University of Lausanne Customer of Cohesity

Cohesity, Inc. announced implementation of a backup solution for the University of Lausanne located in Switzerland.

Working in tandem with local partner Infoniqa SQL AG, the solution deployed by the university is faster and more automated and scalable than systems previously used. A complete backup of the Exchange database only takes 8 hours instead of 29 and the incremental backup can be completed in just under 2 hours instead of the previous 7.5 hours.

With over 15,000 students, 5,000 employees, and 2 million documents, the university manages around 22PB of logical data. For this purpose, a second backup solution was set up at the Neuchâtel site. As the licenses for the existing system expired, the university was looking for a solution that would meet a number of key requirements: Secure critical data in encrypted form, scalability, recovery of mass data, compatibility with EMC NetWorker and the option of a hybrid cloud solution.

“Cohesity and Infoniqa take a modern and holistic approach to data management,” explains Michel Ruffieux, storage backup manager, University of Lausanne. “It was the only solution that met our requirement to secure critical data in encrypted form using a multi-tenant solution with private keys managed on a KMS server using the KMIP protocol.“

Cohesity and Infoniqa were able to combine the old and new backup systems at the university to cover the entire virtualized environment. Infoniqa enabled the platform to be deployed according to the customer’s requirements. Cohesity supplied four appliances, and additional servers can be added to this space-saving cluster in the future. This appliance group can also be used for storage with the same cluster concept.

Thanks to Cohesity’s SnapTree technology, the university can access the data in a maximum of 3 steps. Login takes less than 5 minutes and full flash recovery takes 11.5 hours. In addition, a web interface facilitates the recovery of a Windows or Linux VM with granular files. This approach to using, managing and backing up secondary and primary data is one of Cohesity’s strengths.

The University of Lausanne is realizing benefits including: 

• Simple, fast backup and DR on a single platform
• Easier management through integration with VMware and Avamar
• Significant time and cost savings in backup and recovery
• Compliance according to DSGVO by encryption of critical data

Resources: 

• Case study University of Lausanne Secures Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Cohesity
• About Cohesity SpanFS and SnapTree technology