"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."
"After linking a cloud subscription, like Azure for example (AWS and Google are also supported), you can "spin" a VM onto the cloud from any backup snapshot."
"The enterprise search and instant restore are pretty valuable. Also, the Helios stuff is pretty good and the SAS engine for ransom malware detection."
"With instant DR failover using SiteContinuity, we are able to keep our files available no matter the situation."
"The most valuable aspect for me is that I don't have to deal with media in terms of tapes like our existing system does."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."
"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."
"It is good in terms of functionality. My clients are very satisfied with this solution."
"The interface is easy to use."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"Good user interface."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"Technical support is okay. We have not had many issues with them."
"Good deduplication and compression features."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"I like that Cohesity offers the chance to have data on-premises and on the cloud. All the data is automatically sent to the cloud."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"Cohesity DataProtect can improve in the area of databases. We have had some challenges with both Cohesity and Rubrik being able to effectively back up in a timely manner the SQL Oracle workloads."
"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."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"There needs to be a bit more automation."
"They took some of the funding off of it for a while. Therefore, instead of being a market leader, they took their position for granted. Then some competitors developed new bells and whistles that they advertise, and due to that lag a few years ago, there are not the resources to explain the differences."
"IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved by making the installation easier. Once it's implemented, it's okay. IBM started lagging behind when things started moving to storage and cloud-based solutions. Even though they've recently released updates that give cloud-based protection, personally, I still believe they are not up to par with the likes of Rubrik. The entire product is a little bit clumsy because they have co-joined two different products, so it's complex. Even from a sales/explaining to people what it does point of view, it's complex. Whereas, if you take more current products, it's a single box solution. You reel it in, you fire it up, you do a couple of points and clicks, and off you go, whereas the IBM system is seriously complex. There's a lot of training involved and it's a massively difficult product to sell at this point in time."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of use - the GUI is not up to the mark compared to other products in the market."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery Software with 27 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery Software with 47 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.2, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Simplifies data protection by eliminating legacy backup silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Great stability, reliability, and scalability, but very difficult to manage and get support". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault, Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Dell EMC Avamar, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault, Azure Backup and Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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