Cohesity DataProtect vs MSP360 Backup comparison

Cohesity and MSP360 are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.4, while MSP360 is ranked #58. Cohesity holds a 2.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to MSP360’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of MSP360 users who would recommend it.

Cohesity DataProtect

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100% willing to recommend

Cohesity DataProtect

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Cohesity DataProtect and MSP360 Backup compete in the data protection market. Cohesity DataProtect seems to have the upper hand in enterprise environments with complex needs, while MSP360 Backup is more advantageous for cost-conscious buyers and smaller setups.

Features: Cohesity DataProtect offers scalability, efficient data recovery, and comprehensive support for various workloads. MSP360 Backup provides simplicity, flexibility in cloud storage options, and cost-effective backup solutions.

Room for Improvement: Cohesity DataProtect could enhance its reporting capabilities, reduce backup times, and fine-tune optimizations. MSP360 Backup could benefit from more advanced features, better support for large enterprises, and broader functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect is noted for straightforward deployment and responsive technical support. MSP360 Backup offers easy deployment but has mixed reviews regarding customer support efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect requires a higher initial investment but offers substantial long-term savings and excellent ROI. MSP360 Backup is more affordable upfront, making it suitable for those seeking cost-effective solutions with satisfactory ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

10th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

10th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AI Data Analysis (16th)

MSP360 Backup

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

58th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

47th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (33rd), MSP Backup (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 2.0%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MSP360 Backup is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cohesity DataProtect	2.0%
MSP360 Backup	0.9%
Other	97.1%

Backup and Recovery

Featured Reviews

Kalaiarasan Meganathan

Specialist at HCLSoftware

Backup operations have become faster and daily recoveries run smoothly for on‑prem workloads

When compared to other tools, the deduplication in Cohesity DataProtect is very fast, and the restore performance is better than other tools. Global deduplication ensures that only unique data blocks are stored, significantly reducing storage consumption. Cohesity DataProtect's dashboard displays options and errors clearly, making it easy to access and understand how to fix issues. Cohesity DataProtect's ability to start processes automatically without manual selections enhances its reliability. Cohesity DataProtect's architecture ensures that agent installations automatically reflect in the dashboard, allowing for seamless integration into backup jobs. This improves operational efficiency, ensuring backups can be triggered without manual refreshes. Additionally, the user interface is intuitive, and the respect of the N-1 rule during updates helps prevent client-affecting issues.

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CONRAD FORREST

President at MTS Consulting Group, Inc.

The solution provides the ability to backup all types of cloud drives, is inexpensive, and has decent support

MSP360 Backup provides the backup functionality, but we need to provide the storage component. We can use Azure, AWS, or another provider, but we need to choose the storage provider and create a bucket to store our data. The vendor is making changes to improve the functionality of the service and the separation of storage, but I would like to see more integration and a knowledge base of the tool. Currently trying to understand why the storage is separated and how to implement the storage properly is a challenge. Using the solution incurs additional charges for the device storage and backup which are not included in the service. Unlike other solutions such as Kohl which includes everything at one price. MSP360 Backup can be improved by adding inclusive pricing.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 were looking for a robust solution that gives us scalability and recovery."

"Cohesity has simplified backups and has cut our costs tremendously."

"We have found that being able to host file shares and back up our environment in one device is amazing."

"It has a lightning fast restore."

"The backup and restore solution is a big step forward from our last solution and packs more than just backup in a box, allowing for additional features such as Disaster Recovery and utilising the space available in the cluster for storing files."

"The dashboard is very easy to use."

"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."

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"Client-side encryption minimizes worries about data being captured on the back-end."

"The feature that I have found most valuable is its online backup capacity because you don't have to do an entire backup again and again, it just does whatever you type in, you type a, it goes a, you type b, it goes b."

"I would recommend the solution; it's a very trustworthy solution."

"I liked the way the product worked, its flexibility on the storage and cost, and the way it was supported."

"General ease of use and performance of the Windows version is the most valuable feature."

"The solution is easy to access and handles things efficiently."

"MSP360 is vastly cheaper than its competitors and has almost all the same features."

"The best feature is that it's very user-friendly to do scheduled backups and version maintenance."

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Cons

"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."

"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."

"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."

"I thought physical RDM's were supported, but apparently that is not the case."

"I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a Windows server, which is storing data on dynamic disk."

"We have encountered a few cluster crashes because of indexing on XFS file systems this should be fixed in 6.1.0"

"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting."

"We don't love the Exchange integration, it works fine but requires a third-party application called Kroll."

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"The solution's pricing is very high."

"As for what can be improved, some reports could be simplified so that you know how much backup you have done and what your backup details are. That report is available but it is very tough to get. I would like to know "today I have just uploaded 35 MB, tomorrow I have loaded 10 MB so my trend of backup is increasing.""

"As for what can be improved, some reports could be simplified so that you know how much backup you have done and what your backup details are."

"The initial setup is a little complex as it has to be done in the office and requires someone to come in and install the solution on your server, then configure the scheduling, backup pushing, and so on."

"The product could be more user-friendly."

"There are some things that we don't like about it. That is why I was exploring alternatives in a hyper-scale environment. That is why I was checking IT Central Station."

"The Linux GUI leaves a lot to be desired. It lacks many of the features of the Windows version and is buggy, but it is still usable."

"We could basically use just a more concise visual dashboard reporting on the status of the various machines."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has reasonable pricing, and we know they can give discounts. If you look at the primary pricing or the list pricing, it conforms to the market pricing, but you have to have a discount on it. Otherwise, it is way too expensive."

"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers."

"Sizing is important and it is easy to overestimate."

"Ensure that you understand the per TB licensing model. Also, Exchange backups are not native to Cohesity and require Kroll."

"Licensing is per node and per protected terabyte. You will also pay 10-15% annually for support."

"My advice is to always negotiate for better pricing."

"With respect to pricing, make sure that you look at both Rubrik and Cohesity as they are very similar and are quite competitive."

"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."

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"Its pricing needs improvement."

"It provides a good cost savings compared to our previous cloud backup."

"MSP360 is vastly cheaper than its competitors and has almost all the same features."

"Pricing is reasonable although can be quite a large upfront cost."

"It includes a standard licensing fee. Once a year, there is a rebranding fee. The licensing costs are available on the internet for MSP360 Backup. There is a discount structure where if you have over 50 devices, you get a 50% discount. So, my cost is $2 a license per month."

"The cost is pretty inexpensive. Around four to five dollars per device, per workstation on each server."

"I rate the price of MSP360 Backup a seven out of ten."

"We have a very good return on investment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	43

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataProtect?

I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation, despite being content with its existing features.

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Also Known As

Cohesity

Cloudberry Backup

Overview

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:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

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"

Cohesity

MSP360 Backup is a comprehensive data protection solution designed for businesses of all sizes. It offers a wide range of features and capabilities to ensure the safety and security of critical data.

With support for various storage destinations, including local drives, network shares, and cloud storage providers, MSP360 Backup provides flexibility and scalability. It also offers advanced scheduling options, allowing users to automate backups based on specific time intervals or events.

The solution supports both full and incremental backups, minimizing storage requirements and optimizing backup speed. MSP360 Backup also includes built-in encryption and compression, ensuring data privacy and reducing storage costs. Additionally, it offers easy file and folder recovery, allowing users to quickly restore lost or corrupted data.

With its intuitive user interface and robust set of features, MSP360 Backup is a reliable and efficient solution for businesses looking to protect their valuable data.

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