Cohesity DataProtect vs Zerto comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Zerto and Cohesity DataProtect are significant players in data protection and recovery solutions. Based on user reviews, Cohesity DataProtect is perceived to have more advanced features and higher overall satisfaction despite its higher pricing.

Features: Zerto is praised for its robust disaster recovery capabilities, continuous data protection, and straightforward deployment. Cohesity DataProtect offers comprehensive backup, seamless integration, and effective data management. Users prefer Cohesity's broader feature set over Zerto's specialized capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Reviews indicate that Zerto could benefit from enhanced scalability, easier management, and improved support responsiveness. Cohesity DataProtect users suggest improvements in support responsiveness, reporting tools, and scalability. Zerto's primary limitation is scaling, while Cohesity's support and reporting are seen as areas needing enhancement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto is commended for its straightforward deployment and effective customer support. Cohesity also enjoys positive feedback for deployment ease but faces criticism for its customer service. Cohesity DataProtect provides a smoother deployment experience, but Zerto's superior customer service makes a difference.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto users find the setup cost reasonable with good long-term ROI. Cohesity DataProtect, despite its higher initial setup cost, is considered worth the investment due to the extensive features and capabilities it offers. Cohesity's higher cost is justified by its comprehensive functionality, yielding better ROI over time.

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Cohesity DataProtect vs. Zerto

October 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

8th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

7th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zerto

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

282

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (4th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 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 Zerto is 2.7%, down from 3.0% 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

Jan 24, 2024

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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Girish Agarwal

Security Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 29, 2023

Easy to use, quick to understand, and simple to set up

It's easy to use. It wasn't too difficult to start with. With most vendors, initially, you have a learning curve or configurations. In this case, Zerto was quick to understand. The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple. The experience is comparatively good with Zerto. The near-synchronous replication has not been used much. That said, it does help when talking about storage layers. The availability of the VMs is good. In terms of resiliency, there are a lot of benefits to it. Most have a recovery of 24 to 48 hours; Zerto has gotten recovery down to four hours. We've done a POC with a DR to AWS. It was limited, however, it worked well and there was support. We didn't run into any challenges. The effect on the RPOs has been excellent. It's been impacted greatly. Customers enjoy the shorter timeline to recovery. The customer confidence is high.

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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

"We are saving valuable datacenter rack space, which is critical as we evaluate co-location options."

"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."

"The tool is faster and easier to use than others. The most critical feature for our data protection needs is the accuracy of backups and restores."

"One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."

"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."

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

"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."

"With instant DR failover using SiteContinuity, we are able to keep our files available no matter the situation."

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"The replication feature where it constantly replicates and sees that data is always in sync is valuable."

"We can recover both systems on-premises and in the public cloud."

"We are doing continuous data protection. It works flawlessly. Our recovery points are measured in seconds. We have all these "baby snapshots" throughout the course of the day, so we can roll a VM back to any point in time, spin it up, and away we go. We're actively using that. It works great."

"The recovery speed is much faster and less complicated."

"The Zerto university for training staff is very useful."

"It's one of the easiest products out there, as far as managing and using it go. The UI is pretty dead simple."

"Zerto's user-friendliness is valuable."

"Zerto saved us a lot of money compared to the cost of replicating at the LUN level. It also really simplified it and gave us shorter RTOs and RPOs."

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Cons

"The tool could benefit from further improvements in AI features, particularly in areas such as a generative AI chat interface. This feature could help answer queries about the data being protected. One feature that would greatly improve our experience with the product is the ability to identify data redundancies through a central console. This feature would help us reduce storage costs by managing redundant data."

"There is room for improvement in terms of price."

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

"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."

"Non-cloud services need improvement."

"Initial setup can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release."

"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 platform has certain limitations, mostly stemming from the restrictions imposed by the VMware API and some other factors. One area where there is room for improvement is the tracking of replicated copies, especially in the context of remote archive duplication."

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"The biggest improvement would be exporting VPGs and a configuration of VPGs, as well as increasing or improving their IP customization rule set."

"Zerto should continue adding new features. When I used it at the other bank, it wasn't good with replicating VDIs and automation."

"You can back up VMs but can't back up individual objects, like email objects, which could be improved."

"We have had some issues with trying to get certain parts of the backup or restore functionality to work."

"We would like some of the real fine or granular things. We've submitted a few minor things for enhancements such as being able to control bandwidth utilization for each facility you replicate to versus overall. We just need a little bit more granularity on some of the things, but there is not a whole bunch that is in need of tweaking."

"It would be nice to have the option to do automatic failover, but right now the only option is manual."

"It needs to support more public cloud."

"They have moved to appliances, and the configuration of appliances is a bit complicated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The ROI is huge. Not really measurable at this point, but the price of the unit was a fraction of what a couple hours of downtime could result in."

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

"The pricing model is impressive and very effective."

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

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

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

"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."

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"The pricing is fair."

"Zerto’s licensing model has changed a bit over the last year and they are in alignment with others. It is pretty simple and more economical."

"As far as I know, the pricing is around $1,000 per VM, but Zerto is changing the pricing model to more of an enterprise-class license. I don't know if there are any additional costs or fees."

"I would suggest getting a dedicated, well-informed rep."

"All of my customers are happy with how this product works and they like it, but unfortunately, in the market that I represent, Zerto is expensive when compared with the competition."

"The pricing is top tier but offers good value."

"The pricing is good. It's affordable."

"The solution is expensive, but it's worth the price."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

41%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

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...

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...

What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect needs to improve its reporting capabilities.

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What do you like most about Zerto?

The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Zerto is priced high.

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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"

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Sample Customers

Tribune Media

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies