Quantum DXi Series and Cohesity DataProtect are both notable data protection solutions. Cohesity DataProtect seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced capabilities, despite the more attractive pricing of Quantum DXi Series.
Features: Quantum DXi Series is praised for its efficient data deduplication, flexible scalability, and cost-effective storage management. Cohesity DataProtect is recognized for robust backup and recovery options, seamless cloud integration, and comprehensive data management capabilities. Users find Cohesity's feature set more advanced and beneficial for diverse IT environments.
Room for Improvement: Quantum DXi Series needs enhancements in performance under large workloads, better cloud platform integration, and improved scalability. Cohesity DataProtect requires better handling of very large data sets, enhanced reporting tools, and more efficient performance for large-scale operations.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Quantum DXi Series is appreciated for straightforward deployment, though some users encounter challenges with complex environments. Customer service is generally responsive. Cohesity DataProtect is noted for its smooth deployment process and effective customer support, with users finding fewer issues post-deployment. Cohesity's deployment and support are slightly better received.
Pricing and ROI: Quantum DXi Series is considered cost-effective with a reasonable setup cost and good ROI. Cohesity DataProtect, while more expensive, delivers higher value due to its advanced features, resulting in a strong ROI despite the higher initial investment. Users feel Cohesity's benefits justify its cost.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Cohesity DataProtect | 2.0% |
| Quantum DXi Series | 0.7% |
| Other | 97.3% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 19 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 43 |
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"
Quantum's DXi series deduplication solutions provides patented variable-length deduplication that not only reduces disk usage and capital expenditures, but also enables efficient data movement across the WAN to other sites and to the cloud.
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