JSR Corporation Deploys Cohesity on AWS for Global Data Security and Management

Headquartered in Tokyo, JSR Corporation is a multinational company that includes 56 subsidiaries across 47 business sites. It specializes in the production of polymer materials for multiple life sciences businesses—including diagnostics, contract research organizations, development, and manufacturing. With extensive business operations, JSR captures massive amounts of data—not only from manufacturing equipment, but also throughout its entire supply chain. The company stores its data in both on-premises and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

“With our data spread across all our different companies, we really needed a backup solution that could ensure our data was immutable and it wouldn’t be changed,” said Ryan Reed, head of IT products and services for JSR Corporation. “Our initial objective was making sure our data was protected from ransomware in as many ways as possible.”

With Cohesity, JSR found a backup, recovery, and security solution all rolled into one. Cohesity Data Cloud management platform allows JSR to secure and manage its entire data estate— including its on-premises datacenters—from a single platform. Cohesity provides JSR with peace of mind now that the corporation has a stronger security posture. Reed explained, “As soon as JSR captures data, Cohesity secures it and makes it immutable, effectively lowering our risk of ransomware.” With Cohesity, JSR also gained a cloud disaster recovery plan.

When JSR was searching for a backup and recovery vendor, having a robust solution was just one factor in choosing Cohesity. The other reason JSR went with Cohesity is because of its deep AWS knowledge. This helped JSR quickly create backup environments in the AWS Cloud. “The partnership between Cohesity and AWS made it really seamless for JSR to get our on-premises data up into the cloud,” said Reed.

Cohesity not only provides backup for on-premises environments, but it also protects AWS resources that are part of JSR’s infrastructure, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). “JSR finds that AWS is a great environment because it equips our developers to accelerate their processes,” explained Reed.

As a multinational company, JSR valued the flexibility of Cohesity and the fact it could support its separate subsidiaries in different countries. JSR also takes advantage of Cohesity operating in AWS regions spread around the world to keep its data as close to its sites as possible. “Cohesity offers us flexibility—both from a hybrid perspective as well as a cloud perspective—which allowed us to deploy it in multiple different ways,” Reed said.

By working with Cohesity, JSR was able to free up its IT team so they didn’t have to handle data backup and recovery in-house. “It's critical for us to have partners,” Reed said. “There's no way our IT team can do it all by ourselves. Having partners like Cohesity and AWS who bring the tools and solutions that accelerate our work is hugely valuable for a company like ours.”