Cohesity goes epic on AMD Epyc

Data security and management company Cohesity is following (if not leading) the infrastructure efficiency efforts being seen across the wider technology industry with recent work focused on energy-efficient computing.

Cohesity Data Cloud now supports AMD Epyc CPU-powered servers.

Epyc (pronounced “epic”) AMD’s brand of multi-core x86-64 microprocessors based on the company’s Zen microarchitecture.

The two firms have collaborated to make sure users can deploy Cohesity Data Cloud on AMD Epyc CPU-based all-flash and hybrid servers from Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Lenovo.

Reminding us that organisations face challenges from ransomware and cyberattacks to stringent regulatory requirements, IT constraints, tight budgets and tough economic conditions, Cohesity says that to solve these challenges, companies need to take advantage of technology that is best suited to their specific requirements.

“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,” said John Davidson, group vice president, Americas sales, Cohesity.

By supporting AMD Epyc CPU-powered servers, Davidson says his firm is opening up new options for users to customise and modernise their datacenter.

“[Customers can] increase performance and deliver energy, space and cost savings so they can execute their data security and management strategy on their preferred hardware configurations,” he added.

All-flash servers have become an increasingly popular choice for organisations with high-demand applications and workloads, stringent power budgets for their datacentres, or increasing storage capacity requirements and little physical space within their datacentre.

As supermicro notes here, “All-flash data storage refers to a storage system that uses flash memory for storing data instead of spinning hard disk drives. These systems contain only solid-state drives (SSDs), which use flash memory for storage. They are renowned for their speed, reliability, low energy consumption and reduced latency, making them ideal for data-intensive applications and workloads.”