Cohesity SmartFiles by Cohesity optimizes cost, scale, and efficiency for unstructured data, providing software-defined file and object services for the hybrid cloud. SmartFiles modernizes and simplifies data management, privacy, and control by providing one solution for multiple workloads. It empowers users to efficiently and securely govern data at scale, reduce costs, and create value from organizational data. SmartFiles supports native protocols for integration, including NFS, SMB, and S3, ensuring compatibility across users and applications on-prem or in the cloud. It consolidates unstructured data from multiple application workloads, allowing for efficient and secure management with policy-driven actions. SmartFiles protects unstructured data with immutable snapshots, WORM, data encryption, auditing, scanning, fault tolerance, and flexible data isolation. Unauthorized data access risks are reduced via RBAC, MFA, and quorum authentication requiring multiple approvers for critical configuration changes. SmartFiles detects attacks using AI/ML-powered insights for anomaly detection, automated alerting, and cybersecurity vulnerability discovery. It offers data security and management across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations, enabling hybrid cloud flexibility. The entire data management lifecycle can be managed from a single console. SmartFiles can identify infrequently accessed unstructured data and automatically tier or migrate it to SmartFiles. It eliminates costly upgrades and infrastructure updates while ensuring unstructured data is protected in the data center, cloud, or at the edge. SmartFiles provides the ability to search and analyze data, and integrates with a Marketplace ecosystem of third-party and Cohesity-developed apps for search, analytics, auditing, compliance, and security. It supports multiple workloads with a single solution, enhancing business processes and maintaining high availability, even during upgrades. SmartFiles offers a centralized way to manage and protect enterprise files, improving availability, compliance, and risk management. It achieves up to 96x data reduction through global cross-volume deduplication and advanced compression technologies. SmartFiles provides integrated virus detection, audit trails, and anomaly detection to safeguard critical business data. It allows for the application of security and data protection policies, creation of data lifecycle management policies, and automation of data movement across the datacenter and public clouds.
