Cohesity DataProtect vs IBM Spectrum Protect Plus comparison

Cohesity and IBM are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2, while IBM is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.8. Cohesity holds a 3.7% mindshare in BRS, compared to IBM’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Cohesity DataProtect

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97% willing to recommend

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Cohesity DataProtect and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are two prominent data protection solutions. Users tend to favor Cohesity DataProtect for its user-friendly features, but IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is noted for its robust capabilities and environment integration.

Features: Cohesity DataProtect includes automated backup and recovery, a user-friendly interface, and seamless integration with popular cloud services. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers extensive compatibility with various environments, comprehensive data management tools, and strong performance monitoring capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Cohesity DataProtect could enhance scalability, optimize resource usage, and provide better multi-cloud support. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus may improve its reporting tools, streamline analytics functionalities, and refine user interface usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect is generally easier to deploy and benefits from well-received customer service. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus has a steeper learning curve in deployment but offers responsive and helpful customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect is cost-effective with a quicker return on investment according to user reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is more expensive but is considered worth the investment due to its comprehensive features.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

10th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (7th)

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 3.7%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is 0.9%, down from 1.0% 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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Atif Najam

Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage

I would like to see continuous data protection (CDP). If there is machine failure, you don't have to go to the backup copy that you took 12 hours ago. You can actually go back to the backup copy made half an hour ago. That is, it would be good to have certain-point-in-time recovery. I would like them to add global deduplication. With deduplicate backups, deduplication will work only with the data of a certain machine or a certain backup set. Usually, the data is repeated across the data of the backup sets. However, if IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides a global deduplication option it will ultimately result in better storage savings.

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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

"Instant recovery options are a big benefit for urgent restores, as we don't need to wait for hours or days for a restore to complete before being able to access the files."

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

"We are very satisfied with the product as a whole—all the backup functions, the data protection functions. We are very satisfied with those, and the product is very simple to use."

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

"Instead of four different solutions for protecting VMs, physical servers, SQL, and NAS, we now have one solution with Cohesity that is lightning fast and has amazing features."

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

"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."

"The dashboard is very rich and provides details needed for a moderator."

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"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle."

"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."

"The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud."

"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."

"Large-scale recoveries are very straightforward."

"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something."

"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."

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Cons

"Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI."

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

"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."

"Reporting is quite limited and not customizable."

"The error handling could be improved."

"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."

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

"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."

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"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."

"I think the graphical reports are a shortcoming of the tool since it fails to provide my company with what we want in terms of reporting. Due to the product's inability to take care of its reporting part, we have to use third-party software."

"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."

"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."

"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."

"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."

"I would like to see continuous data protection (CDP). If there is machine failure, you don't have to go to the backup copy that you took 12 hours ago. You can actually go back to the backup copy made half an hour ago. That is, it would be good to have certain-point-in-time recovery."

"Their first level of support can be improved. Often they are too junior to understand the issues we are having, and it takes too much time to get from them to the next level of support, which is what we actually need."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If SQL is in heavy use at your location, I would highly recommend narrowing your PoC testing to Cohesity and Rubrik. They will be competitive on pricing with each other, so really put them through the paces."

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

"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."

"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."

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

"The pricing model is impressive and very effective."

"The solution's pricing is quite high, more so than that of its competitors, Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik."

"Cohesity came in at the best price."

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"There are a few options available for purchasing the solutions. Overall, the price of the is high."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, we paid for implementation and training."

"Unlike some other solutions, such as Veritas NetBackup where you have to pay for different licenses to use different features, there is a single license that allows you to use all of the features."

"There is an annual license required to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The cost of the license could improve, it is expensive."

"Clients prefer to buy a perpetual license, but the majority opt for a yearly subscription."

"I rate the price of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a one on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is very cheap."

"The price is lower than that of some competing products."

"The licensing model of Spectrum Protect Plus is more efficient and cheaper compared to the original."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

44%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

It is probably based on the number of CPUs. They are fairly expensive.

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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

With ransomware protection and cyber protection, more improvement is possible. IBM provides these through a third party, so enhancement is needed. There's significant room for improvement. They are...

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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"

Cohesity

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and efficiency.

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Sample Customers

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PT Wings Surya, Tectrade, State of Ohio

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