“Data is growing, every day, every year, big time! When we deploy technologies today, most IT users want them to be able to scale as their data grows,” said Sheena Chin, Managing Director, ASEAN, Cohesity, at a recent media event in Singapore.
The problem is that as data grows, it presents a slew of new data management challenges. There are three key obstacles, according to Sathish Murthy, Director of Systems Engineering Cohesity ASEAN/India:
- Managing costs in uncertain times: CapEx reductions/cash preservation. Maintenance renewals and upgrade costs. Shift to OpEx while improving predictability and delivering modernisation.
- Complexity of managing infrastructure “in-person”: Lack of resources to manage infrastructure. Mandate to move to the cloud quickly but hard to keep up. Increased risk of cyber attacks with hidden attack surfaces. Increased need for data integrity.
- Point solutions trap dark data in silos: Separate solutions for on-premises, cloud, and more. Remote and branch offices add to the complexity. Dark data is trapped in silos that remain idle. Incoming regulations put more pressure on the visibility and audit of data.
This is one of the areas where Cohesity, one of the industry leaders in next-gen data management excels. In recent years, the company has been fine-tuning its solutions to ensure that enterprises’ data management problems are solved, and protected and that it can help them expand and scale as needed.
During the media event, Cohesity announced the release of another offering that is aimed at addressing these challenges and making data management even simpler for digitally transforming businesses, expanding the availability of its Data Management-as-a-Service (DMaaS) solution to customers in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia.
DMaaS is a portfolio of ‘Software-as-a-Service’ (SaaS) services designed to make backing up, securing, governing, and analysing data a breeze for enterprise and mid-size customers. The underlying DMaaS infrastructure is managed by Cohesity, which hosts the offerings on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.
Customers in Singapore and Southeast Asia can now access two DMaaS offerings from Cohesity:
- BaaS: Cohesity DataProtect delivered as-a-Service is a Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering that gives customers another easy way to back up their data on-premises or in cloud environments. As with the Cohesity DataProtect on-premises solution, the BaaS offering delivers support for an array of cloud workloads including Microsoft 365 SaaS applications, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and compute infrastructure, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and on-premises data sources such as Virtual Machines (VMs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and databases.
- Cohesity FortKnox: Cohesity FortKnox is a SaaS data isolation and recovery solution that can play a critical role in helping organisations minimise the impact of cyber attacks such as ransomware.
Looking at the threat data landscape, Sheena believes it’s a no-brainer that ransomware is on the rise. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, the cost of cybercrime is expected to reach USD $10.5 Trillion by 2025, with a typical ransomware attack costing 10x – 15x more than the ransom.
Therefore, compliance concerns have grown significantly as well. She stated that regulators from all around Southeast Asia are becoming increasingly concerned about ensuring that the key players in the industry, particularly the banking industry, and government agencies, in general, are complying with data management regulations.
Hence, with Cohesity FortKnox, customers can strengthen cyber resiliency, which provides an isolated and immutable copy of data in a Cohesity-managed cloud vault. Organisations can use this copy to confidently recover from attacks if necessary. Cohesity FortKnox is a modern “3-2-1” alternative that delivers off-site protection while drastically simplifying operations and cutting expenses when compared to magnetic tape and self-managed data vaults. Organisations can connect, vault, and recover with Cohesity FortKnox while also meeting strict recovery Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and regulatory requirements.
“We have a solution that is quite unique. Our Data Management-as-a-Service and FortKnox-as-a-Service provide customers with a one-of-a-kind ability to boost revenue. Second, you can see that every single country has a larger potential market when we talk about security and ransomware protection. Third, our gold market approach – all of them have significant gains for our partner community, particularly our channel, and are seen as having significant value for many enterprise customers,” Sathish concludes.
