Historically, most organizations relied on a handful of databases, from Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server to IBM DB2, to name a few. However, in recent years, there has been an exponential increase in the number of databases. The traditional relational databases are now joined by NoSQL distributed databases, in-memory, and cloud-based databases, all delivering very specific benefits. By some estimates, there are over 340+ (and growing) databases available to organizations for operating their business. And, to support their unique business requirements, organizations are using dozens, if not more of these databases. 30% of respondents in the 2020 State of Database Monitoring Survey reported managing upwards of nine database instances, and 26% of the respondents reported that each DBA is responsible for managing 100+ database instances.
The traditional wisdom is to use the right tool for the job. This is very relevant and true in the case of the databases as well, using a purpose-built database to address specific business requirements, but database polyglot can lead to management complexities and security risk. These challenges are more prevalent when each database needs to be protected by a point-product or unique technique. The siloed approach to protect your mission-critical database instances can also impact IT’s ability to meet service-level agreements should restore become necessary.
So, how do you and your IT team get out of the way of your developers, letting them choose the best data sources for their needs without compromising your organization’s data security and compliance requirements?
Your Business Is Your Business
A modern multicloud data management solution provides the best capabilities for ensuring your business is your business while safeguarding all of your data. Your developers can use purpose-built databases as they need them, and your IT team can have confidence that each new data source is secured as soon as it’s onboarded.
To accommodate the proliferation of databases across organizations, Cohesity has dramatically expanded support for the most leading databases, all on a single platform. With rapid and continued innovation, Cohesity is the only modern data management and protection solution that offers such wide and deep database support.
- Enterprise databases including Oracle, Microsoft SQL, SAP Oracle, SAP HANA, SAP Sybase ASE, SAP MS SQL, Sybase IQ, DB2 Advance, Sybase ASE
- Modern databases including MongoDB, Hive, Hbase, Cassandra, CouchbaseDB, MySQL Enterprise Commercial Edition
- Cloud-native databases including AWS RDS, AWS Aurora, CockroachDB
Across data centers, clouds, and at the edge, Cohesity eliminates the complexity and reduces TCO with application-consistent backup and recovery for leading databases and other mission-critical data sources. As a certified solution for numerous databases, Cohesity enables IT and DBA teams to meet their business SLAs. With Cohesity’s unique zero-cost clones, IT teams can make backup data instantly available to the development teams without making copies or managing a different environment. This helps to reduce business risk and address the challenge of mass data fragmentation. Companies and IT teams gain an advantage by better protection and use of the business data, and the business gains the following benefits:
- Simplified protection. Inspired by hyperscale architecture, Cohesity eliminates data and infrastructure silos by protecting a wider range of traditional and modern data sources on a single platform, on-premises, and in the cloud.
- Automated workflows. Instead of manual scripting, Cohesity offers a fully automated enterprise-class backup and recovery for your mission-critical databases. Policy-based automated source discovery and registration ensure that no source is ever overlooked.
- Defense-in-depth. Following the NIST cybersecurity framework, Cohesity offers multilayered protection against sophisticated cybersecurity threats. The combination of immutable backup snapshots, WORM (DataLock), RBAC, MFA, air gap, no support backdoor that can be exploited, and more are designed to keep your data and the Cohesity platform secure from rogue elements.
- Early ML-driven anomaly detection. Disaster could be natural or manufactured; Cohesity’s machine learning algorithms proactively assess you in detecting anomalies in your IT production environment.
- Rapid and flexible recovery. Recover to the original or alternate site to meet your recovery SLAs. Cohesity’s architecture and funny hydrated snapshots help to reduce downtime and data loss.
- Accelerate application development. Expedite time to market with Cohesity’s zero-cost clones. Repurpose your data and derive more value by using real backed-up data within Cohesity’s runtime environment for developing and testing applications.
- Reduce business risk. Data masking helps IT to hide sensitive data and safely repurpose it for application development. Keep control of who has access to the backup clones and for how long.
- Lower TCO. Eliminate data silos and reduce overall data footprint with Cohesity’s support of global variable-length sliding window deduplication that helps reduce data across the cluster and data sources. The subscription-based software services further help to reduce CapEx.
- Future-proof investment. With our rapid pace of innovation, Cohesity has added over a dozen database data sources within a few months and plans to accelerate the development further. This allows you to continue consolidating most of your mission-critical database backups on a single platform.
Cohesity’s Business Is Data Protection
With comprehensive capabilities that support not only new databases but traditional ones as well as virtual and physical data sources, Cohesity customers across the world are discovering benefits. Healthcare innovation firm Clearsense has seen 50X faster backups compared to Veeam, including Hadoop workloads.
“We use the Cohesity data management solution for both our traditional and modern data sources to make backups of AHV and Hadoop workloads as well as disaster recovery and file sharing much more expedient. We’ll avoid spending thousands, if not millions of dollars, as data grows,” says Charles Boicey, MS, RN-BC, co-founder and chief innovation officer of Clearsense.
Keep your business your business. Discover more about all of the data sources Cohesity protects at www.cohesity.com.
