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So as the renewal of Sky Lakes ' ageing backup product neared , IS Staff was interested in guidance from both CDW and Cisco as it evaluated new backup and data management approaches that were easier to use and would drive further efficiencies . The goal was to give engineers greater bandwidth to proactively fulfil all of the requests coming in daily .

After Cisco ’ s recommendation and seeing it perform , Sky Lakes purchased and quickly set up Cohesity to manage backup and unstructured data while continuing to use Cisco HyperFlex for primary ( latency-sensitive ) data on Cisco Unified Computing System ( UCS ) servers with Cisco Intersight as the single management user interfaces for both . Sky Lakes was among the first to test and deploy the validated Cisco-Cohesity 40G design .

Solution

Cohesity software on Cisco UCS for data management was far easier for Sky Lakes to deploy and use than its prior legacy product . Cisco Intersight reduces IT operations time and allows oversight of the entire infrastructure , including Cisco HyperFlex and Cohesity-certified Cisco UCS nodes .

IS no longer has to manually add servers to the backup queue because Cohesity automatically detects and protects each virtual machine ( VMs ) and workload while enabling Sky Lakes IT to tag only those it does not want to have backed up . This eliminated the need for IS staff to scramble to restore data .

Sky Lakes sees tremendous value in the Cohesity multi-cloud data platform because it supports multiple data services . In addition to modern backup , Sky Lakes relies on Cohesity SmartFiles , a Software-Defined solution for file and object services that goes beyond traditional scale-out NAS within the same cluster .

Complementary to Cisco HyperFlex , SmartFiles lowers Sky Lakes PACS total cost of ownership ( TCO ) by using Cisco HyperFlex as a cache tier for radiology images and Cohesity cluster as an archive tier . As a result , Sky Lakes no longer uses more costly primary storage for PACS archives . IS expects to use the same configuration for camera systems .

When Sky Lakes was unexpectedly targeted and breached by a massive ransomware attack in October 2020 , the healthcare provider immediately contacted trusted experts in solving complex challenges .

Together , CDW , Cohesity and Cisco served as a rapid response data management team for Sky Lakes as it defended its data against ransomware . Cohesity immutable backup snapshots , DataLock and other built-in protections that deter , detect and rapidly recover data at scale from a ransomware attack empowered IS to say no to the cybercriminal ’ s demands .

John Gaede , Director of Information Services , Sky Lakes Medical Center

Sam Stewart , Sky Lakes Network Systems Analyst , said : " Our organisation suffered a critical ransomware attack , effectively crippling our entire infrastructure . With Cohesity , we ’ ve been able to recover machines and file shares , verify they ’ re clean and bring the applications back online .

" Cohesity has saved us hundreds of hours of work and I ’ d say it prevented us from having to pay the ransom note . We all still have jobs and the community has a functional hospital because we have had so much success with Cohesity ."

Among the keys to recovery were CDW ’ s depth of experience quarterbacking partner teams for successful outcomes and the power of the Cohesity-Cisco solution . Cohesity was able to give IS staff access to a granular version of the organisation ’ s

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