Cohesity DataProtect Reviews

We use Cohesity DataProtect mainly for our data protection and data management platform. We are evaluating Cohesity DataProtect against a few other solutions in the market.

Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection. Given the market landscape around the cybersecurity portfolio, it would be really interesting to see how it evolves.

The solution's dashboard or UI can be enhanced and made more user-friendly than its competitors.

I have been using Cohesity DataProtect for a couple of years.

I rate Cohesity DataProtect an eight out of ten for stability.

I rate Cohesity DataProtect a nine out of ten for scalability.

As far as I can remember, my team did not face many issues with the solution's technical support.

Positive

The solution’s initial setup was pretty straightforward.

I didn't install the solution myself. Another team, consisting of two to three engineers, installed the solution smoothly without any issues. The solution's deployment should not take more than a day or two.

Overall, I rate Cohesity DataProtect an eight out of ten.

Our firm is using it as our primary backup and restore solution. Not only do we use it to backup both VMs and physical servers, we also use it to restore them along with mounting volumes to do email/Exchange type restores.

Cohesity has made the pain of doing restores disappear with the ability to open recovery and select files and folders, then have the ability to type in the file or document name and have it show up. This is amazing! This cuts the restore time by 75%.

Cohesity also has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not.

Cohesity has simplified backups and has cut our costs tremendously.

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.

This is just a huge time saver.

At times, you may click the wrong server or click too fast and accidentally restore a cluster of servers. It would be very helpful to have a cancel option under restores. I have spoken with the engineers at Cohesity and this should be rolled out with the next release.

Backing up virtual machines on our public and private IaaS platforms. It is also used as an NFS shared secondary storage to virtual machines.

We got rid of not being able to scale our storage, having to constantly add new storage and use windows as a repository doesn't scale above 2TB.

• Scale-out
• Test and dev
• Directly spinning data
• Searching data in VMs for restore and downloading specific files.

Support is good, but some functions are added pretty late, like vCloud Director support. This could speed up adoption for service providers.

We've had no downtime in the time it's been used. Some minor issues that we do get are resolved really quickly with support.

The scale-out capabilities are great.

They are a great help on performance issues and minor bugs.

Veeam, we came upon Cohesity while searching for scale-out storage.

Straightforward, it's almost plug and play.

In-house, we're a service provider.

We resell the product.

The nice thing is there is no further licensing when you purchase the system. All is integrated.

Rubrik.

Take it a go, I think you'll love it.

Our company has approximately 1000 virtual servers in many different countries.

• SQL
• Secondary storage 
• Backup window
• Tapeout
• Easy scale out

A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window. 

• Scalability
• Ease of setup and use.

There is the possibility to use it as something else: Secondary storage and a place to clone/test machines.

A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often. 

Best customer service in the business. 

The vendor is very agile in changing the product to what the user wants.

• Backup target 
• Backup software

Instant recovery of VMs.

• Backups are now much faster restored are much faster, which is a huge improvement over the previous platform.
• Simple, intuitive single pane for all backup/recovery tasks.

Application integration.

Six months.

No issues.

No issues.

No, we already added additional nodes without issues.

They are excellent.

Veeam/Commvault with Data Domain.

The initial setup was very straightforward.

We implemented in-house.

No idea.

It is simple, cost effective, and highly scalable.

Isilon.

• Backup/recovery
• Indexing
• Cloning
• The space reduction for the backups.

• It has vastly improved our ability to save money by backing up and replicating the our backups off-site.
• The ability to delete a virtual machine (VM) and restore the backup copy to the original location with the same name.
• Using the indexing to browse and restore/download individual files.

It should have quicker restore times.

Over a year.

No.

No.

No.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Yes, they were outdated and bad.

It was easy. After it was up and running, it was simple to add a vCenter and start backups.

It was set up through a vendor team, who did an excellent job.

It is a great deal for what you get.

Yes, NetBackup, CommVault, and Rubrik.

The potential to use the Tier-2 storage is great to have versus other solutions. Also, to be able to backup using a NAS device for it.

We use this to back up our VM environment. We are also using this to store file shares for our customers.

It's allowed us to consolidate various backup solutions into one. This has helped us from paying separate vendors for our past backup solution.

We have found that being able to host file shares and back up our environment in one device is amazing.

• I would say they could work on the update process of the nodes. 
• They could also make it easier to try out beta versions of their software without the need of opening tickets.

Unified backup solution.

We removed multiple backup systems and replaced with Cohesity.

Faster backup and restores, reduced costs of backups.

3 Months

Few bugs in the interface but support resolved quickly.

I had hardware issues with one of the nodes before we went production but Cohesity quickly replaced it.

No

Excellent!

Very good

Yes we did but it could not backup complete environment, multiple systems.

Very straightforward, simple console, I don't need a ton of options to backup data.

We purchased though Intergris (http://thinkintegris.com/); they did a great job providing us this solution.

Since it is storage and software, you will save on costs.

No

The features are still maturing but this solution allows any admin to backup and restore files. The dedupe and compression is very impressive.