20 US Federal Agencies Adopt Cohesity Hyperconverged Secondary Storage

Cohesity, Inc. announced increasing momentum among government customers as federal agencies look for ways to make their data centres more efficient.

More than 20 of the United States’ most important agencies – including the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Energy, and the US Air Force – have recently deployed its DataPlatform.

The solution consolidates data infrastructure for secondary storage workloads, including backups, files services, test/dev, and analytics, and seamlessly leverages FedRAMP and private cloud services to achieve cost savings.
 
Company’s penetration in the federal sector is accelerating to meet demand generated by the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI), which aims to help federal agencies transition to more efficient storage infrastructure – including cloud services and databases shared between agencies – and leverage technological innovations to optimise data management and cost savings.

Cohesity worked with CALIBRE Systems, Inc., 1901 Group, and other government-focused channel partners and system integrators to enable federal agencies to leverage the power of hyperconvergence and eliminate fragmented legacy solutions that lead to oversized and redundant data siloes.
 
• More than 20 U.S. government agencies and departments have adopted Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage platform, including Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Energy, and the US Air Force.
• Company’s DataPlatform empowers customers to break down secondary storage silos by converging all workloads on a unified platform, reducing their overall data footprint and simplifying data management tasks – goals that were set forth in the White House’s 2016 DCOI memorandum. Cohesity’s web-scale platform runs seamlessly across on-premises and cloud infrastructure, allowing customers to leverage the economics and availability of the cloud, another objective outlined in the DCOI.
• It achieved Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 certification for its hyperconverged secondary storage solution, an important security validation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is required for any IT solution used by government agencies to handle sensitive data.
• In addition to the recent federal customers, Cohesity now serves many top 20 federal systems integrators (FSIs), as well as federally focused IT companies, including CALIBRE Systems and 1901 Group.
 
“CALIBRE is always looking for innovative and cost-effective solutions as we evolve our infrastructure; we require agility, efficiency, and scalability to respond to the needs of the business and our clients,” said Tom Peitler, CTO, CALIBRE. “Cohesity delivers substantial cost savings and reduced complexity while improving our operational capabilities by leveraging software-defined, hyperconverged platforms for secondary storage.“
 
“Our federal clients have recognised that they can’t afford to miss out on the benefits of the cloud, but they also need to maintain highly secure, on-premises infrastructure,” said Craig Laxton, virtualisation and storage engineering team lead, 1901 Group. “Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage platform enables public sector organisations to easily and safely leverage cloud infrastructure alongside on-premises systems with a unified and highly efficient platform managed through a single user interface.”
 
“As a former U.S. Government CFO, I was constantly seeking cost savings while improving operational efficiencies across the enterprise,” said Andy Maner, chairman, The Sentinel Company, and Cohesity federal advisor. “Cohesity’s data platform consolidates all secondary storage use cases, from backups to file shares to analytics, and allows organisations to leverage FedRAMP cloud infrastructure that connects seamlessly to existing on-premises servers. As a result, agencies have been able to reduce operational costs by as much as 50%, while achieving simpler and faster data management functionality – these are real dollar savings that can be applied to other critical mission tasks.“
 
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