SOLUTION BRIEF

Simplify Long-Term Data
Retention and Archival

Key Benefits• A single multicloud platform
for long-term data retention
in the cloud and on tape

• Automated protection
policies simplify the archival
process• Supports online and cold
cloud storage from AWS,
Azure, and GCP• Eliminate costs andcomplexities of bolt-on cloud
gateways• Flexible retention, archival,and data retrieval

Data management best practices include the successful long-term retention and archival of data andapplications no longer actively used, yet still valuable to the enterprise. Data loss prevention, legal
and compliance requirements, and security are top reasons organizations schedule and permanently
save important files, traditionally on tape backups. Yet rapidly increasing data volumes and changing
business demands to keep information longer have organizations looking for more cost-effective,
reliable methods of archival that improves accessibility while reducing IT management overhead.
Cohesity simplifies long-term data and archival with a single, cloud-native solution that supports
the backup and archival of data directly to leading public clouds including Amazon Web Services,
Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud or to tape. Cohesity streamlines data archival with automatedbackup policies that automatically move data to the cloud and provide easy retrieval fromeverywhere delivering better accessibility and faster restore times. Cohesity DataProtect™ andCohesity CloudArchive reduces long-term retention and archiving costs, simplifies the archival andretrieval process through automation, and provides a cloud-native and multicloud platform thatscales and provides the flexibility you need.

Cloud archival saves time, lowers costs
With Cohesity, IT organizations gain flexibility with support to archive data to multiple targets
through the same UI—public clouds, private clouds, any S3 compatible device, and QStar managed
tape libraries. Cohesity cloud-native integrations with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, andGoogle Cloud eliminate the need for bolt-on cloud gateways and point solutions to connect to thecloud while increasing operational efficiency and lowering TCO.

SOLUTION BRIEF | Simplify Long-Term Data Retention and Archival““Cohesity is more than just a modern backup solution for Seattle University. Cohesity provides theflexibility for seamless integration in a hybrid environment. With it, we have the ability to push data to
the cloud and back, allowing for quick and easy restoration of files, folders, or server level objects.”
Aaron Boruff, Application Administrator, Seattle University

Automation and global deduplication
improve efficiency

Find data fast and get more insights

CloudArchive with global variable length deduplication optimizes

significant advantages over tape for allowing them to leverageboth data transfers and long term cloud storage costs. Global
variable length deduplication reduces data footprint across clusters,
workloads, and protocols to reduce cloud storage costs. Along withchange block tracking and compression, only the necessary data issent to the cloud for archrival to further reduce data transfer costs
as well as improving archival and retrieval times.
Cohesity single global UI, improves operational efficiency with aconsistent user experience for both long-term retention copies ofdata in the cloud and on tape. Built-in policies ensure IT can easily
automate data retention to public cloud or tape as an archive
target with desired retention periods. For example, IT may enforce
business or compliance requirements by including retention periods

Together, Cohesity and the public cloud offer enterprisesarchival data for analysis and insights. Cohesity CloudArchive
Direct provides the option to archive data directly to the cloudin its original format allowing data to be analyzed “in place” byadvanced cloud services such as machine learning, analytics, anddata pipelines.
Faster IT access and retrieval of data from public clouds makes
data more useful to business teams seeking to gain meaningful
insights from previously untapped data. Cohesity global search
instantly locates virtual machines (VMs) and files no matter where
it’s stored. A world-class indexing engine provides enterprises withinstant access to data archived in the public cloud and supports
in-place analytics on massive data sets without moving data to an

in automated single protection policies.

application server.

With Cohesity, organizations also have increased flexibility toLong term solution, instant results

address local, regional, or international compliance and businessservice-level agreements. For example, data can be archived tovarious locations for geo-redundancy to safeguard against local
downtime and retrieve information from an alternative location
without IT involvement. Unlimited scalability and elastic capacity

Many organizations have already modernized their backup andshifted long-term retention and archiving to the cloud withCohesity. They have quickly reduced backup times, long term
storage costs, and operationally overhead.

also make the combination of public clouds and Cohesity ideal when
demand changes.

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