Actifio Enterprise vs Cohesity

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.

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Peter Dawe

Data Managment Consultant

bluechipInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Cohesity

Works great for replacing old backup technology with a modern, extremely fast and reliable hyperconverged platform. No more swapping tapes! Offsite storage to the cloud with easy recovery and ability to spin up in the cloud or restore back to the cohesity environment. Deduplication and compression technologies are integrated so you don't waste any space.

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Verified User

Supervisor in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

8.7

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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The user interface is extremely simple and easy to use.
Backup and restores are intuitive and just work.
Easy -Replication.
Easy - Cloud replication.
Easy - Encryption in flight and at rest.

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Kris Olson

Systems Administrator

Valley Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 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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File-based restores (directly back to the server) require that UAC is turned off.
Needs more customized reporting capability.
I would love to be able to create reports that are emailed regularly.

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Kris Olson

Systems Administrator

Valley Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 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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Cohesity was better priced, supported and honestly had more features for less money. Both operated in the same space. The ability to have NFS and Windows files share off the cohesity product was a great selling point as well

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Erik Butler

Infrastructure Manager

Propak CorporationTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 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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Restore times are much better. This helps with employee productivity
The intuitive user interface and ease of setting up and monitoring backup jobs have reduced the amount of administration time.

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Frank Matherson

Senior Systems Engineer

U.S. Tsubaki Holdings Inc.Industrial Automation, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

Actifio Enterprise

General

10.0

Cohesity

8.7

Actifio Enterprise vs Cohesity