SOLUTION BRIEF

Intelligent DataManagement and Security
for the Public Sector
Key Benefits• Software defined hybrid cloudflexibility• Unified file and objectservices• Massive scale

Situation
IT modernization is not easy for any organization that was not born in the cloud. This is especiallytrue for public sector organizations and agencies providing public goods and governmental services,such as the military, law enforcement, infrastructure, public transit, public education, and publichealth agencies. For such entities, the process of managing or eliminating aging software and legacy
hardware solutions while satisfying numerous data management mandates is challenging. It requires
a willingness to spearhead consolidation efforts and embrace modern, automated, hybrid cloud data

• Streamlined compliancemanagement and security solutions. Meanwhile, the costs of storing, managing, and scaling data —• Enterprise security &along with ensuring security, high availability and business continuity — continue to rise.

resiliency• Immutable data protection• Powerful storage efficiency• Reduced cost of ownership• Simple singular interface

The public sector is drowning in data essential to pursuing organizational missions, and to serving
citizens. Yet, few in this market can identify where all their unstructured data resides, or accurately
quantify just how much data they have. Data assessments often underestimate the volume ofdata under management due to data sprawl across multiple on-premises silos and distributed
environments in the cloud. Realizing data driven insights, and the benefits delivered by decentralized
data, to better serve customers and citizens is impossible because the data is not easily accessible.
Siloed data also creates a wider attack surface, leaving sensitive data vulnerable to a host of cyberand ransomware threats. More than 50 percent of federal IT managers say that a security breach is asignificant possibility due to complexity and lack of visibility. Yet many government agencies still cling
to traditional security methods that were not designed for sophisticated and fast-evolving threats - orfor protecting data in the cloud

Why Cohesity SmartFiles for the Public Sector?
Cohesity understands the challenges faced by the public sector. Cohesity SmartFiles is a modern
unstructured data management and security solution that uniquely solves multiple challenges basedon three key values demanded by public sector customers: intelligent data management, hybrid
cloud flexibility, and active threat defense.
Cohesity SmartFiles is a software-defined, data-centric, unified file and object solution for the hybrid
cloud. SmartFiles empowers public sector entities to bring exceptional intelligence to the most criticalfile and object data with integrated applications for compliance, security, and analytics. It simplifies
long-term unstructured data retention for cold and active archives, and provides cost-effective,secure, and immutable storage for your existing enterprise backup software. As it is specificallyarchitected with industry standard NFS, SMB, and S3 interfaces, it can be used without disruption to
your current environment. SmartFiles modernizes and simplifies data and application management,
resiliency, privacy, and control by providing one platform for consolidating and securing archival data
and backup datasets. Public sector customers are uniquely empowered to efficiently manage data at
scale for governance and compliance, with policy-based controls enabling automatic data placementon the most appropriate or economical tiers or clouds. SmartFiles also delivers as much as 96x or
higher space efficiency for dramatic cost savings.

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Figure 1: Modern, scalable archive and tiering, and immutable backup target

Hybrid Cloud Flexibility

Intelligent Data Management

Manage Data Growth. The majority of public sector data isEliminate Expensive Silos and Simplify Management. The fast

unstructured, accumulating rapidly from multiple sources, such asand streamlined data management that the public sector strives

military, weather, public safety, transportation, web site, social media

to achieve represents a significant opportunity to eliminate

data, and other sources. Harnessing that data is at best a complex

administrative inefficiencies and save public funds. However,endeavor that requires secure management to satisfy security andprogress is often impeded by data that is siloed in legacy systems

privacy directives. Furthermore, the pandemic has amplified the needand in product- or service-specific applications. Holistic data

for the public sector to rapidly scale IT infrastructure and application

management often requires multiple third-party application

systems and respond to unprecedented administrative and publicintegrations. Moving these systems and workloads to the publicdemands. Capital expenditures for on-premises data management

cloud can result in more complexity and costs than before.

and security solutions are quickly exhausting IT budgets. Public cloudConsequently, many public sector customers are not able tostrategies are therefore being evaluated to rapidly modernize IT,capitalize on the value their data can deliver.

improve efficiencies, and bolster data security.

