Cohesity DataProtect Delivered as SaaS Offerings for Backup and DR Available

Cohesity, Inc. announced the availability ^(*) of its DataProtect delivered as a Service.

This SaaS-based offering, the first of many to come as part of the company Data Management as a Service (DmaaS) solution, gives customers a way to make sure their on-premises and cloud-based data is backed up and protected. To take advantage of this new offering, customers sign up, protect and connect.

DataProtect has already been deployed by thousands of customers globally. Now, the company is extending that functionality to customers that want to realize the benefits of the technology through a SaaS model where the data infrastructure is managed by the company’s solution and hosted on AWS, the firm’s preferred cloud provider for DMaaS.

With Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service customers can:

• Reduce complexity with Backup as a Service that is built for the hybrid cloud, freeing up cycles to focus on other critical tasks.

• Reduce backup setup to minutes by automatically discovering workloads once a secure connection is established and applying either preset or custom policies to begin protection.

• Support multiple workloads including VMware workloads and NAS (file data) today, Microsoft 365 and enterprise databases in the coming months, and many more in the quarters ahead – all supported through a single converged experience.

• Ensure efficient use of available bandwidth, accelerating backups to the cloud and data recovery from the cloud by only transmitting data blocks that have been changed.

In the future, customers will have more ways to derive value from data by taking advantage of AWS cloud-based services. These services can help ensure compliance, enhance security, and derive additional insights and business intelligence through ML and analytics.

“After testing DataProtect delivered as a Service we can see how the offering can expand and simplify data management at regional/edge locations for us and give IT staff the ability to focus on other tasks,” said Oded Haner, SVP, technology, Franklin Templeton, Inc. “From a strategic standpoint, there is tremendous potential in a comprehensive DMaaS solution that addresses a range of use cases from DR, to security, to compliance, and provides the ability to use cloud services to get even more value from data.“

“We have been testing DataProtect delivered as a Service for some time, and I am very pleased with its performance,” said Tim Kovars, senior systems engineer, Quarles & Brady LLP. “The UI is simple, clean, and easy to navigate, and data ingestion and retrieval have been a snap. As a long-term Cohesity customer, this is the type of innovation I have come to expect from this data management company.“

“At Dolby we are constantly looking for ways to reduce our operational burden and overhead. That’s a key reason we are exploring Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service,” said Mike Graff, senior manager, IT architecture, Dolby Laboratories, Inc. “We’re pleased with what we’ve seen so far in early testing and how the service could be a nice complement to the data management capabilities we’ve already deployed from Cohesity.“

DR as a Service:  Next chapter in DmaaS
Building on our recent SiteContinuity announcement, the company is also launching SiteContinuity delivered as a Service, an offering that supports automated DR and failover of mission-critical applications and data to the cloud. The SaaS-based offering can reduce infrastructure costs by using on-demand cloud resources instead of secondary data centers that, although rarely used, carry a full cost burden.

At a time when natural disasters and increasingly frequent ransomware attacks can lead to a loss of data, the firm is giving customers additional assurance that they can recover their data with a few clicks, automating recovery operations spanning application tiers across on-premises and public cloud environments. The offering will be available in early access preview shortly with availability to follow. ^(**)

“Customers continually seek new, innovative services to meet their evolving business and technology needs, and efficient ways to procure and consume those services,” said Doug Yeum, head, global partner organization, Amazon Web Service, Inc. “It’s why AWS continues to expand our service offerings, and we’re excited Cohesity is meeting this customer need with the release of Data Management as a Service offerings that will be made available in AWS Marketplace.“

Data management your way
This announcement is delivering on company’s strategy to provide a set of data management offerings in a SaaS model. Other SaaS offerings will be announced in the coming quarters.

A recent survey of 500 IT decision makers in USA found that 94% of respondents believe it’s important to work with data management SaaS vendors that offer more than Backup as a Service. Many respondents are fearful that working with ‘one-trick pony’ SaaS vendors will increase their workload (77%), fail to reduce costs (65%), and lead to mass data fragmentation (74%).

The company also understands that customers want choice in how their data infrastructure is managed. These customers can manage data infrastructure themselves, or utilize a SaaS solution where associated infrastructure is managed for them, or a hybrid combination of both.

“From backup to DR to reusing data for dev/test and file services, our comprehensive Data Management as a Service solution removes the complexities of managing infrastructure,” said Matt Waxman, VP, product management, Cohesity. “With Cohesity Helios, our SaaS-based multicloud data platform, customers can act on data infrastructure they manage or that Cohesity manages through one pane of glass. Data management has never been simpler.“

“We’re not only excited about the level of customer choice Cohesity is offering in terms of managing data, but also how DMaaS is easy to transact through our normal channels,” said Keith Odom, VP, data center and managed services, RoundTower Technologies LLC. “It gives partners like us the opportunity to provide even more value to our customers.“

Availability:

• ^(*) DataProtect delivered as a Service is available in the US and Canada through the company’s channel resellers and in AWS Marketplace. It will be available in other markets in the coming quarters.

• ^(**) SiteContinuity delivered as a Service will be available in early access preview in early 2021 with availability planned for Spring 2021.

Resources:
Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service     
FAQ : Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service   
Report summarizing key research findings from Vanson Bourne on what customers want in a modern, comprehensive SaaS-based data management solution.
Cohesity DataProtect solution brief.
Cohesity SiteContinuity disaster recovery.
Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions.

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