Cohesity Data Cloud Valuable Features
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. Additionally, accessing all nodes in one Helios is very beneficial for us compared to other clouds.
It is very easy to learn and work with. Everyone can work with Cohesity Data Cloud easily as it is straightforward and user-friendly.
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Mysura Reddy
Sr. Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Cohesity Data Cloud is user-friendly, and anyone can use this tool. The support is really good, especially the web support. Additionally, the dashboard and everything are good.
The initial deployment of Cohesity Data Cloud, from my experience, is easy. Cohesity is easy to integrate. Implementation is very easy compared to other backup tools.
Scalability is good with Cohesity Data Cloud, and I am happy with that.
View full review »One of the most outstanding features is forever incremental. Many backup platforms are implementing this feature, which provides immutable backups.
We utilize Cohesity Helios. We were using two solutions from Cohesity Data Cloud: one with six nodes set up on the premises, and for another customer, we use Cohesity DataProtect Cloud, which is Helios itself. It is completely hosted at Cohesity in their region where we back up Microsoft 365 and AWS virtual machines. Reporting is another valuable feature. We can give the CSM team viewer accounts for reporting to access job status, protection status, unprotected, failed, and SLA breach backups at any time.
All backups in Cohesity Data Cloud perform compression and deduplication. Global deduplication is particularly beneficial when purchasing FETB. The deduplication ensures optimal data processing and storage consumption, which is advantageous for customers who want to minimize costs.
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Cohesity Data Cloud
September 2025

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Jochen Tytgat
Owner at hq-12b
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. The Data Platform is a cluster containing many servers, making it quite fast in backup as well as recovery.
It's quite secure because it's not depending on current VMware servers or vCenter. It's an isolated platform which makes it more secure and quite valuable as a solution.
View full review »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.
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Stefan-Motsch
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
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Suren V
Infrastructure Management Senior Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
- Backups - Cohesity makes it very easy to back up our VMware environment. They also have specialized backups for Active Directory, SQL, O365 Email, and legacy storage devices.
- File services - Cohesity allows us to easily provision new SMB file shares.
- Easy and non-disruptive Cohesity software upgrades.
- Our data center size occupancy for Cohesity appliance is reduced by 70% when we install Cohesity.
- Plug and play installation for new software addition or removal for node addition/removal.
I like that I can launch the cloud-based UI (Helios) from anywhere to view my dashboard.
The support team is responsive and knowledgeable.
I like having several options to backup and restore databases.
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.
Being able to automate failover for DR with runbook is a very nice feature.
I like that you can use a single pane of glass console to manage multiple Cohesity nodes.
We were starting to feel the struggle with secondary data fragmentation, having multiple copies of a file across locations that were different versions. Users just accepted it as business as usual, but now we will be able to serve much of that via a large NFS share.
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