Cohesity DataProtect and Dell Data Protection Advisor compete in the data protection market. Dell Data Protection Advisor is favored for its superior features and perceived value.
Features: Cohesity DataProtect highlights efficient backup, fast recovery times, and scalability. Dell Data Protection Advisor focuses on comprehensive data coverage, advanced analytics, and policy-based management.
Room for Improvement: Cohesity DataProtect needs enhancements in disaster recovery options and integrations with third-party tools. Dell Data Protection Advisor requires improvements in ease of use and automation capabilities.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect users appreciate the intuitive deployment model and responsive support. Dell Data Protection Advisor users find the deployment process complex and have mixed reviews on support quality.
Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect is praised for its competitive pricing and solid ROI. Dell Data Protection Advisor's pricing is higher, but users acknowledge its return on investment due to robust features.
Using Cohesity DataProtect is easier to manage, and it simplifies various components into one architecture, reducing the need for extensive human resources to manage backups.
From a customer perspective, this is definitely a good solution financially as it protects their privacy, and currently customers are primarily focused on data privacy.
For the support, I can provide a rating of four only because they initially provide some steps, but later say they are not sure, which is a problem in a production environment.
The support can depend on the region, and for larger customers, I advise having a Technical Account Manager for better assistance.
The technical support of Dell rates a perfect 10.
Cohesity DataProtect is built on a scale-out architecture, which means it can effectively scale to meet various needs.
On the whole, any problems were more related to hardware limitations rather than issues with Cohesity DataProtect itself.
I have worked with Dell for more than 20 years now without encountering any issues.
Dell Data Protection Advisor is really stable because we use it for all customers, with over 300 customers using Dell Data Protection Advisor.
There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation.
While there are improvements to be made, such as providing support for older systems like IBM iSeries and tandem systems from HP, the solution overall shifts from older methods to modern practices.
There are no limitations regarding scalability.
Response time is the main problem that needs addressing.
I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.
The license model is more economical than other vendor products.
The product is satisfactory regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
The platform is based on a scale-out architecture with each node having compute, RAM, SSD, and HDD.
Global deduplication ensures that only unique data blocks are stored, significantly reducing storage consumption.
Some of the most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect for me include instant mass restore, anomaly detection, and its ability to handle large data volumes effectively.
Dell Data Protection Advisor can integrate with VMware, physical tape library, other backup solutions, Oracle solution, and CA Arcserve, making it a comprehensive solution.
The predictive analytics feature in Dell Data Protection Advisor provides predictions about backup size and capacity for future periods.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Cohesity DataProtect | 2.2% |
| Dell Data Protection Advisor | 0.7% |
| Other | 97.1% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 19 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 43 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 2 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 7 |
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:
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"
Effectively managing your data protection environment can be labor intensive and complex. It requires knowledge of backup applications, replication technologies, and the entire supporting infrastructure, yet it is critical in keeping your data secure.
With Dell Data Protection Advisor, you can automate and centralize the collection, monitoring and reporting of this data and get a single, comprehensive view of your environment, no matter where your data resides. This includes monitoring data on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
With clear visibility, you can gain actionable insight and effectively manage service levels while reducing costs and complexity. You can also collect and report on that data to help other stakeholders make the best decisions for your organization.
Data Protection Advisor is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.
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