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Cohesity SmartFiles

The smartest way to optimize cost, scale, and efficiency for your unstructured data. Manage, secure, and do more with your data with next-level software-defined file and object services for the hybrid cloud.

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OVERVIEW

Introduction to SmartFiles

Why deal with the complexity of maintaining separate platforms for files and objects? SmartFiles modernizes and simplifies data management, privacy, and control by providing one solution for multiple workloads. It empowers you to efficiently and securely govern data at scale, drastically reduce costs, and create limitless value from organizational data.

BENEFITS

Manage, secure, do more

Manage your data at massive scale with software-defined simplicity and hybrid cloud flexibility to deploy on-premises, at the edge, or in your cloud of choice.

Secure your data with a multilayered approachopens in a new tab allowing quick response and recovery from emerging cyber and ransomware threats.

Do more with your data using built-in intelligent data management capabilities and integrated Marketplace apps for powerful data management and insights. 

FEATURES

Manage data efficiently

Efficient lifecycle management, policy-driven actions for automation, and dramatically less cost based on powerful data reduction technologies. 

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Natively multiprotocol

A unified solution for file and object workloads, with native support for NFS, SMB, and S3 that ensures broad compatibility across users and applications whether on-prem or in the cloud.

Global space efficiency

Achieve as much as 96x data reduction or moreopens in a new tab based on industry-leading capacity efficiency that’s guaranteed through global cross-volume deduplication and advanced compression technologies.

Unified management

One UI to holistically manage, monitor, and search all your unstructured data. Machine learning-driven insights help detect anomalies and predict future needs.

Defend your data

Integrated cybersecurity that’s easy to deploy and manage. Classify and discover sensitive data, achieve and maintain compliance and governance, identify and recover from cyber threats, and more.

Ransomware detection and recovery

SmartFiles provides AI-based threat intelligence to identify attacks and sudden changes in data over time, while dramatically accelerating recovery from unlimited immutable recovery points. Cohesity DataHawk also provides powerful ML-based detection of suspicious behaviors that could be indicators of a cyberattack, data exfiltration, or an internal bad actor.

Immutable by design

Mitigate cyberthreats and ransomware attacks with unlimited immutable snapshots and file and object-level WORM support. Securely vault your business critical snapshots to the cloud via integration with Cohesity FortKnox SaaS service.

Encryption and key management

Fortify datasets with software-based data-at-rest and data-in-flight encryption. Allow SmartFiles to manage your encryption keys with built-in key management, or use your own key management system.

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Do more with data

Extract value from data and gain actionable insights with powerful features and an ecosystem of integrated apps.

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Data insights

Protect your NAS investments with built-in features. Analyze data utilization trends on third-party devices, and automate movement of infrequently accessed data to SmartFiles or other tiers.

Audit trails and anomaly detection

Detect and get alerted on file-access patterns. Search audit and access logs to take proactive actions.

Integrated virus detection

Safeguard your critical business data with integrated antivirus scanning on the same platform where your data resides.

Optimize your storage capacity with Cohesity SmartFiles—guaranteed

If SmartFiles doesn’t provide greater capacity efficiency than your existing NAS solution, we’ll pay the difference.

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RELATED PRODUCTS

File and Object

Harness, manage, and secure your file and object storage data so it can deliver continuous value.

FortKnox

Ransomware resiliency with highly secure, SaaS-based cyber vaulting.

DataHawk

Protect and recover against ransomware with threat protection, cyber vaulting, and ML-powered data classification—by identifying threats, assessing impact, and confidently recovering critical data.

Commonly asked questions about unstructured data

Resources

Tip Sheet
Tip Sheet
3 reasons why SmartFiles is unparalleled for unstructured data management
Solution Guide
Solution Guide
Essential guide to modern data management
Ebook
Ebook
Get more mileage from your NAS investment
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Video
Isolate and recover your data from the cloud with Cohesity SmartFiles and FortKnox
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