Actifio Enterprise vs Cohesity

Likelihood to Recommend

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

We were backing up about 160 TB to tape per week. We will be able to eliminate our off site tape storage, and all expenses related to that. This will save us time and money each day. I have not come across any areas that we could not use Cohesity.

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Jason Stallings

Data Center Operations I

Nu Skin EnterprisesConsumer Goods, 5001-10,000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

8.6

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 will save us money, time, and manpower.
We will have quick redundancy to AWS for our Cohesity node.
This tool is very straightforward and clean. The menus are not over complicated or cluttered.

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Jason Stallings

Data Center Operations I

Nu Skin EnterprisesConsumer Goods, 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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I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a server using a dynamic disk.
Cohesity needs a way to backup SQL databases without an agent.
Cohesity cannot run a backup of a single VM.

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Kurt Pritchett

System Engineer

Clayton County Public SchoolsGovernment Administration, 5001-10,000 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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We ran this two side by side in a POC and we were unanimously in favor of the Cohesity product. We felt Cohesity had a better ease of use and more options when it came to creating specific backups and or restores.

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Matthew Viebrock

System Engineer

Quarles & Brady LLPLaw Practice, 501-1000 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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We increased our storage at the same time reducing capital expenses with a smaller data center footprint.
Amazing customer service with quick response helps eliminate troubleshooting times.

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Matthew Viebrock

System Engineer

Quarles & Brady LLPLaw Practice, 501-1000 employees

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