Cohesity DataProtect vs Commvault Cloud comparison

Cohesity DataProtect

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Cohesity DataProtect

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 19, 2023

We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Commvault Complete Data Protection based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.

Features: Cohesity DataProtect offers instant recovery and built-in integration with Office 365 and Active Directory. Commvault Complete Data Protection is highly regarded for its extensive recovery options and compatibility with diverse storage systems. Cohesity DataProtect users have suggested enhancements to its user interface, rollback methodology, and cloud data recovery. Other pain points include file server capacity and legacy platform support. Users suggest that Commvault Complete Data Protection could offer more Windows security features and a unified console. They said Commvault should expand support for container-based systems and improve its ability to archive large video files.
Service and Support: The customer service experiences for Cohesity DataProtect have been mostly positive, but some say the quality of Cohesity's support may differ depending on the region. Commvault Complete Data Protection earned mostly positive feedback for its customer service, but some Commvault customers mentioned concerns about network-related support and the need for more direct access during emergencies.
Ease of Deployment: Most users consider the setup process for Cohesity DataProtect to be easy, although a few found it more complex than other products. The setup process for Commvault Complete Data Protection is complex, time-consuming, and may require outside help. The lack of sufficient documentation and online resources adds to the difficulty.
Pricing: Cohesity's pricing is higher than its competitors, although some customers consider it affordable. Commvault may need to lower its price to attract customers in certain regions and customer segments.
ROI: Cohesity DataProtect provides security against ransomware and efficient file retrieval. Commvault Complete Data Protection offers significant cost savings. Some enterprise customers estimated that they saved between $100,000 to $300,000 by reducing labor costs, speeding up backup and recovery, and implementing remote access.

Comparison Results: Cohesity is regarded as an affordable solution that offers instant recovery and superior ransomware protection. However, users say its customer service is inconsistent across regions, and its rollback methodology has room for improvement. Commvault Complete Data Protection is a robust and flexible solution with the potential to save customers money, but users say the setup is too complex and it needs better support for container-based systems.

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

8th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

3rd

Ranking in Cloud Backup

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

106

Ranking in other categories

eDiscovery (2nd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), File Archiving (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd), SaaS Backup (1st), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 4.1%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 6.9%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery

Unique Categories:

Cloud Backup

6.2%

eDiscovery

3.8%

Featured Reviews

reviewer953199

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 22, 2021

Robust and feature-rich solution

We have an on-premise exchange environment and it is really large and sensitive to backup impact, where it'll actually slow down the mailbox servers due to the stunning effect of trying to snapshot the VM. We previously had to do dedicated backup servers, which was an additional consumption of on-premise resources of storage and compute. When we moved to Cohesity, we were able to target the passive copies of those databases so we no longer needed to have dedicated backup servers for the exchange environment, thereby reducing both the footprint of exchange and the resources consumed to support of the backup server.

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reviewer1055571

Senior Systems Consultant | Virtualization at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Feb 21, 2023

The best compatibility metrics with very good security, stability, and integrity

Our company uses the solution to implement cobots for customers. The global application provides a lot of storage for customers. There are good security features for Google, videos, irregular encryption, and backups. The solution includes the best compatibility metrics for integration and they…

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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

"The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."

"Cohesity customer service is the best that I have ever used. They are extremely fast in responding to cases, fixed all issues, and answered every question in a very timely manner."

"I love the ability to clone a virtual server in only minutes."

"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."

"Cohesity DataProtect is easily manageable, and you can see every option from the user interface."

"The most valuable feature is ease of use."

"Within the system, we have rule-based access control, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and basic identity and access management features."

"Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection."

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"Scalability, as well as stability, are a couple of important parts of this solution."

"The email archiving feature is very smooth and better than others."

"The product is a reliable solution."

"We switched to Commvault because we were looking to centralize management. This reduced IT administrator time as well as providing stability and reliability for data backups in a single console."

"Commvault helps to ensure broad coverage with the discovery of unprotected workloads. This is important. From the moment that we set it up, we mostly have customers telling us what they need to back up. Then, you can list the machines that are not yet protected. Sometimes, we can see that they are unaware of this, and say, "We didn't know that those servers were not protected yet," or "We did not back them up yet.""

"Whoever has an Endpoint license can store unlimited data on the cloud."

"Metallic is user-friendly, cost-effective, and the technical support is impressive."

"The product alerts the security team about threats."

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Cons

"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."

"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."

"I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a Windows server, which is storing data on dynamic disk."

"The tool could benefit from further improvements in AI features, particularly in areas such as a generative AI chat interface. This feature could help answer queries about the data being protected. One feature that would greatly improve our experience with the product is the ability to identify data redundancies through a central console. This feature would help us reduce storage costs by managing redundant data."

"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."

