Cohesity DataProtect vs Veeam Backup for Google Cloud comparison

Cohesity and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Cohesity is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3, while Veeam Software is ranked #43 with an average rating of 7.8. Cohesity holds a 3.9% mindshare in CB, compared to Veeam Software’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Cohesity DataProtect

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Cohesity DataProtect

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup for Google Cloud compete in the data protection domain. Cohesity DataProtect seems to have the upper hand in integration and support, making it a potentially better solution for varied environments, whereas Veeam focuses on feature strength for Google Cloud ecosystems.

Features: Cohesity DataProtect provides robust data recovery, scalable architecture, and integrates easily with hybrid environments. It offers a unified platform simplifying data management. Veeam Backup for Google Cloud provides automated backup, disaster recovery, and granular data management features suited for Google Cloud, fitting organizations deeply invested in Google services. The key difference is Cohesity's versatility across environments compared to Veeam's optimization for Google Cloud.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect offers straightforward deployment across diverse platforms with responsive support. Veeam Backup for Google Cloud allows rapid deployment within Google's infrastructure, supported by detailed documentation, beneficial for businesses operating solely in Google Cloud. Cohesity's cross-platform deployment flexibility contrasts with Veeam's specialized approach, which could be either advantageous or limiting based on a client’s infrastructure.

Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect's pricing reflects its extensive feature set and integration capability, promising long-term ROI through reduced operational complexities and costs. Veeam Backup for Google Cloud is more affordable upfront, presenting a strong ROI for Google-centric operations with efficient resource usage. Cohesity's comprehensive capabilities justify a higher cost, while Veeam offers a cost-effective solution for businesses focusing on Google Cloud resource optimization.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Cloud Backup

8th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (9th)

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Backup

43rd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 3.9%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Backup for Google Cloud is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Giovanni Golinelli.

Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support

The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup. Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance. We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site. Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.

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Thushara Bandara

Software Engineer at JKIT

Ensures data protection and supports SAP consistency while reducing costs

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud provides significant cost reduction with NETIO Cloud's offering. It serves as a reliable solution for backup and reporting capabilities about the health of the backups. Even though I am not utilizing all tools and options, it meets my comprehensive requirements and allows backup of emails as well, making it a versatile tool.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with minimal downtime for our main customers. These features have significantly improved our recovery time objectives."

"Cohesity has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not."

"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."

"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."

"The tool is faster and easier to use than others. The most critical feature for our data protection needs is the accuracy of backups and restores."

"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."

"It makes our administrators' lives much easier to combine backup, archiving, and services like hosting file shares in one central system with only one user interface."

"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."

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"Veeam Backup for Google Cloud’s most valuable feature is data backup and replication."

"Veeam Backup for Google Cloud provides significant cost reduction with NETIO Cloud's offering."

"I recommend it to other companies due to its reliable solutions, significant cost reductions, and comprehensive functionality."

"Dealing with cloud solutions is simple and removes many headaches from troubleshooting and implementing the solution."

"I find Veeam to be a good tool for backing up Office 365 and virtual machine environments."

"The application backup is excellent, and using Veeam for backing up Kubernetes environments is a valuable tool."

Cons

"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."

"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."

"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."

"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."

"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."

"In terms of the product itself, there have been a handful of patches that have had to be applied outside of the GUI via the command line. It's very straightforward and easy and in the same redundant fashion, but not quite as simple as one or two clicks. I'm hoping that will decrease going forward."

"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."

"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."

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"I do not have notes for improvements."

"There could be a feature to take a snapshot for version backup."

"Some of the prerequisites for Veeam are challenging."

"The licensing could be improved, particularly by providing a 'pay-as-you-go' option through Azure, AWS, or GCP portal itself."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."

"It has reasonable pricing, and we know they can give discounts. If you look at the primary pricing or the list pricing, it conforms to the market pricing, but you have to have a discount on it. Otherwise, it is way too expensive."

"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it's neither costly nor cheap."

"Sizing is important and it is easy to overestimate."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. It is cheaper than other backup solutions."

"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers."

"Pricing, setup costs, etc. are pretty typical. The initial cost for Cohesity was less than other products the we evaluated. Cohesity's pricing does offer benefits as DR target costs are less than other solutions. You are not charged for DataProtect licensing for target DR data consumption."

"The tool's pricing is average."

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"The solution is affordable."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cohesity DataProtect?

Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with m...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataProtect?

I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

What areas have room for improvement? Is there anything that could be simplified to make it better?

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What do you like most about Veeam Backup for Google Cloud?

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud’s most valuable feature is data backup and replication.

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What needs improvement with Veeam Backup for Google Cloud?

One area for improvement in Veeam Backup & Replication is the migration feature, particularly for cloud migrations, such as with Microsoft Azure. The Azure migration tool allows for replicating...

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What advice do you have for others considering Veeam Backup for Google Cloud?

I would recommend Veeam Backup for Google Cloud to others. It is one of the options we promote to our customers. I would rate this solution between seven and nine out of ten. Overall, I would rate ...

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Overview

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:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

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"

Cohesity

Veeam® Backup for Google Cloud delivers native, policy-based protection for reliable recovery from accidental deletion, ransomware and other data loss scenarios. With an API-first approach, immutable backups and full- and file-level restores ensure resilient protection that’s easy and cost-optimized, freeing up time and resources for more strategic IT priorities.

Encrypted - Data integrity through WORM state and encryption

Logically Air-Gapped - Logical separation of backup data from production accounts

Secure Access - Least-privilege IAM and role-based access controls (RBAC)

Recover Anywhere - Cross-account, region and platform* restores

Full- and File-level - Full instance or granular recovery, in-place or as-new

Simplified Recovery - Wizard-driven, automated and self-service workflows

Policy-based - Automated detection and protection with native backups

Cost-optimized - Backup lifecycling to object storage with cost calculations

Hybrid Ready - Operationally consistent management across hybrid and multi cloud*

*When combined with Veeam Backup & Replication™

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