Backup and Recovery for Workloads on One Web-Scale Platform by Cohesity

Cohesity, Inc. announced enterprise backup, recovery, and data management capabilities for Hadoop big data workloads, NoSQL distributed databases, and software as a service (SaaS) environments.

These data sources can be protected and managed from a single web-scale platform, helping enterprises minimize data loss, achieve faster recovery times, and improve data security and compliance.

Hadoop big data workloads, NoSQL distributed databases, containers, and SaaS applications are common components of the enterprise IT stack. But solutions that protect each of these modern workloads separately are often complex to manage, can increase costs, and further compound the critical problem of mass data fragmentation.

The company is bringing data management by consolidating support for hypervisors (VMware, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V), databases and applications (Oracle, SQL, SAP HANA), storage, physical workloads, and modern workloads, on one software-defined platform. The solution provides a level of protection, recoverability, and manageability previously only available for traditional databases and applications.

“We have seen incredible innovation in how organizations operate their IT environments, but enterprises have not been able to maintain acceptable levels of data management and protection for these new breakthrough solutions,” said Raj Rajamani, VP, products, Cohesity. “We are helping companies accelerate innovation by extending support for modern applications and environments on the same web-scale platform that customers use to protect and manage traditional workflows.“

Web-Scale protection for Hadoop and NoSQL workloads
Through the acquisition of Imanis Data, also announced, the company provides backup, recovery, and data management capabilities for Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) workloads and NoSQL distributed databases that were previously available only for traditional databases.

These capabilities empower enterprises to achieve and get more out of their data to:

• Simplify data management for HDFS big data workloads and NoSQL distributed databases including MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchBaseDB, Hbase – on a single platform.

• Provide the flexibility of granular recovery with application-aware, agentless backups.

• Uphold complex data compliance requirements by, for example, automatically masking sensitive information that is copied and utilized for testing and development purposes.

Backup and recover containerized applications as quickly and easily as VMs
The company will deliver backup and recovery capabilities for Kubernetes-based containerized applications that match the level of protection previously available just for VMs. Through native integration with Kubernetes, the firm will protect the underlying data and the application state so that enterprises can backup the entire application, not just its data.

Backups for containerized applications will be application-consistent and can be done in ‘incremental forever’ mode, meaning customers only need to perform one full backup and then do incremental backups moving forward — reducing backup time and simplifying operations. Restores can be done either to the original location or an alternate location, providing DR and migration options for customers.

Extending support for SaaS applications
The company will add support for enterprises’ increasing reliance on SaaS applications by extending backup and recovery capabilities for Microsoft Office 365 to include Microsoft OneDrive. This empowers customers to protect against data loss due to error or malware, and to assist with e-discovery or compliance. The firm will make it to meet security and compliance requirements by leveraging information available in Azure Active Directory, Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, to help customers create backup and recovery policies. These capabilities will build on existing protections for Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online that the company unveiled in September 2018.

“Cohesity helped us to transform our backup and recovery process and tap into the advantages of public cloud infrastructure with Microsoft Azure,” said Brian Critchlow, administrator, IT systems, Santa Cruz Seaside company. “With the extended capabilities for Microsoft Office 365 and OneDrive we are able to ensure consistent availability of data for our company.“

“ESG research shows that a growing number of organizations are embracing modern workloads, containerized applications, and SaaS applications which places the onus on IT leaders to protect, manage and make data within those environments more secure and productive,” said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst, ESG Research. “Cohesity is laser focused on empowering customers to protect and gather insights from this data, while removing data ‘silos’ that can reduce management complexity.“

Backup and recovery capabilities for HDFS and NoSQL distributed databases are available. Protection for Kubernetes and Microsoft OneDrive will be available to customers this summer.

Additional resources:
Blog post: Simplifying Protection of Modern Workloads
Support for Hadoop and NoSQL Distributed Databases
Solution brief: Hadoop and NoSQL Data Management Made Simple
Support for Kubernetes containerized applications
Solution brief: Data Protection for Entire Kubernetes and Container Application Stacks
Cohesity’s expanded support for Microsoft Office 365
Solution brief: Simpler, Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Office 365

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