IBM and Cohesity have collaborated on a solution that increases data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. IBM Storage Defender Solution combines both companies’ data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities.
IBM and Cohesity have collaborated on a solution that increases data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. IBM Storage Defender Solution combines both companies’ data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities.
IBM Storage Defender is designed to leverage AI and event monitoring across multiple storage platforms through a single pane of glass to protect an organization’s data layer from ransomware, human error, and sabotage. It also features cyber vault and clean room features with automated recovery functions to restore business-critical data in hours or minutes from what used to take days.
IBM Security recently released its Cost of a Data Breach Report revealing costlier and higher-impact data breaches. The global average cost of a data breach has reached an all-time high of $4.35 million for organizations in the report, a nearly 13 percent increase over the last two years of the report. The report noted that hybrid cloud environments were most prevalent at 45 percent of the reported organizations. However, businesses with a hybrid cloud model observed lower breach costs ($3.8 million) compared with companies with only public ($5.02 million) or private cloud models ($4.24 million).
IBM Storage Defender is architected to allow customers to find the most recent clean copy of data quickly. It is IBM’s first offering that combines multiple IBM and third-party solutions unifying primary, secondary replication, and backup management. Leveraging advanced storage capabilities, such as IBM Storage FlashSystem Safeguarded Copy for logical air gap, can help companies recover mission-critical data within hours of an attack. Cohesity delivers virtual machine protection managed in the hybrid cloud. Cohesity on-premises cluster, managed with a cloud-based control plane, supports a multi-vendor strategy optimized for data recovery.
IBM Storage Defender will include the following:
- IBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect): comprehensive data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and a wide range of applications (including SaaS-based workloads), where organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server.
- IBM Storage FlashSystem: a cyber-resilient, all-flash and hybrid storage platform for performance and capacity-intensive workloads.
- IBM Storage Fusion: container-native storage and data orchestration for Red Hat OpenShift for modern and next-generation applications.
- Cohesity DataProtect: comprehensive protection for traditional and modern data sources on a multicloud platform. Cohesity DataProtect is engineered so clients can instantly recover at scale, across environments. Cohesity DataProtect positions clients to copy and store data in multiple locations in onsite or offsite servers, or multiple clouds. This helps to ensure that an up-to-date and accurate copy of data is available in the event of a cyber security breach or disaster.
By integrating Cohesity with IBM Storage Defender, IBM clients gain new modern scale-out architecture secured-by-design and easy SaaS-based cyber vaulting capabilities. Companies can take advantage of their existing IBM investments while simplifying operations and reducing operating expenses.
Client data is a uniquely valuable resource and can be a significant competitive advantage. The increase in data means more management complexity. The combination of IBM and Cohesity brings a simple approach to cyber-resilient data security and management with the ability to manage everything in one place, leveraging a zero-trust approach. The solution will help detect, protect, and rapidly recover from ransomware attacks and use built-in AI-powered decision-making to facilitate action.
IBM plans to make the new IBM Storage Defender solution available in the second quarter of 2023, beginning with IBM Storage Protect and Cohesity DataProtect. IBM Storage Defender will be sold and supported by IBM as well as through authorized IBM Business Partners.
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