"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable. Being a cloud version, it has more flexibility, and it allows me to incorporate different workloads and consolidate all the data in one place. It has good high availability, and it is also easy to maintain."
"With the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"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."
"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 system automatically takes down the nodes one at a time and performs the upgrade and brings the node back up before proceeding to the next. Upgrades can now be done at any time with a high level of confidence."
"The most valuable feature is the Instant Recovery, where we can restore a VM or SQL database or any server or application, and have it up and running on their appliance within a few seconds."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. It is a very simple system compared to just about any other back up technology. It is extremely easy to use and very versatile."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"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."
"I think Cohesity could add more platform support. For example, they could improve integration with DB2 or make the integration S3 object storage a little tighter. Some of that stuff could use some work, but overall, it's a relatively comprehensive platform."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."
"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 documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."
"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."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"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."
"There is room for improvement through a further extension of their Office 365 backup platform. In addition, it's still a bit cost-prohibitive to backup NAS. Those would be the two primary areas for improvement."
"They have what's called an organization which means different groups of access to Rubrik, but the alerting only goes to the admins. My suggestion to Rubrik is to make sure that the separate organizations or groups of users get the appropriate alerting."
"I would like to see the entire Office 365 product suite backed up by Rubrik. For instance, they do SharePoint and Exchange online, but they don't back up Microsoft Teams. So, I would like to see more of the Office 365 suite added into their backup capabilities."
"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."
"The reporting, in particular the customization of reports, needs to be improved."
"In terms of what could be improved with Rubrik, we need to improve the backup for remote sites. The competitors are stronger in terms of their remote office back up. Rubrik needs to improve to be stronger for backup. This is the main thing."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery Software with 21 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery Software with 37 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.0. 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 Zerto, 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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