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Cohesity Data Cloud vs Commvault Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.5
Cohesity Data Cloud users reported cost savings, time efficiency, enhanced security, scalability, and improved ROI through simplified data management and reduced downtime.
Sentiment score
7.6
Commvault Cloud lowers costs and boosts efficiency by simplifying backup management, enhancing compliance, and optimizing resources.
If I find myself stuck in a cyber recovery situation, this tool can help me avoid spending my money on ransom payments.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.3
Cohesity Data Cloud's customer service is responsive and praised, but legacy system support and occasional delays need improvement.
Sentiment score
7.3
Commvault Cloud's customer service is praised for speed and expertise but faces criticism for documentation gaps and communication issues.
Sometimes I face delays, which can be frustrating.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Cohesity Data Cloud is scalable and ROI-positive, but some scalability challenges and limitations have been noted by users.
Sentiment score
7.5
Commvault Cloud offers scalable solutions for enterprise environments, efficiently managing data and applications with flexible, seamless integration.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Users appreciate Cohesity Data Cloud for its stability, robust performance, seamless integration, high availability, and reliable operation.
Sentiment score
7.7
Commvault Cloud is praised for its reliable stability and effective backup, with minimal downtime and swift bug resolution.
 

Room For Improvement

Cohesity Data Cloud faces challenges with installation, documentation, pricing, and inefficiencies affecting small businesses and multi-tenancy.
Commvault Cloud requires interface, usability, automation, and security improvements, along with better integration, licensing, support, performance, and pricing.
The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions.
 

Setup Cost

Cohesity Data Cloud pricing is capacity-based with high upfront costs, emphasizing security, but opinions vary on competitiveness.
Commvault Cloud offers flexible licensing with comprehensive features, making it valuable despite higher costs, enabling predictable enterprise budgeting.
There is an additional cost for infrastructure, which I need to provide.
 

Valuable Features

Cohesity Data Cloud provides scalable, efficient data management and protection with accessible UI, responsive support, and automated disaster recovery.
Commvault Cloud offers efficient data management with robust security, seamless integration, and disaster recovery across hybrid environments.
They have a feature called DataSock, which enhances data protection.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cohesity Data Cloud
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
51st
Ranking in Cloud Backup
39th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Data Management Platforms (DMP) (6th)
Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
3rd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), File Archiving (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd), SaaS Backup (1st), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity Data Cloud is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 7.1%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers improved data protection and security with indirect ROI
The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions. Currently, Cohesity Cloud seems very costly compared to native backups. Although this is an emerging tool and there is room for growth, it needs to mature further. There is an AI feature, however, it is still in the development phase and requires substantial improvements.
Matt Reller - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides extremely fast backup, is easy to manage, and is flexible
Commvault Cloud's automated policies provide the notification we need to ensure our data is secure and managed correctly. Commvault Cloud provides excellent visibility across all of our organization's data. It is extremely important to our organization that Commvault has a unified platform that offers recovery across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS workloads. It has helped our organization improve by simplifying the way we manage our environment. We could not manage the same environment with only half of our current staff. We have yet to find anything in our environment that Commvault does not support. Commvault Cloud's Risk Analysis helps us identify, categorize, and classify sensitive data enabling us to take the appropriate actions to protect it. Commvault does a good job helping us limit our exposure and ensure compliance. Commvault has helped us reduce our data management costs significantly. Compared to Dell Avamar, the costs are vastly different. Commvault is much more cost-effective. We are licensed by capacity, so we don't have to worry about licensing different features. We have all the features that are licensed by capacity. And as far as ongoing support costs and other expenses, they are much lower than what they were with Dell Avamar. Commvault also gives us the flexibility to use any storage we want, while Avamar is tied to the Data Domain, which is not cheap to support. It has helped us reduce our backup time unless we are using Data Domain. This is because we can perform deduplication and compression on the client layer, which reduces the load on the network. We cannot do this with Data Domain. In fact, if we even attempt to perform a quick progress check before sending data to the Data Domain, the system fails completely. We learned this the hard way. We are using many more advanced features in Commvault Cloud than we ever did in Dell Avamar, simply because we had to license each feature separately in Avamar. As a result, we did not perform many backups in Avamar, such as all database backups (DB2, SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL). These backups were performed outside of Avamar. We are now using Direct Connect agents for all of our databases. This allows us to perform incremental backups, which we could not do with the previous method. As a result, we have reduced our backup times by two-thirds, or even more in some cases. Compared to when we were backing up directly to Data Domain, Commvault is now running our backups ten times faster. This has resulted in a significant reduction in our backup times. Commvault has helped us reduce the RPO. Even in Data Domain, it has reduced our storage times by about half. It has also helped us reduce the threat detection time. We reduced the RTO significantly with Commvault. Commvault has helped us reduce downtime primarily due to the increase in the performance of resources.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataPlatform?
There is an additional cost for infrastructure, which I need to provide. This usually comes along with the setup.
What needs improvement with Cohesity Imanis Data?
The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions. Currently, Cohesity Cloud seems very costly compared to native backups. Alth...
What is your primary use case for Cohesity Imanis Data?
I use this solution primarily for data protection and data security.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Commvault?
The tool is affordable. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. Implementation requires additional costs because we need Commvault Professional Services.
What needs improvement with Commvault?
Data center backup must be improved. We also want the product to provide us with a cloud-based backup. If we use Microsoft Exchange Online for email services, we want to know how to get a backup in...
What do you like most about Commvault Complete Data Protection?
IntelliSnap and file system backups are valuable features.
 

Also Known As

Imanis Data, DataPlatform, Cohesity Helios
Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Navis, 1st Security Bank, Brown University, WestLotto
Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company
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