Case Study: Stockport NHS Foundation Trust achieves backup simplicity, enhanced cybersecurity, and improved data governance with Cohesity

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Lowers Risk with Cybersecurity and Data Governance

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, a UK healthcare provider, faced a critical backup and recovery challenge after re‑architecting its IT into a software‑defined data centre. Growing backup failures, complex restore processes, regulatory and data‑security demands (including ISO 27001 requirements) and a prior ransomware incident left the small IT team struggling for a simpler, more secure, and compliant solution.

Working with CDW, the Trust deployed Cohesity on Cisco infrastructure to consolidate backups under a single management console. The joint solution delivered faster, incremental point‑in‑time restores (reducing recovery from days to hours or minutes), immutable/WORM protection and anomaly detection for ransomware, easier capacity planning, dev/test cloning, and reduced operational overhead—improving security, governance and the team’s efficiency while lowering costs.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Bhekimpi Sibanda

IT Technical Architect