We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik 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. Rubrik is praised for its automated policy enforcement and efficient ransomware detection. 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. Rubrik could expand compatibility with open-source databases, improve documentation, and strengthen its ability to back up remote sites.
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. Rubrik customers appreciate the support team's expertise and fast response.
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. Rubrik's setup is simple, and users say the support team was available to assist as needed.
Pricing: Cohesity's pricing is higher than its competitors, although some customers consider it affordable. Some users find Rubrik's pricing expensive, but many say it’s justified by its encryption and security features. Rubrik's license includes both software and hardware without any additional costs.
ROI: Cohesity DataProtect provides security against ransomware and efficient file retrieval. Rubrik provides peace of mind and some cost savings, but users say that quantifying the ROI is difficult.
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. Users like Rubrik’s advanced ransomware features, excellent support, and automated policy enforcement. However, some had issues with its remote backup abilities and high price tag.
"Cohesity has simplified backups and has cut our costs tremendously."
"We are saving valuable datacenter rack space, which is critical as we evaluate co-location options."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"Cohesity DataProtect is a reliable solution for performing backups within a suitable timeframe, and its forever incremental model is particularly effective for the customer's needs. Additionally, the solution handles instant recovery and file-level recovery from a VMware image backup seamlessly."
"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."
"The recovery process is effective, especially when it comes to other types of data, such as VMs, and overall, the performance is commendable."
"A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window."
"This solution is easy to manage."
"Product support team is excellent, with issues typically being resolved on the same day."
"Its reporting is most valuable. I like how it reports that everything is successfully backed up. It provides a summarized report that I can give to auditors and management."
"The archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs."
"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"CloudOn allows for backed up virtual machines stored offsite in Azure to be instantiated as an Azure virtual machine and spun up."
"CloudOut, because only blocks are pushed after compression and deduplication, not raw sizing."
"Takes me 80 percent less time to manage my backup environment."
"Automation functions, image based backup, and the ability to instantly recover anything from files to databases."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"At times, you may click the wrong server or click too fast and accidentally restore a cluster of servers. It would be very helpful to have a cancel option under restores."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"Many of the reports are basic, at most, and at times we had to open a support ticket to help find or develop a report for our needs."
"Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"The solution needs to be more secure and needs to better protect against ransomware."
"In terms of what could be improved with Rubrik, we need to improve the backup for remote sites. The competitors are stronger in terms of their remote office back up. Rubrik needs to improve to be stronger for backup. This is the main thing."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
"There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful."
"The recovery of Oracle databases is too complicated. It is not something that helps the DBA, the Database Administrator, but it should be done by the backup person like many other solutions. Everything is ready for the DBA to recover the database. It is a way of doing things, but I don't think you should give the backup people the ability to do it."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Zerto, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Rubrik report.
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