• Products
    • Helios

      Helios

      A next-gen data management platform that provides a comprehensive range of data services, available as self-managed software and SaaS.

      • One platform
      • Unified data management
      • Delivered the way you want
    • SaaS

      SaaS

      Radically simplify the way you protect, secure, govern, and analyze data with a comprehensive portfolio of Data Management as a Service offerings.

    • DataProtect

      DataProtect

      Simplify your data protection, ensure recovery, and defend against ransomware with a modern, hyperscale solution.

    • FortKnox

      FortKnox

      Isolate your data to further strengthen your ransomware protection and recovery strategy with our SaaS solution.

      • Highly secure data vault providing a “virtual air gap”
      • Immutability, quorum, and other features to protect data from malicious activity
      • Dramatically simple deployment and acquisition
    • SmartFiles

      SmartFiles

      Transform your NAS and improve data reduction while lowering TCO with our easy-to-manage file and object solution.

      • Advanced sliding window and cross-volume dedupe
      • High compression
      • Small file optimization
    • SiteContinuity

      SiteContinuity

      Automated disaster recovery failover and failback orchestration strengthens business continuity strategies. Get always-on accessibility without adding infrastructure silos, operational complexity or cost.

    • Marketplace

      Marketplace Overview

      Defend against cyberthreats and speed access to insights with apps from Cohesity and industry partners.

      • Analytics
      • Compliance
      • Data recovery and migration
      • Malware defense
    • Certified Platforms

      Certified Platforms

      Confidently run Cohesity software in your data center, in the cloud, or at the edge with certified solutions from Cohesity and our partners.

      AWS and Cohesity
      Azure and Cohesity
      nav-certified-platforms-cisco
      Dell and Cohesity
      Google Cloud and Cohesity
      HPE and Cohesity
      Microsoft and Cohesity
      Nutanix and Cohesity
      pure storage
      VMware and Cohesity
  • Support
    • Support Overview

      Support Overview

      We know you’re busy, so when something doesn’t work quite right, our experts are here to help you fix it, fast.

    • Cohesity Academy

      Cohesity Academy

      Build your multicloud data management skillset. Cohesity Academy delivers training, education, and certification in ways that make the most sense for both you and your business.

  • Customers
    • Index

      Customers

      Discover what customer-centric means at Cohesity. Learn why enterprises worldwide choose Cohesity to transform their data management.

      Sky Lakes Medical Center Logo
      Cisco Logo
      Autonation Logo
      shumaker-logo-color
      Hyatt logo
      Novartis Logo
      Mednax Customer Logo
      xo-verizon-logo-1
  • Company
    • About

      About

      Imagine combining the best values, people, and technology in the world to transform data management. That’s what we’ve done at Cohesity. Join us on our journey to simplify how organizations manage data to unlock tremendous value for their businesses.

    • News

      News

      Get the latest information about Cohesity.

    • Events & Webinars

      Events & Webinars

      Join us at events and check out our webinars.

    • Team

      Team

      From the Executive Staff to the Board of Directors and Advisors, the team at Cohesity has deep roots in leading technology companies.

    • Careers

      Careers

      Interested in working with best-in-class talent, and groundbreaking technology? Learn more about working at Cohesity.

    • Executive Briefing Center

      Executive Briefing Center

      Meet with us in a personalized virtual environment to understand how Cohesity can fit your business needs.

    • Contact Us

      Contact Us

      Want to learn more about Cohesity from our sales experts? Send us your contact information and we’ll be in touch.

Unstructured Data

support Hero Banner

What is Unstructured Data?

Unstructured data is information that does not fit into a predefined data model or schema, such as a relational database management system, or even non-relational databases such as NoSQL. The vast majority of data in the world is unstructured, encompassing text, rich media, video, images, audio, sensor data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and more. Unstructured data can be created by humans or machines, and is challenging to store or analyze using traditional data management strategies.

Why Is Unstructured Data Important?

Data is increasingly recognized as the most important asset that businesses possess. Yet few organizations have been able to reap full value from the immense volumes of unstructured data — estimated by analysts to be 80 percent of all data they generate or otherwise acquire during the course of doing business. Managing unstructured data at scale using conventional file services approaches with network attached storage (NAS) devices has proven difficult and costly because of data replication, physical limitations and governance challenges.

Organizations can extract tremendous value from unstructured data with the right tools. For example, businesses could mine social media posts for data that reflects satisfaction with their brands. Clinicians at hospitals could share a common — and massive — repository of genomic sequences for research purposes.

But how and where to store all this unstructured data, as files or objects, has continued to challenge businesses. Traditional NAS infrastructure helps with performance but it is costly and doesn’t scale out. Next-generation, scale-out NAS is available, but not yet widely deployed. Software-defined object storage is beginning to be deployed but most enterprise workloads weren’t designed to use object storage. Adoption has been slow and difficult. Enterprises need a more scalable and efficient way to manage unstructured data.

A Modern Approach to Managing Files and Objects

Cohesity’s software-defined, hyperscale platform simplifies data management by consolidating backups as well as unstructured data in the form of files and objects from multiple application workloads on a single platform. The platform is architected on Cohesity SpanFS, a unique globally distributed file system that supports a variety of protocols, including NFS, SMB, OpenStack Swift, and S3 object storage.

With Cohesity, your organization can protect existing NAS investments — in fact optimize them — by only using that storage for higher performance data while offloading infrequently accessed unstructured data to Cohesity SmartFiles. A modern approach to files and objects management, SmartFiles eliminates legacy hardware forklift upgrades and costly and time-consuming manual infrastructure updates while guaranteeing all of your unstructured data is protected wherever it resides — in the data center, the cloud, or at the edge.

Cohesity SmartFiles also features:

  • Unlimited scaling in a pay-as-you-grow model
  • Global deduplication and compression
  • Global actionable search on all file and object metadata
  • User and file system quotas with audit logs
  • Small file optimization
  • Integration with Cohesity Marketplace apps for increased data visibility, cyberthreat resilience, and analytics
  • Lower TCO for unstructured data management

Related

  • Cohesity SmartFiles Takes On Unstructured Data
    Understand how to harness the power of beyond scale-out NAS

Related Glossary Terms

You May Also Like

resource_pattern
Solution Brief

Cohesity SmartFiles: Beyond Scale-Out NAS

Learn more
Data Reduction Banner
Blog

The Four Immutable Laws of Data Reduction

Learn more
X
Icon ionic ios-globe

You are now leaving the German section of www.cohesity.com/de/ and come to an English section of the site. Please click if you want to continue.

Don't show this warning again