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Cohesity Data Cloud pros and cons

Vendor: Cohesity
4.5 out of 5

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PROS

The clone feature allows restoring workloads on Cohesity's storage, which is beneficial when there is limited server space.
Data center occupancy is reduced by 70% with Cohesity appliance installation.
Cohesity's hyper-converged architecture and scalability are crucial for growing service companies.
Cohesity is praised for its simplicity, security, and flexibility, making it highly recommended.
The setup of Cohesity is notably faster compared to other solutions used in different clouds.

CONS

There is limited support for legacy systems, which could be improved.
The documentation portal is outdated for newer releases, requiring more efforts to be current.
The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment.
The pricing is on the higher side, impacting its competitiveness with native solutions.
Support may not provide proper assistance during critical issues from the cloud end.
 

Cohesity Data Cloud Pros review quotes

reviewer1355661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 6, 2020
The hyper-converged architecture and scalability are hugely important for growing service companies.
Alaa Aladawadeh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 13, 2021
Its big data and archive data features are the features that I have found most valuable. I can use it in a big virtual environment.
Bharath Bharadwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 29, 2025
One of the most outstanding features is forever incremental, which provides immutable backups.
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MR
Aug 21, 2025
Cohesity Data Cloud is user-friendly, and anyone can use this tool; the support is really good, especially the web support, and the dashboard and everything are good.
Shiva Kinnera - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 29, 2025
My favorite feature of Cohesity Data Cloud is the setup, as it is very fast compared to other solutions; I have worked in different clouds, and Cohesity Data Cloud stands out as superior.
JT
Sep 5, 2025
It has excellent integration for virtualization, which means we can easily protect VMs, virtual machines, which consists mainly of snapshot backups that are quite easy to recover.
Drew Nelson - PeerSpot reviewer
May 2, 2020
The clone feature is very nice. You can restore workloads onto Cohesity's storage, which is also nice to have when you don't have enough space to restore on the server.
SV
Jul 10, 2020
Our data center size occupancy for Cohesity appliance is reduced by 70% when we installed Cohesity.
reviewer1483383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 2, 2021
It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery.
AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 29, 2025
I find the most important feature to be data protection.
 

Cohesity Data Cloud Cons review quotes

reviewer1355661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 6, 2020
It has never been touted as a tier-one storage platform, and that would be a benefit. They are currently working on solving that issue.
Alaa Aladawadeh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 13, 2021
The limitation that I see in Cohesity is that the minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which is more than a small customer needs.
Bharath Bharadwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 29, 2025
One of the worst situations occurred when the sizing team did not get the correct subscription, usage, and capacity from Cohesity.
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MR
Aug 21, 2025
The downside of Cohesity Data Cloud is that it is not supporting a legacy environment.
Shiva Kinnera - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 29, 2025
Sometimes the support team does not provide proper assistance during critical issues from the cloud end.
JT
Sep 5, 2025
They still have quite some way to go for improving their agents.
Drew Nelson - PeerSpot reviewer
May 2, 2020
There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved.
SV
Jul 10, 2020
Their documentation portal is not up to date for newer releases and I strongly recommend Cohesity to increase their efforts on the documentation portal.
reviewer1483383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 2, 2021
The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment.
AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 29, 2025
The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions.