Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery and Cohesity DataProtect compete in the data protection market. Cohesity DataProtect appears to have a more advanced feature set, while Infrascale is noted for affordability and ease of use.
Features: Infrascale includes robust ransomware protection, automated backups, and a simplified disaster recovery process. Cohesity offers an integrated platform, deduplication efficiency, and seamless scalability, making its feature set more advanced.
Room for Improvement: Infrascale could improve storage capacity and integration with third-party platforms. Cohesity users need better support documentation and a simpler initial setup process. Cohesity's primary areas for improvement are its learning curve and documentation quality.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Infrascale is easy to deploy and has responsive customer service. Cohesity may have a complex deployment process but offers good support once set up. Cohesity requires more initial effort but compensates with quality support.
Pricing and ROI: Infrascale is recognized for its cost-effective setup and good return on investment with lower overall costs. Cohesity, while more expensive, is worth the investment due to its robust performance and feature richness. Cohesity demands a higher upfront cost but offers strong ROI due to advanced capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Cohesity DataProtect | 2.7% |
| Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery | 1.0% |
| Other | 96.3% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 19 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 43 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 17 |
| Large Enterprise | 1 |
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"
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Infrascale overcomes the complexity of creating backup and disaster recovery solutions without sacrificing performance and reliability. We provide fast, secure recovery that enables customers to feel confident that their data is fully protected from any type of disaster, whether it be operational, environmental, or malicious. Infrascale provides data protection for SaaS applications, endpoints, and servers. SaaS BACKUP Protect Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, Dropbox, and Salesforce data from accidental deletion and malicious attacks. Infrascale Cloud Application Backup (ICAB) provides customers with essential data protection that isn’t included in their SaaS provider’s limited retention policies. It also protects the broadest set of SaaS applications and delivers ease of use and ease of deployment. ENDPOINT BACKUP Direct-to-cloud backup and recovery solution for endpoints. Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) provides unlimited retention and version history, MSI installer and single pane of glass management, and ransomware anomaly detection. This delivers ease of use, ease of management, and protection from cybersecurity threats. SERVER BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY Boot ready in minutes to run your systems when they go down due to any reason including server crashes, ransomware attacks, or natural disasters. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery (IBDR) provides boot-ready time for failover that averages 2 minutes as well as unlimited disaster recovery and failover testing. In order to eliminate downtime and data loss, IBDR also provides a centrally managed Infrascale Management Dashboard. |
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