IBM and Cohesity announce New Data Security and Resiliency partnership Advancing Enterprises
CIOTechOutlook Team | Friday, 03 March 2023, 08:51 IST
IBM and Cohesity announced a new partnership to help enterprises with their urgent need for greater data security and resilience in hybrid cloud settings. Cohesity's data protection will be a key component of IBM's new IBM Storage Defender solution, which the company will introduce and which combines the data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities from both firms.
In order to secure enterprises' data layer from threats like ransomware, human error, and sabotage, IBM Storage Defender is being developed to make use of AI and event monitoring across heterogeneous storage platforms through a single pane of glass. It will also include cyber vault and clean room features with automatic recovery functions to assist businesses in restoring business-critical data in hours or minutes as opposed to the previous days.
The most recent Cost of a Data Breach Report from IBM Security revealed more expensive and high-impact data breaches than ever before, with the global average cost of a data breach for studied organisations reaching a record high of $4.35 million and rising by almost 13% over the report's last two years. 1 The analysis also showed that among the enterprises it surveyed, hybrid cloud systems were the most common infrastructure (45%).
Averaging $3.8 million in breach costs, businesses that adopted a hybrid cloud model observed lower breach costs compared to businesses with a solely public or private cloud model, which experienced $5.02 million and $4.24 million on average respectively.
The design of IBM Storage Defender allows users to quickly locate the most current, clean copy of their data. It is IBM's first product that unifies primary, secondary replication, and backup management across several IBM and outside-the-box solutions. In the case of an attack, utilising cutting-edge storage technologies, such as IBM Storage FlashSystem Safeguarded Copy for logical air gap, can assist businesses in quickly recovering their most crucial mission-critical data. Cohesity, the first such ecosystem integration, offers top-notch virtual machine protection that is administered in a hybrid cloud.
A multi-vendor strategy designed for data recovery is supported by the Cohesity on-premises cluster managed with a cloud-based control plane to enhance business continuity.
IBM Storage Defender will include:
Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server using IBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect), which offers full data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and a variety of applications (including SaaS-based workloads).
All-flash and hybrid storage platform for performance- and capacity-intensive workloads, the IBM Storage FlashSystem is cyber-resilient.
IBM Storage Fusion offers Red Hat OpenShift contemporary and next-generation apps container-native storage and data orchestration.
Cohesity DataProtect: complete multicloud protection for both old-school and new-school data sources. Clients of Cohesity DataProtect may rapidly recover at scale, across environments. Cohesity DataProtect places clients in a position to copy and store data in several servers, whether on-site or off-site, or in various clouds. This makes sure that in the event of a cyber security breach or disaster, whether caused by a natural disaster or human error, there is always a current and exact copy of the data available.
"Data protection solutions like IBM Storage Defender are designed to support the deployment diversity, virtualization, containerization, and self-service that are among the requirements of the modern data center," said Phil Goodwin, Research Vice President, IDC. "Together, IBM and Cohesity are combining their capabilities to build a foundation to reduce data fragmentation, maximize availability, and improve business resiliency for companies' hybrid cloud environments."
Cohesity and IBM Storage Defender are integrated, giving IBM clients innovative, secure-by-design scale-out architecture and simple SaaS-based cyber vaulting capabilities. Businesses will be able to benefit from their current IBM investments thanks to IBM Storage Defender, which will also greatly simplify operations and cut operational costs.
"Protecting against ransomware and other forms of malware requires a layered approach to data resiliency that involves early detection, automated protection, and rapid recovery," said Denis Kennelly, General Manager, IBM Storage. "Fighting sophisticated threats to data is a team sport. When we looked at the overall market, we were impressed by the Cohesity platform and team's differentiated focus on scalability, simplicity, and security. By integrating our leading software-defined technologies, I am excited to bring essential cyber resiliency capabilities to IBM clients. Cyberattacks are on the rise, but data can be protected and restored when you are prepared."
Data from a client is a particularly useful resource that can provide you a big competitive edge. But, the more data there is, the harder it is to handle. Data is more precious than ever due to the fast growing threat of ransomware and other online attacks. The partnership between IBM and Cohesity offers a revolutionary, yet very straightforward, way to managing and protecting cyber-resilient data. This includes having everything under one roof, utilising a zero trust strategy designed to assist identify, safeguard against, and quickly recover from ransomware attacks, and employing AI-powered built-in decision-making to enable action.
"We have deep respect for IBM's brand and reputation in the market. Cohesity's technology leadership position in data security and management, combined with IBM's impressive storage portfolio, forward-looking vision, global reach, and client intimacy will allow clients to benefit from the best of Cohesity and IBM brought together," said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity. "We're honored and pleased to work with IBM to help organizations strengthen their cyber resilience in the face of evolving sophisticated adversaries, and look forward to building the relationship to benefit many clients across the world."
Beginning with IBM Storage Protect and Cohesity DataProtect in the second quarter of 2023, IBM expects to roll out the new IBM Storage Defender solution. Both IBM and approved IBM Business Partners will market and support IBM Storage Defender.
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