In addition to storing and protecting data, companies dealing with exponential data growth have the challenge of managing it to extract value. Helping solve this real business problem is the mission of enterprise software maker Cohesity Inc.

To provide data management not just on-premise but in the cloud, Cohesity has partnered with Microsoft Azure.

“When I say ‘data service,’ I am talking about classification, threat analysis, being able to go in and identify vulnerabilities and things of that nature,” said David Noy (pictured), vice president of products at Cohesity. “That’s just a huge, tremendous value on top of just the basic infrastructure capabilities.”

Noy spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Microsoft Ignite event in Orlando, Florida. They discussed the growing importance of data services and how Cohesity and Microsoft are working together in this market. (* Disclosure below.)

Keeping track of data

As enterprises possess more and more data, it is not uncommon to lose track of these information.

“The first thing is how you search and index it, so you can actually find out what you have,” Noy said. “Then there’s the question of being able to go in and crack the data open and provide all kinds of data services.”

In partnership with Microsoft, Cohesity is archiving business data and sending long-term retention data to the cloud. This includes taking a workload and migrating it from on-prem to the cloud.

“We can do wholesale migrations of people’s environments who want to go completely cloud-native,” he explained. “We can failover and failback if we want to as well, so we can use the cloud as actually a [disaster recovery] site.”

To differentiate itself among many vendors, Cohesity allows companies to move applications to data, which is much easier for enterprises than moving the data to the applications, according to Noy. “People don’t have to worry about managing lots of different pools and lots of different products for service one, versus service two, versus service three,” he pointed out. “And then bringing applications to that data, that’s what makes it really different.”

As a company that grows at a triple-digit pace, according to Noy, innovation is essential. Cohesity is starting to think about disaster recovery as a service and about backing up cloud-native workloads. “You don’t just want to back up your workloads that are in the on-prem data,” he said. “So, we want to back up also in the cloud, and that includes even Office 365.”

Another goal is to extend Cohesity applications to some of Azure’s native services, such as SQL. “We’ll extend kind of the ease of use and the deployment models to make it easier for customers to go and deploy and manage it,” Noy stated. “When you’re looking at Cohesity, you should think of it as even if it’s in the cloud or if it’s on-premise, it looks the same to you, which is great.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Microsoft Ignite event. (* Disclosure: Cohesity Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Cohesity nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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