Cohesity Data Cloud vs IBM ProtectTIER comparison

Cohesity and IBM are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.5, while IBM is ranked #75. Cohesity holds a 0.7% mindshare in BRS, compared to IBM’s 0.5% 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

19th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (14th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (6th), AI Data Analysis (15th)

IBM ProtectTIER

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

75th

Average Rating

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity Data Cloud is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM ProtectTIER is 0.5%, 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	0.7%
IBM ProtectTIER	0.5%
Other	98.8%

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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Avdhesh Garg

Technical Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Provides a short-term backup, archive, and cataloging for 20,000 people in our organization

The backup for a large amount of data is slow. When there's a large amount of data, sometimes the backup isn't completed in time. I have a 24 hour cycle, so it doesn't get completed in 24 hours with the large amount of data. With Veritas NetBackup, I can take 20 terabytes of backup in a day.

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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

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

"It is easy to install and use."

"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."

"Its big data and archive data features are the features that I have found most valuable. I can use it in a big virtual environment."

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

"Cohesity Data Cloud is user-friendly, and anyone can use this tool; the support is really good, especially the web support, and the dashboard and everything are good."

"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."

"I definitely recommend this tool to others due to its simplicity, security, features, and flexibility."

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

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

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

"The command-line interface is good."

"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."

"The solution is highly stable."

Cons

"The only concern I have with cloud implementation is that if you have a presence on-premises, trying to use the cloud may become a performance challenge."

"One of the worst situations occurred when the sizing team did not get the correct subscription, usage, and capacity from Cohesity."

"In terms of functionality, Helios has been effective, but sometimes it doesn't show the exact cluster name for backups."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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."

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

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It's priced properly for the market."

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

"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

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

University

Comms Service Provider

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
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?

All organizations are very interested in as-a-service model where they do not pay upfront cost, but they only get the services and pay for what they use as they use it. Converting from CapEx to OpE...

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What needs improvement with Cohesity Imanis Data?

Cohesity Data Cloud is not unique in this area. There are a couple of other vendors who are playing in the same area. They provide some sort of isolation for the protected data that makes it very d...

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What is your primary use case for Cohesity Imanis Data?

I have been in a relationship with Cohesity Data Cloud for more than five years now. I have used Helios in the past.

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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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