Cohesity skeleton to put backup information to good use

Cohesity was launched in 2013 by Mohit Aron, a former co-founder of Nutanix, who was also concerned a origination of Google File System. Cohesity could be likened to an Isilon for delegate storage, and puts some-more importance on ability than performance.

As with Isilon’s OneFS record system, Cohesity’s SpanFS distributes storage opposite several nodes, ensures excess of data, indexes information by means of metadata and shares it opposite a network, NAS-style.

SpanFS is not singular to earthy nodes and can confederate a ability with a cloud. It has riposte functionality that allows it to continue activity from a remote site or a cloud in box of an incident. In further to NFS and SMB access, it can share information around a intent storage S3 protocol, that is widely used for cloud applications.

SpanFS is partial of Cohesity’s DataPlatform, that in partial comprises entrance to admin functionality, including configuration, deduplication, replication, monitoring. Also among these is SnapTree, that allows use of cloned calm to, for example, run plan tests with genuine data.

DataPlatform program can come on hardware from HPE, Dell or Cisco as appliances or in practical apparatus format. As an option, a Helios SaaS console allows a centralisation of administration for mixed DataPlatform clusters opposite a series of cloud sites.

Even yet a DataPlatform cluster is able of all a functions of a NAS platform, a scalability of a solution, associated with an deficiency of efforts towards high opening have tended to see it used as a aim for other vendors’ backup software, such as Veeam and Veritas.

That is notwithstanding Cohesity carrying a possess backup software, DataProtect, like a aspirant Rubrik, that also sells scale-out storage focussed on backup.

Cohesity is a private association and so it is formidable to establish a financial health. Sources outmost to it prove that 50% of a activity is in Europe where it has around 100 vast accounts. The UK and Germany are a largest markets, with France in third place.