AutoNation Leverages Cohesity

“Our goal was to build a highly efficient and agile IT infrastructure that quickly adapts to evolving business requirements. By leveraging Cohesity’s software-defined platform for data management, we substantially enhanced our operational capabilities at AutoNation, improved reliability, and lowered our TCO. Beyond data protection, we are extending the Cohesity solution for file and object, and long-term retention in AWS. A key benefit with a flexible and scalable platform like Cohesity was the ability to expand use cases across our environment beyond data protection meet our evolving business requirements,” said Adam Rasner, VP technology operations, AutoNation.

At a Glance
Cohesity’s ability to support backup and recovery, and other use cases like file and object services across a hybrid environment was key to AutoNation’s data consolidation efforts.

Challenge
Due to the company’s legacy data protection environment, the IT team at AutoNation was experiencing a host of issues, including up to 6,000 backup failures per month requiring a dedicated employee with more than 70% time to address constant challenges.

Solution
AutoNation evaluated multiple solutions, including Cohesity, Rubrik, and Veritas. It was key and critical to implement Cohesity in order to move data from on-premises to multi-cloud and back to on-prem. With more and more next-generation apps now developed in the cloud, It will rely more heavily on cloud storage, including AWS.

Result
By deploying Cohesity, AutoNation reduced complexity and built a highly-efficient backup and recovery environment, and also lowered its TCO. It saved 60% per terabyte compared to traditional SAN, and has reduced its yearly maintenance costs by 50%.

Case study: AutoNation Leverages Cohesity for File and Object Services with Lower TCO