Asigra vs Cohesity | TrustRadius

Likelihood to Recommend

If implemented as a Cloud Service provider (Public Cloud), In House Solution (Private Cloud) or a mixture of both (Hybrid Cloud):

The Agentless Architecture means there are less support burdens.
Encryption at Source gives the customer confidence their data is secure.
WAN Optimisation (Compression & Block Level Incremential Forever and De-deupe of Data), enables a large amount of Data to be protected offsite.
One step Backup to both Local and Offsite storage enables LAN speed restores with offsite peace of mind.
Asigra Replication from DS-System to DS-System enables another geographically separate copy of the data.

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Jeremy Wyatt

Operations Director

Fantastic Cloud ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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It is well suited for highly virtualized environments that backup over the network. When many people play a hand in backup and recovery it works well due to the simplicity of the interface. It will not work well for environments who are utilizing SAN based backup as Cohesity does not support Fiber Channel backup.

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Kris Olson

Systems Administrator

Valley Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Asigra

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Cohesity

8.4

Universal recovery

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8.3

Live recovery

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8.2

Recovery verification

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7.9

Business application protection

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8.1

Multiple backup destinations

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8.7

Incremental backup identification

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8.5

Backup to the cloud

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8.6

Deduplication and file compression

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8.9

Snapshots

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8.3

Flexible deployment

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8.5

Management dashboard

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8.4

Platform support

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8.5

Retention options

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8.6

Encryption

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8.4

Pros

Asigra's agentless architecture means it's much less labour intensive than agent-based alternatives.
Encrypted at Source gives the customer and service provider the confidence that their data is secure.
Continuous Development of the Asigra product suite by Asigra's dedicated engineers in Toronto means Asigra continues to protect data in the latest IT environments. Be that in the Office, Mobile Device, Cloud or Data Centre.

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Jeremy Wyatt

Operations Director

Fantastic Cloud ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Cohesity is a well packaged all in one backup solution.
Being able to back up to another Cohesity cluster and/or to the cloud for redundancy is nice.
Being able to use storage not being used by backups for simple file shares is an added bonus.

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joey diniz

Systems Engineer

Stanislaus County CSAGovernment Administration, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Image level VM backups need to quickly help doing file level restores.
Need support for larger environments like Sybase etc. as these databases are catching the market along with SAP.
Better deduplication on Oracle databases.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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The physical device agent is a bit quirky but has come a long way and improvements are being made all the time

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Mike O'Rourke

Director of Information Technology

Lighthouse Resources IncMining & Metals, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Asigra 8.5

Based on 14 answers

The product is out dated and is missing needed features. The time between product releases is growing longer in a market that has shorter release times.

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Stephen Sifers

NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Asigra 8.0

Based on 6 answers

Easy to use, great scalability, feature packed... Asigra is truly an end-to-end enterprise solution, not simply a point product. Asigra handles backup and restoration of client data across multiple OS platforms- Windows, Linux, Unix, IBM AS400, Mac X, etc... They include servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices, virtual and physical machines. Some key features to note: Deduplication, Continuous Data Protection, Agentless Backup, Replication (New), Silent mode installation, Best of breed/start of art Security, Storage Discovery/Assessment tools, Autonomic healing... and more.Asigra simplifies Cloud backup, period. Do your clients want a full Public Cloud, Hybrid... what about Private built solution? Asigra handles all, with ease and, with over 26 years of ZERO security breaches.

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Matthew P. Grosso

Executive Vice President, CTO

Data Storage CorporationInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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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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Reliability and Availability

Asigra 8.8

Based on 5 answers

It works but the features are far behind the curve.

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Stephen Sifers

NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support

Asigra 1.3

Based on 4 answers

Support is very triage based now, for the price it should be full service support and not a cold hand off for a support case.

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Stephen Sifers

NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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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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Online Training

Asigra 1.0

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Anything training past level 1 and level 2 is a waste of time. They do not offer training, just an exam and require you to read 2500 pages of their documentation as their training. They are selling you something which you already have. Training exams are far fetched and cover topics hidden within the documentation. A lot of their documentation does not match across itself. They don't even follow the standard versions Major.Minor.ServicePack.Hotfix. They use the MAJOR.MAJOR.MAJOR.Hotfix method, which doesn't match their documentation.They require you to take training in order to keep your engaged hybrid partnership. If you ask me personally, their training is a scam to make more money.

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Stephen Sifers

NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Implementation

Asigra 1.2

Based on 3 answers

Quick to install, easy to create jobs, schedules and retention policies. No large cycles of setting up backup volumes or trash volumes. Retention job itself configures the BLM functionality so you don't need an expertise to handle the BLM module separately.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I would say that it has the same functionality as the three mentioned above in their respective fields (might have a bit less than some of them) but Asigra offers all of this and more so if you are looking for a single backup solution across the entire firm then Asigra is the much better choice

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Njaal Michelsen

Servicedesk Consultant

Upheads ASInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Cohesity is far easier to use and maintain. The user interface is HTML5 and not Java. If power is lost, a call to support is not required as the Cohesity device brings itself back online.

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Mike O'Rourke

Director of Information Technology

Lighthouse Resources IncMining & Metals, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

The product is rock solid, and monitoring options are eay.
Pricing can be expensive. New Pay-For-Recovery model is quite hard to predict cost-wise.

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Lee Taylor

CTO

myCatalyst IncHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees

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We are still in the implementation phase, however we have seen that we will be able to better back up our databases.

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Jason Stallings

Data Center Operations I

Nu Skin EnterprisesConsumer Goods, 5001-10,000 employees

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Likelihood to Recommend

Asigra

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

Asigra

Cohesity

Cons

Asigra

Cohesity

Likelihood to Renew

Asigra

Cohesity

Usability

Asigra

Cohesity

Reliability and Availability

Asigra

Cohesity

Support

Asigra

Cohesity

Online Training

Asigra

Cohesity

Implementation

Asigra

Cohesity

Alternatives Considered

Asigra

Cohesity

Return on Investment

Asigra

Cohesity

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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