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Cohesity Data Cloud pros and cons

Vendor: Cohesity
4.7 out of 5

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PROS

Cohesity Data Cloud significantly reduces data center size occupancy by 70% after installation.
The hyper-converged architecture and scalability are crucial for growing service companies.
It supports local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery with excellent speed.
Big data and archive data features are highly valuable, especially in large virtual environments.
Data protection is highlighted as the most important feature, backed by its simplicity, security, features, and flexibility.

CONS

There is limited support for legacy systems, which could be improved.
The documentation portal is not up to date for newer releases, necessitating increased efforts.
Initial setup complexity can arise based on the environment.
The minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which may be excessive for smaller customers.
The pricing is high and should be competitive enough to rival native solutions.
 

Cohesity Data Cloud Pros review quotes

reviewer1355661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 6, 2020
The hyper-converged architecture and scalability are hugely important for growing service companies.
Alaa Aladawadeh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 13, 2021
Its big data and archive data features are the features that I have found most valuable. I can use it in a big virtual environment.
Drew Nelson - PeerSpot reviewer
May 2, 2020
The clone feature is very nice. You can restore workloads onto Cohesity's storage, which is also nice to have when you don't have enough space to restore on the server.
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SV
Jul 10, 2020
Our data center size occupancy for Cohesity appliance is reduced by 70% when we installed Cohesity.
reviewer1483383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 2, 2021
It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery.
AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 29, 2025
I find the most important feature to be data protection.
ManiKanta - PeerSpot reviewer
May 10, 2024
We use Cohesity Helios primarily in our data management strategy for backup and reporting.
 

Cohesity Data Cloud Cons review quotes

reviewer1355661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 6, 2020
It has never been touted as a tier-one storage platform, and that would be a benefit. They are currently working on solving that issue.
Alaa Aladawadeh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 13, 2021
The limitation that I see in Cohesity is that the minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which is more than a small customer needs.
Drew Nelson - PeerSpot reviewer
May 2, 2020
There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved.
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SV
Jul 10, 2020
Their documentation portal is not up to date for newer releases and I strongly recommend Cohesity to increase their efforts on the documentation portal.
reviewer1483383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 2, 2021
The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment.
AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 29, 2025
The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions.
ManiKanta - PeerSpot reviewer
May 10, 2024
In terms of functionality, Helios has been effective, but sometimes it doesn't show the exact cluster name for backups.