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“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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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