For many organizations, business and IT priorities have drastically changed since the onset of the global pandemic. At Cohesity, we continually listen to our customers, and what we hear these days is that they need to accelerate their journey to simplify the way they protect their valuable data and support their employees, who are now working remotely and are more distributed than ever before.
We are therefore thrilled to announce today the availability of Cohesity Pegasus 6.6 — the latest software platform release from Cohesity. The release is packed with exciting new features and updates to help our customers expand protection to yet more data sources, ensure business continuity in case of a disaster, and have an even broader range of certified hardware platforms from which to choose — all managed through one easy-to-use UI. While there are a record-breaking number of new features, here are the key highlights that you can look forward to in the 6.6 release.
Last year we announced Cohesity SiteContinuity — an automated DR solution that is integrated with the company’s backup and continuous data protection capabilities — making it the only web-scale, unified solution to protect applications across tiers, service levels, and locations on a single platform. The new 6.6 release marks the General Availability (GA) of Cohesity SiteContinuity which enables customers to simplify their DR operations and management, minimize application downtime and data loss to meet strict SLAs, and lower the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). In its first iteration, SiteContinuity will support failover and failback of vSphere VMs with continuous replication and instant failover across sites. Watch this video to learn more.
To stay competitive and agile, enterprises have adopted the concept of polyglot persistence — developers are empowered to choose the right tools and databases that are “fit” for purpose. To protect this wide range of databases, IT teams must deploy a host of backup solutions that make IT operations complex.
Cohesity’s latest innovation, the Universal Data Adapter (UDA) simplifies and automates protection for a wide range of databases (RDBMS, open-source, next-gen, in-memory, etc.), all while future-proofing their investments. Instead of deploying point backup products for each database, Cohesity’s UDA enables the backup admin and Database Administrator (DBA) to easily register, create backup jobs, add database instances, and restore data across hosts of database types, all from Cohesity’s single global UI.
No more rip and replace. With UDA, Cohesity customers can automate most of their current and future database protection and management.
Service Providers and large enterprises and universities that use Cohesity in multitenant environments now have the capability to support a wider range of workloads in their BaaS offerings to tenants. This includes multitenant backup and restores of SQL servers, file shares, and M365 and OneDrive. In addition to the already available multitenant VM backup, Cohesity’s service provider and university customers now have the capability to offer a full suite of backup offerings for multiple applications — across on-prem, cloud, and edge.
Use Case | Model | Raw Capacity (TB/Node) |
Performance Nodes | Cisco UCS C220-M5 | 80TB NVMe |
Intel R2208WF | 184.3TB NVMe | |
Capacity Nodes | Cisco UCS S3260-M5 | 384TB / 704TB |
HPE Apollo 4200-Gen 10 | 384TB | |
General-purpose Nodes | Lenovo SR650 | 48TB / 96TB |
Organizations that can unlock hidden value from their vast data sources and recover from unforeseen events with agility and speed are the ones that survive and even thrive in the new era of accelerated digital transformation. Speed and agility are aided by the convergence of silos coupled with keeping things simple and easy to use. With the Pegasus 6.6 release, it’s clearly a new dawn of data consolidation and business continuity for enterprises who rely on Cohesity to navigate this new era.