Cohesity C4000 Series vs Dell PowerFlex comparison

Cohesity and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the HCI category. Cohesity is ranked #31, while Dell Technologies is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.6. Cohesity holds a 0.1% mindshare in HCI, compared to Dell Technologies’s 12.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Cohesity C4000 Series

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96% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Dell PowerFlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity C4000 Series

Ranking in HCI

31st

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Dell PowerFlex

Ranking in HCI

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Cohesity C4000 Series is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell PowerFlex is 12.6%, up from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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reviewer1336899

Solution Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud

It has provided superior backups and protection from ransomware I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable. The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved. I have worked with it for two years. Its stability…

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Serdar De

IT Manager at ÜÇGE Shopfitting & Design

Initial setup has been straightforward and it has reasonable pricing

We are new to this, so we are still learning about the valuable features The solution is okay overall. It could be easier to learn. We haven't had any issues. They could have more AI functionality in the future. I have been using the solution for six months. I have not encountered any problems…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."

"My overall product rating would be nine out of ten."

"We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VMH point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management, because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the storage space it offers."

"PowerFlex offers us more IOPS, improving the application performance. It also helps us reduce our storage and eliminate redundancy. The primary thing is that we work 24/7, so we shouldn't have operational issues."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."

"The most valuable feature is high availability."

"The tool's most valuable features are its price and flexibility. It has high performance."

"Dell PowerFlex improves our latency which allowed us to reduce a lot of our Microsoft Enterprise SQL licenses."

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Cons

"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."

"It could be easier to learn."

"The solution is okay overall. It could be easier to learn."

"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."

"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."

"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."

"We are still hoping for better ways to incorporate AI. We have to extend third-party access to PowerFlex by calling the API. It would be easier if the product had built-in AI integration. If PowerFlex can contribute more to AI, it would be more useful."

"The tool is a bit difficult to configure, making it an area where improvements are required."

"There should be more functionality available for routing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is on a per case basis."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the price as eight and a half. The tool is expensive."

"The solution's price is medium."

"The solution is expensive and I give the cost a two out of ten."

"The product is expensive."

"We have a good contact in Dell and he prepared all the information and provided everything to us."

"From my perspective, pricing is expensive. If they can reduce the pricing or offer more customer incentives, it would attract more users."

"The price could be improved."

"The cost of this solution is fair."

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Also Known As

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VxFlex, VxRack FLEX, PowerFlex

Overview

Building blocks for the Cohesity DataPlatform
Each Cohesity C4000 hyperconverged node provides compute, flash and HDD capacity to consolidate data and execute workflows. Scale your capacity as needed, starting with as little as three nodes, and scale out linearly by adding individual nodes.

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VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.

The result is a fully tested, pre-configured, hyper-converged system with simplified operations at data center and Service Provider scale. VxRack Systems support the deployment of a variety of application workloads, allowing IT to rapidly deliver new services while improving overall agility and efficiency.

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