Innovative data management company recognized for its deployment flexibility, global data management capabilities, and detection, prevention, and recovery capabilities for ransomware attacks
Cohesity, the leader in next-generation data management, announced it has been named a “Major Player” in IDC MarketScape's 2022 assessment of global distributed file system vendors. This is the first year this MarketScape has been published. The IDC MarketScape assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitiveness of information and communication technology (ICT) providers in a given market. Cohesity was recognized as a "major player", i.e. one of the main players based on 12 functionality criteria and 10 strategy metrics.
All’interno del report, Eric Burgener, Research Vicepresident Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group di IDC, descrive Cohesity SmartFiles as “a software-defined storage system that supports significant deployment flexibility in both on-premises and public cloud-based environments.” Burgener also notes that “SmartFiles stands out for its deployment flexibility, comprehensive overall data management capabilities, and ease of use as a 'second generation' distributed scale-out file system.” Furthermore, the report highlights that "enterprises can also install SmartFiles in public cloud environments from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Its deployment flexibility also allows it to be installed on a VM for low-cost edge deployments."
The vendor evaluation continues with recognition of the Cohesity platform approach (Cohesity Helios) with an API (application programming interface) and a marketplace (the ecosystem Cohesity Marketplace). It is highlighted that the Cohesity Helios platform “presents a potentially significant opportunity to consolidate workloads across use cases on a single platform, improving administrative productivity and lowering infrastructure costs”.
“Organizations around the world rely on Cohesity to eliminate data silos through our innovative data management platform and its broad range of services, including file and object services, backup and recovery, security, governance and data analytics,” he said. Lynn Lucas, Chief Marketing Officer di Cohesity. “We are pleased to see IDC MarketScape recognize Cohesity as a Major Player and cite the comprehensive nature of our next-generation data management platform and its versatility in any environment, whether data center, edge or public cloud.”
“Clauger has optimized its data management on a single Cohesity platform, not only for backup and recovery, but also for files, objects and cloud, with a TCO (Total cost of ownership) saving of over 25%,” he said Olivier Boute, Clauger IT Manager. "Thanks to Cohesity we have achieved greater speed and efficiency. For example, our file searches, which previously took up to 30 minutes, are now performed instantly. Cohesity has significantly improved our overall work."
Cohesity Threat Defense is a key component of the company's offering. This multi-layered data security architecture helps organizations achieve cyber resilience, minimize risks from evolving cybersecurity threats, and enable rapid recovery. In the IDC MarketScape report, Burgener acknowledged that Cohesity's solution "supports a comprehensive set of security features and detection, prevention and recovery against ransomware attacks."
Within the evaluation, in the “Consider Cohesity when” section, Burgener notes: “When Cohesity SmartFiles wins, it is often because the company knows it has offered all the necessary unstructured data management capabilities of its competitors at a lower cost and/or with more flexible deployment options.”
To read an excerpt from the IDC MarketScape on globally distributed file system vendors (doc #US49015322, April 2022) click who.
