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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
Cohesity DataProtect significantly cuts costs and time, offering quick ROI, enhanced security, and efficient resource management.
Sentiment score
6.5
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery provides cost-effective, efficient protection with faster restoration, minimizing downtime and enhancing profitability for businesses.</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's customer service is praised for fast, knowledgeable assistance, though regional support quality may vary.
Sentiment score
7.1
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery excels in customer service with responsive support, technical expertise, and proactive communication improvements.</p>
The support can depend on the region, and for larger customers, I advise having a Technical Account Manager for better assistance.
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.
The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.
 

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
5.8
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery offers scalable solutions from small to large enterprises, with occasional upgrade needs for optimal performance.</p>
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 highly stable, offering reliable performance with prompt support, despite minor hardware or new release issues.
Sentiment score
7.4
Users find Infrascale Backup reliable, with resolved performance issues and minor challenges in software backup and local caching.
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 requires improvements in recovery times, features, documentation, integration, UI, stability, support, and pricing.
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery needs enhanced performance, flexibility, and support while addressing import delays and improving tech support.</p>
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 a competitive pricing model, bundling software and storage, often offering discounts and quick setup.
Infrascale offers a dynamic pricing model based on data volume, with fair licensing but room for improved list prices.
I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.
We recently renewed one of our agreements with them, and even though we were going to renew anyway, they added more margin in terms of a discount for us for renewing early.
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 offers seamless scalability, efficient data protection, intuitive UI, cloud integration, and high availability for optimized backup tasks.
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery offers user-friendly management, rapid recovery, versatile infrastructure support, and excellent backup speeds with responsive support.</p>
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
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
23rd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
19th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (5th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (15th), SaaS Backup (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 3.9%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 0.6%, 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
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
16%
Healthcare Company
13%
Performing Arts
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

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 needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?
What areas have room for improvement? Is there anything that could be simplified to make it better?
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
I would always prefer better pricing, but I find that their pricing is appropriate. It's in keeping with what we are offering and how it allows us to resell with enough margin. We recently renewed ...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery could improve in the area of documentation, which they are continuously working on. This is an ongoing process that should continue as documentation can al...
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
I have been using Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery since 2016, which is approximately six to seven years. During this time, we transitioned from other solutions to fully adopt Infrascale's...
 

Also Known As

Cohesity
Infrascale Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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