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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure StorSimple

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AStorSimple was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. The StorSimple storage gateway appliance is now a part of Microsoft's Azure StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage solution.

    $4.11

    Per Day

    Cohesity Data Cloud

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Cohesity offers AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects critical data workloads across on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS with backup and recovery, threat intelligence, cyber vaulting, files and objects, and recovery orchestration.N/A

    Commvault Cloud

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ACommvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure StorSimpleCohesity Data CloudCommvault Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Virtual Appliance
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Cloud Array
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Physical Appliance
    $43.84
    Per Day
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure StorSimpleCohesity Data CloudCommvault Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Azure StorSimpleCohesity Data CloudCommvault Cloud
    Considered Multiple Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Cohesity
    Chose Cohesity Data Cloud
    First and foremost is that due to Cohesity being able to support different types of backup, Cohesity reduces the need to use different products, and since most of the stuff can be done from the GUI, it is very easy to use as well, unlike, let's say TSM on which we will have to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cohesity Data Cloud
    Cohesity DataProtect is vastly simpler to use. Its interface is much more intuitive. Being that Cohesity DataProtect can be an applicance-based solution, deploying it is much simpler. Also, Cohesity DataProtect can provide the hardware so there is a single vendor for both …
    Incentivized
    Commvault
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    55 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure StorSimpleCohesity Data CloudCommvault Cloud
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Azure StorSimple and Cohesity Data Cloud and Commvault Cloud
    Feature
    Azure StorSimple
    -
    Ratings
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.6
    59 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Commvault Cloud
    7.2
    77 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.050 Ratings8.067 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings8.152 Ratings7.064 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings8.148 Ratings7.068 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.148 Ratings7.572 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.151 Ratings5.371 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.153 Ratings7.077 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.142 Ratings7.559 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.154 Ratings7.575 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings9.151 Ratings7.571 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.356 Ratings6.166 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings9.754 Ratings7.567 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings9.155 Ratings7.067 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings10.055 Ratings8.065 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings8.151 Ratings7.564 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Azure StorSimple and Cohesity Data Cloud and Commvault Cloud
    Feature
    Azure StorSimple
    -
    Ratings
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure StorSimpleCohesity Data CloudCommvault Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (70 ratings)
    6.5
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    7.0
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (27 ratings)
    8.6
    (52 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure StorSimpleCohesity Data CloudCommvault Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure.
    Incentivized
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    Cohesity
    Cohesity has been awesome. The performance (speed) that it has been able to provide has actually given me back time every month. I have to test my backups monthly, and the Cloning process that Cohesity has available from it's backup has given me days back each month. It just a few minutes I can have VMs restored for testing and documentation. This took a couple days with the previous vendor.
    Incentivized
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    Commvault
    Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Performance via the SSD drives.
    • Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure.
    • Easy to Admin via Web client interface.
    Incentivized
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    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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    Commvault
    • Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
    • Improves our Disaster Recovery
    • Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Additional fail-over functionality
    Incentivized
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    Cohesity
    • Reporting could always be better- executive-style reports have to be generated from data at multiple points.
    • Some tasks that could be brought to the UI that today we have to call support on (for example when an NFS mount is still active but we cannot see it from the UI)
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    Commvault
    • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
    • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
    • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for.
    Incentivized
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    Cohesity
    We have been very pleased with this backup solution. It is fast and reliable, and supports our VMware infrastructure. The company's support has been great, including proactively replacing our nodes when the flash memory was reporting high wear. Support is offered on-shore as well. We plan on continuing to use this product for the foreseeable future.
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    Commvault
    It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    Cohesity Helios is very easy to use and the web up is simple to navigate and the main dashboard presents a very good and clear overview summary of protection status, capacity and other vital metrics. If you have multiple clusters you can get a single pane view of overall status which is awesome.
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    Commvault
    Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    Support is quick to respond but lacks that ongoing responsiveness if the issue is not simple. There will be large gaps in replies if they need to resort to escalation and when there are timezone differences between yourself and the person who picked up the ticket.
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    Commvault
    I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE team.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Traning is very easy very helpful
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    content was good and hands on lab to get the live feel of the application
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    Commvault
    Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Commvault
    In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    Overall Cohesity professional services like the rest of Cohesity are brilliant. We had some poor advice around how to carve up our Netapp protection jobs which has set us back but it has been acknowledged that a mistake was made by Cohesity and they promise for future engagements with new customers the lessons learnt with us will be integrated into their planning workshop for NAS onboarding.
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    Commvault
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team
    • Great value on year 2
    Incentivized
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    Cohesity
    • We've a few occasions where Outlook items have been permanently deleted. Cohesity Backup had mulitple backups allowing us to restore the lost items.
    • Can be managed by O365 Security Groups meaning offboarding is easier and ensuring licences aren't take unneccesarily
    • Backup of Sharepoint and Teams has been very helpful.
    Incentivized
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    Commvault
    • I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
    Incentivized
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