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California Department of Finance paid no ransom, restored Microsoft 365 data in 12 hours with Cohesity

Industry

Public Sector

Region

Americas

Use Cases
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Backup as a service
  • Ransomware Recovery
Products
  • DataProtect as a service
Industry

Public Sector

Region

Americas

Use Cases
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Backup as a service
  • Ransomware Recovery
Products
  • DataProtect as a service

68.7%

savings in TCO

“After the ransomware attack we restored all 2.5 TB of Microsoft 365 data – protected by Cohesity DataProtect on Azure – in 12 hours. We paid no ransom.”

Chris Dove, Enterprise Architect, California Department of Finance

At a Glance

When California’s Department of Finance started using Microsoft 365 (M365), they wanted cloud backup. The solution: Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service, hosted on Microsoft Azure. An unexpected payoff came just months later, when the Department was hit with a ransomware attack.

Challenge

Until 2020, the Department backed up M365 data on-prem, using the server vendor’s proprietary software. But backups and restores required multiple interfaces, finding lost files took too long, and software maintenance consumed several days a month.

Solution

After comparing leading data protection solutions, the Department selected Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service, hosted on Microsoft Azure. All was well until December 2022, when the Department was hit with a ransomware attack—in the middle of a budget cycle.

Result

Thanks to Cohesity’s immutable backups, the Department restored M365 data after the attack for nearly all 500 users in 12 hours – a fraction of the time it took to restore data still backed up by another vendor’s solution. No ransom was paid.

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