Cohesity Data Cloud Reviews

I use this solution primarily for data protection and data security.

I find the most important feature to be data protection. They have a feature called DataSock, which enhances data protection. However, there haven't been significant improvements to my organization due to this tool.

The primary use case for Cohesity Data Cloud is to offer an additional layer of protection for backup data, which I can restore if needed. It is a managed service that allows me to set up and configure my data, back it up in my Cohesity cluster, and replicate selected data to the cloud. The solution prevents data tampering when the data is backed up to the cloud and protects against ransomware since the data is not under my administrative control.

One valuable feature of Cohesity Data Cloud is its managed service offering, which is completely tailored to data protection needs. It replicates data to the cloud in a tamper-proof manner, offering protection against ransomware attacks since it is not under administrative control. Another benefit is that it enables massive scalability, supporting up to petabytes of data. Furthermore, transferring data is effectively managed, preventing excessive internet bandwidth usage.

We use Cohesity Helios. It provides robust security and manageability. We simply access their resources and data. Everything is built and run under Cohesity, making it self-service. It doesn't run on our end.

We use Cohesity Helios primarily in our data management strategy for backup and reporting. As a financial and banking industry, we have over 250 nodes and servers across 14 data centers. Daily backups run during non-business hours. Our team in India monitors every cluster and payload, which is tedious for the backup team. With Cohesity Helios, we configure multiple reports through API calls running on commercial scripts, sending emails to the respective DLP daily.    

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.

My company is enterprise and our customers are also enterprise. We have an enterprise business. All of the customers are familiar with Veeam and most of them may be working keyless and without a license or maybe they are using a cracked license or something like that, either way, it is not a good choice if you want a strong solution with strong support. That is why an am focusing them on Cohesity as solution number one. I have experience with Meet Backup, Data Protector Micro Focus, Veeam, and Commvault. I see most of our customers' needs can be covered with Cohesity.

In terms what could be improved, everything is okay. Even the support is very good. In fact, days from now we should receive a big project as an installation with a centralized data solution and more than 30 branches using the virtual appliance.

As for what I would like to see in the next release, we still have not implemented the backup to tape with Cohesity with Exec-U-Store, an additional third-party integration with Cohesity. The demand in our region is for the offsite backup not to be on a cloud or in second site. There is a policy to have the offsite backup using a tape library. Most of the customers had the tape library with an FC, fiber connection. Our customer is looking to have their library connected directly to the Cohesive and to even set up their library to another server with an FC connection, and the Cohesity will see the connected server to the library as a media server or a proxy server.

But I'm not sure about this because our customer is a banking system and the solution for the backup disk needs fast restore, deduplication, etc... But in case of disaster, the server will backup to tape even if you have a backup to cloud. But because you have security regulations for the banking system, it is better to have offsite backup using the tape. Because I didn't work too much on this feature, it is complex for me to use this feature like in other solutions.

Cohesity works like a multitenancy. You can have a customer and you can sell the backup as a service. But in case we need to have backup to tape, we need a special license for the cluster and the integration and things like that.

I'm looking for advanced courses for us as a partner, not as a sales or even technical team, to have a good market for this product. Because, as we are a partner with HPE, we bought the Cohesity solution from one of our customers that dealth with HPE three years. This is a big customer now for Cohesity. They heard about the solution before us and before HPE in our region. One of their IT managers said HPE announced that there is a partnership with Cohesity and it is a good solution. Still, the Cohesity license cost is something. You have costs.

I already went back to my manager and told him that our big customer is looking for Cohesity, and they also checked with HPE, and said, that we did a big launch and a big party for this partnership. Today, most of our banking customers now have Cohesity as their solution. But we need to share this experience with other customers. Maybe our small customers are limited with the needed tera. Some customers need only 10 tera. Cohesity offers the virtual appliance. Some of the customers are using legacy, with apps like StoreOnce or Exadata, ExaGrid, or Data Domain to have this backup in case of a disaster in the data center. I can connect it to any site and restore what I need out of the data center. Today, with virtual appliances, the customer can run it over his virtual production environment.

