CASE STUDY

Issy-les-Moulineaux Selects Cohesity toEnable Next-Gen Backup and Recovery
INTRODUCTION
With a population nearing 70,000, Issy-les-Moulineaux is a French district council in theHauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region, adjacent to Paris in the Southwest
on the left bank of the Seine river.
CHALLENGES
INDUSTRY
Government
USE CASE
Backup and Recovery, LongTerm Retention and Archival
SOLUTION PARTNERS
HPE, VMware
Channel Partner
SPIE

In order to better serve its population, the district council of Issy-les-Moulineaux has
developed 40 business applications to manage education, extracurriculars, nurseries anddaycares, as well as technical services, including the management of assets, buildingworks, architecture, urban development, and the civil registry. It also uses horizontal
applications, such as the Microsoft Exchange mail system and a file server.
These applications generate a large volume of data. Over the years, the district councilof Issy has built up strong IT infrastructure that is constantly growing and changing tomeet new needs and comply with legislation. With data volumes increasing at a rate of
approximately 20% per year, backup and recovery is a significant challenge.

“We were looking for operational simplification, which led us to choose
Cohesity. Not only is the solution easy to deploy and administer, but it also
meets our data protection needs. Cohesity provides a powerful and fast
data recovery solution, which guarantees a high level of data integrity andavailability. With this new infrastructure, our district council has alreadyseen productivity gains, faster reaction times, and increased effectiveness.
And in terms of regulations, by indexing our data on the fly, we havebecome more compliant.”
JEAN-PAUL POGGIOLI,IT Director

The district council Issy-les-Moulineaux aimed for the following capabilities in a nextgeneration backup and recovery solution:• An easy to deploy and manage solution, allowing fast data recovery• A scalable solution for next-generation backup and recovery• Flexible solution for data replication between datacentre locations• Seamless integration with third-party applications and the cloudCASE STUDY | Issy-les-Moulineaux

SOLUTION

The city saw immediate results from deploying Cohesity. Soon

To meet the demands for growing data, additional regulatory

after initial deployment, the district’s IT team needed to restore

requirements, and evolving business needs, the district

a calendar module. This operation was completed within 15

council of Issy-les-Moulineaux chose Cohesity DataPlatform

minutes, where previously it would have taken over two hours.

to implement a solution for secondary or archival data

“Cohesity’s system provides more granular data management

backup, management, verification and visualisation. Thisand indexes saved data in real time. This index simplifies

hyperconverged, scalable solution is ideal to back up traditional

regulatory compliance, since it enables us to find data inand virtualised environments, which are becoming increasingly

archives when required, regardless of file format. Local

common in IT infrastructures and have been adopted by theauthorities are operating under increased legal and financial

district council of Issy-les-Moulineaux’s IT system.

constraints. The safety of our citizens’ data and our services

The city’s complex infrastructure includes a VMware

is of the utmost importance. This is why we have chosen

virtualised environment with 220 VMs, hosted on HPE

innovation to comply with current and future standards for

SimpliVity, within Oracle, Linux and Windows environments.

data backup and indexing,” said Jean-Paul Poggioli.

Additionally, the city uses a SQL database for its SharePoint

On top of the benefits highlighted already, the district council

and Exchange environments.

Issy-les-Moulineaux realised many benefits with Cohesity

To back up these environments, Issy-les-Moulineaux deployedincluding:

12 Cohesity C2605 nodes and Cohesity DataProtect andDataPlatform. The entire infrastructure is replicated between
two data centres.

• Zero-cost test and development, derived from existing
backups• Data recovery is completed in minutes instead of hours

RESULTS• Stress-free management of increased data volume

Thanks to its compression and deduplication capabilities,• Assurance of meeting regulatory standards for backup

Cohesity’s hyperconverged data management solution backs

files

up and seamlessly integrates across all environments andfile servers, enabling Issy-les-Moulineaux to reduce space
utilisation by 50TB.
Now a single admin console is used to manage file savingand recovery, reporting and updates. Cohesity’s solution
also supports many different protocols, NAS environments,and offers native support of transferring operations to public
cloud environments, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, andGoogle Cloud.

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