Case Study: Novartis achieves 50% reduction in data management costs with Cohesity

Novartis Cuts Data Center Costs in Half with Cohesity and AWS

Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, the scientific‑research arm of Novartis, needed to move to a cloud‑first model but was constrained by legacy Data Domain backups that required extensive manual effort, risky restores, and a costly forklift upgrade. Seeking simplicity, data consistency, immutability and rapid recovery, the team evaluated solutions and selected a platform that would natively integrate with AWS.

Novartis deployed Cohesity for backup and recovery across three sites and tiered replicated data to AWS (S3, then Glacier), automating management of more than 3 PB across 72 nodes and eliminating on‑prem data center hardware. The rollout delivered a 50% reduction in data management costs, 5x faster restores, improved IT productivity with self‑service recoveries, and strengthened ransomware protection and business continuity.

Novartis

Amit Singh

Senior Storage Architect