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Cohesity and Spectra Logic:  Data protection and retention at scale with object-based tape

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OVERVIEW

Spectra and Cohesity

Cohesity’s integration with Spectra Logic gives enterprises new options, greater flexibility and enhanced security for preserving their data.

Solution Overview

Cohesity and Spectra Logic have integrated a powerful suite of innovative technologies to address the evolving needs of data management. By leveraging Spectra Logic industry-leading object-based disk and tape storage solutions and Cohesity’s comprehensive data management platform, organizations can achieve unparalleled efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness in their data archiving strategies. Cohesity’s integration with Spectra Logic enables seamless interoperability between Cohesity Data Cloud and Spectra Logic object-based disk or object-based tape solutions. This integration ensures smooth data movement and management across the entire storage infrastructure.  

Key Benefits

  1. Automatic air-gapped copies for superior cyber resilience

  2. Seamlessly scales from terabytes to exabytes

  3. Data retention from days to decades

  4. More affordable than cloud or disk solutions

  5. Highest-performance tape solution available

Archiving to Spectra Logic hybrid cloud storage via the Amazon S3 Glacier API

Cohesity archiving solution integrated with Spectra Logic hybrid cloud storage via S3

Archiving to Spectra Logic object-based tape via Amazon S3 Glacier API

Archiving to Spectra Logic object-based tape via S3 Glacier

Object-based Disk Target

Spectra Logic as an Object-based Disk Target for incremental with periodic full and incremental forever backups:

Utilize Spectra Logic as an Amazon S3* compatible disk target, empowering organizations to archive data directly to Spectra Logic disk storage with the flexibility and scalability of cloud archiving. All data sent by Cohesity to Spectra Logic is source-side encrypted, ensuring robust security and protection against unauthorized access in transit and at rest. The Spectra Logic object-based disk solution can be expanded to include a tape library for long-term data retention.

  • Amazon S3 Compatibility: Spectra Logic provides an Amazon S3-compatible interface, allowing seamless integration with Cohesity’s Cloud Archive feature. This compatibility ensures that data can be archived directly to Spectra Logic’s disk storage using standard Amazon S3 protocols instead of through a file interface, simplifying the archival process and facilitating interoperability with Cohesity’s data management platform.
  • Disk and Tape Storage Flexibility: By leveraging Spectra Logic as an Amazon S3-compatible target, organizations gain flexibility in their storage infrastructure. Spectra Logic’s disk storage offers high-performance, scalable, and easily accessible storage capacity, enabling organizations to efficiently manage and access archived data as needed.
  • Scalability and Cloud Archiving: Spectra Logic disk storage solutions provide scalability to accommodate growing data volumes, making them ideal for cloud archiving. Organizations can seamlessly scale their archival storage capacity as data requirements evolve, ensuring cost-effective and efficient long-term data retention.
  • Data Management Integration: Cohesity’s integration with Spectra Logic enables centralized management of data archiving workflows. Administrators can easily configure Cohesity’s Cloud Archive feature to tier data to Spectra Logic’s disk storage, streamlining data lifecycle management and optimizing storage resources.

Object-Based Target

Spectra Logic as an object-based tape target for full backup with compression and encryption backups to tape

Leverage Spectra Logic object-based tape storage via the Amazon S3 Glacier API from Cohesity for direct writing and restoration of data to and from tape. With compression support, organizations can optimize storage utilization and reduce costs without compromising data integrity. The Amazon S3 Glacier interface simplifies integration, provides fast speed, and extends immutability to a new level with a true physical air gap to thwart ransomware attacks.

  • Amazon S3 Compatibility: Spectra Logic provides an Amazon S3-compatible interface, allowing seamless integration with Cohesity’s Cloud Archive feature. This compatibility ensures that data can be archived directly to Spectra Logic’s disk storage using standard Amazon S3 protocols instead of through a file interface, simplifying the archival process and facilitating interoperability with Cohesity’s data management platform.
  • Disk and Tape Storage Flexibility: By leveraging Spectra Logic as an Amazon S3-compatible target, organizations gain flexibility in their storage infrastructure. Spectra Logic’s disk storage offers high-performance, scalable, and easily accessible storage capacity, enabling organizations to efficiently manage and access archived data as needed.
  • Scalability and Cloud Archiving: Spectra Logic disk storage solutions provide scalability to accommodate growing data volumes, making them ideal for cloud archiving. Organizations can seamlessly scale their archival storage capacity as data requirements evolve, ensuring cost-effective and efficient long-term data retention.
  • Data Management Integration: Cohesity’s integration with Spectra Logic enables centralized management of data archiving workflows. Administrators can easily configure Cohesity’s Cloud Archive feature to tier data to Spectra Logic’s disk storage, streamlining data lifecycle management and optimizing storage resources.

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