls enabling automatic
data placement on the most appropriate or economical tier or clouds. SmartFiles also drasticallyreduces costs and management complexity and creates limitless value from organizational data.
Furthermore, Cohesity’s Marketplace apps and machine-learning assisted management provide
intelligence and ease-of administration that distinguish SmartFiles from the rest.

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Eliminate Expensive Silos and Management Complexity
SmartFiles modernizes and simplifies data and application management by providing one platform for multiple
archive workloads. It is a modern converged target for consolidating data silos and securely managing unstructured
content and application data, including digital libraries, archives, rich media, video surveillance, big data, andbackup data sets.

ContentManagement

Splunk Warm & ColdBuckets

Corporate Audio &Video• Secure file• Cost-effective• Corporaterepository• Scalable libraries• File & Object

cold archiving• On-premises,
cloud or both

• Frozen data tocloudcommunication• In-houseproductions• Education andtraining

Digital Archives

Video Surviellance• Digital documents• Security cameras• Audio and video• Body and mobile• Active & passive• Rapid retrieval

filesarchives• Backup datasets

camsfrom large
amounts of data

There are many industries that depend on Cohesity for file and object services. These industries include:

Financial Services

Law Firms• Images &• Documents anddocuments• Call logs &correspondence

research• Collaboration• eDiscovery andlegal holdState, Local andEducation• Collaboration &research

Healthcare• PACS archives• VNA archives

Life Sciences andMedical Research• Genomic dataarchive• Safety & security• Security• Innovation/• Compliancetechnology

Archive and Tiering Benefits and Capabilities
Reduce TCO
Eliminate data silos with a singular platform for archival and retention, backup, disaster recovery, cloud integration,and data management across multiple sites and clouds.

One Management Interface
One user interface is all you need to manage your on-premises Cohesity clusters as well as Cohesity-managed orpartner-managed clusters. Use the mobile app version of the user interface to drill down into specific services orclusters when you’re on the go in remote locations. The Helios interface also takes advantage of machine learning
based information to enable predictive planning for capacity management.

Massive Scale
Capacity and performance scale linearly to support consolidation of multiple archives.

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Unified File & Object

Efficiency

Native multiprotocol support for NFS, SMB and S3. Files and objects

Drive down storage costs with data reduction delivered

can be accessed simultaneously, and all data is always available via

through cross volume sliding window variable dedupe, small file

S3. File permissions across NFS and SMB environments are mapped

optimization, and compression.

for transparent file access from either protocol.

Flexibility

Security and Compliance
Exceptional security and privacy through secure long-term

Archive and tier from on-premises to the cloud—or run all archiving

retention and compliance with SEC17a-4, PCI-DSS, Common Criteria,

and tiering within the cloud. SmartFiles runs in the cloud with all

FIPs-compliant software encryption, SMB encryption, auditing,the functionality available on-premises. Capacity, performance, andmulti-factor authentication (MFA), and integrated anti-virus andcost can be matched with workload requirements with the freedom

ransomware protection. Together, these robust security features

to choose the most appropriate hardware for any workload.

can satisfy the most highly regulated industries to power a myriad

Smart Data Tiering and Placementof enterprise use cases.

Eliminate the need for expensive and time-consuming third-party

Immutability

tiering applications with built-in capabilities for transparently

Immutable file data protection with WORM (using DataLock) so that

offloading file data from Tier 1 NAS devices to SmartFiles (alsocopies of data cannot be modified.

known as External NAS Tiering). Take advantage of policy-based
control over hot, warm, or cold data for easy data placement on theAudit Logging

right tiers and clouds.

Integrated audit logging provides the ability to analyze file activity

Broad Cloud Integration

for investigative and compliance purposes.

Easy integration of archiving and tiering with one or more clouds,

Do More with Data

including Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure,

Expand the value of your unstructured data with a Marketplace app

and any other S3-enabled clouds.

Visibility

ecosystem of integrated third-party applications. These powerfulapps run directly on that data in-place to: mitigate risk from cyberthreats and ransomware, accelerate content and metadata search,

Quickly discover data across cloud and geographically distributed

streamline compliance and eDiscovery, detect anomalies, developarchives using comprehensive and simple to use enterprise searchactionable insights with powerful analytics, and more.

features. Get fast and reliable search results across file content andmetadata with ease.

Lower your total cost of storage ownership by up to 51% by consolidating your data onto a more costeffective simpler to manage solution. Learn how from this report from ESG Research© 2022 Cohesity, Inc. All rights reserved.
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