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Cohesity Data Cloud pros and cons

Vendor: Cohesity
4.5 out of 5

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PROS

Cohesity's clone feature allows restoration onto its storage, which is beneficial when server space is limited.
The data center size occupancy is reduced by 70% with the installation of Cohesity.
The hyper-converged architecture and scalability are critical for growing service companies.
The tool is rated ten out of ten for its ease of use, value, and security.
Cohesity features global deduplication across multiple platforms, ensuring a significant return on investment from a storage perspective.

CONS

Cohesity Data Cloud has limited support for legacy systems and could improve in this area.
Documentation is not up to date for newer releases, needing more focus on improvements.
The cloud pricing is high, and it needs to be more cost-effective to compete with native solutions.
There are performance challenges when integrating cloud with on-premises environments.
Transferring large amounts of data to the cloud requires significant bandwidth, posing a challenge.
 

Cohesity Data Cloud Pros review quotes

Drew Nelson - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director Of Operations at Purple Communications, Inc
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
Infrastructure Management Senior Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jul 10, 2020
Our data center size occupancy for Cohesity appliance is reduced by 70% when we installed Cohesity.
reviewer1355661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Sep 6, 2020
The hyper-converged architecture and scalability are hugely important for growing service companies.
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reviewer1483383 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Feb 2, 2021
It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery.
Alaa Aladawadeh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Architect at C.M.C - Computer Media Center
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.
ManiKanta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at American Express
May 10, 2024
We use Cohesity Helios primarily in our data management strategy for backup and reporting.
AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 29, 2025
I find the most important feature to be data protection.
SM
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
Mar 7, 2025
I rate the Cohesity Data Cloud solution a ten out of ten. It's an easy-to-use product that provides substantial value and security.
MR
Sr. Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
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.
Bharath Bharadwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Subject Matter Expert at Engage IT Services Pvt Ltd
Aug 29, 2025
One of the most outstanding features is forever incremental, which provides immutable backups.
 

Cohesity Data Cloud Cons review quotes

Drew Nelson - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director Of Operations at Purple Communications, Inc
May 2, 2020
There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved.
SV
Infrastructure Management Senior Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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.
reviewer1355661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
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.
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reviewer1483383 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Feb 2, 2021
The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment.
Alaa Aladawadeh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Architect at C.M.C - Computer Media Center
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.
ManiKanta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at American Express
May 10, 2024
In terms of functionality, Helios has been effective, but sometimes it doesn't show the exact cluster name for backups.
AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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.
SM
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
Mar 7, 2025
The primary drawback is the need to transfer large amounts of data to the cloud via an internet connection, requiring significant bandwidth.
MR
Sr. Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 21, 2025
The downside of Cohesity Data Cloud is that it is not supporting a legacy environment.
Bharath Bharadwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Subject Matter Expert at Engage IT Services Pvt Ltd
Aug 29, 2025
One of the worst situations occurred when the sizing team did not get the correct subscription, usage, and capacity from Cohesity.