1. Remaking Secondary Storage
Trevor Cooper – Director of Sales UK & Ireland
@bitsandblocks
02 February 2017
working with

2. About Cohesity Mission to Redefine Secondary Storage
PROFILE
TRUSTED BY
Mission to Redefine Secondary Storage
Founded by Mohit Aron
Technical Founder - Nutanix
Lead Architect - Google File System
Backed by top-tier VCs
E.g., Sequoia, Google, and Accel
Experienced team
Nutanix, Google, VMware, EMC, NetApp
Dan Warmenhoven Ex NetApp CEO on board
Confidential & Proprietary

3. Primary Storage  Mission Critical
4/14/2018
The Storage Iceberg
Primary Storage  Mission Critical
Secondary Storage
Fragmented
File Shares
Test / Dev
Archiving
Inefficient
Analytics
Dark Data
Backups
Cloud
Confidential & Proprietary

4. What would your ideal secondary storage tier look like?
4/14/2018
What would your ideal secondary storage tier look like?
SCALE OUT PLATFORM (start small and grow infinitely)
GLOBAL DATA REDUCTION
FLEXIBLE – (NFS, SMB, S3, NTFS)
PLUG & PLAY – No Rip & Replace
SUPPORTS LEGACY APPS (Netbackup, Commvault etc)
NEXT GENERATION DATA MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
SOFTWARE DEFINED (Choice of x86 hardware on premise and in the cloud)
DATA PORTABILITY – move workloads easily between on-premise and cloud
COPY DATA MANAGEMENT – Dev/Test
BETTER SLAs – RPO measured in minutes, RTO measured in seconds
ANALYTICS from your backup data
RESILIENT – No Downtime Even for Software Upgrades
FUTURE PROOF – No Fork Life Upgrades
TCO – costs less than what you’re doing today
Confidential & Proprietary

5. Hyperconverged Secondary Storage
File Shares
Test / Dev
Archiving
Analytics
Backups
Cloud
Hyperconverged Secondary Storage
Confidential & Proprietary

6. Secondary Storage Is Complex
4/14/2018
Secondary Storage Is Complex
Virtual environments
Physical servers
Databases
SECONDARY STORAGE
Hardware silos
Fragmented dedupe
Fragmented
Inefficient
Dark data
Tape Library
Media Servers
Master Servers
Cloud
Target Storage
Cloud Gateway
Test / Dev
Analytics
Files & Objects

7. Cohesity | Distributed File System
QOS
NFS
SMB
Replication
Compression
Global Deduplication
Encryption
Data Journal
SnapTree
Metadata Manager
Disk Manager
Data Mover
Self-Healer
Lock Manager
Distributed Key-Value Store
OASIS
Cohesity Scalable Platform
Confidential & Proprietary

8. Simplify Secondary Storage with Cohesity
4/14/2018
Simplify Secondary Storage with Cohesity
Virtual environments
Physical servers
Databases
SECONDARY STORAGE
Tape Library
Media Servers
Master Servers
Cloud
Target Storage
Cloud Gateway
Web-scale platform for secondary data
Test / Dev
Analytics
Files & Objects

9. Consolidate secondary storage Simplify data protection
Summary
Consolidate secondary storage
Simplify data protection
Make data productive
Save >50% in total costs
Confidential & Proprietary