Case Study: Gleaner Life Insurance Society achieves 20% more IT time with Cohesity file services and backups

Gleaner Life Insurance Society Reclaims 20% of IT Time

Gleaner Life Insurance Society, a not‑for‑profit fraternal insurer, faced growing IT strain as its decade‑old NAS reached end‑of‑life, manual tape backups consumed hours weekly, and legacy backups saturated network links—threatening branch performance and limiting time for other IT work. The insurer needed a modern, consolidated data management approach to reduce costs, speed backups, and handle rising unstructured data.

Gleaner deployed Cohesity’s converged platform for scale‑out NAS and VM/Microsoft 365 backups, eliminating tape and the old filer while gaining deduplication, compression and faster throughput. The change reclaimed 20% of IT time, cut costs by 30–40% versus competitors, achieved 8.7x data reduction (reducing 3.6 PB to 25.5 TB stored), improved branch performance, and enabled non‑intrusive upgrades and new protection capabilities.

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Josh Van Camp

Network Administration Supervisor