Cohesity to Join Cisco’s SolutionsPlus Program, Offering Enterprises a Complete Primary and Secondary Data Solution From a Single Source

Cohesity, the leader of hyperconverged
secondary storage, today announced that it has joined Cisco’s
SolutionsPlus program. As a result, Cohesity software will be added to
Cisco’s Global Price List. This gives Cisco’s direct and channel sales
network the ability to offer Cohesity’s modern
backup and recovery capabilities together with Cisco Unified
Computing System (UCS) and Cisco HyperFlex
from a single source. The Cisco SolutionsPlus agreement includes joint
sales, marketing, service and support investments, and alignment of
product roadmaps.

This growing demand for a joint solution from Cohesity and Cisco comes
as customers globally struggle with mass
data fragmentation — the growing proliferation of data across
locations, silos, and management systems that drives up IT costs and
complexity, and prevents organizations from fully realizing their data’s
value. To help companies address this challenge, Cohesity has pioneered
a modern web-scale platform that consolidates data silos and
dramatically simplifies management on-premises and in multi-cloud
environments.

“Cisco is a world-class leader in compute, storage, networking, and
security, and has established itself as a strategic business partner for
enterprises of all sizes,” said Terry Ramos, vice president, alliances,
Cohesity. “In Cisco, we have a partner that shares our vision of
eliminating mass data fragmentation. Our integrated architecture, with
Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco UCS, brings together innovative platforms that
consolidate data silos and derive more insights from data.”

A Complete Data Solution on Cisco UCS

Over 55,000 customers globally rely on Cisco UCS and HyperFlex for
world-class data center infrastructure. Through the partnership with
Cisco, Cohesity enables those customers to consolidate secondary data
silos on Cisco UCS.

Increasingly, customers are recognizing the architectural synergy of the
Cohesity DataPlatform and Cisco HyperFlex to simplify and modernize
their primary and secondary data and apps, respectively. With the
launch of a new Cisco
Validated Design (CVD), customers can protect primary data from
Cisco HyperFlex clusters and do more with secondary data on a Cisco
UCS-based Cohesity platform — all as one unified architecture. As a
result, customers can reduce costs, complexity, and security risks,
accelerate compliance, and derive more value from their data.

“We are excited to take our relationship with Cohesity to reseller
status with Cisco’s world-class go-to-market capabilities,” said Vijay
Venugopal, senior director, product management, HyperFlex, Cisco.
“Through the new solution, Cisco and Cohesity can offer the entire data
stack for both primary and secondary data in an integrated architecture,
which unlocks amazing new opportunities for customers.”

The Cohesity-Cisco offer allows the following benefits to customers and
partners:

• For customers
  • One stop shop: Purchase a complete Cohesity and Cisco solution via
    a single Cisco purchase order.
  • Validated: Be assured that the Cohesity-Cisco solution has been
    validated, and will deliver stringent service-level objectives and
    optimal business results.
  • Global sourcing: Tap into Cisco and its network of partners for
    domestic procurement across the globe.

• For partners
  • Streamlined quoting and delivery process: Deliver a pre-validated
    Cohesity solution as easily and simply as any Cisco product.
  • Expanded market opportunity: Access to new buying centers in the
    growing, $60 billion secondary data and apps market.

“At Trace3, we take pride in introducing our customers to disruptive
technology and bringing Cohesity solutions to enterprises as one of the
first Cohesity channel partners,” said Kristin Struttmann, vice
president, partner organization, Trace3. “With Cohesity joining the
Cisco SolutionsPlus program, we can deliver an innovative Cohesity and
Cisco hyperconverged solution more quickly and simply for the benefit of
our enterprise customers.”

The global reseller agreement is the latest chapter in a growing
relationship between Cohesity and Cisco.

• Cisco selected Cohesity
  DataProtect for disaster recovery of critical services on the
  Cisco Live network at the recent Cisco Live EMEA 2019 event in
  Barcelona. Cisco chose Cohesity because of ease of deployment and
  exceptional backup and instant mass restore capabilities.
• Cisco has completed a CVD with direct snapshot integration for Cisco
  HyperFlex, offering IT prescriptive guidance for deploying a modern
  data protection solution.
• Cohesity continues to expand choices for certified Cisco UCS nodes.
  With the recent support of Cisco UCS S3260 half- and full-storage
  configurations, and Cisco UCS C220 M5 servers, customers can stay with
  their preferred Cisco hardware.
• Cisco has been a strategic investor in Cohesity for Series C and
  Series D rounds.

“The elevated partnership between Cisco and Cohesity will offer
enterprise-critical applications seamless protection based on modern
backup technology,” said Steven Hill, senior analyst, 451 Research.
“This new, jointly certified solution will be available directly from
Cisco and its worldwide network of partners, and will immediately expand
Cohesity’s global reach into large enterprises while enriching Cisco's
data protection portfolio.”

The joint solutions will be available for all customers worldwide on
March 15, 2019.

For more information:

• Read about “Realizing Data’s Full Value” on Cisco’s
  blog.
• Read about Data Protection on Cohesity’s
  blog.
• Read about the Cisco Validated Design on Cohesity’s
  blog.
• Check out Cisco
  HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection – Cisco Validated Design.
• Check out the Cisco product page on Cohesity’s
  website.
• Review the solution
  brief.
• Learn more about Cisco’s HyperFlex
  Hyperconverged Solution.

About Cohesity

Cohesity makes your data work for you by consolidating secondary storage
silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that spans both
private and public clouds. Enterprise customers begin by radically
streamlining their backup and data protection, then converge file and
object services, test/dev instances, and analytic functions to provide a
global data store. Cohesity counts many Global 1000 companies and
federal agencies among its rapidly growing customer base and was named
to Forbes’ “Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2017,” LinkedIn’s “Startups:
The 50 Industry Disruptors You Need to Know Now,” and CRN’s “2017
Emerging Vendors in Storage” lists. For more information, visit our
website www.cohesity.com
and blog https://cohesity.com/blog/,
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