Cohesity Adds Archiving to Updated Hyperconverged Storage

Cohesity isn’t messing around with its platform updates. Right on the heels of the 4.0 version of its Orion storage software announced in April comes the next new version, a mere four months later. New ideas, DevOps, rapid iteration and testing appear to be well entrenched in that shop.Cohesity, one of the true pioneers of hyperconverged secondary storage, on Aug. 1 launched Orion 5.0,  which it describes as the industry’s first storage platform to combine end-to-end data protection and big-data storage on distributed, “infinitely scalable” architecture. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s data platform can span on-premises and private and public clouds, and it can all be controlled from one location. Now it is also adding something that was previously unthinkable: It can be used for workload backup and as a searchable archive for large amounts of structured and unstructured data.