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Protect Your VMware
Cloud with Cohesity

One proven platform to manage
your data across hybrid cloud andmodern apps, as told by customers.

2Why do customers around the globe
across all industries choose Cohesity toprotect their VMware environment?
It’s simple. Cohesity delivers results.
And Cohesity doesn’t just deliver world-class backup and recovery, but goesbeyond and provides solutions for all your enterprise data management
challenges.
Organizations like yours often begin working with Cohesity to simplify complex,
time consuming, legacy virtual machine (VM) backup and recovery, which Cohesity’s
web-scale platform does in no time.
By quickly consolidating data on Cohesity, you can go beyond improving backups
for VMs to accelerate the protection and recovery of your entire VMware Cloud—including VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud
Director, as well as modern apps running on Kubernetes. But that’s not all, Cohesity
also consolidates all kinds of physical servers, databases, NAS, SaaS offerings suchas Microsoft 365, and industry-specific systems, including mainframes.
The software-defined backup and data management solution dramatically simplifies
operations, meets and often exceeds business SLAs, and helps defend yourbackup data against ransomware attacks. Cohesity immediately reduces your data
management total cost of ownership—typically 50% to 70%.
The solution can be easily managed through its slick SaaS control plane Helios, andits functionality can be extended to a variety of use-cases by running a wide rangeof apps from the Cohesity Marketplace directly on the platform.
It’s the software-defined data management platform that keeps on delivering,enabling enterprises to derive value from all their data—anywhere it resides.
Keep reading to discover the results leading organizations are achieving withCohesity for their backup and recovery, and then see how they extend to modernize
data management with use cases for disaster recovery, scale-out NAS, and agile
dev/test.

Cohesity Delivers
Results

Hyatt
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1st Security Bank
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Riverside Healthcare
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Cisco
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iomartCase StudySISTIC
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Hyatt Speeds Backups from Days
to Minutes, While Cutting CostsSignificantly
Challenges
Hyatt uses data to improve its guest experience and operate its sprawlinghospitality business. Hyatt’s existing solution was unable to back up VMs as
intended, requiring multiple steps and often resulting in rebooting servers andcausing unnecessary downtime.

Solution
Hyatt chose the Cohesity data management platform as its software-definedsolution to modernize backup and recovery as well as easily enable disasterrecovery, business continuity, and cloud integration.

Results• Rapid backup and restore—times reduced from days to minutes• Initial deployment across 3 datacenters, protecting 350 VMs• 40 percent data reduction with Cohesity, with up to 4:1 dedupe
performance“Cohesity was the complete solution we needed to simplify and modernize ourbackup and recovery environment at Hyatt. We look forward to leveraging
Cohesity’s single platform in our global data centers for additional scalablesolutions.”- Senior Storage & Virtualization Engineer, HyattCohesity Delivers
Results

Hyatt
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1st Security Bank
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Riverside Healthcare
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Cisco
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1st Security Bank Tackles Rapid
Expansion with Enterprise Backup andRecovery Solution from Cohesity
Challenges
In the last five years, data at 1st Security has grown eight-fold in their 99%
virtualized environment. Because legacy backup and storage products wereunable to keep up with the expanding data footprint, 1st Security needed asolution that would not require a forklift upgrade every few years, and could
scale with the growing company and data requirements.

Solution
Cohesity consolidated all non-latency sensitive workloads and data services
at web-scale. Cohesity integration with both VMware vSphere and Microsoft
Hyper-V allowed instant recovery of applications. The bank uses Cohesity formore than just backups, taking advantage of the platform for dev/test to ensurechanges and application development are secure before launching into a
production environment.

