Altaro VM Backup vs Cohesity

Likelihood to Recommend

While I am not an IT professional, I can get around and do a lot of things. For a novice user like myself, the UI is fairly straightforward and easy to set-up and manage. If I was delving into more detailed backups and replication (not currently using) I still believe that a novice user like myself would be able to manage. Pricing based on host and not VMs is attractive for the end-user. If you had your VMs stored on a number of different hosts, it could get pricey.

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Jarret Schwartz

Operations Manager

Technics Dental LaboratoryMedical Device, 11-50 employees

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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 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

Fast and simple setup. I didn't need to read through ANY documentation to set up and have a backup running.
Easy and cost-effective licensing. I didn't need to count CPU's or VM's or other random facts to work out my licensing. Just how many hosts, and then one of 3 feature levels of which two have unlimited VM licensing. Hosts x Feature Set = Cost.
Easy Restores. Backing up is one thing, but restoring and having confidence in the restore is another. It just works, simple and effective.
Help is easy to find if you need it. From within the app, it gives you options of email, phone, and live chat, which is usually available even with odd time zones in play.

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Manager in Information Technology

Computer Hardware Company, 11-50 employees

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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 employees

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Cons

Single file restore is not included in the 2 VM free edition.
Can't restore a single SQL database, you have to restore the entire VM.

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Stefano Sanna

System Administrator

GOPLegal Services, 501-1000 employees

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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+ 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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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Altaro VM Backup 8.8

Based on 14 answers

The chat is very responsive. They work hard to find you a solution. They are very competent and very friendly. Most of the time they will simply open a request for you and ask to send the support package (bunch of logs and files) and will come back by email, but you can also click on the chat button inside Altaro to talk to someone.

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Director in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Cohesity 9.1

Based on 30 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.

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Scott Noel

Systems Engineer

SheetzRetail, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Altaro brings value to organizations looking at other platforms. It's definitely less expensive overall than Veeam, Datto or Infrascale. The recovery solution for Altaro is very good and reliable. Any organization looking at Veeam should consider Altaro as a potential alternative - depending on requirements. Although lacking in some granular backup/recovery systems, organizations looking at the backup of VMs only - numerous VMs with an off-site cloud location already setup. Costs can potentially increase if numerous versions or long deletion policy needs to be maintained. However such costs would increase on Veeam as well. Solarwinds and Carbonite charge based on selected sizes while Asigra has an amazing deduplication system for VMs, however, Asigra can become pricey with longer deletion/versioning setups as well.

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Calin Popescu

Owner

Office Wave Technology SolutionsComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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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.

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Kris Olson

Systems Administrator

Valley Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

We have a reliable backup solution.
I always know if/when a job fails.
Any time I have had to restore a backup, it was a straight-forward process.

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Jarret Schwartz

Operations Manager

Technics Dental LaboratoryMedical Device, 11-50 employees

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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.

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Jay Stelmach

Senior Network Engineer

Bank of New HampshireFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Altaro VM Backup Editions & Modules

Edition

Free	Free
Subscription License - Standard Edition	59.80²
Subscription License - Unlimited Edition	73.80²
Subscription License - Unlimited Plus Edition	89.20²
Perpetual License - Standard Edition	$595³
Perpetual License - Unlimited Edition	$695³
Perpetual License - Unlimited Plus Edition	$875³

per VM/per year
per host

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Cohesity Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Likelihood to Recommend

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Feature Rating Comparison

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Cons

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Usability

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Support Rating

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Alternatives Considered

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Return on Investment

Altaro VM Backup

Cohesity

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Altaro VM Backup Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Cohesity Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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