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Cohesity DataProtect vs Veritas CloudPoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect
Ranking in Cloud Backup
10th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (7th), AI Data Analysis (8th)
Veritas CloudPoint
Ranking in Cloud Backup
24th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 2.7%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas CloudPoint is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Cohesity DataProtect2.7%
Veritas CloudPoint0.5%
Other96.8%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

SM
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
Adopting advanced convergence and seamless management elevates data protections
While there are improvements to be made, such as providing support for older systems like IBM iSeries and tandem systems from HP, the solution overall shifts from older methods to modern practices. Customers looking for features that older systems provided might find gaps, but these are typically for very specific needs.
SL
Operations Director, Information Technology at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Seamless integration supports small teams with existing skills
The most valuable feature we've found with Veritas CloudPoint so far is the lack of a learning curve because the team was already familiar with all of the consoles and how to build policies. As they started to use it in Azure, they were able to continue doing things as they were used to doing them rather than having to learn a new tool. The efficiency gain we've experienced is that we were able to start deploying backup policies to Azure without having to learn a new tool, even though there are arguments about overhead and granularity if one uses native Azure backup tools compared to Veritas CloudPoint.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."
"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."
"How do you use Cohesity DataProtect to streamline data backup and recovery in your organization? How do you and your clients use AI to improve data?"
"Backups are quick and painless to set up.​"
"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."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"Cohesity has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not."
"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 features are the indexing, the file-level restore, and the replications between regions."
"The product is good for volume-level backups."
"I would rate Veritas CloudPoint a ten because it's done everything it says it'll do, and we've really not had many problems with it."
 

Cons

"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."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"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."
"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting. There are very granular reports from each grid. There are also some built-in reports within Helios (SAS Management Console) that offers basic reporting. However, for complex, large-enterprise environments, a more robust reporting engine that supports detailed audit reporting and enhanced ad hoc reports would be welcome."
"I don't care for the pricing or capacity license model from Veritas CloudPoint because there are cases where we back up the same data multiple times, yet we still owe from a capacity standpoint based on how much data is managed in our backups."
"They are niche with the work that they do, but they should have more integration with NetBackup and the reporting is something they should be working towards improving."
"The product needs to improve its file-level or granular-level backups."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."
"Cohesity came in at the best price."
"There is monthly licensing."
"Cohesity came in at the best price. Setup was included and done in half a day."
"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."
"With respect to pricing, make sure that you look at both Rubrik and Cohesity as they are very similar and are quite competitive."
"The tool's pricing is average."
"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."
"When comparing to other solutions, the price is at par."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise43
No data available
 

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...
What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?
There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation, despite being content with its existing features.
What needs improvement with Veritas CloudPoint?
I don't care for the pricing or capacity license model from Veritas CloudPoint because there are cases where we back up the same data multiple times, yet we still owe from a capacity standpoint bas...
What is your primary use case for Veritas CloudPoint?
Our use case for Veritas CloudPoint is that it was implemented so our on-premises staff could continue to have the same look and feel as they started to back up virtual machines that were being bui...
What advice do you have for others considering Veritas CloudPoint?
We work in a cloud environment in the health insurance industry as a medium-sized business. We're pretty happy with Veritas CloudPoint in terms of how we've used it on-premises over the years. Alth...
 

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