Cohesity DataProtect vs Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup comparison

Cohesity and Hornetsecurity are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3, while Hornetsecurity is ranked #33 with an average rating of 9.0. Cohesity holds a 4.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to Hornetsecurity’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Hornetsecurity users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and Cohesity DataProtect are robust data protection solutions. Users generally prefer Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup for its pricing and support, while Cohesity DataProtect is favored for its advanced features, making it a more comprehensive option for those willing to invest.

Features: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is noted for its straightforward and reliable backup processes. Cohesity DataProtect stands out for its extensive feature set, including integrated antivirus scanning and instant restores.

Room for Improvement: Users of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup note improvements could be made in scalability and advanced reporting. Cohesity DataProtect users suggest enhancements in ease of use and integration with third-party tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is praised for its straightforward deployment and customer service support. Cohesity DataProtect, though more complex to deploy, is highly regarded for its comprehensive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is commended for its cost-effectiveness and quicker ROI. Cohesity DataProtect, although more expensive, justifies the cost with its high-end features and long-term ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

9th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

7th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

33rd

Ranking in Cloud Backup

26th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 4.0%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 0.8%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

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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Heriberto Mendez Olivo

CEO at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price

The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases. This ensures continuity even in the event of hardware failure, with the option to restore entire machines seamlessly without disrupting connectivity or network configurations.

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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 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."

"We like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server."

"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."

"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."

"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."

"With the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."

"It is also very easy to determine which VMs are being backed up and which ones aren't. This is helpful to make sure nothing is being missed."

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

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"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."

"Ability to restore to any host."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface and the ability to perform data compression updates, which enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness."

"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."

"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."

"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."

"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."

"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."

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Cons

"Cohesity DataProtect can improve in the area of databases. We have had some challenges with both Cohesity and Rubrik being able to effectively back up in a timely manner the SQL Oracle workloads."

"I would like to see the management of multiple nodes inside a tenant. If you want to manage a Cohesity environment, you either go on a per-node base, and you can hop from one node to the other, or you need to implement their SaaS capability but it always needs an internet connection. We would really like to have some kind of local management entity so that we can see all the Cohesity nodes in a customer environment and manage those nodes centrally. That's something that we would really like, and they are really working on it."

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

"This solution is only compatible with a limited number of storage arrays, including Pure and Cisco Hyperflex."

"It would be great to add SQL Object Level restore, so user objects, tables, etc. can be restored without having to restore the entire DB."

"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."

"When a new release is launched, there may be some bugs that need to be addressed by the developers. However, they promptly resolve these issues, and the software runs smoothly once again."

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

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"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."

"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."

"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."

"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."

"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing, setup costs, etc. are pretty typical. The initial cost for Cohesity was less than other products the we evaluated. Cohesity's pricing does offer benefits as DR target costs are less than other solutions. You are not charged for DataProtect licensing for target DR data consumption."

"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it's neither costly nor cheap."

"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."

"The pricing model is impressive and very effective."

"Sizing is important and it is easy to overestimate."

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

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"The tool's pricing is average."

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"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

"Its yearly maintenance fee is fairly high for me to renew for upgrades and support."

"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."

"By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."

"The price is great for the utility you get and the licensing has never caused any issues with my company."

"Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."

"The pricing is okay,"

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

42%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

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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 Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The pricing of the solution is considered affordable.

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What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price. The backup locations and time to backup could also be imp...

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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"

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

Sample Customers

Tribune Media

Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox

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