We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Cohesity DataProtect is highly regarded for its simple installation process, extensive capabilities, and user-friendly interface. It offers immediate recovery, a live VM environment, and effortless setup of SMB shares. However, it may have limitations when it comes to older platforms, and its pricing is considered to be on the higher side. Veeam Backup for Office 365 is praised for its uncomplicated setup, reliability, and user-friendliness. It provides reliable backup services for Microsoft 365 and offers scalability and affordability. Nevertheless, it lacks integration with solutions such as SharePoint and exhibits inconsistent performance.
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"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."
"A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window."
"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."
"It is also very easy to determine which VMs are being backed up and which ones aren't. This is helpful to make sure nothing is being missed."
"It's stable."
"It is very simple to set up."
"It has got all the features. You can restore a mailbox based on an email or a calendar or based on all the emails. A user can also get access to restore the mailbox."
"The solution is stable."
"This covers the areas of backing up Office 365 that Microsoft does not include in its standard routine."
"Veeam Backup gives you the option to backup your data from the cloud to on-premises."
"It is very easy to integrate. You can do it very fast."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the WAN accelerator. This feature allows for large amounts of data from one location to another. If the bandwidth in the environment is slow it makes the transfer slow but the WAN accelerator feature helps speed the transfer."
"The installation process is very easy."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."
"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."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often."
"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."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"The solution needs to improve its speed."
"This solution does provide the option to choose a different target of storage."
"They don't have native integration with deduplication of storage."
"The license pricing can be reduced."
"It needs to be able to integrate with other emailing systems, like Linux."
"If you use a device to back up with compression and duplication, the solution doesn't work."
"A while back, I had some trouble using the agent. It might be a problem with older versions. Sometimes, I also have issues installing or making backups from the console to that type of operating system."
"Veeam's performance is inconsistent."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 7th in Cloud Backup with 67 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Useful instant backup and resort, reliable and responsive support". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Cirrus Backup and Druva inSync. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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