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Actifio Enterprise
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.
Data Managment Consultant
bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Cohesity
Cohesity is best suited for a highly virtualized environment, although they do have agents for bare metal. But who runs non-virtualized workloads these days anyhow? Not any organization which would invest in best class backup, anyhow.We find that the search features make file-level restores so much easier -- now a partial filename is all we need to get going, and we can see a file's change history by date so we no longer have to hunt for the last changed version. You will want 10GB network capability for this solution to really shine -- each node has dual SFP+ connections for data.

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Administrator in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employeesFeature Rating Comparison
Data Center Backup
Actifio Enterprise
9.3
Cohesity
9.0
Universal recovery
Actifio Enterprise
9.0
Cohesity
9.0
Live recovery
Actifio Enterprise
9.0
Cohesity
9.2
Recovery verification
Actifio Enterprise
9.0
Cohesity
8.6
Business application protection
Actifio Enterprise
8.0
Cohesity
8.0
Multiple backup destinations
Actifio Enterprise
10.0
Cohesity
8.8
Incremental backup identification
Actifio Enterprise
10.0
Cohesity
9.2
Backup to the cloud
Actifio Enterprise
9.0
Cohesity
8.9
Deduplication and file compression
Actifio Enterprise
10.0
Cohesity
9.3
Snapshots
Actifio Enterprise
10.0
Cohesity
9.6
Flexible deployment
Actifio Enterprise
9.0
Cohesity
8.8
Management dashboard
Actifio Enterprise
8.0
Cohesity
8.7
Platform support
Actifio Enterprise
9.0
Cohesity
8.6
Retention options
Actifio Enterprise
10.0
Cohesity
9.2
Encryption
Actifio Enterprise
10.0
Cohesity
9.4
Pros
Actifio Enterprise
- 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.
Data Managment Consultant
bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Cohesity
- Easy to use and setup new backup and restore jobs.
- Extremely fast recovery time, can spin a VMware backup VM up in well under a minute.
- Granular recovery search options, easy to find specific files or systems to recover (or SQL DB).

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Supervisor in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 201-500 employeesCons
Actifio Enterprise
- Single file restore has always been an issue but hopefully will be added soon.
- Physical server backup restoring has always been tricky but achievable.
Data Managment Consultant
bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Cohesity
- Replication performance - We needed support to provide some customizations in order to get our replication to work properly to another offsite cluster. We have been told that this issue is fixed in the newest general release.
- Support - I would characterize the support as very good, but in a few instances I could tell my support agent needed to go higher up his chain to get clarification on features. I believe Cohesity is rapidly growing their support infrastructure as they put more hardware in the field.

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Strategist in Human Resources
Retail Company, 10,001+ employeesUsability
Actifio Enterprise
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Cohesity
Cohesity 7.3
Based on 1 answer
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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Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employeesSupport Rating
Actifio Enterprise
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Cohesity
Cohesity 9.0
Based on 26 answers
They are always friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. The support is easy to reach and the reaction times are on point. Several times I had called with my system being down and the person who answered the call would require a support rep call me back. Some of these call backs would be 1-2 hours later. When needed, the support will scale up to deliver the right support for the right cases. When asking for detailed information about a problem they always help you to understand the problem and the underlying causes better.
Systems Engineer
SheetzRetail, 10,001+ employees
Alternatives Considered
Actifio Enterprise
Actifio is quicker to deploy easier to manage and capacity plan with less components to keep patched.
Data Managment Consultant
bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Cohesity
We looked at Veeam and although it's a great product when we priced out the licensing of both primary and disaster datacenters it became much too expensive.Rubrik is a great product and very similar to Cohesity. In the end, Cohesity had a secondary storage play as well as a better UI and better compatibility with lower tier cloud storage. We also like the way Cohesity did protection jobs vs Rubrik's virtual machine centric backup.CommVault is a product we still use today due to its massive features and the ability for bare metal backups. Cohesity does a much better job in the area of UI simplicity, virtual backup ease, and ease of management.
Systems Administrator
Valley Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
Actifio Enterprise
- 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.
Data Managment Consultant
bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Cohesity
- It has freed up 40 hours a month of our service desk staff since they were able to stop focusing so intently on tape management.
- We have gained time back on the engineers since they are not working tickets 10 hours a week just on backup issues.
Senior Network Engineer
Bank of New HampshireFinancial Services, 201-500 employees
Pricing Details
Actifio Enterprise
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Cohesity
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No