Cohesity recently hosted the Tech Field Day group at our corporate offices for Cloud Field Day 5. The Tech Field Day team brought some of their top analysts to review and provide feedback around many of our offerings. During this Tech Field Day event I presented on:
From there we dove into some questions, and then wrapped things up with a demo of our offering which can be found here.
When you break down the data responsibility, it’s important to understand that your data is still your data even when it is in the cloud. As the SaaS customer, your data is vulnerable to the same risks it was on-premises that you worked very hard to ensure was recoverable from any situation. Don’t treat the cloud any differently.
When you review this list, it becomes evident that data protection is important at many levels, but ultimately it becomes a shared responsibility. Your SaaS provider will likely cover the high availability component, but your data is your data to protect from varying levels of data threats.
Shifting gears now to the SaaS application O365 Exchange Online. Some may argue that there are options to store and retain your data for O365, and they would be correct. These options do not come without limited flexibility and complexity. Let me explain.
When using Cohesity to backup your Exchange online data it is possible to back up your mailboxes into Azure Blob Storage or to an on-premises Cohesity. This allows flexibility where the data is kept, but also provides greater control into your Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs). Figure 1 below demonstrates this option visually.
Figure 1
Other benefits of Cohesity include fast backups for 10,000 + users, global search and recovery for mailboxes or individual items, deduplication & compression, and an overall simple backup and recovery process. We also have a tip sheet that highlights our value as well.
Protecting your corporate data from the unforeseen is your responsibility. Choosing the right solution will ensure success for any recovery situation.