Case Study: California Department of Finance achieves rapid Microsoft 365 recovery and ransomware resilience with Cohesity

California Department of Finance paid no ransom, restored Microsoft 365 data in 12 hours with Cohesity

California Department of Finance needed a more secure, cloud-based backup strategy for Microsoft 365 data after its on-premises solution became costly to maintain and lacked ransomware protection. Working with Cohesity, the department sought better recovery for Exchange, OneDrive, and Teams across nearly 500 users, especially as budgeting deadlines made data availability critical.

Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service on Microsoft Azure provided immutable backups and fast recovery. After a ransomware attack, California Department of Finance restored 2.5 TB of Microsoft 365 data in 12 hours and paid no ransom; file restores now take less than a minute, IT saves more than 24 hours a month on maintenance, and the organization reports 68.7% lower TCO with an 18-month ROI.

California Department of Finance

Chris Dove

Enterprise Architect