Cohesity DataProtect and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud are strong contenders in the data protection space. Cohesity appears to have the upper hand due to its integration capabilities and cost-effectiveness, although Acronis offers strong cybersecurity features.
Features: Cohesity DataProtect provides instant mass restore, integration with multiple cloud platforms, and superior handling of data fragmentation. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud distinguishes itself with active ransomware protection, robust data security features, and comprehensive cybersecurity capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Cohesity DataProtect could improve file-level restore capabilities, expand support for legacy and cloud applications, and enhance documentation. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud should improve security features, extend agentless backup support, and enhance reporting. Both solutions should focus on reducing backup and recovery times and improving navigation interfaces.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect offers excellent deployment for on-premises and hybrid clouds and superior customer service with proactive support. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud simplifies deployment for public clouds and provides competitive technical support, though response times could improve. Cohesity's support is often rated higher for responsiveness and effectiveness.
Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect is noted for its cost-effectiveness and straightforward pricing, often leading to significant savings. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, while competitive, can be perceived as expensive. Cohesity users report more immediate ROI benefits.
Using Cohesity DataProtect is easier to manage, and it simplifies various components into one architecture, reducing the need for extensive human resources to manage backups.
Their expertise and consulting are very good, especially for Indian business.
The support can depend on the region, and for larger customers, I advise having a Technical Account Manager for better assistance.
Cohesity DataProtect is built on a scale-out architecture, which means it can effectively scale to meet various needs.
On the whole, any problems were more related to hardware limitations rather than issues with Cohesity DataProtect itself.
I would like to see more mature XDR and EDR features.
While there are improvements to be made, such as providing support for older systems like IBM iSeries and tandem systems from HP, the solution overall shifts from older methods to modern practices.
In India, the pricing of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is relatively low compared to other competitors.
I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.
AI functionality enhances malware and threat detection by summarizing vulnerabilities, providing engineers with a direct idea about what needs to be covered.
The platform is based on a scale-out architecture with each node having compute, RAM, SSD, and HDD.
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.
What is Cohesity DataProtect?
Cohesity DataProtect is a top-level, sophisticated, software-defined backup and recovery solution created for cloud environments. Cohesity DataProtect is made to hyperscale and is one the most thorough policy-based protection solutions available on the market today.
Cohesity DataProtect melds multiple-point products into a single software that is able to be deployed as on-premise or consumed as a service.
Top Features:
Hyperscale made easy: Cohesity DataProtect improves data protection by doing away with the need for backup silos and administers backup and recovery with a single user-friendly, easy-to-understand interface. Cohesity DataProtect provides extensive 24/7 enterprise-class protection for a large, varying set of sources, including virtual and physical servers, NAS and SaaS workloads, relational and distributed databases, and traditional and containerized applications.
Super fast recovery: Cohesity DataProtect offers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and near-instant recovery time objectives (RTOs) to satisfy your business service-level agreements (SLAs). Using Cohesity Helios’ unified data plane and control plane you can immediately search and recover data on any Cohesity cluster, located anywhere. DataProtect distinctively minimizes downtime by immediately mass restoring any amount of virtual machines (VMs) to any point in time, and lowers data protection costs by as much as 70% or more.
Backup as a Service: Feel free to take advantage of the elasticity of the public cloud and the cost-effective value of Cohesity DataProtect when delivered as a service. When you choose an OPEX option, you can eliminate the need for on-premises hardware. There is a SaaS option that will allow you to very simply configure your backup workloads and immediately begin protecting your vital all-important data and applications.
It’s as easy as: sign-up, connect, and protect!
Ransomware protection: Cohesity DataProtect offers stellar recovery at scale. The solution is so intuitive, it has machine learning-based anomaly detection to stop incidents before they happen. Cohesity DataProtection can provide immutable backups, Datalock write once, read many (WORM), encryption, and role-based access control (RBAC).
Cohesity DataProtect integrates well with many of today’s top solutions, including, but not limited to:
Reviews from Real Users
One reviewer, who is head of IT infrastructure at Kampmann says, “Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software,” and goes on to indicate that Cohesity “works flawlessly with easy replication of backups and numerous supported backup sources.”
Another user, who is a senior network engineer at a legal firm, relates that "Cohesity is a robust and feature-rich solution"
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