Case Study: Brigham Young University achieves rapid, simplified, secure backups with Cohesity

BYU Life Sciences IT Simplifies Data Management with Cohesity

Brigham Young University Life Sciences IT supports research and instructional workloads—about 150 VMs, 45 of them mission‑critical—with a small team responsible for protecting regulated and grant-funded data. Previous approaches were slow, unreliable, or labor‑intensive: Bacula backups could run over a weekend, Veeam depended on problematic SAN storage, hyperconverged snapshots required a remote site for redundancy, and a later Dell EMC IDPA deployment failed to produce backups after three months, creating operational risk and extra monitoring burden.

BYU chose Cohesity to protect VMware on VxRail and Nutanix, deploying a three‑node cluster with replication to a second three‑node site in Salt Lake. Cohesity was up and backing up workloads in about two hours (and within 30 minutes of setup), delivered immutable ransomware protection, simplified hybrid‑cloud integration and restores, and reduced day‑to‑day backup management to a single operator — meeting SLAs and improving reliability.

Brigham Young University

Danny Yeo

Director Computing Technology & Services