Case Study: Leading SaaS Provider achieves over $1M/year in cost savings and faster DR with Cohesity

Leading SaaS Provider Realizes Savings of over $1M Per Year with Cohesity

A leading public SaaS provider serving more than 1,000 customers — including many Fortune 100 firms — operates four global data centers and retains customer data indefinitely. The company needed an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery solution to meet strict SLAs (12‑hour RTO, 8‑hour RPO), support a growing ingestion rate (~1 TB/day), enable reliable cloud sync for business continuity, and reduce mounting AWS costs (over $150K/month) while preserving a dependable archive for its Full Model Load (FML) test process.

After a PoC, the company deployed Cohesity DataPlatform on-premises and Cohesity Cloud Edition in AWS (running on EC2), replacing reliance on Amazon EFS. The result: immediate and ongoing savings of more than $150K per month, migration of over 220 TB to Cohesity, deduplication ratios up to 10:1, RTO/RPO reduced to hours (exceeding SLAs), and improved FML testing performance (Cohesity NFS on EBS showed up to 5× better FML performance versus EFS) along with streamlined hybrid-cloud DR and archival.