We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and IDERA SQL Safe Backup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It offers an easy, quick backup and restore of files and VMs. Also, the "Google-like " search for files is awesome."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The ease of use and the GUI have really been most valuable to us. Configuring the system to do what we need is simple and straight forward and a lot of guesswork has been removed. One of my favorite features with Cohesity is Kroll for Exchange item-level recovery. The software is simple to use and fast."
"The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor."
"Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection."
"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."
"We are very satisfied with the product as a whole—all the backup functions, the data protection functions. We are very satisfied with those, and the product is very simple to use."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"Microsoft Exchange online mailbox backups would be fantastic."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"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."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 74th in Backup and Recovery. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact.
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