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A Fresh Look at Scale-out NAS
File repositories are growing rapidly. Application data exists across multiple storage domains and protocols on proprietary hardware. Collapsing infrastructure and lowering TCO is not easy.
Cohesity SmartFiles is a paradigm shift for enterprise file services. It’s software-defined, smart, efficient, secure, consolidates storage infrastructure, and nearly manages itself.
Run apps directly on the platform including anti-virus, file audit, content search, compliance, analytics, and AIOps.
Write or read as NFS or SMB—permissions are honored.
Get capacity, snapshots, and clones. No file name/path/size limits.
Leading global banks and financial institutions trust Cohesity.
Squeeze more data into the same disk capacity.
Lower TCO and eliminate silos.Transparently migrate inactive data to on-premises or the cloud.
SmartFiles belongs to the Cohesity DataPlatform. All of the rich DataPlatform functionality is available for file and object services.
Choose from a variety of file services apps to run on the DataPlatform without external infrastructure.
A strictly consistent and fully distributed shared-nothing architecture.
Search for any data, anywhere, cross multiple workloads, clouds, and sites.
Encryption, anti-virus, detect anomalous file accesses, multi-factor authentication, identify and act on high-risk information, FIPS 140-1 and 140-2.
Sliding window variable dedupe across silos, advanced compression, and small file capacity optimization. Up to two to five times greater, or more, versus competitive products.
Tiering of cold data from Netapp, Dell/EMC Isilon, and Pure Storage to a cost-effective tier or to the cloud.
Features and functionality for demanding enterprise users include:
Manage documents with scalable libraries.
For digital documents,
audio and video files, and
active and passive archives.
For security cameras, body, and mobile cams. Get rapid retrieval from large amounts of data.
For corporate comms, in-house productions, education, and training.
For cost-effective cold archiving on-premises, cloud, or both.
For images, documents, call logs and correspondence.
For eDiscovery and legal hold, collaboration and documents and research.
For collaboration and research, safety and security and innovation.
For PACs archives and VNA archives.
For genomics analysis and next-generation sequencing.
Deliver enterprise-grade files services on public cloud that run natively on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Global variable length deduplication, compression, and small file capacity optimizations provides efficiency that reduces cloud storage and data transfer costs.
Provide multiprotocol NFS/SMB file access in the cloud with enterprise-grade global search and cybersecurity that scales with cloud resources.
Easily extend on-prem NAS to cloud with automated file archiving and tiering while removing the costs and complexity associated with bolt-on.