Cohesity Data Cloud now protects and secures YugabyteDB workloads

Organizations are using more data sources than ever before across their IT estate. The world’s largest enterprises trust Cohesity to keep pace and offer security and protection for their most important databases.

To this end, we’re pleased to announce our support for YugabyteDB—one of the most popular modern databases. You can now improve your cyber resilience for YugabyteDB workloads with our platform, Cohesity Data Cloud.

Why enterprises adopt YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB is a 100% open source, high-performance distributed SQL database for powering global, internet-scale applications.

Enterprises use YugabyteDB for critical workloads because it combines the resilience and scalability of distributed systems with the familiarity of SQL. The database is horizontally scalable and supports global data distribution, as well as SQL (YSQL) and NoSQL (YCQL) APIs.

YugabyteDB guarantees strong transactional consistency, and its PostgreSQL compatibility simplifies migration and development. Organizations appreciate that YugabyteDB can be deployed across public and private clouds and in Kubernetes environments.

Let’s examine how Cohesity Data Cloud protects and secures YugabyteDB.

Cohesity secures and protects your YugabyteDB workloads

Cohesity enables organizations to secure and protect their YugabyteDB universe with Cohesity SmartFiles, a service included in Cohesity Data Cloud. This approach seamlessly integrates immutable target storage using S3 and NFS protocols for enhanced data security and protection.

Cohesity Data Cloud administrators can quickly onboard YugabyteDB universe data protection with two simple steps:

1. Prepare and configure Cohesity SmartFiles to use either S3 or NFS as an immutable storage target.
2. Define a data protection policy in the YugabyteDB universe, including backup schedules and retention policies. You’ll also need to specify Cohesity SmartFiles as either an S3 or NFS storage targets.

Once you’re up and running with YugabyteDB as part of your data estate atop Cohesity Data Cloud, you can expect the usual set of “5 S” outcomes:

• Speed – Recover from cyberattacks many times faster compared to your previous systems.
• Security – Improve your security posture, detect threats, protect data, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks.
• Scale – Secure and protect Yugabyte and the rest of your data sources on a single platform, even at a petabyte scale.
• Simplicity – Run Yugabyte backup and recovery workflows from a unified control plane and set of APIs (just as you do for the rest of your data estate).
• Smarts – Gain business and operational insights from your data with advanced AI capabilities.

You’ll also appreciate a few more detailed capabilities about Cohesity Data Cloud. Here are a few highlights:

1. Lifecycle management: Ensure data protection for YugabyteDB through full backups, incremental backups, and point-in-time recovery (PITR) workflows.
2. Storage efficiency: Achieve extremely high storage efficiency with global, variable-length deduplication and compression.
3. Multilayered cyber resilience and ransomware protection: Immutability safeguards YugabyteDB backups from being deleted or overwritten for a specified amount of duration or indefinitely.
   Write once, read many (WORM): Store for YugabyteDB backups using the WORM model, ensuring SEC Rule 17a-4(f) compliance.
4. Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Reduce your data footprint with deduplication and compression.
5. Performance at web scale: Improve backup and restore times with scale-out architecture and unlimited scalability as your business grows.
6. Encryption everywhere: Cohesity Data Cloud features AES-256, FIPS-compliant encryption of data in flight and at rest
7. Resilience: Highly resilient and fault-tolerant, with no single point of failure (SPOF).

Cohesity SmartFiles: Secure and protect your unstructured data

Why Cohesity SmartFiles for Yugabyte? Cohesity SmartFiles is an enterprise-class, software-defined, data-centric, multiprotocol file and object solution. Enterprises choose SmartFiles because it offers superior manageability, scale, security, efficiency, and multi-tiered data management compared to other offerings.

The product is part of Cohesity Data Cloud. Our modern data platform delivers a patented distributed architecture for scale-out storage in a pay-as-you-grow model that never requires disruptive upgrades.

Top SmartFiles benefits:

• Natively multi-protocol: SmartFiles is a unified solution for file and object workloads, with native support for NFS, SMB, and S3 that ensures broad compatibility across users and applications, whether on-prem or in the cloud.
• Unified management: SmartFiles is managed with your other Cohesity services in the same UI to holistically administer, monitor, and search all your unstructured data. AI-driven insights help detect anomalies and predict future needs.
• Global space efficiency: Achieve 96X data reduction (or more) based on industry-leading capacity efficiency guaranteed through global cross-volume deduplication and advanced compression technologies.

Take the next step

Extending protection for YugabyteDB is just one of the many recent additions to our platform that boost your cyber resilience. Check out some of our latest innovations, including:

• The evolution of the Cohesity Clean Room
• Cohesity Data Cloud 7.2 release details: including expanded support for MongoDB and Cassandra workloads
• Cohesity DataProtect with Microsoft 365 Backup Storage

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