Case Study: Cobalt Iron achieves modern, scalable data protection with IBM Spectrum Protect

Delivering modern data protection with cloud scale backup from Cobalt Iron and IBM

Cobalt Iron, a developer of cloud-scale data protection solutions, faced the challenge of helping its enterprise clients modernize their legacy data protection environments. These organizations were struggling with the uncontrolled growth of data and applications, which led to complex, costly, and time-consuming backup operations managed through multiple vendor solutions. To address this, Cobalt Iron worked with IBM and leveraged IBM Spectrum Protect as the core of its own software-defined backup solution.

The solution implemented by IBM empowered Cobalt Iron to deliver a robust, hybrid cloud-based data protection service. This resulted in significant benefits for their end clients, including up to a 75% reduction in backup costs, an 80% reduction in management times, and up to 92% faster restore times. IBM's technology enabled Cobalt Iron to achieve consistent backup success rates of 99.9% and reduce stored data by over 55% through deduplication, providing exceptional value and performance.

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Doug French

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