These snapshots are Purely Cohesity

After announcing an initial backup integration between Pure's all-flash array and Cohesity's converged secondary storage a year ago, the two have now gone further with snapshot-level integration. Cohesity converges secondary data storage storage silos with its SW which runs on its own hardware or as a SW-only Virtual Edition …

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Oh hey, another "Me too," feature that EMC has offered now for 2yrs+ if not more with VMAX3 and XtremIO with DataDomain on the backend. Or HPE for at least a year with 3Par and StoreOnce.

The downside is that you'll now have to deal with two different companies when it comes to seeing how functional/supportable this feature is....

Inquiring minds want to know, is it an app consistent backup? Or crash consistent snap? Any app integration? Both Pure and Cohesity make a shiny widget with a GREAT UI. But technically, how advanced is this feature?

Lastly, since everyone seems to be jumping on this bandwagon of snaps moving to a disparate storage array, is this the death of traditional backup?

[Anonymous Coward]

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