Cohesity DataProtect and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud are leaders in the data protection market, focusing on backup and recovery solutions. Acronis seems to have the upper hand due to its strong ransomware defenses and easy recovery processes.
Features: Cohesity DataProtect offers rapid and effortless VM recovery, cloud integration with AWS and Google, and a robust support system; these aspects enhance its utility for comprehensive data protection. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud delivers robust ransomware defenses, straightforward recovery processes, and flexible integration across virtual environments.
Room for Improvement: Cohesity DataProtect could improve in cluster replication, scalability for legacy systems, and faster backup and restore operations. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud requires pricing simplification, faster data restoration, and enhanced customization in reporting and security features.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect is predominantly used in on-premises and hybrid environments, with excellent customer service. In contrast, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud targets public cloud needs, also boasting high customer service satisfaction.
Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect provides competitive all-in-one solutions with node-based licensing, though it may appear costly compared to Rubrik. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is cost-effective for large deployments, but medium-sized businesses often see its pricing as high, despite the value offered by its security features.
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.
CloudGuard is on a WAF, which is a cloud-based Check Point WAF.
Their expertise and consulting are very good, especially for Indian business.
For the support, I can provide a rating of four only because they initially provide some steps, but later say they are not sure, which is a problem in a production environment.
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.
Support could be improved.
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.
There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation.
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 centralized management dashboard helps with team efficiency as well as handling security tasks.
Cohesity DataProtect's architecture ensures that agent installations automatically reflect in the dashboard, allowing for seamless integration into backup jobs.
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.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud | 1.5% |
| Cohesity DataProtect | 2.7% |
| Other | 95.8% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 41 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 19 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 43 |
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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