Cohesity DataProtect vs Druva inSync comparison

Cohesity and Druva are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Cohesity is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while Druva is ranked #17 with an average rating of 6.9. Cohesity holds a 5.3% mindshare in CB, compared to Druva’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 84% of Druva users who would recommend it.

Cohesity DataProtect

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97% willing to recommend

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84% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Druva inSync and Cohesity DataProtect are leading solutions in the cloud data protection category. Druva inSync is often favored for its competitive pricing and efficient support, while Cohesity DataProtect stands out due to its comprehensive features, making it a preferred choice for organizations seeking extensive data solutions.

Features: Druva inSync has seamless integration, effective data deduplication, and innovative ransomware protection. Cohesity DataProtect offers expansive data management features, automatic tiering, and comprehensive backup and recovery functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Druva inSync could improve in enhancing its endpoint features, supporting longer data retention periods, and expanding customization options for varied business needs. Cohesity DataProtect might benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing initial costs, and enhancing the intuitiveness of its user interface for first-time users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Druva inSync is straightforward to deploy and offers responsive customer support. Cohesity DataProtect, although slightly complex due to its hybrid model, offers a structured onboarding process with flexibility for complex infrastructures.

Pricing and ROI: Druva inSync provides a cost-effective setup with significant ROI through efficient resource utilization. Cohesity DataProtect, while requiring a higher initial investment, offers substantial long-term ROI due to its scalability and advanced features. The choice may depend on immediate budget constraints versus anticipated long-term returns.

To learn more, read our detailed Cohesity DataProtect vs. Druva inSync Report (Updated: December 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Cloud Backup

7th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (9th)

Druva inSync

Ranking in Cloud Backup

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 5.3%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Druva inSync is 2.8%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Giovanni Golinelli.

Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support

The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup. Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance. We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site. Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.

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Ahmad Mohammed EL-DADA

Manager, Information Technology at KUN Sports

Provides server-side and backend application support but needs better interface

The last update made the interface look somewhat unfamiliar to users. Data recovery was technically flawless at some point. However, an update after a merger changed things. The current procedure for data encryption is not as straightforward as before, and we're facing some challenges. Specifically, one user encrypted their data, and since they have left the company, we cannot decrypt it. This has resulted in a loss of access to that data.

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

Pros

"The product is easy to put in place. All backups are done very quickly. It's easy to perform restores. What I prefer in the product is its simplicity. There are no useless settings to define, and everything is ready after the initial setup."

"We can run test scripts on production data."

"The recovery process is effective, especially when it comes to other types of data, such as VMs, and overall, the performance is commendable."

"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."

"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."

"The enterprise search and instant restore are pretty valuable. Also, the Helios stuff is pretty good and the SAS engine for ransom malware detection."

"It makes our administrators' lives much easier to combine backup, archiving, and services like hosting file shares in one central system with only one user interface."

"Within the system, we have rule-based access control, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and basic identity and access management features."

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"The initial setup is straightforward."

"The recovery aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."

"It is simple to implement and use. It's very flexible."

"Our customers do not need to purchase third party storage or a separate server for data backup."

"If you are looking for a backup solution, go with Druva because it's quite simple."

"The tool has good features. The backup is also accurate."

"You don't need a certified administrator to manage this product."

"All the data is well encrypted. In addition, the data is split into pieces so that if an endpoint is attacked or compromised with any kind of ransomware, the compromised machine can be relocated or restored. All the data that was previously backed up can be restored from the cloud. It has a lot of security features. Druva currently offers only the cloud version on AWS. Being a cloud solution, Druva goes by a lot of security compliances and provides a security portfolio. People are very skeptical of the data security in cloud solutions, and Druva has given consideration to that. It has some good geo-location features. If a machine is lost, when the machine is switched on and connected to the internet, that machine can be geo-located and tracked. It also has got the geo-wipeout feature. If someone tries to take out the data from a lost machine, they won't be able to do that. The moment an IT admin comes to know that the machine is no longer with a user, he or she can auto-run the geo-wipeout feature so that the data cannot be read by any third party. Duality replication is a unique thing about this solution. Everybody's data is not backed up if the data is common. Similar data is not backed up from other machines. The data backup also happens very smoothly. The bandwidth choking is very less. When the data is getting backed up, the users do not even get to know. There is no impact even when the users are not using high-speed bandwidth."

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Cons

"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."

"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."

"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."

"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."

"The product is still young and is continually improving. There have been a couple of buggy releases in the software that have caused us minor issues, so possibly some better QA before releasing would prove to be useful. We have also been inquiring about new app and functionality via the Marketplace that was teased months back but has yet to come to fruition."

"The error handling could be improved."

"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."

"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."

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"The current procedure for data encryption is not as straightforward"

"I would like to see security improved in the next release."

"The user quota is an area that needs to be improved."

"The one area that needs to improve is the pricing."

"The backup time is very poor. The backup runs continuously. It goes on from morning till night. The system performance also becomes very poor when Druva inSync is running."

"It would be good if bare metal backups were possible."

"The support of other cloud services needs to be improved. It has very good cloud support for AWS but not with others."

"Druva inSync is very high in price. A general customer cannot afford this solution. Even if the product is good, people cannot afford such a high cost just for taking the backup. This is a recurring investment, and the customers have to pay for it every year. Druva is also yet to develop the channel and the channel or partner commitment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers."

