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Pure Storage adds Cohesity Data Platform to FlashArray//M arrays
All flash array maker gets Cohesity functionality natively in its arrays, in a move that will allow snapshots to be tiered between platforms and managed by Cohesity
Secondary storage convergence product Cohesity has announced it will run natively on all-flash maker Pure Storage’s arrays.
Customers will be able to tier snapshots between primary and secondary storage, with, for example, their most recent snapshots on Pure Storage and long-term snapshots moved to Cohesity. The Cohesity user interface will also allow protection policies to be assigned to Pure Storage volumes.
The Cohesity Data Platform consolidates secondary storage platforms on a distributed storage system that can scale out. Its target market aims at replacing backup software and the backup target, such as EMC Avamar and Data Domain.
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Cohesity storage connectivity is via Ethernet and the NFS and SMB file access protocols, but it is planned to add the block access (ie, SAN) protocol iSCSI as well as the emerging cloud de facto standard S3.