SOLUTION BRIEF

SQL Server Protection
Made Simple
Instant Recovery and Clones. Anywhere. Anytime.

protection• Immutability against
ransomware attacks• Flexible recovery, anywhere• Zero-cost clones forapplication development andtesting• Data masking to meetcompliance requirements

SQL databases on-premises or in the cloud, whether you demand instant clones or global search,having your data work for you is important. Cohesity gets this.
Cohesity makes data protection and management effortless. Offering a flexible and comprehensive
approach, Cohesity’s software-defined backup and recovery solution simplifies and modernizes theprotection of SQL Server. Cohesity protects SQL Server databases and their corresponding log files
and allows for database-level recovery anywhere, anytime. As a result, data protection is holistic
and thwarts data loss.
Cohesity knows that simplicity without flexibility does not catalyze modern solutions. Gain
flexibility by choosing from two approaches in SQL data protection:
1. Native SQL backup
2. Cohesity’s adapter-based protection
Cohesity offers flexible recovery for your mission-critical SQL databases, including full databaseand point-in-time restores. And with Cohesity, you can leverage Microsoft VSS (volume shadowcopy services) for efficient protection with no added overhead.

S3 / NFS
Compatible Cloud

DataProtect

Cohesity Helios
Data Center

Archive or DR• Simple, policy-based SQL

Microsoft SQL Server is the trusted database for a large number of enterprises. Whether you run

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Cohesity Helios
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SOLUTION BRIEF | SQL Server Protection Made Simple
Enterprise customers rely on Cohesity for policy-based, scale-out
data protection for SQL databases while controlling cost and datasprawl, benefitting from:• Simple, incremental forever backups.
• Flexible predictable recovery, anywhere.
• Zero-cost clones for dev/test.

Hands-Free, Incremental Forever Backups
Define backup policies based on your unique requirements—SLAs
and compliance needs—and effortlessly protect and manage data.
Native SQL Server backups coupled with rapid performance allow
you to meet demanding SLAs and improve infrastructure efficacy, at
any scale.

• Incremental forever backups, at any scale.
• Dramatically reduced data footprint with global, variablelength sliding window deduplication and compression.

• Set snapshot frequency and retention rules based on yourrequirements. Automatically leverage Cohesity’s quality-ofservice policy for optimal data tiering.

Comprehensive Protection Against
Ransomware Attacks
Backup is your last line of defense against sophisticated andcrippling ransomware attacks. Cohesity’s comprehensive antiransomware solution protects, isolates, detects, and mostimportantly, rapidly recovers to reduce downtime and ensurebusiness continuity.

• An immutable file system, combined with WORM, RBAC, multi-Flexible Predictable Recovery, AnywhereYour data is important and getting back online is critical. WithCohesity, predictable recovery is on your terms—and rapid. You
can recover to any point in time, and to any location: original oralternative locations.
With VSS and instant volume mounts, recovery is rapid. Cohesity
allows the ability to instant mass restore: a unique capability thatallows recovery at scale. Now, you can do more than just curtail
downtime, you can dramatically reduce it and meet even the moststringent business SLAs.

• Recover mission-critical SQL Server data within minutes. Be up
and running in moments.

• Get fully-hydrated databases, and recover to any point in time.
• Migrate databases rapidly, without the need for log shipping.

Zero-Cost Clones for Dev/Test
Speed up application development while meeting compliancerequirements by helping developers get access to high-quality
data, on-demand. Leverage existing SQL backup data to instantly
provision zero-cost clones.
Combined with self-service provisioning and data refresh,
developers and test teams can get rapid access to high-quality data.

• Empower your team without additional infrastructure. Meetdata retention and strategic requirements easily.

• Make securing provisioned data simple with data masking,vulnerability assessment, and by making data more visible.

• Reduce data sprawl with one platform for both dev/test anddata protection.

factor authentication (MFA), and data encryption (in flight andat rest), keeps backup data protected against sophisticatedransomware attacks.

• The cutting-edge ML algorithms proactively assess IT needs

and automate infrastructure resources regularly. Cohesity
machine learning models look for anomalies to help identify
potential ransomware attacks in progress in the IT production
environment.

Modernize your backup today. Learn more at www.cohesity.com/dataprotect© 2021 Cohesity, Inc. All rights reserved.
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