PRODUCT REVIEW/ANALYSIS: Cohesity works by creating an abstraction layer that sits between the physical data sources and the applications that tap into the data to extract insights. This gives businesses a holistic view of all of their data.
San Jose, Calif.-based storage software maker Cohesity has announced its new MarketPlace that makes shopping for apps on its DataPlatform as simple as buying an app for an iPhone. If you’re not familiar with Cohesity, the company calls itself a “hyper-converged secondary storage” vendor, which is a fancy way of saying it uses hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) as part of its solution to simplify the problem of managing secondary storage.
Cohesity works by creating an abstraction layer that sits between the physical data sources and the applications that tap into the data to extract insights. This gives businesses a holistic view of all of their data. The market place makes it easier for software vendors to build and market applications that take advantage of Cohesity’s platform. At launch, the market place has the following applications: Splunk, Imanis Data, Sentinal One, ClamAV and three Cohesity apps.
I’ve seen a number of news stories that have written about the announcement but none that actually highlight why this is so important, so I thought I would expand on this. The answer to this lies in accessibility to data, specifically secondary data. The digital transformation era has arrived, and it’s causing all industries to be turned upside down.
Key to It All: Turning Data into Insights
The key to achieving and sustaining market leadership lies in being able to turn data into insights. The problem for most organizations is that they’re only analyzing primary data–and missing out on the massive amounts of secondary data at the same time.