Results• Backup jobs went from taking hours to just over two minutes• Recovery times are now instant and disaster recovery planning does not
require driving to a physical location• Cohesity was up and running within two hours“As a financial institution, we have strict enterprise data backup and recoveryrequirements. Cohesity is a cut above all other solutions we researched and it
provided a scale-out solution for simplified disaster recovery and application
availability. Where previous backup solutions took up to five days, Cohesity
performed the same operation in just over a minute.”- System Administrator, 1st Security Bank of Washington

Cohesity Delivers
Results

Hyatt
Case Study

1st Security Bank
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Riverside Healthcare
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Cisco
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iomartCase StudySISTIC
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Riverside Healthcare Achieves
50X Reduction Epic and CPAC Dataacross 300VMs
Challenges
With frequent failures and exorbitant licensing costs from a combination ofdisparate, legacy backup technologies, Riverside began to look for a solution for
reliable data protection and recovery, especially when it came to Epic.

SolutionWith Cohesity, Riverside is now backing up more than 3PB of data, including Epicand CPAC systems, SQL databases, hundreds of VMs, 18 physical servers, as wellas hundreds of other objects, and more than 400 additional databases.

Results• Only 54 TiB used for full capacity of over 3PiB of medical data
• While Epic suggests an SLA for restores of four hours for 1TB, Cohesity is able
to restore nearly 3TB in under four hours.
• Reduced backup times by nearly 70 percent across the entire environment,
and achieved full VM restores in 20 minutes“Cohesity has reduced backup and restore times so significantly that at first it
almost wasn’t believable compared to our previous environment. We now exceed
the backup SLAs for Epic, have more than 50 times data reduction, and gained timesavings of 70 percent for backup and restore. We are confident Cohesity will scale
to meet future requirements and keep up with exponential data growth at RiversideHealthcare.”- System Administrator, Riverside Healthcare

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1st Security Bank
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Riverside Healthcare
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Cisco
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iomartCase StudySISTIC
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Cisco Deploys Cohesity to Solve InternalEnterprise Data Management Gaps
Challenges
While few organizations understand the data center like Cisco, fragmented datasilos were leading to increased mean-time-to-resolve (MTTR) for backup-related,
high-priority issues. Backup data went through multiple hops, including proxy
servers, backup servers, custom script manipulation, and more—from multiple
vendors—before being directed by orchestration software to legacy storage
hardware. The team sought a modern data management solution to quell these
inefficiencies that would need to effectively scale to support many petabytes ofdata. For Cisco IT, the objective was to eliminate point-product silos in the backup
workflow, and to provide secure, reliable disaster recovery.

Solution
Using Cohesity, Cisco IT is able to greatly simplify maintenance and operations
through data optimization and workflow automation as well as enable real-timeinsights into backup progress. A consolidated view of backups for reporting boosts
service-level agreement (SLA) tracking for backups. Today, Cisco provides public
cloud-like services for its own internal cloud, and backup-as-a-service to internalteams through the Cohesity platform.

Results• Faster backups by eliminating multiple hops and disparate products• Lower costs, lower outages, and easier lifecycle management.
• Seamless integration of Cohesity software with Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco UCS“Cohesity on Cisco UCS drives operational excellence. Its self-service capabilities
coupled with a simplified and scale-out architecture make it easy to deploy backup
services. The combined efficiency of Cohesity software and power of Cisco UCS provide
an integrated solution that lowers costs, streamlines data management, and speeds
deployment, propelling our Cisco-on-Cisco story forward as we navigate the effective
management of unstructured data growth.”- CISCO IT Team

Cohesity DeliversResultsHyattCase Study

1st Security Bank
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Riverside Healthcare
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Cisco
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iomartCase StudySISTIC
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iomart Strengthens Backup andRecovery with Cohesitys
Challenges
iomart, a VMware Cloud Provider Partner in the UK offering managed cloudservices, required a single, unified platform to reduce complexity and costfor customers, addressing data sprawl that is associated with multi-tenant
environments.

Solution
iomart chose Cohesity’s software-defined platform because for its support ofdistributed hybrid as well as multi-cloud, and delivering disaster recovery, test/dev, multi-site replication, and data analytics.

