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Cohesity NAS Protect for Pure

FlashBlade: Simple, Scalable

Data Protection

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Executive overview

Pure Storage FlashBlade is the industry’s first all-flash, scale-out file storage

purpose-built for high-performance file and object storage. It provides

unparalleled performance across a broad range of workloads, from small,

metadata-heavy workloads to large streaming files. It scales out to provide

petabytes of capacity and fast access to billions of objects and files.

Cohesity provides a hyperconverged platform designed to protect primary

data and storage systems, including FlashBlade, and to consolidate

secondary storage use cases. The Cohesity solution includes distributed

scale-out storage with best-in-class space eciency, and converged data

protection.

Cohesity NAS Protect provides native integration with Pure Storage

FlashBlade to deliver a simple, scalable solution to protect files and objects

stored on FlashBlade. Cohesity automatically backs up files and objects

using pre-defined data protection policies. The solution leverages the

web-scale architecture of Cohesity to protect and manage large volumes

of backup data. On Cohesity, the data is globally deduped and each

incremental is kept safe in an immutable snapshot. Data can be recovered

instantaneously to any point in time through direct mount of Cohesity

volumes, and furthermore, users can create instant volume clones to

support test/dev processes. Customers have the option of archiving or

replicating data to the public cloud or any NFS / S3 compatible storage for

long-term retention and o-site protection.

Cohesity Overview: Simple Data

Protection from Edge to Cloud

Cohesity delivers a web-scale platform that consolidates secondary

storage and data services onto one unified, ecient solution. All on a

software-defined platform that spans from the edge to the cloud. It

includes the following components:

• Cohesity DataPlatform can be used as a scale-out, globally

deduped backup target for your existing backup software such

as Veeam or Veritas NetBackup.

• Cohesity DataProtect provides a backup and recovery solution

that replaces traditional backup, replication, disaster recovery and

cloud tiering. DataProtect runs converged on DataPlatform and is

managed through the same UI and APIs. It provides very fast

sub-5 minute RPOs and instantaneous RTOs.

• Cohesity NAS Protect for Pure Storage provides direct integration

between Cohesity and Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade. It

enables data protection directly from Pure Storage arrays down

to Cohesity DataPlatform to simplify data protection, reduce costs

and improve availability.

Solution Highlights

• Cohesity NAS Protect provides

simple, scale-out data protection that

can handle the large volumes of data

stored on Pure Storage FlashBlade

• Automate data protection with

Cohesity retention policies

• Provide high-performance backups by

transferring only changed blocks with

parallel, multi-stream transfers

• Reduce overall data protection

costs by 50% or more with global

deduplication and compression

• Keep each incremental backup safe in

an immutable snapshot

• Provide instant recovery to any point

in time and to any file storage

• Integrate natively with public cloud

and any NFS / S3 storage for long-

term archival and replication

• Accelerate test/dev processes by

using Cohesity to instantly provision

zero-cost clones

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Cloud

Cloud Edition

Dataplatform

Virtual DatabasesPhysical

DataPlatform

DataProtect

Hyperconverged Nodes

Pure®

FlashArray

FlashBlade

ROBO/Edge

Virtual Edition

Dataplatform

With Cohesity, enterprises can:

• Simplify data protection: Replace multiple data protection silos (target storage, media servers, master servers, cloud

gateways) with a single converged solution

• Protect Pure Storage arrays: Integrate directly with Pure Storage arrays by using Cohesity NAS Protect for Pure Storage.

Protect data from FlashArray and FlashBlade down to Cohesity

• Improve space eciency with global dedupe and compression

• Provide sub-5 minute RPOs and instantaneous RTOs

• Simplify upgrades and expansion with a scale-out architecture

• Build a multicloud data fabric with native cloud integration for archival, tiering and replication

• Reduce secondary storage TCO by 50% or more

NAS Protect for Pure FlashBlade

Customers need a high-performance, ecient way to protect large volumes of files on FlashBlade. Traditional NAS backup

approaches were designed more than 10 years ago and either rely on a proxy to mount NAS volumes or use NDMP to

eliminate the proxy. Both methods are relatively slow and rely on a single data stream to move the data. In addition, legacy

target storage doesn’t scale out and can’t keep up with the data volumes of scale-out solutions like Pure FlashBlade.

