Cohesity Data Cloud vs IBM ProtectTIER comparison

Cohesity and IBM are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.5, while IBM is ranked #83. Cohesity holds a 0.5% mindshare in BRS, compared to IBM’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 60% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Cohesity Data Cloud

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100% willing to recommend

IBM ProtectTIER

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60% willing to recommend

Cohesity Data Cloud

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

IBM ProtectTIER and Cohesity Data Cloud are leading data protection solutions. Cohesity Data Cloud holds the edge due to its advanced features and overall effectiveness.

Features: IBM ProtectTIER is valued for its deduplication and replication capabilities. Cohesity Data Cloud offers scalability, multi-cloud support, and comprehensive backup options, resulting in higher user satisfaction.

Room for Improvement: IBM ProtectTIER needs better integration with other systems and improved performance speed. Cohesity Data Cloud would benefit from improved monitoring tools and UI consistency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM ProtectTIER is praised for simple deployment and effective customer service. Cohesity Data Cloud also features ease of deployment and receives positive feedback for responsive support.

Pricing and ROI: IBM ProtectTIER is appreciated for a cost-effective setup and favorable ROI. Cohesity Data Cloud, despite higher costs, provides strong ROI through its extensive feature set and performance.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity Data Cloud

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

17th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (15th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (3rd)

IBM ProtectTIER

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

83rd

Average Rating

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity Data Cloud is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM ProtectTIER is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cohesity Data Cloud	0.5%
IBM ProtectTIER	0.3%
Other	99.2%

Backup and Recovery

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Shiva Kinnera

Technical Lead at Cognizant

Support and connection issues affect user experience

I currently work at TCS in a different domain using AWS and Azure cloud backup. I switched from Cognizant to TCS four months ago, where I previously used Cohesity Data Cloud and Cohesity tools. I prefer Cohesity Data Cloud over AWS. While cloud functionality is similar across platforms, Cohesity Data Cloud's console, options, and web console are superior to AWS. The pricing of Cohesity Data Cloud depends on the data volume and retention period. Compared to alternatives, Cohesity Data Cloud is somewhat expensive. Regarding technical aspects, connection issues need to be addressed promptly. I would rate it eight out of ten, as these issues require immediate resolution to meet client requirements. Overall review rating: 9/10.

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ValereFEUGWANG

Information System Consultant at CFAO Technologies

Protects data in hybrid infrastructures, but it is an expensive product with poor support

The main challenge for our customers is to replicate the virtual environment upon restart, without using any additional solutions such as VMware SLM. I would like the possibility to back up the infrastructure and then replicate it upon on restart, without having to orchestrate the starting of the VM. It would be much better for us. This solution can be made easier to use. Technical support is very frustrating and we are considering other solutions because of it. Stability is something that should be improved. The product is expensive and the licensing should be changed.

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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

"It has excellent integration for virtualization, which means we can easily protect VMs, virtual machines, which consists mainly of snapshot backups that are quite easy to recover."

"We use Cohesity Helios primarily in our data management strategy for backup and reporting."

"I find the most important feature to be data protection."

"Our data center size occupancy for Cohesity appliance is reduced by 70% when we installed Cohesity."

"The clone feature is very nice. You can restore workloads onto Cohesity's storage, which is also nice to have when you don't have enough space to restore on the server."

"It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery."

"One of the most outstanding features is forever incremental, which provides immutable backups."

"It is easy to install and use."

More Cohesity Data Cloud pros

"The command-line interface is good."

"The solution is highly stable."

"Overall IBM ProtectTIER is a great solution. It is easy to use."

"The most valuable features are the Self-Service, and the ability to search the data."

"The cataloging is the best feature. It takes millions of frames for the backup. It's incremental, so it takes less time to complete."

"In terms of stability, I've found it to be very stable. I've walked into the server room when it was at 60 degrees Celcius, and it was still running fine."

Cons

"The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions."

"Sometimes the support team does not provide proper assistance during critical issues from the cloud end."

"Their documentation portal is not up to date for newer releases and I strongly recommend Cohesity to increase their efforts on the documentation portal."

"Sometimes the support team does not provide proper assistance during critical issues from the cloud end."

"It has never been touted as a tier-one storage platform, and that would be a benefit. They are currently working on solving that issue."

"The limitation that I see in Cohesity is that the minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which is more than a small customer needs."

"The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment."

More Cohesity Data Cloud cons

"I would like the possibility to back up the infrastructure and then replicate it upon on restart, without having to orchestrate the starting of the VM."

"The configuration wizards are still complex and hard to navigate. These should be easier to manage."

"IBM ProtectTIER could improve by being more user-friendly."

"The backup for a large amount of data is slow."

"Setting up the system to work with legacy equipment is a bit complex at times."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Regarding pricing, it's very costly and I rate it a four."

"It's priced properly for the market."

"Competing products sometimes use deceptive marketing to make their products seem a lot cheaper. Comparing apples-to-apples, DataPlatform wins out."

"The customer can decide how they want to purchase a license. However, the price of the solution is expensive."

"We have a capacity-based license, which is managed centrally for all the sites of my company."

"IBM ProtectTIER is an expensive solution."

"This solution is very expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

Government

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataPlatform?

The pricing of Cohesity Data Cloud is good. Comparatively, compared to IBM and Commvault, Cohesity Data Cloud offers the best deal for my environment.

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What needs improvement with Cohesity Imanis Data?

They still have quite some way to go for improving their agents. As we have many snapshots which are agentless, we know that for recovery, for instance, if you want to do file recovery, an agent is...

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What is your primary use case for Cohesity Imanis Data?

The usual use cases are mainly for VMware-related backups and Nutanix backups. We have some physical servers where we perform backups and restores. It's physical as well as virtual, but mainly virt...

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Also Known As

Imanis Data, DataPlatform, Cohesity Helios

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Overview

Consolidate your backups, file shares, object stores and data for dev/test and analytics on a web-scale data management platform.

Cohesity

IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway is designed to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The solution offers industry-leading inline deduplication performance and scalability up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system, and can provide up to 25 PB or more backup storage capacity. Combined with IBM or third-party storage, TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway provides a powerful disk-based repository to improve the performance, retention and availability of backup and archive data in a small footprint for energy and cost efficiency.

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Sample Customers

Navis, 1st Security Bank, Brown University, WestLotto

Durham Police Department, Re-Store LLC, CenterGrid, pixx.io GmbH, Australian Government Department of Defence, QD, Refresco Gerber

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