Cohesity DataProtect vs Quorum OnQ comparison

Cohesity and Quorum are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3, while Quorum is ranked #44 with an average rating of 8.3. Cohesity holds a 3.8% mindshare in BRS, compared to Quorum’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Quorum users who would recommend it.

Cohesity DataProtect

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Cohesity DataProtect and Quorum OnQ are data protection solutions. Cohesity DataProtect excels in deployment simplicity, while Quorum OnQ is noted for its robust feature set, particularly in disaster recovery.

Features: Cohesity DataProtect offers scalability, integrated ransomware protection, and seamless cloud integration. Quorum OnQ provides comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities, automated testing, and instant failover features.

Room for Improvement: Cohesity DataProtect needs better reporting and documentation, and can enhance user interface stability. Quorum OnQ could improve integration with third-party tools, intuitive setup processes, and user interface design.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect is easy to deploy and has responsive customer service. Quorum OnQ, though more complex to deploy, offers thorough customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect is competitively priced and offers a strong ROI, particularly for large-scale deployments. Quorum OnQ has higher initial setup costs but its investment is justified by features and reliability, giving a valuable ROI for disaster recovery.

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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

Quorum OnQ

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

44th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

33rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 3.8%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quorum OnQ is 0.4%, up from 0.2% 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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Mohamed Iqbal

Presales Information Technology Consultant at JBA

A stable and economical solution that provides quick disaster recovery

The most valuable feature of Quorum OnQ is quick recovery. We call it a single-click recovery. If any server goes down, crashes, or experiences downtime, we can bring up the DR (Disaster Recovery) server in just two minutes. We also have a "Single Pane of Glass," wherein we work with only a single window. You don't have to use multiple windows to perform basic tasks like failover or failback.

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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

"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."

"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."

"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."

"Cohesity has simplified backups and has cut our costs tremendously."

"The customer service and support are fast and professional."

"It has a lightning fast restore."

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

"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."

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"I have used the BMR (Bare Metal Restore) in several emergencies and it has absolutely saved my bacon."

"The biggest feature is being able to do a file recovery to the original server. That is extremely useful and has saved us a few times when we've had ransomware. In some of those cases, people's computers were locked down by viruses which spread to things they had access to, including server shares. But we were easily able to just restore to four hours prior, instead of a day or two or more ago."

"It is a stable solution."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."

"When it comes to recovering what you need from a backup, it's really easy. You just drill through the directory, find the file and the date that you want, and click to recover. You then pick the directory you want to save it in. Usually, it takes a minute or two and it's done. It's quick and easy."

"Quorum OnQ has a good ransomware protection feature, and customer service and support were very good."

"The most valuable feature is spinning up a ready-to-go VM in a test or production environment that is based on a backup stored on the Quorum device."

"A very high level security environment for secondary data."

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Cons

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

"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."

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

"In terms of the product itself, there have been a handful of patches that have had to be applied outside of the GUI via the command line. It's very straightforward and easy and in the same redundant fashion, but not quite as simple as one or two clicks. I'm hoping that will decrease going forward."

"The error handling could be improved."

"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."

"Reducing storage capacity requirements and improving security features are also areas that could be enhanced."

"I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a Windows server, which is storing data on dynamic disk."

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"Quorum OnQ's user interface is not very attractive and should be made more attractive."

"I don't love the scheduler, as I think that interface could use an overhaul."

"Quorum OnQ can be improved by providing support for other operating systems like Ubuntu."

"The one thing they could do is some tweaking on the web solution that's supposed to monitor everything from one page, rather than having to bring each server up on its own webpage. It doesn't always accurately show what the system's state is at the time, and we have to restart that process now and then."

"There seems to be a lack of technicians. Sometimes they are very busy and I don't hear back for a day or two. The technicians they have are great. They are fantastic, but it seems difficult, at times, to get in contact with anyone."

"They have radio buttons that allow multiselection, which is not intuitive."

"They need integration with other platforms."

"The price of Quorum OnQ could be improved. We were exploring the product in terms of having a partnership with the distributor so that we could operate as a service, but for our own use, within the company, we couldn't justify the price unless the servers would become an option later on. The upfront cost of purchasing a license for the hardware is quite steep."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Licensing is per node and per protected terabyte. You will also pay 10-15% annually for support."

"It has reasonable pricing, and we know they can give discounts. If you look at the primary pricing or the list pricing, it conforms to the market pricing, but you have to have a discount on it. Otherwise, it is way too expensive."

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

"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."

"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 licensing costs are yearly. It is cheaper than other backup solutions."

"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."

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"The total for our current solution's licensing is about $14,000 for 12 servers for three years."

"When we quote the price of Quorum to customers, they find it expensive."

"The pricing is about $1,400 a month. It's a little bit on the higher side. But it's one of those situations where time is valuable for me. So if it costs a little bit more money for me to have a solution that just works and requires less of my day-to-day management, I'm willing to pay a little bit more."

"The upfront cost of purchasing a license for the hardware is quite steep."

"When we first got the Quorum the licensing was different."

"I am not sure how much it costs, but I know it's expensive."

"The cost is higher than other software and services, but it is an absolute must-have."

"Quorum OnQ can be described as a medium-priced product...There are no ingress and egress charges in the product."

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Educational Organization

42%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

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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 Quorum OnQ?

It is a very scalable solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quorum OnQ?

It's a little expensive. That said, the cost aligns with other advocacy tools we have evaluated.

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What needs improvement with Quorum OnQ?

They have radio buttons that allow multiselection, which is not intuitive. Also, the URL for our environments is the same, making it confusing for management when handling different departments wit...

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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"

Quorum onQ is the global leader in 1-click instant recovery, providing full immediate recovery of your critical systems after any storage, system or site failure. It does this by automatically maintaining up-to-date, ready-to-run virtual machine clones of your physical and virtual servers stored on a dedicated appliance – clones that will transparently take over for failed servers within minutes.

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