Cohesity Chosen by XO Communications

Cohesity, Inc., in hyperconverged secondary storage, announced that the Verizon subsidiary XO Communications, LLC, an US IP and Ethernet network providers, uses Cohesity as the foundation of its scalable, hyperconverged secondary storage system.

XO Communications has lowered its data centre TCO by 60% due to Cohesity’s high capacity and small footprint – 100TB of raw storage per 2U appliance – and ease of management, which requires fewer administrators.

Government contracts required XO Communications to archive the most recent three years of logs, backups and audits, which increased the company’s data protection needs.

Based on an proof-of-concept project, XO Communications selected Cohesity over Dell EMC Isilon and Veeam because it’s solution was less than half the cost of alternatives and would offer unlimited scalability.

XO Communications deployed Cohesity C2300 and C2500 node appliances with Cohesity DataProtect backup and recovery software, which enabled XO Communications’ team to clone and run VMs – including in the test/dev environment – directly on Cohesity.

Cohesity helped the company increase storage capacity while concurrently reducing capital expenses (CapEx) due to a smaller data centre footprint and subsequently lower power and cooling costs.

XO Communications was also able to lower its OpEx due to ease of management. The system requires only one administrator rather than the anticipated six that would have been needed for the alternatives.

“Cohesity is designed to optimise capacity and performance,” said Eirik Toft, systems administration spec V, XO. “With Cohesity we can meet our customer requirements without complicating our secondary storage environment. Besides ease of use and simple integration, Cohesity is dedicated to its customers’ success.“

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