Cohesity Expanding Relationship With AWS

Cohesity, Inc. announced a range of new solutions, powered by AWS that empower customers to bring together cloud-native backups, full lifecycle DR, and long-term data retention on a single, easy-to-use platform.

Cohesity also revealed an increase in the number of customers utilizing solutions from AWS as more organizations embrace a more automated and scalable approach to hybrid cloud architecture.

Modern enterprises overwhelmingly recognize the value of leveraging cloud infrastructure together with on-premises resources to achieve new levels of efficiency and cost savings.

A recent survey from IDG found that 73% of organizations have at least one application, or a portion of their computing infrastructure, in the cloud already, and that is expected to grow to 90% in 2019.¹

“Cohesity is giving customers new ways to leverage AWS in support of a variety of secondary workloads,” said Lynn Lucas, CMO, Cohesity. “Cohesity is focused on helping customers address critical challenges tied to mass data fragmentation. Our deep relationship with AWS gives customers greater flexibility and agility while managing their critical infrastructure and data through a single user interface on a web-scale platform.“

Running on AWS Cloud Deliver Automation for Management Simplicity
Cohesity’s solutions running on AWS bring a new level of automation to cloud-based backup and recovery processes, leveraging Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot APIs to protect cloud-native VMs. Cohesity DataProtect auto-discovery and auto-protect capabilities help ensure that backups scale automatically as cloud-based workloads are added or deleted, and empower administrators to set backup policies for different VMs that automatically match different SLA requirements. This can free up time and resources that administrators often spend backing up cloud-based VMs using a legacy approach.

Cohesity also is empowering customers to leverage AWS for full lifecycle DR with failover and failback capabilities. If customers encounter an outage in the data center, they can rely on automated policies to activate backup VMs on AWS and then bring the workloads back to the original location when the incident is over. By adding automation at various steps of the DR lifecycle, Cohesity gives system administrators more flexibility in addressing critical DR situations.

The firm also announced support for AWS Snowball, a petabyte-scale data transport solution to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS. Customers can use the Cohesity interface to create a policy-based protection task and subsequently archive data to AWS Snowball to handle data migration.

Customer Response Drives Growing Relationship Between AWS and Cohesity
Adoption of Cohesity’s solutions running AWS has risen as the two companies continue to build on their existing relationship. The number of customers that added integrations with AWS tripled in the second half of the most recent fiscal year (which ended July 30), compared to the first half of the fiscal year.

Cohesity has customers leveraging AWS, including Air Bud Entertainment, LendingClub, the San Francisco Giants. Even more striking is that the total petabytes of AWS cloud consumption on Cohesity’s platform has grown by a factor of 17 since December 2017.

“As you might imagine for a film production company, Air Bud has doubled the number of files we generate on a daily basis over the last several years, and we are required to save millions and millions of files for an indefinite period of time,” said Tyson Clark, technical director, Air Bud Entertainment. “Cohesity was the next-gen secondary data solution we needed to move us forward, and leveraging Cohesity’s solution running on AWS allows for automated and secure backup and full lifecycle DR on the cloud. With Cohesity, we now have one platform that gives us the ability to easily search and recover data, keeping our production schedules on track and saving time and expense for Air Bud Entertainment.“

¹ 2018 Cloud Computing Survey, IDG Communications