Actifio Enterprise vs Cohesity

Likelihood to Recommend

Actifio is a good fit for anyone looking for draas or backup as a service with Bluechip.co.uk being able to tailor a solution to fit your need if you are a medium size business looking to protect over 20TB of source data on a mix of virtual and physical servers in your datacentre our hosted within our state of the art datacentres.

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Peter Dawe

Data Managment Consultant

bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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It's a great data protection product and secondary storage target, and it integrates well with the cloud.

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Adam Rasner

Vice President, Technology Operations

AutoNationAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

8.4

Pros

Reliable and easy to deploy backup solution with low administration overhead.
Fast backup solution with low impact on production systems as it backs them up.
Dedup and replication of backed up data between sites and with streamsnap very quick recovery on dr site.
Great customer support with quick response to changing demands.

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Peter Dawe

Data Managment Consultant

bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Cohesity is great at finding files for day to day restore operations. It's like a "Google search tool".
Cohesity is great at cloning a VM into a test environment. The whole process only takes a couple min.
Cohesity is great at making it clear which servers are a which servers are not getting backed up.
Cohesity's Auto protect feature is great. Your servers get backed up as they are created.

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Kurt Pritchett

System Engineer

Clayton County Public SchoolsGovernment Administration, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

Single file restore has always been an issue but hopefully will be added soon.
Physical server backup restoring has always been tricky but achievable.

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Peter Dawe

Data Managment Consultant

bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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BMR backups would be better if the client did it natively instead of Cristi integration
Some items in the dashboard should be hotlinked

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Brian Critchlow

Systems Administrator

Santa Cruz Seaside CompanyHospitality, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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Cohesity 7.3

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The user interface is very intuitive and gives a good overview of the status of your backup jobs. Its a full html5 environment which can be used in very browser and is available on every device through the use of private connections to the office. When going to implement Cohesity it is as easy as putting it in the rack and configuring your network. The environment does the rest. Once configured new nodes can be added by configuring them with the correct network.We use it in a VMware vCenter environment with vCloud Director on top. Since the latest version vCloud Director is an official source for your backups. This means that resoring to vCloud Director is a posibility as well. This makes the multi-tenancy and self service capability for our users an easy to use function. It can be implemented as a plugin within the Cloud portal for users to leverage.The path to vCloud Director support took a while but now that we are there I can give it an 8.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Support

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Cohesity 8.2

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Support is quick and understanding and technically skilled in fixing your issues. The response time is good.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Actifio is quicker to deploy easier to manage and capacity plan with less components to keep patched.

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Peter Dawe

Data Managment Consultant

bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Brian Critchlow

Systems Administrator

Santa Cruz Seaside CompanyHospitality, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

We have managed to scale up the size of our environment without the need for extra admin overhead.
Over 99% backups complete.
Solution is robust and quick to scale to meet demands.

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Peter Dawe

Data Managment Consultant

bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Positive impact in increased quality of service for end users
Positive impact in decreased resource footprint in data center
Positive impact in increased retention & security of backups

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Etienne Jacquot

IT System Administrator

University of PennsylvaniaHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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