Cohesity has just announced Orion 5.0 and I wanted to give an overview of the release below.  I plan to do a few more posts going in-depth on each topic.

C3000 Dense Storage Nodes

• Up to 183TB raw in a 2U node
• Capacity optimized for data-intensive workloads
• Can be added into a cluster that has C2000
• Intelligent data placement
  • Data intensive workloads go on the C3000
  • Compute intensive workloads on C2000

Files and Objects

• Multiprotocol access
  • NFS, SMB, S3 access
• Global deduplication
  • Only globally deduped S3 object storage
• Global indexing and Google-like search
• User and file system quotas with audit logs

Data Protection

• Hyper Visor Support now includes:
  • Hyper-V 2012R2, 2016
  • AHV
  • KVM
  • vSphere 6.5
• Database protection now includes:
  • Oracle RMAN with RAC and ASM
  • MS SQL with Windows clustering, AAG
  • Either Physical or Virtual
  • Able to quickly clone and copy and attach those to other database instances
• NAS Support with the ability to Snapshot based data protection now includes:
  • Pure FlashBlade
  • NetApp
  • Isilon
• Physical Support:
  • File and volume level backup for Linux
  • Bare-metal restore for Windows

Cloud

• Integrate with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud
• 3 different ways
  • Cloud Archive or replacing Tape with Cloud
  • Cloud Tier
    • Base data temporarily in the cloud
  • Cloud Replicate
    • Replicate to Cohesity DataPlatform Cloud Edition
    • GA on Azure
    • Limited Availability on AWS

SpanFS and SnapTree

• 3 key layers to SpanFS
  • Access
    • This is where you support, NFS, SMB, S3 and DataProtection
  • Metadata Store
    • SnapTree
    • Consistent NoSQL Store
    • The IO Engine lives at this layer as well
  • Data Store
    • SSDs
    • HDD
    • Cloud Storage

You can find out more at http://www.cohesity.com/blog/introducing-cohesity-orion/