Cohesity DataPlatform Gains Notable Secondary Storage Improvements
… his customers because the included dynamic search and automated migration of old files directly impacts ROI for users.
“With those features, it makes the platform viable for our customers,” he said.
“The secondary storage market has traditional players,” said Able. “There are some software-only players that have some powerful answers but no one product that contains the complete platform like Cohesity.”
Christophe Bertrand, a storage analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, said the new SmartFiles tools will help mitigate or eliminate the data silos that exist in many organizations today.
“This silo or fragmentation situation leads to many operational inefficiencies, risk exposures and the inability to holistically leverage the data for other purposes,” he said. “Some of the issues customers have to handle include compliance, which is getting worse with new rules like GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act, as well as a lack of search capabilities, difficulty in leveraging hybrid infrastructures and cloud.”
The new capabilities offered by SmartFiles should help channel partners drive new business, said Bertrand.
“It’s a good opportunity for them to come in with an infrastructure modernization offering that in turn lowers operational costs and increases operational resilience. The bigger prize will be for partners to support end-users in their data re-use initiatives and how to get there. This platform can help them build data intelligence services.”
Steven Hill, a storage analyst with 451 Research, said the SmartFiles features will help customers as they work to get their growing stores of unstructured data in check.
“Traditional file system-based storage isn’t particularly well suited for automating the ongoing identification, management and governance of unstructured data, so technologies like Cohesity’s SmartFiles are evolving to bridge the gap between the limited capabilities of the file systems that most legacy applications require, and the greater flexibility and efficiency offered by metadata-rich object storage,” he said.
“While hardware performance remains a key focus of the primary storage market, the new secondary storage market provides a number of evolving new options for data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity and other new, mission-critical concerns,” said Hill. “Customers will need to develop a better understanding of the data they choose to keep in order to contain storage costs, optimize ongoing business value and protect that information against intrusion, ransomware and privacy-based liabilities.”
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