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.
"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 most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."
"Instant recovery options are a big benefit for urgent restores, as we don't need to wait for hours or days for a restore to complete before being able to access the files."
"The enterprise search and instant restore are pretty valuable. Also, the Helios stuff is pretty good and the SAS engine for ransom malware detection."
"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."
"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."
"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"Rubrik is a faster unit from a hardware perspective. Things, like Live Mount, mean we can bring services back straightaway, then have them transition back into the live storage in the background. Because we can use Live Mount to do instant restores, a restore is now a five-minute job. Then, the rest of it is done in the background, rather than doing something for an hour before you actually get the restore back."
"What I like about Rubrik is that you can back up to the cloud. It is a different kind of backup where you're not archiving the tape. Rubrik is a physical appliance. It is a dedicated appliance to which you can back up, and you can also back up to another device. So, you can back up to Rubrik and then to another device. If you have more than one site, you can set up Rubrik on site A and also on site B. You can back up to the Rubrik on site A and then replicate that data to the Rubrik on site B."
"It has also saved us time managing backups. It's pretty stable. So it sends us a report if something goes wrong, then you get a report. You don't really need to manually monitor this software over time. If something happens, you'll get an error and you'll get an email notification and then address it. We found the product pretty stable if it's configured correctly. So it has reduced management time."
"We have a great success rate for backups with Rubrik and because of the ease of automating tasks, we also run periodical restores to check the quality of the backups."
"The main benefit is that we are secured in terms of workloads. We know that if we need to restore any VMs, or even any files inside a VM, that we will succeed 100 percent. This means that we don't need to spend much time administering the backup environment because we know it is self-healing and efficient. So, we are spending that time on something else, which is always a plus."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"Many of the reports are basic, at most, and at times we had to open a support ticket to help find or develop a report for our needs."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"Their UI requires a manual refresh. It doesn't seem like it updates itself sometimes when you're moving from screens or waiting for a change to take effect, so you have to manually refresh."
"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."
"In terms of what could be improved, it just needs some maturity."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"The dashboard and user interface could be improved to make them more user-friendly."
"The interface is still slightly clunky and has room for improvement. They do work with us whenever we mention anything that needs to be done or anything that we want. We find that bringing up the management interface is a little slow and not as intuitive as we would like, but it's been getting better as it evolves."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"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."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
"I would like to see Rubrik better integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. Instead of just backing up a full domain controller, I would like the solution to have Active Directory object knowledge so we can restore specific objects in Active Directory versus restoring the whole domain controller."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery Software with 18 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery Software with 33 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 8.8, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Simplifies data protection by eliminating legacy backup silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with an intuitive web interface, helpful support, good performance, and saves us time". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Azure Backup, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Zerto. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Rubrik report.
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