Case Study: Haute-Garonne Departmental Council achieves streamlined data security and rapid recovery with Cohesity

French Authority streamlines data security and management with Cohesity

The Conseil Départemental de Haute‑Garonne, a French public authority responsible for services across 586 communes, struggled with a sprawling mix of data types—from building plans and archives to social aid files—and an aging backup system. Disparate formats and manual backup processes made restores slow and complex, required specialist skills, and left the organisation concerned about scalability and ransomware protection.

Cohesity’s DataProtect (including as‑a‑service) delivered unified backup for on‑premises and Microsoft 365 data, shrinking backup jobs from about 150 to 15 and cutting daily administration from hours to minutes. Indexed, granular searches sped recoveries, monitoring alerts dropped from two hours to five minutes, and staff could self‑serve restores without extra training—resulting in stronger security, streamlined operations, and faster, more reliable data protection.

Haute Garonne Departmental Council

Jean-Philippe Rutault

Head of Engineering, Systems & Production