"They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"With instant DR failover using SiteContinuity, we are able to keep our files available no matter the situation."
"I found value in the instant recovery with DataMove. I found value in the protection group model for applying policies to VMs. And in the overall UI navigation and the way that the application is laid out in the web browser."
"The solution is stable."
"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."
"The dashboard is very rich and provides details needed for a moderator."
"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"Many of the reports are basic, at most, and at times we had to open a support ticket to help find or develop a report for our needs."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting. There are very granular reports from each grid. There are also some built-in reports within Helios (SAS Management Console) that offers basic reporting. However, for complex, large-enterprise environments, a more robust reporting engine that supports detailed audit reporting and enhanced ad hoc reports would be welcome."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"We would like it to have more capabilities for different kinds of PaaS or SaaS services in the Azure cloud, such as Azure SQL or Azure Cosmos DB."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"I would like to see the management of multiple nodes inside a tenant. If you want to manage a Cohesity environment, you either go on a per-node base, and you can hop from one node to the other, or you need to implement their SaaS capability but it always needs an internet connection. We would really like to have some kind of local management entity so that we can see all the Cohesity nodes in a customer environment and manage those nodes centrally. That's something that we would really like, and they are really working on it."
Actifio is ranked 38th in Backup and Recovery Software with 2 reviews while Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery Software with 21 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.0, while Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Advanced data management, backup and recovery with unique solutions that lead in the field". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Simplifies data protection by eliminating legacy backup silos". Actifio is most compared with Delphix, Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Data Protection and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup. See our Actifio vs. Cohesity DataProtect report.
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