French Departmental Council Chooses Cohesity

Cohesity, Inc. supports the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council with its DataProtect.

The Haute-Garonne Departmental Council is a decentralized public organization whose core functions are regional planning, education, providing assistance to people in need and promoting social inclusion. It ensures territorial solidarity among the 586 communes from the Haute-Garonne department.

This allows the organization to reduce the time and resources needed to manage its backups, both on-premises and in the cloud and accelerate the data recovery processes to enhance its cyber resilience.

The Haute-Garonne Departmental Council manages a vast collection of data covering different functions, including building plans, architectural services, departmental archives, social assistance requests, and even transport cards.

This diversity of formats and data silos made recovery a long process that required many internal resources.

To resolve any incident, “You had to be an expert in backup administration,” explains Jean-Xavier Mauruc, database systems administrator, the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council.

The migration to Cohesity has allowed the council to harmonize all their data into a simple-to-use solution.

DataProtect helped to streamline the Departmental Council’s backup operations by reducing the number of backup jobs from 150 to around 15. This reduction enabled the council to reduce time spent on administrative tasks, from 2 to 3 hours per day to a few minutes, saving it up to 15 working hours per week.

The council was also looking for a robust and resilient solution to deal with cyber threats, including the fight vs. ransomware while maintaining their existing production infrastructure.

The solution had to be easy to use to manage various daily tasks, from integration to corrective and operational maintenance.

For Mauruc: “DataProtect from Cohesity offers native security improvements. Being a solution specifically designed with advanced security threats in mind, it provides inherent protection vs. ransomware. Cohesity stood out as an optimal choice.“

Beyond the administrative team, the simplified processes and interface of Cohesity and DataProtect cloud services have allowed employees to manage recoveries themselves without additional training, saving both time and money. The adaptation took place very quickly, and the Departmental Council is well-equipped to protect its various institutional data while continuing to safely promote economic and social progress for the inhabitants of Haute-Garonne.

In this territory of more than a million inhabitants, Olivier Savornin, group VP of EMEA at Cohesity, said: “We are proud to support the Departmental Council in its efforts to secure and manage data, vital for the region’s sustainable development.“