Case Study: Nationwide achieves $2M annual savings and rapid VM recovery with Cohesity

Fortune 75 Insurer Increases Resilience and Saves $2M Annually with Cohesity

Nationwide, a large Fortune 75 insurer, needed to modernize its IT to support digital customer and agent services while managing more than 21 PB of data across three data centers and two public clouds (growing 10–15% annually). The IT team faced slow, complex legacy backups that could take months to restore thousands of virtual machines after a large outage and risked business continuity and operational disruption from smaller incidents or failed patches.

Nationwide selected Cohesity (DataProtect and SmartFiles) to consolidate backups, replace legacy NAS, and streamline operations; the migration of data center backups took six months. As a result, recovery times shrank from months to days for large outages and from hours to minutes for smaller restores, the company saves about $2 million annually, migrations were 75% faster than before, and a smaller team now manages more data with simpler, unified tools.

Nationwide

Guru Vasudeva

Infrastructure and Operations