Case Study: The Southport School achieves stronger data security and faster recovery with Cohesity DataProtect as a service

The Southport School fortifies data security with Cohesity

The Southport School needed a better way to protect its Microsoft 365 mailboxes after its Veeam-on-premises setup became costly to scale, time-consuming to manage, and too slow to restore data as cloud adoption grew. With growing security and compliance concerns, the school wanted a stronger backup approach for its student, faculty, and administrative data. Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service was selected to help solve this challenge.

Cohesity implemented a fully managed backup-as-a-service solution for The Southport School’s M365 mailboxes, creating an isolated cloud-to-cloud copy in AWS through Cohesity Cloud Services. The result was reduced reliance on expensive on-prem storage, simpler backup management, and mailbox recovery times cut from days to minutes. The Cohesity solution also improved data security and helped The Southport School more easily qualify for cybersecurity insurance.

The Southport School

Richard Humphreys

IT Manager