Results• Simple and intuitive web-scale platform to manage multiple petabytes of data
• Seamless integration with public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS),
Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure• Ability to offer expanded range of DRaaS and Cloud Backup services“Cohesity fits into our commitment to deliver truly hybrid solutions to ourcustomers. Not only can it protect and maintain local storage and datarequirements at the edge, it can also seamlessly extend to AWS, Google CloudPlatform, and Microsoft Azure without requiring separate cloud gateways.
Customers can also choose to replicate their protected data into iomart’s business
continuity cloud for near-instant Disaster Recovery as a Service.”- Sales Director, iomart

Cohesity Delivers
Results

Hyatt
Case Study

1st Security Bank
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Riverside Healthcare
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Cisco
Case Study

iomartCase StudySISTIC
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8Read Full Case StudySISTIC Reduces Backup Time and Cost
Across Its Hybrid-Cloud Environment
Challenges
The company’s legacy backup product was sufficient when first deployed, but as
the business grew, it quickly became highly inefficient. The company has evolved
from an exclusively on-premises environment to using a combination of private
and public cloud solutions, as well as managing three data center locations.

Solution
SISTIC manages its data in a much more effective way with Cohesity. It likes
Cohesity’s cloud-native capabilities; for example, backing up Office 365 data issimple. SISTIC is using Cohesity’s long-term archival capabilities to archive over
20TB of files that—due to regulatory guidelines—it is required to keep for five
to seven years. SISTIC also uses Cohesity as a scale-out NAS solution to manageinternal file shares for users. Other notable features for SISTIC are Cohesity’s
fast search and anti-ransomware capabilities.

Results• Gains of 60 hours per month, returning nearly eight days of production• Backup windows reduced by 50 percent with instant restore from asingle repository• Anti-ransomware protection to counter attacks and defend enterprise data
“I think Cohesity could be the next product to take the Singaporean market bystorm. It allows companies to make the transition to the cloud and the beauty ofCohesity is the solution makes data simple to understand, and removes obstacles tosimplify data management across our entire organization.”- Head of IT Infrastructure & Service Delivery, SISTIC

Cohesity Delivers
Results

Hyatt
Case Study

1st Security Bank
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Riverside Healthcare
Case Study

Cisco
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iomartCase StudySISTIC
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9Simplify Your Backup and Data Management with Cohesity
Value

Capabilities

Value

Capabilities

Integrate without
infrastructure
rip & replace

Cohesity is software-defined formaximum efficiency with minimum
disruption to your existing IT
environment and operations.

Enjoy nondisruptive
software upgrades

Cohesity empowers your team toeliminate costly, disruptive downtime
and outages by supporting nondisruptive patches, updates, andupgrades.

No more buying &running unnecessary
parallel infrastructure

A single, web-scale backup platform for
all traditional and modern data sources,
Cohesity lowers both capital andoperating expenses.

Expand at your pace

The Cohesity web-scale, pay-as-you-growarchitecture with easy cluster expansion
lowers your capital investments.

Simplify management

Cohesity’s global user interface is easy
enough for every member of your ITteam to use, eliminating specialists andfreeing valuable IT resources for more
important work.

Meet business SLAs

IT teams experience both faster andincremental backups, which saves themtime.

Eliminate downtime

Cohesity features a distributed
architecture with MegaFile-based
parallel ingest and fully hydrated snaps
for flexible, rapid data restores andrecovery.

Reduce your data
footprint

Cohesity uniquely combines global,
variable-length sliding-windowdedupe and compression to solve
mass data fragmentation andhelps teams eliminate unnecessary
hardware purchases for redundantdata. Less hardware strengthens yourorganization’s security posture.

Cohesity third-generation immutable
file system, combined with DataLock
Defend your organization (WORM) for backup snapshots,against ransomware
encryption framework, RCAB/MFA
attacks
and ML-based early detection stops
ransomware in its track and recoverquickly.

Gain predictable
operating expenses

Software-defined Cohesity is available ina subscription license model, improving
resource planning and budgeting
visibility.

Discover what Cohesity can do for your organization: cohesity.com/solutions

Cohesity Delivers
ResultsHyatt
Case Study

1st Security Bank
Case Study

Riverside Healthcare
Case Study

Cisco
Case Study

iomartCase StudySISTIC
Case Study

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Backup and DataManagement

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