Catalogic DPX vs Cohesity DataProtect comparison

Catalogic and Cohesity are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Catalogic is ranked #73, while Cohesity is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.4. Catalogic holds a 0.5% mindshare in BRS, compared to Cohesity’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution.

Catalogic DPX

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Catalogic DPX and Cohesity DataProtect are prominent data protection solutions. Cohesity DataProtect seems to have the upper hand with more robust features and advanced data management capabilities.

Features: Users find Catalogic DPX valuable for its simplicity, reliable backup, and efficient recovery capabilities. Cohesity DataProtect is appreciated for its scalability, broad feature-set including comprehensive data management, and integrated ransomware protection.

Room for Improvement: Catalogic DPX users suggest enhancements in reporting, integration with more cloud services, and more intuitive user interface. Cohesity DataProtect users feel the product could benefit from a more intuitive configuration process, improved customer support, and faster product updates.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catalogic DPX is praised for its straightforward deployment and reliable customer service. Cohesity DataProtect's deployment is more complex due to its extensive feature set, but users value its comprehensive support resources.

Pricing and ROI: Catalogic DPX provides a cost-effective solution with favorable ROI; users feel it offers great value for the price. Cohesity DataProtect is more expensive but justifies its price with advanced functionality and strong ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Catalogic DPX

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

73rd

Average Rating

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

10th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (10th), AI Data Analysis (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Catalogic DPX is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 2.0%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cohesity DataProtect	2.0%
Catalogic DPX	0.5%
Other	97.5%

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it_user292722

Data Center Global SAP Operations Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it to backup some high output critical physical servers, knowing that in case of disaster we could still recover to our VM environment. The user interface needs improvement.

The user interface needs improvement, the selection boxes to select a backup job are very small not adequate for managing 400+ backup jobs, we only see 8 job names in the small scroll window. The scheduler features are lacking, we must edit backup specs to reach the option to change the schedule. The new reporting feature has greatly improved the product, prior to this it was very difficult to have a full view of our backup schedules when scheduling a new job. Since the move from Syncsort to Catalogic, the quality control of upgrades has diminished and backups that used to work could not be restored without contacting Catalogic for a fix. We still see a lot of value in the product, but hope that the next few updates will not cause more issues... We wanted a mission critical enterprise solution, and sincerely hope that the future upgrades will bring the product back on track.

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Kalaiarasan Meganathan

Specialist at HCLSoftware

Backup operations have become faster and daily recoveries run smoothly for on‑prem workloads

When compared to other tools, the deduplication in Cohesity DataProtect is very fast, and the restore performance is better than other tools. Global deduplication ensures that only unique data blocks are stored, significantly reducing storage consumption. Cohesity DataProtect's dashboard displays options and errors clearly, making it easy to access and understand how to fix issues. Cohesity DataProtect's ability to start processes automatically without manual selections enhances its reliability. Cohesity DataProtect's architecture ensures that agent installations automatically reflect in the dashboard, allowing for seamless integration into backup jobs. This improves operational efficiency, ensuring backups can be triggered without manual refreshes. Additionally, the user interface is intuitive, and the respect of the N-1 rule during updates helps prevent client-affecting issues.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"By implementing an OVF (docker based) and without any agents on your servers, you’ll get a system which provides you with: Orchestration, Automation DR and Data analytics."

"Catalogic has great features including the ability to P2V from snapvaults, and recently the addition of agent-less backups for Linux."

"Backups and restores are much faster and we were able to increase our backup frequency where it made sense to do so in order to have lower RPO."

"The change has been night and day."

"Administratively, my staff is relieved at the ease of management and ongoing administration with Cohesity."

"The system automatically takes down the nodes one at a time and performs the upgrade and brings the node back up before proceeding to the next. Upgrades can now be done at any time with a high level of confidence."

"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."

"The backup and restore solution is a big step forward from our last solution and packs more than just backup in a box, allowing for additional features such as Disaster Recovery and utilising the space available in the cluster for storing files."

"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."

"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."

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Cons

"Since the move from Syncsort to Catalogic, the quality control of upgrades has diminished and backups that used to work could not be restored without contacting Catalogic for a fix."

"And hearing about all these awesome posibilities, it kind of struck me that this was only possible with NetApp storage."

"The solution's pricing is quite high, more so than that of its competitors, Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik."

"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."

"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."

"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."

"We don't love the Exchange integration, it works fine but requires a third-party application called Kroll."

"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."

"Faster backup and restores, reduced costs of backups."

"The support from Cohesity is good, but it is not as exceptional as Nutanix."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The tool's pricing is average."

"The ROI is huge. Not really measurable at this point, but the price of the unit was a fraction of what a couple hours of downtime could result in."

"If SQL is in heavy use at your location, I would highly recommend narrowing your PoC testing to Cohesity and Rubrik. They will be competitive on pricing with each other, so really put them through the paces."

"My advice is to always negotiate for better pricing."

"The solution's pricing is quite high, more so than that of its competitors, Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik."

"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it's neither costly nor cheap."

"The pricing model is impressive and very effective."

"From my last assessment, the pricing for Cohesity DataProtect was reasonable. Compared to its closest competitor, Rubrik, I found Rubrik's pricing to be somewhat high-end. While Rubrik may have more advanced security features than Cohesity DataProtect currently, Cohesity DataProtect is releasing a new solution in the near future that will compete directly with Rubrik."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

17%

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Educational Organization

10%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	43

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There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation, despite being content with its existing features.

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Overview

Catalogic DPX protects your data quickly and reliably for your virtual, physical and cloud-based environments. DPX integrates backup and recovery, tape backup, disaster recovery, and bare metal recovery as copy data services that reduce both backup and recovery times by 90% or more through instantly mountable recoveries. DPX simplifies data protection across your enterprise infrastructure and reduces operational costs. The largest hidden cost of data protection is operations: the day-to-day management and troubleshooting of the many different tools used to back up, restore and copy data. Spending too much time on backup and using multiple tools is definitely a problem regardless of the business size which results in wasted resources and personnel time that could be deployed to higher value activities. DPX lets you work smarter by combining an easy-to-use, intuitive management interface with robust backup and disaster recovery capabilities. Built-in integration with NetApp means backup operators don't need to be storage experts. DPX doesn't require months of training and storage administration experience to operate freeing up IT staff to work on other projects that drive new revenue.

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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:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

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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