Comprehensive Data Protection with Cohesity and Cloudian HyperStore

Challenge

Organizations today face the challenge of protecting ever-increasing data volumes while managing costs and complexity. Legacy architectures and outdated solutions are complex, struggle to handle the rapid data growth and get expensive quickly – especially as ransomware threats rise and compliance requirements tighten. The need for an affordable and effective approach to data life cycle and storage management has never been greater.

Solution

The combination of Cohesity Data Cloud, a modern, AI-powered data protection platform, and Cloudian HyperStore, an S3-compatible object storage solution, transforms enterprise data security and management. This joint solution delivers secure, scalable, and cost-effective data protection to defend enterprise data from cybersecurity threats and enhance cyber resilience.

Cohesity Data Cloud eliminates the complexity of legacy enterprise backup and disaster recovery. It collapses backup software, catalog management, replication, archival and deduplicated storage into a single offering that scales linearly. Deduplication and other data services scale in-line with the cluster to maximize efficiency and savings. Multi-layered data security measures defend against both external and internal cyber security threats.

Cloudian HyperStore is an enterprise-grade object storage that provides cost-effective capacity expansion for Cohesity Data Cloud. Available as an appliance or as software, Cloudian HyperStore is fully compatible with Cohesity Data Cloud as a target storage for Cohesity CloudArchive and/or CloudArchive Direct tiers.

Together, Cohesity and Cloudian form a robust and highly secure data protection solution. End-to-end data protection capabilities enhance cyber resilience and streamline operations to help organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from ransomware and other cybersecurity threats. At 70% less cost than public cloud or traditional enterprise storage, Cohesity and Cloudian together offer an innovative solution for data protection and management.

Fast Backup and Recovery

Cohesity Data Cloud can back up data directly to Cloudian HyperStore object storage without requiring a local backup copy first. Only metadata and index are stored locally on the Cohesity cluster, saving up to 40% on cost. The solution lets you backup and restore large data sets in a fraction of the time, leading to enhanced Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Cohesity also supports backing up first to a local cluster and then copying or moving the backups to Cloudian to enhance Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

Protecting Data with Cyberstorage Framework

Cloudian’s cyberstorage capabilities align with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, provide a modern approach for comprehensive, resilient data protection. To protect data from ransomware attacks, Cloudian HyperStore and Cohesity Data Cloud support Object Lock for end-to-end, air-tight data immutability all the way to the operating system root level. This permits backup data copies to be made tamper-proof for a set period of time, which prevents hacker encryption or deletion and ensures a clean data copy for reliable recovery. The resulting security is comparable to offline storage. This integrated approach ensures robust cyber storage that is proactive, responsive, and aligned with industry standards.

Industry-Leading Security

The Cohesity-Cloudian solution provides multi-layered data security features that make it possible to deploy and operate cost-effective data protection workflows while keeping customers data extremely secure. These features include data encryption and transparent key management, AES-256 server-side encryption for data stored at rest, SSL for data in transit (HTTPS), role-based access controls with specified levels of access, multi-factor authentication, audit trail logging, Object Lock for data immutability, quorum, and more.

Cloud-Like Storage

Cloudian features a fully-native S3 API and a modular architecture designed to deliver a cloud-like management experience, whether deployed in your data center, at a service provider, or at the edge.

Cloudian gives you capacity on demand, making it ideal for semi-structured or unstructured data. To expand, simply add nodes, either at one site or across multiple sites. Manage it all within a single namespace, from a single management console, and search metadata across all your sites with a single query. Cloudian’s hybrid cloud capabilities even let you create and manage a data copy within AWS S3, if desired.

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Ready

Cloudian is an on-prem storage system that can also integrate directly with public cloud storage services for offsite DR, capacity expansion, or data analysis in the cloud. For disaster recovery, Cloudian’s data management functionality lets you create a remote data copy. Employ policy-based tools to replicate or tier data to AWS, GCP, Azure, or to another Cloudian HyperStore cluster. With policy-based management, your offsite copy will be automatically kept up to date.

Multi-Tenancy

Increase efficiency by allowing multiple users to share a single backup and storage infrastructure, without compromising security. Both Cohesity and Cloudian support multi-tenancy, ensuring that multiple clients may be supported within a single system while maintaining full data security. Integrated billing simplifies management, and QoS controls help you deliver consistent service levels.

Conclusion

The combination of Cohesity Data Cloud and Cloudian HyperStore provides a powerful solution for organizations seeking to modernize their data protection strategy. The solution delivers the security, simplicity, scalability, and cost-effectiveness needed to manage and protect data in today’s demanding environment.