Case Study: City of Santa Barbara improves data security and simplifies backups with Cohesity

The City of Santa Monica Improves Data Security by Leveraging Cohesity for Backups and File and Object Services

The City of Santa Barbara, a public sector organization supporting critical 24x7 services, was struggling with an aging Commvault-based backup environment that was time-consuming to manage, difficult to scale, and needed stronger security and more consistent retention policies. The city evaluated several options and chose Cohesity for backup and recovery, file and object services, and hybrid cloud data protection.

Cohesity helped the City of Santa Barbara consolidate backup software, hardware, and cloud protection into a single platform using DataProtect and SmartFiles. The result was a more secure and easier-to-manage environment, with data management time reduced by over 90%, standardized retention schedules, and improved protection through immutability and multi-factor authentication.

City of Santa Barbara

Cazi Brasga

Information Technology Supervisor