H.I.G. Capital elevates security—and saves engineers’ time—with Cohesity FortKnox on AWS

For more than a decade H.I.G. Capital had been backing up its virtual machines in the cloud, with LiveVault. “Our long-time solution hadn’t kept up with the times,” says Luis Suarez, CIO. “Resolving periodic hiccups took too long. If a virtual machine failed, our engineering team had to rebuild it from the backed-up data, which took days. And with rising cyber threats, we needed ransomware protection.”

H.I.G. Capital started with Cohesity DataProtect, backing up 30 TB of virtual machines and databases in two data centers. A few servers running in branch offices are backed up in the cloud with Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service. No matter where they’re stored, Cohesity backups can’t be encrypted or deleted as part of a ransomware attack. 

When Cohesity FortKnox on AWS was introduced a year later, H.I.G Capital adopted it for even stronger security. 

Just three months after deployment, H.I.G. Capital saw firsthand the value of Cohesity for business continuity. “When a faulty patch impacted our Citrix servers, with a few clicks, we restored them from a snapshot we knew to be secure,” Suarez says. “The first server was back online in an hour and all of them within a day. Before we had Cohesity, our engineers would have spent two long days rebuilding the servers from scratch, testing them, and checking for security compliance.”

Cohesity spares them from having to reinvent the wheel. “We don’t need to spend time on the nuts and bolts of backing up in the cloud because Cohesity FortKnox does it for us,” Suarez says. “I also recommend FortKnox to the companies we invest in to help them work smarter while strengthening security. A single product that can do both of those things is a winner.”