Case Study: DK Software achieves 100% reliability, 80% faster backups and improved storage efficiency with Cohesity

Iceland’s DK Software Switch to Cohesity Increases Reliability, Ease Of Use, and Capacity Efficiency

DK Software is an Icelandic IT provider serving about 5,000 small and midsized businesses (roughly 8,000 users) across retail, hospitality and accounting. Faced with an outsourced backup service that limited control and slowed restores, the company wanted simplification, greater ownership of data, and a self-service restore capability so non-expert staff could quickly recover client systems without relying on senior engineers.

DK Software replaced its prior solution with Cohesity, deploying an active–passive, two‑site setup (four nodes, 96 TB) with replication and an air gap. The move delivered faster, more frequent backups (from 24‑hour to 4‑hour cycles today, with 2‑hour planned), 80% faster backup/restore performance for critical services, about 3x better storage efficiency, simple self-service restores, 100% reliability, and an expected ROI in 1.5–2 years.

DK Software

Þorvaldur Hafdal

System Manager