Cohesity, the pioneer of
hyperconverged secondary storage,
today announced that the Verizon subsidiary XO Communications, one of
the nation's largest IP and Ethernet network providers, uses Cohesity as
the foundation of its scalable, hyperconverged secondary storage
system. XO Communications has lowered its data center TCO by 60 percent
due to Cohesity's high capacity and small footprint - 100 TB of raw
storage per 2U appliance - and ease of management, which requires fewer
administrators.
News Facts
- Government
contracts required XO Communications to archive the most recent three
years of logs, backups and audits, which dramatically increased the
company's data protection needs.
- Based on an extensive
proof-of-concept project, XO Communications selected Cohesity over Dell
EMC Isilon and Veeam because it's solution was less than half the cost
of alternatives and would offer unlimited scalability.
- XO Communications deployed Cohesity C2300 and C2500 hyperconverged node appliances with Cohesity DataProtect
backup and recovery software, which enabled XO Communications' team to
clone and run virtual machines - including in the test/dev environment -
directly on Cohesity.
- Cohesity helped the company increase
storage capacity while concurrently reducing capital expenses (CapEx)
due to a smaller data center footprint and subsequently lower power and
cooling costs.
- XO Communications was also able to lower its
operating expenses (OpEx) due to Cohesity's ease of management. The new
system requires only one administrator rather than the anticipated six
that would have been needed for the alternatives.
"Cohesity
is designed to optimize capacity and performance," said Eirik Toft,
Systems Administration Spec V, XO Communications. "With Cohesity we can
meet our customer requirements without complicating our secondary
storage environment. Besides ease of use and simple integration,
Cohesity is dedicated to its customers' success.