We compared Cohesity DataProtect and N-able Cove Data Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Cohesity DataProtect and N-able Cove Data Protection, Cohesity DataProtect is praised for its extensive range of features, user-friendly interface, and consistent performance. However, it could benefit from better support for older platforms and more competitive pricing. On the other hand, N-able Cove Data Protection is appreciated for its simplicity, reliability, and cost-efficiency. It could improve by simplifying image restores and enhancing the graphical interface. Cohesity DataProtect may have an edge in terms of features and interface, while N-able Cove Data Protection may have an advantage in terms of cost-effectiveness.
"The customer service and support are fast and professional."
"Cohesity DataProtect is easily manageable, and you can see every option from the user interface."
"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."
"I have found that the speed of restores, especially files and folders, are extremely fast. This bodes well for us, and our end users are always amazed at how fast you can get them their files."
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"The dashboard is very easy to use."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The initial setup of N-able Cove Data Protection was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it's hands-off. I log in every morning and there are pre-canned filters that I've created to make my life easier. I have something called server status color bars, and that gives me all the servers and, in a nutshell, I can see: if any errors are being reported; when the last backup was; if one is not working, should there be one, and it literally jumps off the page."
"The user interface is the most valuable. It gives us the ability to check everything. With more than 100 endpoints running that software, I like the ability to quickly check that everything is working correctly. That's one of the biggest selling points."
"What I like the most about it's the ease of use and the reliability that it has when copying information to the cloud."
"The product is simple to use and manage. The customers have access to verify the backups."
"The monitoring makes it very easy to check whether a backup has gone bad."
"I know I won't have an issue if the data is there. The reliability and the confidence that we have is amazing. It doesn't matter. We've had customers have ransomware. We've had customers that have had corruption. We've had customers that have had employees destroy their data. As long as it's been backed up, I know that I can get it back and I know I have nothing to worry about. Our confidence level is very high."
"One of the bigger features and advantages of the solution is that it is easy to integrate with my RMM which is also N-able."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"They could always keep up with continuous interface refinements."
"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 would like it to have more capabilities for different kinds of PaaS or SaaS services in the Azure cloud, such as Azure SQL or Azure Cosmos DB."
"The GUI is in need of improvement."
"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."
"For small amounts of data, recovery is easy, but when it's large amounts of data, it takes forever. So, if they can have a service where they put our data on a hard drive and ship it to us as fast as possible, it would be great. Even if there's a fee associated with it, it's fine."
"The recovery side, the restore side, could be a little more optimized."
"One area I don't like has to do with the agent that goes on the system... if a system stays offline for some length of time, say for a week or so, I may have to go back in and reinstall the agent to get it back in business. I don't know what's causing that."
"A disaster recovery console would be an improvement for the product."
"A better default view on my dashboard would be great. There is a lot of useless information there that it pulls up. They could present the dashboard slightly better, in terms of the extra information after the first five columns. The first five columns are awesome. After that, I don't care about the rest, and there are another seven things after that."
"An area for improvement that would really work out well would be if there were a little bit more of an elegant handshake relationship between SolarWinds RMM and the PCs that are being backed up, to advise regarding "up" status... Since RMM is an agent that feeds back that a machine is alive and on, I don't see any reason why they can't either tap into that one feature or build the same exact polling within the backup agent, to update right away and say the system is online or offline."
"The only area that needs improvement is that it is a little bit difficult when you get into virtual machines. The initial deployment of Cove is a little tedious, not for standard machines, but when you get into specialty stuff, like Hyper-V."
"For the MSP side, they could have more of a "security user" that can go in and only see certain clients. If you give somebody access as a technician, they can see all the clients."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 7th in Cloud Backup with 67 reviews while N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 8th in Cloud Backup with 20 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of N-able Cove Data Protection writes "Provides feature flexibility and modularity for our customers". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and MSP360 Backup. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. N-able Cove Data Protection report.
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