Case Study: Large Online Retailing Company reduces backup windows, accelerates test/dev and saves 80% on CapEx with Cohesity

Large Online Retailer Reduces Backup Windows, Accelerates Test/Dev, Archives and Tiers to the Cloud, and Saves 80% on CapEx with Cohesity

A large online retailer with about 1,200 employees, multiple remote offices and fulfillment centers, and a catalog of 30,000 specialty products faced fragmented, hard-to-scale secondary storage and inefficient backups—poor deduplication/compression, growing target storage limits, and operational complexity that slowed recovery and test/dev workflows. The team needed better capacity efficiency, simple scale-out, easy management, and reliable enterprise support.

They deployed Cohesity’s web-scale hyperconverged secondary storage integrated with VMware and AWS (CloudReplicate/CloudTier), enabling policy-based VM backups, instant zero-cost copies for test/dev, and cloud archiving. The result: unified, easy-to-manage secondary storage, automated VM protection and on-appliance recoveries, ~30% faster backups and reduced backup windows, and roughly 80% lower CapEx.