SOLUTION BRIEF

SmartFiles: Scalable
and Immutable
Backup Target
Key Benefits

Digital transformation combined with evolving regulatory and compliancedemands mean that organizations are storing and backing up more data than

• Unlimited scale

ever. Unfortunately, scale-up target storage architectures for enterprise backups• Native data immutability

often require costly forklift upgrades and disruptive operations to keep up with• Superior storage efficiency
and data resiliency• Nondisruptive upgrades• Faster data ingest• Flexible hybrid cloud datamobility

growing data demands and business requirements. Organizations are left with nooption but to continue to create data silos that result in mass data fragmentation.
Cohesity SmartFiles is a software-defined scale-out file and object solution that can serve as
an immutable storage target for your existing enterprise backup software. As it is specificallyarchitected with industry-standard NFS, SMB, and S3 interfaces, it can be used without disruption
in your current environment. And because it is designed for cloud scale, Cohesity SmartFiles is built
for resiliency and scales with no limits to keep up with the demands of growing data. Designed tooptimize your unstructured data, SmartFiles delivers superior space efficiency with variable-length
sliding window deduplication and compression.
Cohesity SmartFiles uniquely provides freedom of choice, broad compatibility, stress-freemanagement, integrated security, the ability to search an entire geographic enterprise, andoptimized TCO.
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SmartFiles

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Key Features• Data immutability with DataLock and ML-based anomaly
detection• Cloud-native scalability (archiving, replication, and tieringsupport)• Software-defined flexibility• Superior dedupe and compression• NFS, SMB, and S3 support• Fault tolerance and protection against disk/node failures

Native Data Immutability
Defend your data against ransomware and malicious attacks with
DataLock, a WORM feature that prevents your backup data frombeing encrypted, modified, or deleted.

Non Disruptive Upgrades
A software-defined scale-out architecture gives you the freedom
to run on your choice of qualified hardware, with the flexibility
to expand on-demand. SmartFiles eliminates disruptive forklift
upgrades and integrates seamlessly with your current backupenvironment.

Higher Resilience
Built with web-scale principles, Cohesity SmartFiles is poweredby Cohesity’s SpanFS, a distributed file system that has no single
point of failure. It offers additional resilience with fault tolerance towithstand multiple node, disk, and even entire rack failures.

Superior Space Efficiency
Global variable-length sliding window deduplication andcompression offer outstanding space efficiency and data reduction.
Cohesity SmartFiles significantly reduces your data footprint, lowers
operational costs, and minimizes the attack surface to protect you

Reduce TCO
Eliminate data silos with a singular platform for backup, archival
and retention, 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 or partner-managed
clusters. Use the mobile app version of the user interface to drill
down into specific services or clusters when you’re on the go orin remote locations. The Helios interface also takes advantage ofmachine learning for predictive planning and capacity management.

Massive Scale
SmartFiles delivers the capacity, performance, and scale to support
consolidation of multiple workloads including backup and application
data, digital libraries, archives, rich media, video surveillance, bigdata, and more.

Unified File & Object
With native multiprotocol support for NFS, SMB, and S3, files andobjects can be accessed simultaneously. File permissions across NFS
and SMB environments are mapped for transparent file access fromeither protocol.

Security and Compliance
Exceptional security and privacy for secure long-term retention
and compliance with SEC17a-4, PCI-DSS, Common Criteria, FIPScompliant software encryption, SMB encryption, auditing, multifactor authentication (MFA), RBAC, and integrated anti-virus andransomware protection. Quorum authentication adds an extra layerof protection by requiring approval by a group of administrators forsensitive and privileged operations. Together, these robust securityfeatures can satisfy the most highly-regulated industries, to power amyriad of enterprise use cases.

and minimize the risk from cyber threats.

Do More with Data

Hybrid Cloud Data Mobility

Expand the value of your unstructured data with a comprehensive

A cloud-native solution that dramatically simplifies how datais stored, managed, and accessed in the cloud, including AWS,
Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud for replication, long-termarchival, and tiering.

Marketplace app ecosystem of integrated third-party applications.
These powerful apps run directly on data in-place to: mitigate risk
from cyber threats and ransomware, accelerate content and metadata
search, streamline compliance and eDiscovery, detect anomalies,
develop actionable insights with powerful analytics, and more.

To learn how you can lower the total cost of storage ownership by up to 51% by consolidating your data
onto a more cost-effective and simpler to manage solution, check out this report from ESG© 2022 Cohesity, Inc. All rights reserved.
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