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

"In terms of the product itself, there have been a handful of patches that have had to be applied outside of the GUI via the command line. It's very straightforward and easy and in the same redundant fashion, but not quite as simple as one or two clicks. I'm hoping that will decrease going forward."

"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."

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"They could work on the implementation of the features."

"The pricing of the solution can be improved and made cheaper."

"The solution must provide deception files across the network."

"Its dashboard could be improved to provide a summarized version of all the jobs instead of having to go through each one of them. We should easily be able to glance at all issues. If I had not gone with the on-premise version, I would have had regular reports with the cloud version. It would be an advantage if they increase the compression rate of the backup. I am keeping it on-prem, so I'll need more disks depending on the policies that I have in the retention period. Its price could also be lower. If a good solution can be cheaper, it is always an advantage."

"The speed of the Office 365 Backup & Recovery feature is adequate. Microsoft controls the amount of bandwidth that people have when they're using Azure and the O365 environment... If they could work out something with Microsoft to improve the speed, that would help."

"For simpler environments, they have some templates for startups. Possibly for a smaller environment, they need to do more automatic configuration and selections of users who want to do backups. This is mainly for smaller environments. I would like them to have the same system fit for all environments: small and big environments. Currently, we have to do a lot of configuration of the layout, which takes time. This solution is appropriate for enterprise-level enterprise, but I would like it to be easier to use for SMB environments."

"The HTML interface is a remarkable improvement. However, there are still some features that are not available in that interface that are available in the Java console, but I'm sure that will come with time."

"There is room for improvement in terms of data security."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cohesity came in at the best price. Setup was included and done in half a day."

"Pricing, setup costs, etc. are pretty typical. The initial cost for Cohesity was less than other products the we evaluated. Cohesity's pricing does offer benefits as DR target costs are less than other solutions. You are not charged for DataProtect licensing for target DR data consumption."

"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."

"There is monthly licensing."

"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."

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

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

"The tool's pricing is average."

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"The price could perhaps be lower as well."

"Its cost is reasonable."

"Its cost is reasonable, but anybody else can do better benchmarking."

"The license is paid on an annual basis and the price is reasonable."

"There is a bit of cost involved with signing up the entire solution. It's not a cheap solution."

"The solution is expensive, but it is worth the money."

"In my experience, compared to solutions like Veritas and Veeam, while they do have their technical pluses and minuses, Commvault can save you on average forty percent initially, and then twenty to twenty-five percent annually."

"The solution is bundled with hardware licensing. If I want to increase the hardware, I have to buy exactly the same because it's based on the core hardware license. We cannot tell discount because we have an NDA signed with Commvault because of my academic license. The solution is more expensive than NetBackup and Veeam but cheaper than Rubrik."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

36%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cohesity DataProtect?

Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with m...

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

Typically on-premises nodes/clusters are deployed for primary backup (to enable instant mass restore) so price will be dependent on chosen OEM and capacity required. MSPs like us utilise PPU licens...

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

There is room for improvement in terms of price. In future releases, I would like to see a more comprehensive cyber resilience capability.

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What do you like most about Commvault?

The convenience of backing up and restoring simultaneously is very valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Commvault?

The tool is affordable. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. Implementation requires additional costs because we need Commvault Professional Services.

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What needs improvement with Commvault?

Data center backup must be improved. We also want the product to provide us with a cloud-based backup. If we use Microsoft Exchange Online for email services, we want to know how to get a backup in...

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Comparisons

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Compared 28% of the time

Veeam Backup & Replication vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 15% of the time

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 7% of the time

Veritas NetBackup vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 6% of the time

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 5% of the time

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Rubrik vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 14% of the time

Veeam Backup & Replication vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 12% of the time

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

Azure Backup vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

Acronis Cyber Protect vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

Cohesity

Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise

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Overview

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"

Commvault Cloud is the ultimate cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of the hybrid
enterprise. Beyond its core functionality of data backup and recovery across diverse workloads, including applications, databases, virtual machines, and files, Commvault Cloud stands out as a robust defense against ransomware. Going beyond backup, the platform integrates advanced data security features such as encryption, access control, and threat detection, safeguarding against unauthorized access and cyber threats.

With tools for data management, classification, and migration, businesses can optimize storage costs, enhance accessibility, and comply with regulations seamlessly. Boasting cloud integration with major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Commvault Cloud leverages the scalability and flexibility of the cloud for comprehensive data protection and management. The platform's automation capabilities streamline tasks, and its reporting and analytics features provide valuable insights into data usage, potential risks, and optimization strategies. Commvault Cloud is not just a security tool; it is a key component of cyber resilience, enabling organizations to not only protect against cyberattacks but also recover swiftly and minimize the impact of incidents. Elevate your cyber resilience strategy with Commvault Cloud.

Sample Customers

Tribune Media

Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company

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