We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its flexibility is the most valuable. Being a cloud version, it has more flexibility, and it allows me to incorporate different workloads and consolidate all the data in one place. It has good high availability, and it is also easy to maintain."
"It offers an easy, quick backup and restore of files and VMs. Also, the "Google-like " search for files is awesome."
"Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection."
"One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."
"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."
"With the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."
"The system automatically takes down the nodes one at a time and performs the upgrade and brings the node back up before proceeding to the next. Upgrades can now be done at any time with a high level of confidence."
"The recovery process is effective, especially when it comes to other types of data, such as VMs, and overall, the performance is commendable."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"Cohesity DataProtect can improve in the area of databases. We have had some challenges with both Cohesity and Rubrik being able to effectively back up in a timely manner the SQL Oracle workloads."
"Physical RDMs on virtual machines could be a bit easier to configure and plan out."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"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."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"Reporting is quite limited and not customizable."
"The support is pretty bad."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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