The limitation that I see in Cohesity is that the minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which is more than a small customer needs. Because of that, they go directly with a Veeam subscription, or VM or Commvault VM. In this case, you will lose because the customer's target does not fit with what Cohesity is offering. Plus, the price of the physical node with the software as data protection is not like a Veeam subscription, their VM or their socket. This is something for Cohesity to think about - having such a solution but for small business needs. This is my perspective and is what I'm facing when I try to ask the customer go with Cohesity, then I have only 10 to 15 VPN. If they go with Veeam, for example, they can pay for a $1,500 subscription per year.

To achieve the maximum performance using Cohesity, you need to pay more. I did a POC on Cohesity using a virtual appliance and using a customized server which fully assisted me and the performance and also the deduplication, and the other features of Cohesity are not like what you got when you run it over a Cohesity appliance. So if I need to offer my customers a virtual appliance, the performance will not be real like what you get in a physical appliance. This is also a limitation of the virtual appliance. I cannot commit the customer to take the virtual appliance because you will get the same value that is matching what I show you in the physical Cohesity deployment. This is something that is not helpful.

I am a cloud service provider and a reseller.

We use this solution for local backup, offsite backup, and disaster recovery.

Because we are a managed service, we don't look into it too deeply. We focus more on the different price structures. That would be more for an endpoint user. 

If it is a managed service we are less concerned with what software it is and more with the servicing provided.

It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery.

We are using DataPlatform, DataProtect, and we are running NAS natively on it now, doing some cloud archiving off of it.  

The primary use for DataPlatform is that we are a managed service provider. We use it as our platform for backing up our infrastructure as a service client for our remote clients. Recently, we replaced multiple platforms with Cohesity. That is, we replaced our quantum storage appliances with DataPlatform. We replaced our Beam storage repositories. With that, we also replaced our Connvault storage platforms, which were all internal data.  

In the end, we consolidated all of our backup storage to the DataPlatform, and then we run DataProtect with that. We are also a Beam cloud connect partner. So our Beam cloud connect actually stores the data on Cohesity. It is a very versatile solution.  

We are also now doing our backup for our Microsoft M365 service and that is run natively off Cohesity as well.  

Being that DataPlatform is a hyper-converged architecture, it scales very well for an MSP (Managed Service Provider) because we can just add nodes as we gain business. Its scalability is hugely important to us, but also just the simplicity of it is really good. It is simple and easy to use, which for an MSP is pretty important because I could be supporting hundreds of clients on that platform. Try doing that in a Connvault environment. Connvault is just super complicated and it would be impossible.  

Simplicity, ease of use, and scale are just phenomenal with DataPlatform.  

Cohesity CDM solution is our primary backup solution and we use it to back up our entire VMware infra, MSSQL, Oracle, SAP HANA & BASIS applications, and we also use this for our cloud archive solution. Earlier, we outsourced our solution and backups are using TSM as their solution but we have some serious issues without huge SAP DB's which was eliminated once we started using Cohesity. We choose this product after testing many POCs with different legacy and new era backup vendors but finally we chose this due to features offered by Cohesity.

Cohesity was brought into our organization as a replacement for traditional magnetic tape backups (formerly using IBM Tivoli Storage manager as our backup solution). We also were looking for a replacement for legacy NAS devices for the storage of unstructured data like home and user drives across the organization and we have our most of the applications and DBs are hosted on vSAN VMware infra which are high in size. Our backup and recovery rate using Cohesity is reduced almost one by fourth as compared to our old solution. 

Cohesity DataProtect is a great product and has reduced my backup window and jobs significantly. I like that you can do a VM level backup as well as a database backup. By doing so, I was able to replace two backup application products. 

Cohesity gives us the ability to run a local backup, replicate, and archive to AWS all in one job. Though, we are not able to archive all of our workloads to S3 for longer retention. 

The Cohesity User Group is extremely beneficial and productive. We get to speak with the developers and engineering team directly about their products, whether it be a feature request, enhancements, issues, or processes. They are very receptive to what the customer has to say.

While we're still new in the implementation, we are excited that we now have a single point of view for all of our backups. As we begin to roll out the virtual nodes to our remote locations, we are looking forward to not having to hassle with tapes anymore as the data will automatically be replicated across multiple locations.

The search abilities are very impressive. We hope to soon start leveraging immutable archiving off to the cloud to replace the tapes. All of this is from a single pane of glass.