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Cohesity C4000 Series vs Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity C4000 Series
Ranking in HCI
34th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructur...
Ranking in HCI
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
199
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (4th), Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) (1st), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Cohesity C4000 Series is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is 8.9%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
HCI Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)8.9%
Cohesity C4000 Series0.6%
Other90.5%
HCI
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1336899 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud
It has provided superior backups and protection from ransomware I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable. The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved. I have worked with it for two years. Its stability…
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Hyper-converged storage has improved performance and now supports high redundancy for our VMs
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) was transparent because we were on a regular infrastructure before. We went on NCI and were able to improve performance, but it did not really change how things worked. The performance was really better for applications and access times to the data. I regularly looked at the analytics to see what was going on in my servers and what it was saying to optimize performance. It was pretty interesting because it could analyze and give insights on how to get things working better. In the latest versions, the Prism interface has been replaced by Prism Central. This requires another machine to be deployed to manage the servers.

Quotes from Members

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Pros

"I find all the features of this solution excellent, and the ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"Right now, technology-wise, I feel Nutanix appears to have the simplicity side of things going for them."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"We increased stability and availability to 99.999%, and increased performance on our software platforms and databases drastically."
"Nutanix provides the best migration to cloud platform, helping our company aggregate most of our workloads into a centralized platform, improving the efficiency for the IT team and infrastructure resources, and throughout the journey providing the best support we have ever had from solution providers and vendors, adding big value to our operations and supporting our SLAs with our customers."
 

Cons

"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"Given all the amazing features, there is room for improvement around the support ability of different hypervisors."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"I think that there are several areas that they can improve slightly, including the mail servers, the application servers, and perhaps even the database servers."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Customer Service: It's excellent, but expensive. Technical Support: It's excellent, but expensive."
"It is a CentOS-based operating system, but CentOS releases security patches almost every week or every other week. However, Nutanix releases their upgrade at three or four month intervals."
"The technical support is not great, but it's good."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is on a per case basis."
"Pricing varies greatly between license and editions."
"This product is less expensive than some of the competing HCI solutions."
"When we purchase a new physical server or a couple of physical servers into our cluster, we always purchase it with Nutanix licensing. We are receiving the license from Nutanix directly and not from the vendor. In the way we're dealing, with the licenses it is a bit costly for us but as the company is getting larger, day by day or year by year, those licensing costs become lower each time for us. We are purchasing the licenses for three years for some of our clusters and for some others for five-year licenses and the licenses are still costly. We have good discounts for the licenses, but it is still expensive."
"I think it's cheaper than VMware in terms of cost."
"There is a license required for this solution and my clients usually purchase a two-year license with extended support. The price of the solution could be reduced, it is more expensive than competitors."
"The price of the solution could improve. Nutanix has recently changed its pricing model from perpetual to subscription. They have identified there are challenges with the pricing model."
"My advice is to get the ultimate license, as it is worth it."
"It is not cheap, but if you look at the return on investment and the total cost of ownership, it is worth the price."
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Comparison Review

it_user244362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Consultant with 51-200 employees
Aug 30, 2015
Nutanix vs. VMware EVO:RAIL vs. FlexPod
Originally posted at www.storagegaga.com/dont-get-too-drunk-on-hyper-converged/ I hate the fact that I am bursting the big bubble brewing about Hyper Convergence (HC). I urge all to look past the hot air and hype frenzy that are going on, because in the end, the HC platforms have to be aligned…
 

Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business93
Midsize Enterprise76
Large Enterprise88
 

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Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Acropolis
 

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