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.
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"Cohesity DataProtect is easy to deploy and operate."
"The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor."
"Cohesity DataProtect is user-friendly and straightforward. The setup process was effortless, and both the backup and restore operations are speedy."
"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."
"Cohesity customer service is the best that I have ever used. They are extremely fast in responding to cases, fixed all issues, and answered every question in a very timely manner."
"We are saving valuable datacenter rack space, which is critical as we evaluate co-location options."
"Cohesity has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not."
"One of the main features of the solution is it is easy to use."
"Its absolute functionality and intuitiveness are the most valuable features."
"It is a stable solution."
"Technical support in Veeam is good."
"Veeam is affordable and end-to-end configuration is straightforward, whether you're going from source to destination or vice versa. Retrieval is also easy."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is easy to use and stable and can be made to fit one's needs."
"The solution helps reduce our workload."
"Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."
"The tool could benefit from further improvements in AI features, particularly in areas such as a generative AI chat interface. This feature could help answer queries about the data being protected. One feature that would greatly improve our experience with the product is the ability to identify data redundancies through a central console. This feature would help us reduce storage costs by managing redundant data."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."
"Currently, I'm working for Huawei and they dropped the support for Huawei, so that's an issue for us."
"This solution does provide the option to choose a different target of storage."
"When you add a new site for backup, it gives you a notice that there is a new site, but the way you select that and configure that could be slightly better. It works, but it is not always very clear. For example, for the URL, you need to hover over the title or the name of the site. You should see it immediately on the screen. It should have a better user interface for selecting what you want to back up so that you get a more clear overview of the sites that are there and the ones that you want to combine in a backup. Its user interface should be more user-friendly. It has a lot of scrolling and doesn't give you a complete overview when needed. That's the main thing why it is not very user-friendly. It should have a better user interface."
"When you are working in the Cloud security is very important."
"Veeam's performance is inconsistent."
"Some additional training materials would be helpful."
"The solution announced many features two years ago, and they still have not happened, so I would hope that the next release has these ready to go."
"While I don't have a use case in mind, it would be great if they could integrate more automation capabilities into the solution."
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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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