Suisa, Swiss Music Collecting Society, Opts for Cohesity

Cohesity, Inc. deployed a data management capabilities at Suisa, the Swiss music collecting society.

Suisa is a cooperative of authors and publishers formed to ensure fair remuneration for rights owners of music pieces. The organization was grappling with the fact that the amount of data to be stored had increased by more than 90% in recent years, largely due to streaming services.

At the same time, the data of over 37,000 members had to be stored for up to 70 years after their deaths. Suisa already operates a data center with a backup volume of 82TB at its HQs in Zurich, but the organization was also looking to deploy more modern technologies that could empower them to manage all of this data.

Originally, it based its backup systems on products that were not compatible with each other. This generated an amount of management effort. Therefore, a new solution was required that could completely replace the previous solutions and enable a high degree of automation.

“Cohesity’s main advantages are its ability to consolidate data through a unified management console, its flexible scalability and its cost efficiency,” said Hansruedi Jung, head of system technologies, Suisa. “Since the solution also supports cloud platforms and can automate many processes, the decision was made quickly. Cohesity is a reliable solution that can be operated with little effort. The platform convinced us with its simple and fast implementation and integration.“

As soon as Suisa defines and installs a new virtual server, the Cohesity system triggers a regular backup. This eliminates control effort and simplifies operability. This means that employees who have just started working with the system can be trained quickly on how to use it.

With the integration of Cohesity technology, Suisa is realizing benefits, including a reduced administration effort, a simplified user interface, and a shortened backup duration. Additionally, many back-end processes that used to take up considerable time for the IT team have been automated.

“When introducing Cohesity, the backup of the virtual server environment had top priority,” Jung said. “The new Cohesity system reduced the backup time to just a few hours due to the replacement of legacy backup products with a modern data management solution. Cohesity has been a great selection for us. Thus, the goals were fully achieved and we’re very happy with the deployment.“