Why does IT need to adopt an as-a-service mindset?

From building to consumption, at a lower cost: With computing becoming cheaper and more scalable each day, more IT teams can switch from painstakingly building to IaaS / PaaS / SaaS consumption. This reduces software cycles tremendously (weeks to hours). Easier and faster access: Companies want all the benefits of technology without the pain of having to actually manage it. And they want this in hours or days, not weeks or months. Bonus points if they can consume it via an easy to access web interface from anywhere and on any device. On-demand capacity: As-a-service offerings are built for uncertainty. They can easily accommodate increased demand and scale back down when not needed. You can’t be limited by infrastructure constraints when you have no infrastructure. Cutting edge of technology: Customers are always updated on the latest features and functionalities without having to wait for the next refresh cycle. This can be the biggest competitive advantage in the race for faster application development. No ownership and maintenance: With no need to constantly maintain infrastructure or skill and update people and processes, companies can now spend their time on other revenue-generating activities. Flexible payment model: One of the biggest advantages of an as-a-service model is the transition from a one-time capital expense to a recurring, quarterly, or monthly operational expense. This makes it easier to consume technology by breaking up its cost over multiple staggered installments in a pay-as-you-grow fashion that finance and accounting teams love.

What are some examples of data management as-a-service solutions?

Backup as a Service – Backup and recovery that includes on-site data protection, direct backup to cloud, and cloud-native backup. Archival services – Long-term data retention and compliance across clouds with easy data access through Google-like search. Disaster Recovery as a Service – Reliable off-site protection and business continuity with instant mass recovery in case of a catastrophic event at a primary site. File and Object services – Scale-out NAS for user home directories, departmental network shares, and group collaboration, and S3-compatible object storage for unstructured data storage and retrieval. Dev/Test as a Service – Dev/test provisioning in the cloud, supporting agile iterations, rapid cloning, and quick tear down, speeding application delivery. Analytics as a Service – The ability to uncover insights from untapped data and apps and streamline compliance while providing proactive and predictive analytics on capacity, consumption, data growth, and threat behavior/impact. Custom Services – Custom data and apps services, for example security as-a-service for ransomware recovery, using Cohesity’s API-first architecture and RESTFUL APIs.

What is a Cohesity-Powered Service Provider and Why Should You Care?

To make it easier for our customers to choose the right service provider that is best suited for their unique data management needs, Cohesity created the Cohesity-Powered trust mark, a designation available only to qualified partners who build their businesses on Cohesity’s trusted platform and adhere to our strict quality standards. Service providers that earn the Cohesity-Powered trust mark have made deep investments in Cohesity technologies and are committed to offering differentiated data management services as well as support on top of proven Cohesity solutions. The Cohesity-Powered designation gives you confidence that you’re adopting the most complete, most advanced Cohesity technologies from your service providers. You are also assured of the greatest degree of data mobility and interoperability across clouds and the greatest advantage for your business. Cohesity-Powered partners accelerate your journey to multi-cloud and empower you to unlock greater value from your enterprise data. Cohesity will continue to introduce new Cohesity-Powered partners over time to drive greater flexibility for you in your selection of global service providers with consistent infrastructure and operations across clouds.

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July 21, 2020

Adopt an -aaS Mindset for Data with Cohesity-Powered Service Providers

As the pace of business increases, it’s critical for organizations to continuously innovate, and innovate faster. To support this goal, IT needs to focus on the core competencies that help businesses innovate faster, instead of simply…

July 10, 2020

Recovering from a Data Disaster with Cohesity

Data disaster planning is an enterprise initiative that can stall quickly. In my experience these projects often become sidelined due to budgets, team time constraints, or struggles with managing long-term testing and upkeep of infrastructure. Being…

June 18, 2020

Data Backup and Recovery Challenges With Cassandra Snapshots

In a previous post, I described some of the storage amplification and management overhead challenges of using Cassandra database snapshots as part of your data backup strategy. In this post, I’ll describe why restoring from Cassandra…

June 18, 2020

Simplify Data Management with Cohesity

Most IT modernization efforts are either directly or indirectly initiated to address the operational complexity caused by a legacy technology infrastructure. In recent months, the changing business conditions have forced enterprises to reprioritize their IT efforts:…

May 14, 2020

Enterprise Data Management of Google Cloud VMware Engine with Cohesity

Use Cohesity DataPlatform to back up and protect your Google Cloud VMware Engine environment, archive data to GCP, and luse the data for other use cases.

May 14, 2020

Future-proof IT Investments and Lower TCO with Heterogeneous Clusters

This is Part I in our heterogeneity article series. As the pandemic has unfolded, it has become increasingly clear that most industries will be impacted economically. Yet recent events also have underscored the critical role IT…

May 12, 2020

Speed is Not an Add-On: High Performance from the Beginning

Service-level agreements (SLAs) for backup and recovery help define the guardrails of both the efficacy and resiliency of your infrastructure. While the size of files influences how quickly you can back up or restore data, that’s…

May 6, 2020

Healthcare’s Ransomware Reality Check

Ransomware attacks are impacting businesses at a higher rate than ever. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, a new business will fall victim to ransomware every 11 seconds by 2021, and the world cost is anticipated to be…

April 23, 2020

Don’t Let Hackers Hold Your Data for Ransom

We live in unprecedented times with the implementation of state and nationwide lockdowns. People across the globe are switching to working from home and collaborating in new ways. Zoom, Slack, VPN, and Cloud are a part…

April 22, 2020

Cohesity Apps Pick Up Steam with Major Updates

On the heels of last month’s announcement of the Reporting App, we’re proud to announce significant updates to two of our most popular apps on the Cohesity Marketplace – Insight and Runbook. Cohesity now has a…