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Idaho’s largest school district strengthens cyber resiliency with Cohesity

Industry

Education

Region

Americas

Use Cases
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Data Isolation and Recovery as a service
  • Disaster Recovery
Products
  • DataProtect
  • FortKnox
  • SiteContinuity
Industry

Education

Region

Americas

Use Cases
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Data Isolation and Recovery as a service
  • Disaster Recovery
Products
  • DataProtect
  • FortKnox
  • SiteContinuity

33x

data reduction ratio

“We are huge fans of the Cohesity data protection solution. It is providing us with greater cyber resiliency and peace of mind knowing our data is adequately protected and easily recoverable in an emergency.”

Keven Denton, Deputy CTO, West Ada School District

At a Glance

By moving to Cohesity, the West Ada School District increased cyber resiliency by using Cohesity’s immutable backups. Using Cohesity, the district lowered infrastructure costs and achieved a 33x data reduction ratio. And finally, the ability to choose between per-user and capacity-based pricing is enabling the district to have a choice in data protection plans.

Challenge

West Ada School District had been using Veeam to protect its data. In order to obtain an unmodifiable backup copy of all data and applications with the Veeam solution, the district’s IT team had to perform time-consuming, manual offline backups each month.

Solution

With Cohesity, The IT team is now able to perform daily backups of all critical data applications. The District has also deployed Cohesity FortKnox to protect its most critical data, and uses SiteContinuity for automated disaster recovery.

Result

By deploying Cohesity, the district has gained the ability to reduce data recovery time and increase cyber resilience with immutable backups, as well as greatly strengthening its overall security posture.

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