Quantium Deploys Cohesity on Cisco UCS

• Australian data science and AI firm experiences immediate transformation and operational efficiency with Cohesity Data Protect on Cisco UCS servers
• Cohesity frees up 80% of IT staff hours previously dedicated to managing backup and recovery

Cohesity, Inc. announced that The Quantium Group Holdings Pty Limited (Quantium), a data science and AI firm, has deployed  its Data Protect to backup data, including workloads on SQL databases, network file shares, and all internal production systems.

As data is core to its business, managing and protecting big data is a critical requirement for Quantium’s IT team. The firm recognized the industry was moving away from servers with heavy storage and compute to hyperconverged data management solutions. It had outgrown its Unitrends, Inc.‘s solution for backups, and recurring issues were affecting performance and impacting DR efforts.

As Quantium is dedicated to harnessing data to power breakthrough possibilities, the IT team realized it needed a more modern solution and reached out to its reseller, Katana1 Pty Ltd., and Cohesity to implement a proof of concept.

After implementation, Quantium was able to consolidate numerous backup targets including NAS, DAS, primary SAN, and an NTFS file server into a single, unified data management solution on Cohesity DataPlatform. Through this software-defined platform, it realized operational efficiency across the entire environment. Additionally, it was able to leverage its existing relationship with Cisco and run Cohesity software on certified Cisco UCS servers. It trusts Cisco UCS as an agile platform that allows dynamic provisioning for a set of applications.

With a joint Cohesity-Cisco solution, the company has freed up 80% of the time IT staff previously spent managing backup and recovery – empowering them to focus on other critical areas of the business. Additionally, with Cohesity’s deduplication across workloads and advanced compression, Quantium is seeing 20x data reduction – a space efficiency for optimal cost.

“Cohesity has exceeded our expectations and delivered faultless backup and recovery for Quantium,” said Craig Taylor, IT director, Quantium. “Cohesity delivers a simplified and modern approach to data management that is easy-to-deploy, provides new levels of efficiencies, and is optimized to run on Cisco UCS, all of which are having a positive impact on our business. The joint solution is also enabling our IT teams to spend less time on backups and more time focusing on driving business value.“

Additional benefits Quantium has experienced
with Cohesity on Cisco UCS include: 

• Simplified management with a single, unified solution
• Time savings of almost 50% for data recovery
• 20x data reduction through deduplication
• A path to future expansion, including native cloud integration, and hosting NFS and SMB file shares
• Compute and data management consolidation on Cisco UCS infrastructure

Case study: Quantium Selects Cisco and Cohesity for Enterprise Data Management