Case Study: HNL Lab Medicine achieves 100% ROI in 12 months and Microsoft 365 protection with Cohesity

HNL Achieves ROI in 12 Months, Adds Protection to Microsoft 365 with Agile Dev/Test

HNL Lab Medicine, a 24/7 healthcare lab serving millions of patients, modernized its data center on Nutanix and found its legacy Veeam backup no longer fit the security‑conscious, software‑driven environment. Faced with protecting on‑prem workloads (VDI, SQL clusters, Windows servers, IBM AIX/Sunquest) and rapidly growing Microsoft 365 data, and requiring immutable, air‑gapped backups, HNL evaluated solutions and selected the Cohesity Helios platform after extensive testing.

Deploying Cohesity for on‑prem and cloud data management simplified backups, enabled fast SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams recoveries, and let developers spin up sandboxes via zero‑cost cloning. The result: 100% ROI in under 12 months, a 50% reduction in backup/storage footprint, 100% uptime of backup windows, reduced staffing needs, faster time to market for dev/test, and stronger security and long‑term retention for SaaS and on‑prem workloads.

HNL Lab Medicine

Harvey Guindi

Chief Information Officer