Intelligent NAS solution simplifies file management and reduces costs

Network attached storage (NAS) solutions traditionally require multiple systems and a relatively complex infrastructure.

Cohesity is launching a software-defined solution for NAS that simplifies things and provides a new level of intelligence, security, scalability and storage efficiency.

Called SmartFiles it can be used for applications including collaboration and productivity, large-scale document management, life sciences and medical research, digital archives, video and surveillance, and more.

Apps built to support the NAS ecosystem are integrated within the Cohesity DataPlatform. Available through the Cohesity MarketPlace, apps such as antivirus, file audit with anomalous access detection, and content search can all be run directly on the platform. Traditional NAS implementations often require organizations to purchase and run separate infrastructure to accomplish these same tasks.

The SmartFiles solution also provides layers of cybersecurity to guard against security threats. These include end-to-end software encryption, multi-factor authentication, an immutable file system, data-lock, and other security benefits.

An enterprise search feature allows users to search for and within files across an entire site. Using the optional Cohesity Helios, searches can be extended to multiple sites as well as across Cohesity instances running in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Thanks to advanced deduplication, compression, and small file capacity optimization, SmartFiles also makes more effective use of storage capacity and therefore reduces costs.

"Cohesity SmartFiles represents a paradigm-shift for file and object services. It is the first unstructured data solution that bring apps to the data, giving customers the ability to easily run antivirus, file audit, and content search natively on the platform," says David Noy, vice president, product management at Cohesity. "SmartFiles also provides boundless scale, exceptional capacity efficiency, robust cybersecurity, and transparent heterogeneous data tiering that transcends traditional scale-out NAS appliances."

You can find out more on the Cohesity site.

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