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.

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 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.

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.

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.  

• 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.