We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"Cohesity DataProtect is user-friendly and straightforward. The setup process was effortless, and both the backup and restore operations are speedy."
"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."
"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."
"It's stable."
"I found value in the instant recovery with DataMove. I found value in the protection group model for applying policies to VMs. And in the overall UI navigation and the way that the application is laid out in the web browser."
"I like that Cohesity offers the chance to have data on-premises and on the cloud. All the data is automatically sent to the cloud."
"The enterprise search and instant restore are pretty valuable. Also, the Helios stuff is pretty good and the SAS engine for ransom malware detection."
"Rubrik is cheap, and you get good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"Its reporting is most valuable. I like how it reports that everything is successfully backed up. It provides a summarized report that I can give to auditors and management."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"I like that Cohesity offers the chance to have data on-premises and on the cloud. All the data is automatically sent to the cloud."
"Cohesity DataProtect can improve in the area of databases. We have had some challenges with both Cohesity and Rubrik being able to effectively back up in a timely manner the SQL Oracle workloads."
"I would like to see the management of multiple nodes inside a tenant. If you want to manage a Cohesity environment, you either go on a per-node base, and you can hop from one node to the other, or you need to implement their SaaS capability but it always needs an internet connection. We would really like to have some kind of local management entity so that we can see all the Cohesity nodes in a customer environment and manage those nodes centrally. That's something that we would really like, and they are really working on it."
"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
"I would like to see more information on encryption with the next release."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"The main pain points we experienced was the stability of the system. We received a lot of instability when we have upgraded from a certain version to a new version. The newer version was completely filled with bugs and we needed to purge the system every week until we update to a newer version that was available one year later. The stability of the code is the main problem, they need to make it better."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery Software with 19 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery Software with 19 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 8.8, while Rubrik is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to implement with great technical support and easy upgrading capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Saves us time managing backups and improves our team's overall productivity". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup, IBM Spectrum Protect and Commvault Complete Data Protection, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Commvault Complete Data Protection, Veritas NetBackup and Azure Backup. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Rubrik report.
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