SmartFiles provides a better way to consolidate, correlate, andSmartFiles provides hybrid cloud flexibility for cost-effective capacity

analyze data across all of these different sources. Using its nativeand data management that can grow seamlessly to handle billions ofSMB, NFS and S3 APIs, SmartFiles is able to consolidate archiving,files. SmartFiles gives you the ability to scale compute and storage

compliance, and backup datasets, as well as file data, S3 application

nodes independently. It supports heterogeneous disk and all-flash

data, and data from modern IoT and analytics environments. You canplatforms, which allow you to seamlessly deploy new hardwarethen apply security and data protection policies to meet complianceplatforms along with older ones. There’s no need for forklift

requirements, create policies to automate data movement acrossupgrades, and you can also retire end-of-life platforms without

the datacenter and public clouds, and gain cost efficiencies throughneeding expensive data migrations. SmartFiles is also a multiclouddeduplication, compression and a built-in search engine.

solution. You can tier, archive or replicate data across one or more
clouds, and you can use SmartFiles as a target for cloud applications
by using its native S3 interface.

Content Management

Splunk Warm & Cold Buckets

Corporate Audio & Video

Digital Archives• Secure file repository• Scalable libraries• File & Object• Cost-effective cold archiving• On-premises, cloud or both
• Frozen data to cloud• Corporate communication• In-house productions• Education and training• Digital documents• Audio and video files• Active & passive archives• Backup datasets

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Reduce Cost of Ownership. SmartFiles can dramatically reduce

Defeat Cyber Threats and Ransomware. Cybersecurity for

hardware storage requirements through data deduplication,

unstructured data is imperative for the public sector. SmartFiles’compression, small file optimization, and dedupe across data center

integrated cybersecurity makes security easy to deploy and manage.

volumes. Storage costs and performance can be further optimized by

It’s a multi-layered security approach to prevent, detect, and analyze

intelligently moving data to the most appropriate locations or clouds.

threats, and reduce downtime with rapid recovery:• Global data deduplication – Based on advanced sliding window

variable dedupe technology. This means that duplicate data thathas been slightly changed is still deduped—which is beyond
traditional dedupe capabilities.

• Compression – Zstandard compression algorithm for highcompression ratios.
• Small file optimization – Eliminate the small file amplification

penalty common to traditional NAS file systems. Small files
are stored efficiently and without the need for triple-mirroring
inefficiency. Put simply, 50TB of small files under SmartFilesconsumes about 50TB of capacity.

• Prevent – Immutable file system, software encryption, over

the wire encryption, multi-factor and quorum authentication,
DataLock (WORM), and adherence to compliance standards.

• Detect – Anti-virus: Detect infected files and prevent files frombeing compromised.

• Analyze – Observe user and behavior analytics for security andcompliance reasons.

Do More with Data
Make Your Data Productive. Expand the value of your unstructured
data with a comprehensive Marketplace app ecosystem of integrated

Active Threat Defense

third-party applications. These powerful apps run directly on data in-Governments are providing more digital services to citizens than evercontent and metadata search, streamline compliance and eDiscovery,

before and are now among the top ransomware targets. Consideringbudgetary and resource constraints, recovering quickly once data has
been compromised may be difficult and time consuming. Meanwhile,
phishing, ransomware, wiper malware and other advanced
persistent threats are demonstrating higher levels of planning andsophistication, while attack cycles are occurring continuously. Dataloss or unauthorized access can lead to catastrophic outages forplace to: mitigate risk from cyber threats and ransomware, accelerate
detect anomalies, develop actionable insights with powerful
analytics, and more.

The Smart Choice
Public sector organizations and agencies choose Cohesity SmartFiles
because it is the smartest way to optimize cost, scale and efficiency

public services, eroding public confidence, and significant costs.

for your unstructured data. It is a simple, singular solution that lets

SmartFiles provides active threat defense to fortify datasets with

software-defined file and object services for the hybrid cloud.

unlimited immutable snapshots and support for WORM. It also

you manage, secure, and do more with your data with next-level

includes access control settings and threat detection and recovery
capabilities that are based on a variety of features, including
vulnerability scanning. Data durability is provided through alwayson background processes that check for corruption due to memory,disk, or network errors. Currently, SmartFiles compliance has beenvalidated via SEC, FIPS, Common Criteria and PCI-DSS certifications.

Learn more at Cohesity.

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