Cohesity DR-as-a-Service Providing Automated DR That Minimizes Application Downtime and Data Loss

Just months after announcing the availability of its backup as a service offering (BaaS), Cohesity, Inc. announced the general availability of its next ‘as-a-service’ offering – disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS).

This offering extends the DR capabilities provided by SiteContinuity and adds the ability to use Amazon Web Services as a recovery location for failover and failback in a SaaS model.

This not only provides customers with more choice and flexibility, but also offers the following benefits:

• Minimize downtime and data loss: This reduces the risks of potential downtime and data loss with snapshot-based backup and near-sync replication that together help ensure all data is captured and ready to failover in the event of disaster or cyberattack.

• Meet SLAs: Customers can design recovery plans and assign SLAs – and design it in minutes rather than weeks – to deliver the right level of resiliency across a range of applications while meeting business requirements.

• Simplify operations: the company combines DR orchestration, snapshot-based backup, near-sync replication, and seamless failover to the public cloud in a single comprehensive offering – all managed through a single user interface to simplify DR operations.

• Lower costs and improve time-to-value: Reduce idle infrastructure by using on-demand pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure from AWS in the event of a disaster or test drill. The company supports standard AWS infrastructure, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), in a DRaaS model. Customers also can speed up time to value by spinning up a DR strategy without having to procure additional hardware or physical data centers.

“There has never been a more critical time to offer DR as a service,” said Matt Waxman, VP, product management. “In an age of crippling ransomware attacks, the number one concern many IT leaders have is maintaining BC if they get hit. DRaaS can help organizations recover quickly and cost effectively. And, as with other Cohesity SaaS and on-premises offerings, customers can manage everything through the Cohesity Helios multicloud platform. It’s simplicity redefined.”

“The Cohesity DRaaS offering provides multiple benefits that are incredibly appealing to our organization,” said Francois Lepage, cybersecurity and architecture manager, The Master Group. “Application uptime and the ability to recover in the cloud top the list. But, we also like the pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure model from AWS, which can help reduce costs. And, we like the simplicity of it all. We can manage this offering along with our on-premises Cohesity deployment through one platform on one UI. That’s the Cohesity difference.“

Expanding Data Management as-a-Service
The company’s DRaaS is the next offering from the company’s Data Management-as-a-Service (DMaaS) portfolio. It is a portfolio of ‘as-a-service’ offerings designed to provide organizations with a simple way to backup, secure, govern, and analyze their data – all managed directly by the firm. This reduces the separate services, solutions, and administrative consoles that organizations have traditionally had to invest in and maintain for backup, DR, and other data management use cases.

“Solutions that offer flexibility, resiliency, and scalability are integral to organizations working to address ever-evolving challenges, including cyberattacks,” said Doug Yeum, head, partner organization, AWS. “With the introduction of DR-as-a-service, Cohesity is providing these critical capabilities to customers to help reduce the risk of downtime while also reducing costs, all supported with the industry-leading cloud services from AWS.“

“With the increased frequency and cost of cyberattacks, a robust set of DR processes combined with proven technology have never been more essential,” said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst, ESG. “Organizations should look for ease of use, automation, and the ability to truly control their data recovery and application availability service-level agreements. That is why Cohesity’s web-scale converged backup and DR solution is not only timely, but also offers an essential set of capabilities to take on the DR challenges businesses are facing today.“

Resource:
Blog: Democratizing Disaster Recovery with as-a-Service