Case Study: Valley Proteins achieves a Software‑Defined Data Center, near‑instant recovery and lower TCO with Cohesity

Valley Proteins protects their data center with Cohesity simplified, web-scale Hyperconverged Secondary Storage solution

Valley Proteins, a 70‑year‑old recycling company that converts animal processing waste into feed ingredients, needed to modernize its data center to support growing workloads. Its Dell EMC Avamar/Data Domain secondary storage was reaching capacity and was costly and complex to manage; the IT team sought a scale‑out, easy‑to‑manage software‑defined solution that would deliver lower TCO and match the flash performance they had on primary storage.

The team replaced Avamar/Data Domain with Cohesity DataProtect on DataPlatform, consolidating backup software and target storage and integrating with Pure Storage for automated snapshots and long‑term retention. The new platform simplified operations, enabled web‑scale growth, cut recovery points to under five minutes, delivered 4x faster recovery in a proof‑of‑concept, and reduced capital and operating costs.

Valley Proteins

Bradley Wilton

IT Director