Case Study: eSilicon achieves end-to-end chip design in the cloud with Cohesity

eSilicon Pioneers End-to-End Chip Design in the Cloud with Cohesity

eSilicon, a San Jose–based ASIC developer serving high-bandwidth networking, HPC, AI and 5G markets, adopted a cloud-first strategy to handle spiky, compute- and storage‑intensive chip design workloads. Facing a tight four‑month deadline to decommission its Bangalore data center and migrate billions of NFS files (hundreds of terabytes per project) — and with tape-based Commvault backups too slow and costly — the company needed a scalable, cloud‑native data management and backup solution.

eSilicon implemented Cohesity DataPlatform for Cloud and DataProtect on Google Cloud (working with Elastifile), migrating over 10 billion files, managing global Cohesity clusters from a single pane, and archiving inactive data to Google Coldline. The deployment delivered 2:1 compression, a threefold lower TCO versus alternatives, reduced recurring storage costs, faster recovery, scalable global management and self‑service capabilities for engineers.

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Naidu Annamaneni

CIO and Vice President of Global IT