Case Study: 1st Security Bank of Washington achieves instant recovery and scalable, easy-to-manage backups with Cohesity

1st Security Bank Tackles Rapid Expansion with Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solution

1st Security Bank of Washington, a regional financial institution with more than 20 branches, experienced rapid growth and an eight‑fold increase in data over five years. Its legacy backup and storage systems were cumbersome, required frequent forklift upgrades, and could take hours or days to restore data — a major problem given strict regulatory retention and recovery requirements.

The bank chose Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary data platform to consolidate backups, integrate with VMware and Microsoft Hyper‑V, and enable instant application recovery, policy automation, and non‑disruptive scale‑out. The solution was up and running in under two hours, cut backup jobs from hours to about two minutes with near‑instant restores, simplified management and upgrades, supported test/dev, and positioned the bank to continue expansion while meeting RPO/RTO and compliance goals.

1st Security Bank of Washington