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Cohesity DataProtect vs Cyera comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
17th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (11th), Cloud Backup (14th)
Cyera
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
18th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (13th), Data Governance (24th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (9th), AI Security (12th), Data Security Platforms (DSP) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 0.4%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cyera is 0.6%, down from 18.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cohesity DataProtect0.4%
Cyera0.6%
Other99.0%
AI Data Analysis
 

Featured Reviews

Kalaiarasan Meganathan - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer2795301 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Compliance at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
Data discovery has accelerated and now drives faster classification and compliance mapping
The best features Cyera offers include agentless discovery and sampling as well as AI ML-based classifications. I find myself relying on the sampling the most, which makes everything really fast, but also the auto-classification and ML-based functionalities. The main thing that stands out to me and my team about the features is the speed of integration and how fast it does the discovery on the data. Once it discovers the data, it also maps it back to a ton of compliance frameworks and best practices that I can use to operationalize. Cyera has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to identify the highest risk areas but also provide better classification of data, which then leads to better data pillar maturity. Cyera has accomplished all three outcomes: saving time, reducing risk, and improving compliance scores, as the speed at which it discovers data was significantly faster.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 support is awesome. They are very fast, competent and friendly."
"We have found that being able to host file shares and back up our environment in one device is amazing."
"Cohesity DataProtect has reduced my operational complexity and management overhead by consolidating infrastructure requirements."
"The solution is stable."
"A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window."
"We are now easily managing the data from Helios for all the clusters centrally."
"The solution boasts good retention, as it is global in a single platform and, since they have their own appliance, it is scalable as well."
"Cyera has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to identify the highest risk areas but also provide better classification of data, which then leads to better data pillar maturity."
"I like how they model the data. They find data in different places that we didn't know, and they can give us a good idea if it's sensitive or not. They understand whether or not something is in the right region because, with the cloud posture management tool, we could see certain things in the infrastructure, but the way they dig into the data is what we like."
"Cyera has an inbuilt set of policies implemented towards data security, especially cohering with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)."
"The data discovery, data classification, and CSPM features are most valuable."
"Cyera has positively impacted my organization because we have become more compliant."
 

Cons

"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."
"It should have quicker restore times."
"Better cluster support."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"There are several areas that have room for improvement, and I believe there are other aspects that could be enhanced as well."
"Many of the reports are basic, at most, and at times we had to open a support ticket to help find or develop a report for our needs."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"The solution's pricing is quite high, more so than that of its competitors, Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik."
"As a startup company, there is a long way for them to go in terms of scalability."
"They need to add a few things in the UI from an enterprise perspective. It's more along the lines of being able to self-service, have integrations, build alerts, and things like that. Outside of that, they work with us on the API and getting alerts into our SIEM and things like that. There's always a way to do something, and they're always available, which is nice."
"I would advise others looking into using Cyera to not do so."
"There is room for improvement in making Cyera more user-friendly. Some parts were difficult to navigate, especially for those new to the IT industry."
"The licensing initially was tricky because it is based on storage as well as user count."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers."
"There is monthly licensing."
"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."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. It is cheaper than other backup solutions."
"It has reasonable pricing, and we know they can give discounts. If you look at the primary pricing or the list pricing, it conforms to the market pricing, but you have to have a discount on it. Otherwise, it is way too expensive."
"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."
"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it's neither costly nor cheap."
"I don't know how much exactly it costs, but I know that it's a yearly thing. It's something that will cost money for any company because they're storing all this information. They're doing all this machine learning, and there are a lot of services on their backend that they got to pay for. I'm sure it gets translated back to the customers unless you have everything completely on-prem. If you're not doing much in the cloud, then I could see how it'd be cheaper, but if you have anything that's cloud-hosted and does all the work for you, there's going to be a cost associated with it."
"Compared to the competitors, they are very reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise43
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?
There are several areas that have room for improvement, and I believe there are other aspects that could be enhanced as well.
What is your primary use case for Cohesity DataProtect?
I use Cohesity DataProtect for backup, analysis, and recovery purposes.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cyera ?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cyera was that the licensing initially was tricky because it is based on storage as well as user count. I use Cyera to actually identify ho...
What needs improvement with Cyera ?
I think Cyera can improve by expanding beyond Israel.
What is your primary use case for Cyera ?
My main use case for Cyera is security. A quick specific example of how I use Cyera for security is scanning drives for secure information that shouldn't be there. Cyera helps with scanning drives ...
 

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Sample Customers

Tribune Media
Cyera's customers include the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (Cboe), Granicus, Takeda, LifeLabs, United Talent Agency, ACV Auctions, and Armis
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