We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cohesity has simplified backups and has cut our costs tremendously."
"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."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"After linking a cloud subscription, like Azure for example (AWS and Google are also supported), you can "spin" a VM onto the cloud from any backup snapshot."
"With instant DR failover using SiteContinuity, we are able to keep our files available no matter the situation."
"This solution is easy to manage."
"Cohesity DataProtect is easy to deploy and operate."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."
"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."
"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."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"Their UI requires a manual refresh. It doesn't seem like it updates itself sometimes when you're moving from screens or waiting for a change to take effect, so you have to manually refresh."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"Physical RDMs on virtual machines could be a bit easier to configure and plan out."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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