Case Study: Forsyth County Schools achieves stronger data security and up to 50% lower TCO with Cohesity DataProtect and FortKnox

Forsyth County Schools boosts data security and cuts TCO up to 50% with Cohesity

Forsyth County Schools, a large Georgia district supporting tens of thousands of students, staff, and hundreds of terabytes of data, faced rising cyber risk and an aging backup platform as their Veeam contract came up for renewal. With limited IT resources, the district needed stronger, faster, and more reliable protection for sensitive student and staff records against increasingly sophisticated ransomware that could compromise backups.

FCS replaced Veeam with Cohesity DataProtect and Cohesity FortKnox, adding cloud-based, virtually air-gapped vaulting, ML-based anomaly detection, and simpler management. The change delivered 100% data coverage and cut common restore times from hours to minutes, lowered data management and support costs by up to 50%, and helped reduce cyber-insurance premiums by up to 35% while doubling policy coverage.

Forsyth County Schools

Tim Fleming

Director of Technology Services