We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The ease of use and the GUI have really been most valuable to us. Configuring the system to do what we need is simple and straight forward and a lot of guesswork has been removed. One of my favorite features with Cohesity is Kroll for Exchange item-level recovery. The software is simple to use and fast."
"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."
"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."
"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."
"Backups are quick and painless to set up."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."
"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"The most valuable feature is the backups."
"I like that they have some new devices that are simpler to use because they kind of tie right into the cloud."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"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."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"Reporting is quite limited and not customizable."
"Physical RDMs on virtual machines could be a bit easier to configure and plan out."
"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 would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"Their restoration protocols could be better. I pulled all my clients out of their cloud mostly because I wasn't confident that they could restore out of the cloud. This was backed up by friends who had been burned by stuff like that. We moved away because of the lack of resources to restore from a potential catastrophic failure. It's challenging, and in some cases, they couldn't do it because they didn't have enough resources. For example, if there was a major disaster, and everybody needed their images out of the cloud, they couldn't give them to everybody."
"StorageCraft ShadowXafe should improve the on-premises console management controls and protection and recovery."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] writes "An expensive next-generation data recovery and backup software solution with poor data restoration". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] is most compared with .
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