Over the past two decades, organizations have strategically placed their applications and data where it makes the most sense—on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. But as IT infrastructure, applications, and data become more distributed across these environments, the challenges of consolidating and protecting it all grow, making things more complex and risky.
This is where the latest collaboration between Cohesity and Cisco comes in, designed to help customers enhance resilience against business disruptions caused by cybersecurity incidents, natural disasters, and more. The partnership between Cohesity and Nutanix further complements this effort.
Not long after Cisco launched Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix, Cohesity introduced data protection and security capabilities like backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and automated ransomware recovery tailored to workloads running on Cisco and Nutanix HCI.
Now, we’re excited to announce a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) that helps you confidently deploy Cohesity on Cisco UCS to protect Microsoft SQL Server applications running on Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix. Backing up high-transactional databases such as SQL Server presents challenges, including potential impacts on application performance, maintaining data consistency, and minimizing recovery time objectives (RTOs) for large datasets. The CVD showcases best practices for protecting these high-transactional databases crucial for cyber and business resilience while highlighting additional functionalities like copy data management to support various use cases.
AI-powered resilience for Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix
Cohesity is the optimal choice for AI-powered resilience for Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix. Highlights below, including:
Security
Cohesity provides the highest level of protection against cyberattacks, embedding immutability into our scale-out file system—SpanFS. This unique technology ensures backup data is immutable and protected from malicious deletion. Robust security and ransomware protection are further reinforced through least privilege access delivered by granular role-based access control (RBAC), separation of duties via Cohesity’s Quorum capabilities, multifactor authentication (MFA) via different methods including single sign-on (SSO), and ML-based anomaly detection.
Scalability
SpanFS is engineered for maximum scalability. Backup data is completely distributed across all nodes in a cluster, providing always-on availability. This also means individual nodes can be added or removed to adjust capacity or performance without causing any disruption.
Faster, AI-powered resilience
Cohesity helps speed recovery with comprehensive backup solutions offered by Cohesity DataHawk for Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix. This includes Cohesity FortKnox, a SaaS cyber vaulting solution, and ML-powered data classification and AI/ML-driven threat detection, which allows you to detect indicators of compromise (IOCs) lurking within your backup data, including backups of Nutanix AHV and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). Because detection occurs on your backup data, you can run threat hunts even when other containment activities are isolating hosts. You can rapidly recover thousands of VMs, databases (like SQL or Oracle), files, and other data using Instant Mass Restore (IMR), ensuring business continuity in the event of disasters.
Simplicity and flexibility
Cohesity simplifies data management for Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix environments by offering comprehensive data services from a single management plane, Cohesity Helios. Our SpanFS architecture effectively consolidates all secondary data—backups, files, objects, and more—across core, edge, and cloud into a single web-scale platform, reducing operational complexity and storage costs. Plus, Cohesity has been extensively tested with Cisco UCS X-Series, C-Series, and S-Series configurations, giving you the flexibility to right-size your environment with different platforms based on your specific use case. Cohesity is the first and only data security and management solution validated with Cisco UCS X-Series.
Instant, zero-cost clones
Need data copies for forensic analysis or development and testing? Cohesity makes it easy to instantly provision clones of backup data, files, objects, or entire views without consuming excess storage capacity, time, and IO bandwidth. In the CVD, we showcase how to use our copy data management functionality to provision clones for SQL Server databases.
Get insights from Cisco, Nutanix, and Cohesity leaders
Cisco and Nutanix offer complementary cloud operating models to simplify operations and deliver visibility, control, and consistency across highly distributed environments. Together, they created a fully integrated hyperconverged solution. Cohesity enhances this model by delivering hyperconvergence on secondary data—backups, archives, file shares, object stores, test and development systems, and analytics datasets. This simplifies data management, provides built-in defenses against cyberattacks, and delivers fast, reliable data recovery.
Watch the video below to learn more about the latest trends on the location of enterprise applications and data and how Cohesity, Cisco, and Nutanix have partnered to help customers stay one step ahead of bad actors and disasters.
Visit cohesity.com/cisco to learn more about our joint solutions with Cisco.
