We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Nakivo based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Cohesity DataProtect offers instant recovery and built-in integration with Office 365 and Active Directory. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Cohesity DataProtect users have suggested enhancements to its user interface, rollback methodology, and cloud data recovery. Other pain points include file server capacity and legacy platform support. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
Service and Support: The customer service experiences for Cohesity DataProtect have been mostly positive, but some say the quality of Cohesity's support may differ depending on the region. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
Ease of Deployment: Most users consider the setup process for Cohesity DataProtect to be easy, although a few found it more complex than other products. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: Cohesity's pricing is higher than its competitors, although some customers consider it affordable. Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs.
ROI: Cohesity DataProtect provides security against ransomware and efficient file retrieval. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
Comparison Results: Cohesity is regarded as an affordable solution that offers instant recovery and superior ransomware protection. However, users say its customer service is inconsistent across regions, and its rollback methodology has room for improvement. Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality.
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"The customer service and support are fast and professional."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"The spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores."
"The dashboard is very rich and provides details needed for a moderator."
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"The fact that it works with Synology is a big valuable point. Also, that we can check the functionality of a backup so easily. Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product. We can save so much time with Nakivo and are very happy that we found it and loved to use it for our solutions."
"Technical support responds very quickly."
"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."
"This enables us to do quick granular file recovery as and when required but also to do whole-site relocation in the case of a total loss scenario."
"Nakivo makes our backs-ups more reliable and easy to recover in case of full damage or partial retrieval of files - all at a convenient cost."
"The automatic backup and replication features are invaluable, saving us time and resources by automating routine backup tasks and ensuring data protection without manual intervention."
"For my purpose, I find VM Backup to be the most useful, as it gives me the ability to create image-based, incremental backups of VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV VMs."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"The platform has certain limitations, mostly stemming from the restrictions imposed by the VMware API and some other factors. One area where there is room for improvement is the tracking of replicated copies, especially in the context of remote archive duplication."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."
"When a new release is launched, there may be some bugs that need to be addressed by the developers. However, they promptly resolve these issues, and the software runs smoothly once again."
"In terms of the product itself, there have been a handful of patches that have had to be applied outside of the GUI via the command line. It's very straightforward and easy and in the same redundant fashion, but not quite as simple as one or two clicks. I'm hoping that will decrease going forward."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"When you schedule some jobs, you should be able to see a list of the jobs contained within each. You have to open up the editor to see what is inside. You must click through and edit stuff. Each time, it asks you to save or discard changes. It's very annoying. You only see the name of the scheduled job, and you need to edit it to see what's it's inside."
"The product needs to improve backup speed and replication speed."
"They need to add a failover feature to the Essential Pro license in case the environment is a simple virtual environment and the client does not need to upgrade."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"Their product is good and it meets our requirements, however, new features are also most welcome and we never hesitated to try new features."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"It is missing the file and folder backup; however, this product is meant for virtual machine backup and recovery, so that is really outside of the scope of the software."
"I would like to have a built-in SNMP client, which is important if we want to monitor it using Zabbix, Nagios, or another monitoring solution."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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