1. Cobalt Iron Up to 75% Up to 80% Up to 92%
Business challenge
Organizations are struggling to modernize their legacy data protection environments in the face of growing demands around new infrastructure, new applications, and budget consolidation.
Transformation
Cobalt Iron uses IBM Spectrum Protect to run millions of monthly backup jobs with up to 99.9 percent success rates—helping support rapid growth in customer backups at highly economical pricing.
Richard Spurlock CEO, Cobalt Iron
“We can now trust our backups are accurate and the data is ready when we need it.”
— Doug French, Fidelity–a client of Cobalt Iron
Business benefits
Up to 75%
reduction in backup/data protection Capex and Opex annual costs
Up to 80%
reduction in backup management times
Up to 92%
faster restore times
Cobalt Iron
Delivering modern data protection with cloud scale backup from Cobalt Iron and IBM
Solution components
IBM® Spectrum Protect™
IBM Spectrum Storage™
Client Name
Cobalt Iron
Company Background
Based near Kansas City, Cobalt Iron has over 20 years’ experience with IBM® Spectrum Storage™ technologies. As a leading developer of cloud scale data protection solutions, Cobalt Iron has worked with IBM for three years to create and support its own software-defined enterprise cloud backup solution.
Business challenge
Organizations are struggling to modernize their legacy data protection environments in the face of growing demands around new infrastructure, new applications, and budget consolidation.
The benefit
Cobalt Iron’s clients manage over 2 million backups jobs per month, PBs of data and over 35 different server operating systems. These businesses are achieving unprecedented return on Capex and Opex.
Pull Quote
“We can now trust our backups are accurate and the data is ready when we need it.”
— Doug French, Fidelity–a client of Cobalt Iron
Solution components
IBM® Spectrum Protect™
IBM Spectrum Storage™
Case study Link
Based near Kansas City, Cobalt Iron has over 20 years’ experience with IBM® Spectrum Storage™ technologies. As a leading developer of cloud scale data protection solutions, Cobalt Iron has worked with IBM for three years to create and support its own software-defined enterprise cloud backup solution.
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