Cohesity SaaS offerings provide customers with a simple way to back up and recover data
Cohesity announced it is expanding the availability of its Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) offerings to customers in the Middle East. DMaaS is a portfolio of ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) offerings designed to provide enterprise and mid-size customers with a radically simple way to back up, secure, govern, and analyse their data. Cohesity manages the underlying infrastructure while the service is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS); in this case, in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region.
Customers in the Middle East can now access the first DMaaS offering, Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service. This backup as a service (BaaS) offering gives customers another easy way to back up their data on-premises or in cloud environments. As with the Cohesity DataProtect on-premises solution, the BaaS offering delivers support for an array of cloud workloads including Microsoft 365 SaaS applications, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and compute infrastructure, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and on-premises data sources such as VMs, Network Attached Storage (NAS), and databases.
Other DMaaS offerings will follow in the future. As with Cohesity’s on-premises solutions, DMaaS offerings can be easily managed through one user interface via the Cohesity Helios multi-cloud platform. This next-gen approach to data management helps customers consolidate many of the separate services, products, and administrative consoles that organisations often struggle to manage today. This consolidation can further enhance data security by helping companies reduce their attack surface. Customers can also utilise DMaaS to shift expenses from CapEx to OpEx.
“With the threat of ransomware at unprecedented levels, being able to rapidly backup and recover is now a growing concern for the region’s IT leaders. Customers can now leverage our backup as a service offering as another way to enhance data protection and keep bad actors at bay,” said Brad Schwarz, vice president and general manager, Data Management as a Service, Cohesity. “We are pleased to offer customers in the Middle East even greater choice and flexibility. With Cohesity, they can manage their data directly, utilise Cohesity’s DMaaS offerings, work with a Cohesity-powered partner, or combine all three. Not only does the expansion of our DMaaS-offerings to the Middle East empower customers to simplify data management further, but also allows our regional partners to add their unique value and resell the solution through a variety of distribution channels,” said Gregg Petersen, regional director, MEA, Cohesity.
Customers can subscribe to current and future DMaaS offerings through authorised Cohesity channel partners, distributors, and AWS Marketplace. DMaaS not only allows partners to grow their recurring revenue business, but it also allows them to expand their existing managed service offerings without having to build out infrastructure themselves. They can also use this as an entry point for starting a managed service practice.
