Case Study: Cisco achieves faster, simplified hybrid-cloud backup and cost savings with Cohesity

Cisco Deploys Cohesity to Solve Internal Enterprise Data Management Gaps

Cisco, acting as both a technology provider and a large internal IT consumer, faced growing backup and recovery challenges from fragmented data silos and multivendor workflows that increased mean-time-to-resolve for high‑priority issues—particularly relational databases. The team needed a scalable, hybrid‑cloud data management solution that would integrate with its Cisco HyperFlex and UCS infrastructure, enable self‑service and automation, and reduce complexity and cost.

Cisco deployed Cohesity DataProtect and CloudArchive on Cisco‑certified UCS C‑series servers in a Cisco Validated Design, consolidating backups into a single, performant platform (NVMe caching and erasure coding) that cut backup hops, sped recovery, and provided a unified management view. The self‑service backup‑as‑a‑service model and S3‑compatible long‑term retention simplified operations, eliminated multiple legacy products, avoided maintenance outages for capacity changes, and delivered measurable cost savings and faster, more reliable backups.

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