Policy-based

Automation

Parallelized file

walker and data mover

File-level

recovery to any

file volume

Pure Flashblade

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Cohesity NAS Protect for Pure FlashBlade provides a simple, high-performance, scalable solution to protect FlashBlade files

on Cohesity. Cohesity integrates natively with Pure Storage FlashBlade to automatically protect files and objects based

on pre-defined policies. Customers benefit from a second tier of storage for data protection, with global dedupe and

compression to maximize cost eciency. Customers can keep their most recent files and objects on Pure Storage for speed,

while storing long-term data on Cohesity secondary storage.

Cohesity NAS Protect integration with Pure FlashBlade consists of the following key capabilities:

• Automate data protection using policies defined in Cohesity

• When FlashBlade volume snapshots are available, Cohesity uses these snaps for data protection to minimize the

impact on production volumes.

• When FlashBlade volume snapshots are not available, Cohesity mounts the live volumes.

• NAS Protect provides a parallel file walker to identify changed files and changed data, to only transfer incremental

changes.

• Ability to perform incremental-forever backups, while rehydrating the data on the Cohesity file system.

• Parallel, multi-stream data transfers from FlashBlade to Cohesity

• Maintain each incremental backup as an immutable snapshot on Cohesity

• Enable instant restore to any previous point in time, and to the original FlashBlade array or to any other file volume

Once the data is protected on Cohesity, it can be put to productive use. Customers can create instant clones of protected

files to support test/dev processes, or export the data to another file storage device. The data can also be replicated to the

public cloud or to another Cohesity cluster for o-site test/dev and data protection.

Cohesity + Pure = Better Data Protection for FlashBlade

Simpler, more scalable data protection

NAS Protect eliminates the bottlenecks associated with traditional NAS backups, and provides next-generation data

protection to keep up with the speed and scalability of FlashBlade. NAS Protect eliminates the need for a separate proxy

and NDMP. Instead, the entire process is automated via policies set in Cohesity, and customers benefit from converged data

protection + target storage in one unified solution. NAS Protect also replaces the traditional ‘single data stream’ approach

with a much more scalable parallel file walker and data mover.

Independent, secure data protection

Data residing on FlashBlade needs to be protected on a second tier of storage. When data is only residing on FlashBlade, it

could be lost forever if the array becomes unavailable.

By protecting files on Cohesity, customers benefit from a second level of protection. Even if the Pure array becomes

unavailable, data can still be recovered from Cohesity secondary storage. And Cohesity can protect data o-site with

replication or archiving, ensuring data continues to be available even if the entire site is lost.

Instant recoveries to any FlashBlade array or file volume

With traditional backup software, recovery times are typically in the 10s of minutes or hours, because full backups must be

reconstructed and data has to be moved back to primary storage.

Cohesity provides instant recovery to any point in time by keeping each backup as a fully hydrated snapshot on Cohesity.

Customers can directly access their files on Cohesity, or recover files to any FlashBlade array or file volume.

Reduce overall data protection costs

Business imperatives and compliance / regulatory mandates require data to be retained for longer periods of time making

it very expensive and thus impractical to retain them in all-flash primary environments. By tiering data to Cohesity, which

provides best-in-class space eciency, customers can reduce their overall data protection costs by 50% or more.

Recover to any Pure Storage FlashBlade or file volume

Snapshots can be recovered from Cohesity to any PureStorage FlashBlade array, either in the same site or in an alternate DR

site. Alternatively, data can be recovered to any other file volume.

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Integrate natively with the public cloud for long-term archival and replication

Cohesity provides native integration with the public cloud for long-term data retention. Customers can use Cohesity

to move their longer-term data to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Or Google Cloud. These snapshots can then be recovered by

Cohesity and restored to any Pure Storage FlashBlade, providing eective long-term data archival and Disaster Recovery

protection.

Accelerate test/dev processes with Copy Data Management

Cohesity provides the ability to instantaneously clone any snapshot at zero cost. These snapshots can then be presented

to developers either directly on Cohesity, or moved to a dedicated test/dev array. This process can be done very quickly

and eliminates any potential impact on production applications. Developers can have faster access to their development

environments. And the test/dev copies can be provided to any point-in-time available in the backup snapshots, for more

ecient debugging and problem solving.

Cohesity, Inc.

Address 451 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050

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