Cohesity DataProtect Reviews

• The UI
• How easy it is to set up backups and restore data.

It has greatly simplified backups and recovery for our organization.

Better cluster support.

Since December 2016.

No, the deployment was flawless.

The stability has been perfect.

We have not done any scaling yet.

Customer Service:

Customer support is excellent.

Technical Support:

Technical support for the product has been very good.

Yes, we needed an easier virtual backup and recovery solution.

It was very straightforward. I had previously supplied the vendor with a list of IPs and labels. It was about one hour from racking to backing up.

The sales engineer (SE) came out and worked with us. His level of expertise is top notch.

The cost is good compared to other solutions. There should be no setup cost as the SE can work with you to install very quickly.

Yes, we evaluated Rubrik and Veeam. Both are very fine products.

• Backup/recovery
• Indexing
• Cloning
• The space reduction for the backups.

• It has vastly improved our ability to save money by backing up and replicating the our backups off-site.
• The ability to delete a virtual machine (VM) and restore the backup copy to the original location with the same name.
• Using the indexing to browse and restore/download individual files.

It should have quicker restore times.

Over a year.

No.

No.

No.

Customer Service:

Excellent.

Technical Support:

Excellent.

Yes, they were outdated and bad.

It was easy. After it was up and running, it was simple to add a vCenter and start backups.

It was set up through a vendor team, who did an excellent job.

It is a great deal for what you get.

Yes, NetBackup, CommVault, and Rubrik.

The potential to use the Tier-2 storage is great to have versus other solutions. Also, to be able to backup using a NAS device for it.

Backup tasks and test development environment.

Speed and functionality.

Mature at a good pace.

About six months.

No.

No.

No.

Customer Service:

10 out of 10.

Technical Support:

10 out of 10.

We were looking for a robust solution that gives us scalability and recovery.

Straightforward.

SnapTree

Cloud Replication

File Services and Restoral

All production backup data is replicated daily to Azure and AzureGov for offsite DR

Multi-Tenant for single cluster

6 months

Yes, but they were very quickly resolved

No

No

Customer Service:

10

Technical Support:

10

Compellent with Dell Compellent and Nimble storage was way too expensive.

Very much so.

Vendor team and I would rate them as a 10.

Still calculating.

Very simple pricing and purchase process

Yes, Veeam

Fantastic product and the team developing it are top notch. Very excited for future releases from Cohesity!

Unified backup solution.

We removed multiple backup systems and replaced with Cohesity.

Faster backup and restores, reduced costs of backups.

3 Months

Few bugs in the interface but support resolved quickly.

I had hardware issues with one of the nodes before we went production but Cohesity quickly replaced it.

No

Customer Service:

Excellent!

Technical Support:

Very good

Yes we did but it could not backup complete environment, multiple systems.

Very straightforward, simple console, I don't need a ton of options to backup data.

We purchased though Intergris (http://thinkintegris.com/); they did a great job providing us this solution.

Since it is storage and software, you will save on costs.

No

The features are still maturing but this solution allows any admin to backup and restore files. The dedupe and compression is very impressive.

• It just works.
• Backup times are very fast.
• The UI makes sense, it is responsive, and it is easy to setup jobs.
• The ability to add nodes on the fly to increase storage needs is invaluable.
• You get a product engineer to set up the appliance with you and they continue to follow-up with you, making sure to answer all of your questions.

• Because of the excellent data reduction, we are able to back up all of our systems for the first time and use less space than our old backup appliance.
• We always have current backups; our old system would sometimes take days to back up larger systems.

• Cannot exclude certain drives from VMs.
• Cannot back up just directories.
• You have to reboot physical servers after installing the backup agent BUT this is because of the CBT driver that it installs. I totally understand the need, but I figure it is worth pointing out.
• Only archive options are to the cloud or tape; would like to have a disk option.

I have used it for a month.

We had an issue backing up a large VM with a crazy configuration the second time, but support quickly adjusted a setting and it has been working flawless ever since.

It has been rock solid!

We used to use Unitrends and wanted to get away from the following issues:

• Slow backup times
• Jobs randomly failing
• Poor and unresponsive UI
• Forklift upgrades (space issues)

Cohesity was able to resolve all of the above issues, no problem.

The initial setup was very quick and easy. We had an engineer on site to answer any questions that popped up during first-time configuration.

The vendor came on site, set up the appliance and worked with us to answer any questions we had.

We primarily use the solution for VMware Backup and SQL backups that are replicated and copied to the cloud.

They basically can do what Rubrik does. It's a backup device. There aren't necessarily any special features. 

What it does well, it does very well. It just works. 

The initial setup is easy.

It's stable.

The solution scales well.

It's not overly expensive.

Support needs improvement, but the product is fine when well deployed.

I've used the solution for a few months.

This is a solid product. It's quite stable. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

I found the product to be scalable. You just add nodes if you need to. It's a hyper-converged solution, and scaling is easy.

I have not had a good experience with support.

Neutral

I am also familiar with Rubrik.

I've also worked with Commvault and find that you do have to do a lot of fine-tuning with it during implementation. This solution is easier. Commvault is also a lot more expensive. Cohesity has a simpler workflow and for people in operations, it's a blessing. 

The setup process is very straightforward and simple. It doesn't have huge requirements and it is not that complex. 

The pricing is okay. I'd rate it seven out of ten in terms of affordability. How expensive it is depends on how big the contract is. 

I'd advise potential new users to do their due diligence before, know what they want, and get some training.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

On-premises

I have used Cohesity DataProtect primarily for cyber recovery.

Some of the most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect for me include instant mass restore, anomaly detection, and its ability to handle large data volumes effectively. The Helios interface is quite good for monitoring all aspects of this and provides real-time monitoring capabilities.

I have been working with Cohesity DataProtect for two years.

I haven't experienced any stability issues, critical errors, or technical difficulties.

I think it is pretty good at handling large data volumes.

During the implementation, customer service was quite good, but I haven't had much engagement with support since then.

The initial setup was a bit challenging because I was new to Cohesity DataProtect, but I have gained more experience and it's better now.

I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.

If I had to rate Cohesity DataProtect, I would give it an eight.