Cohesity, the pioneer of hyperconverged secondary storage,
today announced its hybrid cloud strategy that empowers customers to
leverage the cost efficiency and agility of cloud infrastructure.
Cohesity's unified, intelligent storage platform was designed from day
one to integrate seamlessly with public and private cloud services, and
enables organizations to take a comprehensive approach to cloud adoption
with its CloudArchive, CloudTier, and CloudReplicate features.
Cloud computing services have become a top focus for today's
companies, both as a foundation for innovation and a way to realize cost
savings. In fact, a new report from ESG showed
that the number of organizations using the cloud as a means to control
IT spending has more than doubled (going from 13 percent in 2009 to 32
percent this year). During that same time span, cloud computing went
from the least to the most commonly selected cost mitigation strategy
for IT decision-makers.
"The continuous increase in the usage of cloud services [to
control costs] suggests that not only are net-new organizations
leveraging cloud computing every year, but also those that have already
gone down this path have derived tangible benefits from this approach
and continue to pursue alternative application and infrastructure
deployment models for this purpose alone," the ESG report stated.
Mid- to large-scale enterprises today are searching for a way
to harness the benefits of the cloud's cost efficiency and agility.
However, unlike smaller organizations, they likely already own
significant on-premises data and infrastructure, making a complete
migration to the cloud highly disruptive, as well as needlessly
expensive. These organizations face additional challenges as a result of
having data for different use cases spread across multiple silos. This
storage fragmentation makes it difficult to get a complete picture of
data usage and overall capacity, making it nearly impossible to evaluate
what can or should be moved to the cloud.
To tackle this challenge, Cohesity consolidates all this data
on a unified, intelligent platform that provides complete storage
visibility. Cohesity's cloud strategy delivers the tools to easily
identify the right workloads and data for cloud migration to achieve
maximum effectiveness at the lowest cost.
"As our research shows, companies of all sizes are focused on
the benefits of cloud computing, but for many larger organizations
making the switch can be an incredibly difficult and complex task," said
ESG Senior Analyst Scott Sinclair. "Cohesity's hyperconverged secondary
storage platform eliminates data fragmentation and offers an array of
public and private cloud integrations that make it easy to shift
resources to the cloud in cases where's it's most efficient."
"Leveraging cloud services to help our team be more agile and
efficient is a key initiative for us, which is why we're excited about
Cohesity's cloud strategy," said Peter Cho, core infrastructure
architect at the event management technology company Cvent, Inc., a
current Cohesity customer. "Their solution offers us an on-premises,
hyperconverged platform for our private cloud with a complete set of
public cloud integration points, including cloud archiving, tiering and
remote replication, to span a range of use cases from backup to
test/dev."
Cohesity's hybrid cloud strategy delivers a complete approach
that allows enterprises to continue to realize benefits as they
gradually migrate more operations and data to the cloud, through three
main features:
- Cohesity CloudArchive: Made available in Cohesity's latest platform upgrade,
CloudArchive gives customers the option to seamlessly archive datasets
for extended retention from the Cohesity Data Platform through pre-built
integrations with Google Nearline,
Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3, Glacier. Cohesity CloudArchive is a more
cost-effective archiving alternative than copying data to local media
and then transporting it to a secure, remote location for long-term
retention.
- Cohesity CloudTier: Also available now, CloudTier
gives customers the power to use public cloud as an extension of their
on-premises storage. It dynamically increases local storage capacity, by
moving seldom-accessed data blocks into the cloud. The policy-based
waterfall model delivers transparent cloud tiering managed from the
Cohesity Data Platform console so that end users no longer have to worry
about exceeding on-premises capacity during temporary or seasonal
demand spikes.
- Cohestiy CloudReplicate: With the CloudReplicate
feature, customers can replicate local storage instances to remote
public or private cloud services. Businesses benefit by obtaining a
low-cost disaster recovery solution for their on-premises installations.
This feature will be released for production use later this year.
Learn about Cohesity's hybrid cloud solutions in this short demo video, and for a more detailed overview, watch Cohesity's recent presentation at Storage Field Day 9.