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Using Cohesity with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Consolidate Secondary Data on AWS
Cohesity DataPlatform is a modern architecture designed to be cloud-first. Native integration with AWS helps you consolidate multiple secondary data workloads in a hybrid architecture.
Secondary Data Use Cases for AWS Cloud
Cohesity and AWS enable you to build a hybrid cloud data fabric for a variety of secondary data use cases such as long-term retention, backup, disaster recovery, and test/dev.
Long-Term Retention
Enable archival of backup data to AWS storage services for long-term retention.
Storage Tiering
Utilize policy-based thresholds to move cold data to the AWS cloud.
Test/Dev
Support policy-based replication of data from an on-premises Cohesity cluster to a Cohesity CloudEdition cluster running on the AWS cloud.
Disaster Recovery
Deliver policy-based replication of data from an on-premises Cohesity cluster to a Cohesity CloudEdition cluster running on the AWS cloud.
Direct Backup to AWS
Backup on-premises applications and send backup data directly to AWS eliminating the need to deploy backup software and target storage on-premises.
Cloud-Native Backup
Protect AWS-based applications with snapshot API integration and achieve best in class operational efficiency.
20%
By 2020, the number of enterprises using public cloud as their data center backup destination will double to 20%.
Gartner – How to Leverage Public Cloud IaaS for Backup and Recovery
As a global technology solutions provider, we like to stay ahead of the technology curve. We saw clear value in adopting Cohesity to consolidate and simplify our secondary storage infrastructure. Cohesity allows us to consolidate data protection and file storage, while providing simple integration with the AWS cloud for long-term archival.
Brian Sweeney, Principal Engineer
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Cohesity has delivered an outstanding solution for our secondary storage and data replication to AWS required in disaster recovery. We have realized additional cost savings by consolidating several other data backup/replication software and hardware, which has been critical to our organization. The availability of Cohesity Cloud Edition on AWS will enable us to further our move to a hybrid architecture, spanning on-premises and the cloud.
Tim Duff, System Administrator
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The interest in HCI continues to grow at a rapid pace, especially in the secondary storage space where there is an opportunity to streamline data protection and management,”. “The availability of the Cohesity DataPlatform Cloud Edition on the AWS cloud facilitates the creation of hybrid architectures for enterprises, that can enable them to address a variety of use cases including backup, disaster recovery, test/dev, and application mobility.
Henry Baltazar, Research Vice President
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