"From my last assessment, the pricing for Cohesity DataProtect was reasonable. Compared to its closest competitor, Rubrik, I found Rubrik's pricing to be somewhat high-end. While Rubrik may have more advanced security features than Cohesity DataProtect currently, Cohesity DataProtect is releasing a new solution in the near future that will compete directly with Rubrik."

"With respect to pricing, make sure that you look at both Rubrik and Cohesity as they are very similar and are quite competitive."

"Ensure that you understand the per TB licensing model. Also, Exchange backups are not native to Cohesity and require Kroll."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. It is cheaper than other backup solutions."

"Cohesity came in at the best price. Setup was included and done in half a day."

"My advice is to always negotiate for better pricing."

"Cohesity came in at the best price."

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"Once you decide to go with this product the cost can be worked out with the vendor."

"It's approximately $4000.00 per user for one year."

"It is an expensive product for the middle class or SMB customers in India. A lot of top-level big companies also cannot afford this solution. During the license period, one can download the entire data from the cloud without paying any additional cost. This way the data can be easily recreated from the stored data when a machine is lost or the data is compromised."

"The pricing of Druva inSync is very high as compared to other cloud backup solutions."

"The product is fairly priced, I would rate its pricing five out of ten."

"The pricing is good."

"The price is quite good, It's approximately $4000.00 per user for one year."

"The pricing is thirty-five dollars per year or three dollars per month per user."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

42%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cohesity DataProtect?

Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with m...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataProtect?

Typically on-premises nodes/clusters are deployed for primary backup (to enable instant mass restore) so price will be dependent on chosen OEM and capacity required. MSPs like us utilise PPU licens...

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect needs to improve its reporting capabilities.

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What do you like most about Druva inSync?

Druva is offered as a service so that we can access it from any enterprise-based browser or URL. We also have a single sign-on, which allows me to log in securely. Hence, I can easily access the sy...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Druva inSync?

Pricing is average, but compared to the other solution, they need to revise their price list.

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What needs improvement with Druva inSync?

Real-time alerts are crucial for better incident management. Additionally, the support team generally needs to be more proactive with technical and general suggestions. The documentation should be ...

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Overview

What is Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect is a top-level, sophisticated, software-defined backup and recovery solution created for cloud environments. Cohesity DataProtect is made to hyperscale and is one the most thorough policy-based protection solutions available on the market today.

Cohesity DataProtect melds multiple-point products into a single software that is able to be deployed as on-premise or consumed as a service.

Top Features:

Hyperscale made easy: Cohesity DataProtect improves data protection by doing away with the need for backup silos and administers backup and recovery with a single user-friendly, easy-to-understand interface. Cohesity DataProtect provides extensive 24/7 enterprise-class protection for a large, varying set of sources, including virtual and physical servers, NAS and SaaS workloads, relational and distributed databases, and traditional and containerized applications.

Super fast recovery: Cohesity DataProtect offers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and near-instant recovery time objectives (RTOs) to satisfy your business service-level agreements (SLAs). Using Cohesity Helios’ unified data plane and control plane you can immediately search and recover data on any Cohesity cluster, located anywhere. DataProtect distinctively minimizes downtime by immediately mass restoring any amount of virtual machines (VMs) to any point in time, and lowers data protection costs by as much as 70% or more.

Backup as a Service: Feel free to take advantage of the elasticity of the public cloud and the cost-effective value of Cohesity DataProtect when delivered as a service. When you choose an OPEX option, you can eliminate the need for on-premises hardware. There is a SaaS option that will allow you to very simply configure your backup workloads and immediately begin protecting your vital all-important data and applications.

It’s as easy as: sign-up, connect, and protect!

Ransomware protection: Cohesity DataProtect offers stellar recovery at scale. The solution is so intuitive, it has machine learning-based anomaly detection to stop incidents before they happen. Cohesity DataProtection can provide immutable backups, Datalock write once, read many (WORM), encryption, and role-based access control (RBAC).

Cohesity DataProtect integrates well with many of today’s top solutions, including, but not limited to:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

Reviews from Real Users

One reviewer, who is head of IT infrastructure at Kampmann says, “Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software,” and goes on to indicate that Cohesity “works flawlessly with easy replication of backups and numerous supported backup sources.”

Another user, who is a senior network engineer at a legal firm, relates that "Cohesity is a robust and feature-rich solution"

Druva inSync is a comprehensive data protection and governance platform that enables organizations to securely backup, recover, and manage their critical data.

With its cloud-native architecture, inSync offers scalable and efficient data protection across endpoints, cloud applications, and servers. It provides automated backups, ensuring that data is always protected and easily recoverable in case of any data loss or system failure.

In addition, inSync offers advanced data governance capabilities, allowing organizations to enforce data retention policies, monitor data usage, and comply with regulatory requirements.

With its intuitive user interface and robust security features, Druva inSync is the ideal solution for organizations looking to safeguard their data and ensure business continuity.

Sample Customers

Tribune Media

TRC Companies, Inc., ANDRITZ, Inc., Allergan, Plc, ServiceNow, Live Nation, Shire, DHL, Leidos, NASA, UC Berkeley, Leica, Hatco Corporation, Flex, Enphase.

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