H.I.G. Capital elevates
security—and saves
engineers’ time—withCohesity FortKnox
on AWS

Industry
Financial Services
Use Case
Backup and Recovery, Ransomware Protection,
SaaS Data Isolation and Recovery
Cohesity Solutions
DataProtect, FortKnox on AWS
Data Sources
Microsoft SQL Server, VMware vSphere

At H.I.G. Capital, back-office teams such as finance and legal workwith virtual servers and databases running in two global data centers.
Over time, the legacy cloud backup solution had become less reliable.
It also lacked ransomware protection and a fast way to restore virtual
servers. H.I.G. Capital found its solution in Cohesity FortKnox, which
stores immutable backups in an isolated, ransomware-protectedvirtual vault on AWS. Virtual machines can now be restored with a few
clicks, helping the company’s engineers work smarter.

Challenges
H.I.G. Capital is a leading global alternative assets investment firm. For more thana decade H.I.G. Capital had been backing up its virtual machines in the cloud, withLiveVault. “Our long-time solution hadn’t kept up with the times,” says Luis Suarez,
CIO. “Resolving periodic hiccups took too long. If a virtual machine failed, ourengineering team had to rebuild it from the backed-up data, which took days. Andwith rising cyber threats, we needed ransomware protection.”

Solution
Mr. Suarez and his chief information security officer (CISO), Marcos Marrero,
worked closely to select a new data protection solution. “In our industry, we gettechnology requests with a short fuse,” Suarez says. “The only way to succeed iswith an extremely collaborative relationship between IT and security.” Narrowing
the list to Cohesity and other market-leading products, H.I.G. Capital put themthrough their paces in a proof of concept. “Cohesity DataProtect came out onKey Benefits“• < 1 hour restoration of virtual servers

FortKnox to the companies we invest in to help them work smarter while• Ransomware protection• Time savings for engineering team

We don’t need to spend time on the nuts and bolts of backing up in

the cloud because Cohesity FortKnox does it for us. I also recommend
strengthening security. A single product that can do both of thosethings is a winner.

”– Luis Suarez, Chief Information Officer, H.I.G. Capital

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top,” Suarez says. “Integration with VMware vSphere was a big

Ransomware protection benefits H.I.G. Capital, its investors, andplus. When our engineers saw Cohesity restore an entire virtual

the companies they invest in. “Our philosophy is that the moreserver with a few clicks, their jaws dropped. They couldn’t believedifficult we make it for bad actors, the better,” says Marrero. “Bythat was all there was to it.”storing immutable backups in an isolated vault on AWS, Cohesity

H.I.G. Capital started with Cohesity DataProtect, backing up 30

FortKnox adds yet another layer of protection.”

TB of virtual machines and databases in two data centers. A few

The engineering team likes that Cohesity spares them fromservers running in branch offices are backed up in the cloud withhaving to reinvent the wheel. “We don’t need to spend time onCohesity DataProtect delivered as a service. No matter where

the nuts and bolts of backing up in the cloud because Cohesity

they’re stored, Cohesity backups can’t be encrypted or deleted as

FortKnox does it for us,” Suarez says. “I also recommend FortKnox

part of a ransomware attack.

to the companies we invest in to help them work smarter while

When Cohesity FortKnox on AWS was introduced a year later,
H.I.G Capital adopted it for even stronger security. “Not only does
FortKnox create immutable backups like DataProtect, it also storesstrengthening security. A single product that can do both of those
things is a winner.”them in an isolated vault on AWS, strengthening our security

About H.I.G.

stance,” says Marrero. “We like that Cohesity is always innovating—

H.I.G. Capital is a leading global alternative investment firm withnot resting on its laurels.”

Results
Just three months after deployment, H.I.G. Capital saw firsthand$59 billion of equity capital under management. The H.I.G. familyof funds includes private equity, growth equity, real estate, debt/
credit, lending, and biohealth. The company invests in companies
in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.

the value of Cohesity for business continuity. “When a faulty
patch impacted our Citrix servers, with a few clicks, we restored
them from a snapshot we knew to be secure,” Suarez says. “Thefirst server was back online in an hour and all of them within aday. Before we had Cohesity, our engineers would have spent twolong days rebuilding the servers from scratch, testing them, andchecking for security compliance.” Restoring virtual servers withCohesity is so quick that engineers now do it routinely if they can’t
resolve a server issue after 30 minutes of troubleshooting.

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