Cohesity integrates AMD-powered servers for enhanced data security
AI-driven data security and management firm Cohesity has announced the integration of AMD EPYC CPU-powered servers with its Cohesity Data Cloud.
This development, heralded from Sydney, Australia, seeks to offer customers enhanced flexibility in choosing the hardware that aligns best with their operational needs.
Organisations dealing with burgeoning data volumes face multifaceted challenges, ranging from cyber threats such as ransomware to stringent regulatory requirements, budget constraints, and overall economic pressures. Cohesity aims to address these complexities by providing technology solutions that cater to specific customer requirements. The latest addition of AMD EPYC CPU-powered servers to the Cohesity Data Cloud ecosystem is designed to do just that. Clients can now deploy and operate Cohesity Data Cloud on AMD-based all-flash and hybrid servers from industry giants like Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Lenovo.
John Davidson, Group Vice President of Americas Sales at Cohesity, highlighted the significance of this update. "Customers each have unique needs but a common goal - securing and gaining insight from their data. They trust Cohesity, in part, because we strive to offer the largest ecosystem with the most choices to suit their preferences. By supporting AMD EPYC CPU-powered servers, we're opening up new options for our customers to customise and modernise their data centre, increasing performance and delivering energy, space, and cost savings so they can execute their data security and management strategy on their preferred hardware configurations," Davidson stated.
The rising popularity of all-flash servers is owed to their ability to handle high-demand applications and workloads efficiently, as well as their compliance with stringent power budgets and increasing storage capacity requirements. The integration of AMD EPYC CPUs promises to enhance performance while delivering cost and energy efficiencies. Cohesity's collaboration with HPE brings to market AMD-powered all-flash servers that modernise data centres, aligning with green initiatives by offering greater density, performance, and cost efficiency compared to traditional servers. Single-socket 1U HPE servers powered by AMD EPYC can potentially reduce the number of required nodes and power costs by up to 33% in comparison to dual-socket 2U servers based on other CPUs. Additionally, with the HPE Secure Supply Chain, Cohesity's software comes preloaded at the factory, thereby facilitating smoother deployments and reinforcing the overall security of the solution.
Kumaran Siva, Corporate Vice President of Strategic Market Development at AMD, commented on the growing demands placed on data centres and how AMD's technology meets these challenges. "Businesses increasingly demand more from their data centres - more performance, more energy efficiency, more cost savings. AMD is uniquely positioned to help meet the demands of the modern data centre while enabling technology partners, like Cohesity, to deliver business-critical applications like their AI-powered data security and management capabilities," Siva remarked.
The new Cohesity AI-powered data security and management capabilities are now generally available on AMD-powered all-flash servers from HPE as well as hybrid servers from Dell and Lenovo. This move by Cohesity signifies a step towards providing robust and energy-efficient data security solutions, reinforcing its position as a leader in the sector and offering its clients enhanced customisation and modernisation options for their data centres.
