Case Study: Desjardins achieves 50% faster backups and a 99.975% SLA with Cohesity

Desjardins Chooses Cohesity-Cisco Solution for Faster Backup and Recovery, Simplicity, and Automated Data Management

Desjardins, a leading Canadian financial cooperative, faced growing complexity and long backup windows after years of using a traditional Hitachi Data Systems solution to protect its VMs and databases. As the environment expanded, the IT team needed a simpler, more automated platform to regain control, improve reliability, and reduce operational overhead.

Desjardins deployed Cohesity DataProtect on Cisco UCS with Cisco Intersight for cloud-based management, migrating VM backups gradually to simplify rollout. The integrated solution dramatically sped up backups (one Windows file server from 12+ hours to 3 hours), raised backup/restore SLAs from 92.5% to 99.975%, and enabled proactive IT work — cutting backup times by as much as 75% while streamlining data management and recovery.

Desjardins

Rocco Amico

Senior Technical Consultant