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    On premises S3 as a source for protection

    Many customers are starting to ask for on premises S3 to be protected as part of their daily routine. Defender DP can currently protect S3 data based on AWS ( https://docs.cohesity.com/7_1_2/Web/UserGuide/Content/Cloud/protect-amazon-s3.htm?Highli...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1

    Defender Data Protect (DDP) Configuration Backup

    Why is it useful? A DDP configuration backup is essential for quick recovery and business continuity in isolated environments without a remote cluster. Without it, a DDP server failure means manual re-configuration and re-onboarding, leading to si...
    4 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

    Defender Data Protect support for OpenStack

    Defender Data Protect currently lacks support for backup and restore of OpenStack environments that are commonly in use with many MSPs and large clients and Defender Data Protect needs to provide native backup/restore capabilities for this environ...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Implementing purging algorithms

    Protection > Recoveries view will not be purged, only some detail information for recovery tasks older than a month.
    about 1 month ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Adding multipath support for FC backup

    One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
    9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    TSM client & server support for CENTOS

    Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

    Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Planned for future release

    IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

    We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

    ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip

    Ternary.txt ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip. we do not need to develop the quantum - super conductor 150kw sub zero temperatures. it is enough that we develop a proper ternary quantum chip. ternary chip has three states -1 0...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Easy R/W failover for a replicated node

    In a ISP environment using the Node Replication feature, the R/O client failover is automated since version 7.1.1 of the ISP server. It works fine, but allows only the restore or retrieve of objects.If the source server is unavailable for a longer...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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