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Cohesity DataProtect vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
Users note cost savings, efficiency, and security improvements from Cohesity DataProtect, despite challenges in precise ROI measurement.
Sentiment score
8.0
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery boosts ROI with rapid recovery, cost reduction, increased profitability, and enhanced IT efficiency.</p>
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.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.9
Cohesity DataProtect customer service is praised for expert, swift support, though regional consistency and communication can improve.
Sentiment score
8.5
<p>Infrascale's Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery service boasts responsive, proactive support with knowledgeable staff, quick resolutions, and user satisfaction.</p>
The support can depend on the region, and for larger customers, I advise having a Technical Account Manager for better assistance.
The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.
Their average mean time to resolve open tickets is an hour.
The most valuable aspects of Infrascale’s support for my company are the turnaround time and the resolution time.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Cohesity DataProtect offers seamless scalability and efficiency through its hyper-converged architecture, catering to diverse enterprise environments.
Sentiment score
6.7
Infrascale Backup offers scalable, efficient management but may need upgrades for hardware and capacity during significant growth.
Cohesity DataProtect is built on a scale-out architecture, which means it can effectively scale to meet various needs.
One person can manage hundreds and hundreds of endpoints without any issues.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Cohesity DataProtect is stable and dependable, with quick resolutions to minor issues and exceptional support, earning high user ratings.
Sentiment score
8.5
Users find Infrascale Backup reliable with minimal issues; responsive support and improved usability enhance overall satisfaction.
On the whole, any problems were more related to hardware limitations rather than issues with Cohesity DataProtect itself.
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
There was a recent announcement in terms of moving Infrascale to the cloud, which makes it easier for the customer in terms of usability.
 

Room For Improvement

Cohesity DataProtect users seek faster restores, better integration, improved security, intuitive UI, AI features, and enhanced support and documentation.
Users seek improved pricing clarity, bandwidth control, security, integration, dashboard functionality, intuitive interface, SSDs, and flexible licensing.
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.
Many customers do not rely on just one cloud provider and want to work with multiple clouds.
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
 

Setup Cost

Cohesity DataProtect provides cost-effective yearly licensing with flexible pricing, discounts for large deployments, and no extra fees.
Infrascale's pricing is competitive and flexible, though users find the licensing structure complex and occasionally higher than competitors.
I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.
To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, I would say that they should get Infrascale's service no matter what it costs because any downtime or any loss of data is substantially worse than any cost for backup.
The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others.
 

Valuable Features

Cohesity DataProtect provides instant recovery, cloud integration, scalability, and security features, ensuring efficient management and improved recovery objectives.
Infrascale offers easy, rapid disaster recovery with robust features like fast VM boot-up, centralized management, and strong data protection.
The platform is based on a scale-out architecture with each node having compute, RAM, SSD, and HDD.
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.
What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean.
Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
9th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
6th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
63rd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
48th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (8th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (29th), SaaS Backup (42nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 4.1%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Giovanni Golinelli. - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support
The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup. Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance. We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site. Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.
Harry Vining - PeerSpot reviewer
The overall ease of use and ease of management using the dashboard is excellent
I can't really think of anything that really needs to be improved from my perspective, because I only use the backup. Maybe someone who is using something else might have a different opinion on that. But for the online backup and recovery tool, I'm not going to say there's anything that needs improvement. They can always improve stuff. But from the top of my head, I can't think of anything. It does what it needs to do. That's it. It doesn't need to do anything more than what it does and nothing less than what it's doing. The Infrascale dashboard when it comes to centralized deployment and configuration is excellent. I have no problems with the solution. They could always make it better. They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement, but there's nothing on the top of my head that's saying, "Hey, this is what needs to be fixed." But, the programmers are probably working on their own things. So, there's always room for improvement.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
39%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
17%
Real Estate/Law Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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...
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...
What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?
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....
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
I appreciate their pricing. We went for this solution for its pricing. If a colleague at another organization is considering Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery but is concerned about the pri...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
I'm a little bit disappointed that over the last year and a half, there hasn't been too much contact from them regarding what's going to be new or coming out. I have another call scheduled with one...
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
We're using Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery for disaster recovery and onsite backup from various server environments such as VMware and Microsoft Azure.
 

Also Known As

Cohesity
Infrascale Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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MSPs servicing small and mid-size companies VARs servicing mid-sized companies Direct SMB or mid-sized companies
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