Microsoft Ignite: Cohesity Unveils Integration With Office 365 and Support for Azure Data Box

Cohesity, Inc. announced integrations with Microsoft Corp. that enable customers to deploy multiple secondary apps and data on a hybrid cloud architecture.

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First, the company unveiled integrations with Exchange Online, empowering organisations to harness the flexibility of Microsoft’s cloud-based mail application, while benefiting from Cohesity’s enterprise-grade data protection solution – all within a single, web-scale secondary data platform.

The firm also introduced support for Microsoft Azure Data Box to seed large datasets in Azure Blob Storage, as well as full lifecycle DR capabilities between on-premises environments and Azure.

Public cloud adoption is growing, and organisations are looking for a comprehensive single solution to manage their secondary data, such as backups and apps. As this trend accelerates, the company also announced an increase in joint customers embracing offerings from Azure and the company. The number of joint customers that have adopted the firm’s DataPlatform natively integrated with Azure has grown, with nearly three times as many enterprises signing on in the second half compared to the first half of the firm’s recent fiscal year, which ended July 31.

“Cohesity’s collaboration with Microsoft has driven enormous value for our customers and continues to accelerate on all fronts,” said Lynn Lucas, CMO, Cohesity. “Together we’ve unveiled integrations that offer broad support for a wide range of use cases in the cloud and with SaaS-based applications. We will continue to jointly offer customers new Microsoft integrations that simplify IT operations and empower businesses to do more with their secondary apps and data.“

Tad Brockway, GM, Azure storage, Microsoft, said: “We’re pleased to see an increasing number of businesses take advantage of Microsoft’s hybrid cloud capabilities while also embracing Cohesity’s web-scale platform. As Cohesity continues to build more advanced integrations with Microsoft, enterprises are able to protect, store and utilise their data in more efficient and cost- effective ways.“

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Integration with Microsoft provide enhanced capabilities
This integration, part of the company’s Pegasus 6.1 release, continues to solidify its joint solution, with Microsoft, which already empowers customers to take advantage of the global scale and productivity of Azure as an extension of their on-premises infrastructure. The firm’s integration with Exchange Online will be available before the end of the calendar year.

In addition, the company unveiled integrations with the Azure Data Box, which helps businesses quickly transfer large amounts of data to Azure, even with limited network availability. Trough this integration, customers can register Data Box as an external target, create a policy-based protection job, and subsequently archive data to Data Box. Customers can do all of this simply through the firm’s intuitive interface, using the same approach for archiving data to Azure Blob Storage. Customers can also use the company’s indexing capabilities to recover the relevant dataset when required. This integration is available.

The company also announced that customers can use Azure for full lifecycle DR with failover and failback capabilities. System administrators can ‘spin up’ VMs in Azure-based on on-premises backups, and then bring those workloads back to the original location at the end of the disaster. This capability can play a key role in helping companies avoid downtime, which can directly impact an organisation’s bottom line. Additionally, by automating critical parts of the DR process, the firm makes BC simpler and administrators’ lives easier. This capability is available.

Enterprise customers embrace Microsoft
While the company continues to build on its integration with Microsoft, the collaboration has generated support from enterprise users. In total, nearly 100 joint customers from around the world have deployed integrated solutions from Azure and Cohesity in the company’s last two quarters. These joint customers – including Brown University, HKS, and Schneider Electric – span a host of industries and segments including education, financial services, utilities, transportation, hospitality, communications, legal, and public sector.

“Cohesity’s native integration with Microsoft Azure could not be matched and gave us tremendous flexibility for how to manage our secondary data without maintaining a separate piece of hardware,” said Chris Menard, lead storage administrator, Brown University. “Cohesity Cloud Edition will provide the ability to recover snapshots seamlessly, fully recover VMs directly into Azure, and give us flexibility for using secondary offsite copies with Azure and Cohesity Cloud Edition. Cohesity has greatly simplified the entire process of managing and consolidating secondary data in a hybrid environment.“

Resources:
Blog posts:Accelerating Your Hybrid Cloud Journey with Cohesity and Microsoft Azure
Full Life-Cycle Disaster Recovery with Cohesity
Protecting and Migrating Large Amounts of Data with Cohesity on Microsoft Azure Data Box
Cohesity and Microsoft Office 365
Cohesity Microsoft 365 Solution Brief
Press release on Brown University: Learn how the university relies on Cohesity to consolidate data infrastructure to significantly reduce costs and simplify management

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