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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BDRShield

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AVembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.

    $12

    per year per endpoint

    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
    Pricing
    BDRShieldCohesity Data Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Endpoint / Workstation Backup
    $12
    per year per endpoint
    SaaS Backup
    $12
    per year per user
    VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup
    $48
    per year per VM
    Apps & DB Backup
    $72
    per year Apps
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BDRShieldCohesity Data Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BDRShieldCohesity Data Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Vembu Technologies
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    Cohesity
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    BDRShieldCohesity Data Cloud
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of BDRShield and Cohesity Data Cloud
    Feature
    BDRShield
    9.6
    61 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.6
    59 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Universal recovery9.950 Ratings8.050 Ratings
    Instant recovery9.651 Ratings8.152 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.952 Ratings8.148 Ratings
    Business application protection9.243 Ratings8.148 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations9.743 Ratings8.151 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.758 Ratings8.153 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.436 Ratings9.142 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.848 Ratings8.154 Ratings
    Snapshots9.745 Ratings9.151 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.854 Ratings8.356 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.659 Ratings9.754 Ratings
    Platform support9.459 Ratings9.155 Ratings
    Retention options9.857 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Encryption9.851 Ratings8.151 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of BDRShield and Cohesity Data Cloud
    Feature
    BDRShield
    -
    Ratings
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BDRShieldCohesity Data Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.4
    (64 ratings)
    8.8
    (70 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    6.4
    (62 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.8
    (27 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BDRShieldCohesity Data Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Vembu Technologies
    It provides reliable daily backup tasks and it is important for us to have no worries of system crush. BDRSuite is full featured, I had been using BDRSuite to replicate servers from Hyper-v to ESXi, it's quite useful and easily to process than other VM migration tools between different platform. BDRSuite costs less than other backup product because I can decrease/increase/allocate license between VMs easily. The license charge two ways, server or VM. We choose VM license.
    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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    Pros
    Vembu Technologies
    • Seed an offsite backup. A simple checkbox to seed a large backup prior to backing it up to our datacenter. Previously with another well knows backup provider this was convoluted and time-consuming.
    • Backup Speed. Vembu BDR is fast and allows me to schedule multiple jobs within time constraints that prohibit some backup products from working.
    • DR - Vembu BDR provides an option to mirror your backups to an offsite datacenter without taxing production servers with a secondary backup job.
    • Bare Metal Recovery: the ability to create a custom bootable ISO that you can quickly recover a failed physical server or workstation.
    • Ease of use: The console is consistent and very easy to use. From initial install to being fully configured takes just a few minutes.
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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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    Cons
    Vembu Technologies
    • User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
    • User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
    • Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
    • Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
    • Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
    • Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Vembu Technologies
    Because of the product functions and possibilities: - it's easy to use through WEB browser - installation process is not complicated - Vembu BDR solution is reliable, and works properly. It does the job. This product could get extra points for the appliance that could be imported to virtual environment (no need for windows server license or some linux knowledge).
    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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    Usability
    Vembu Technologies
    Friendly web interface very clear, nicely and professionally designed. Usability, setup and forget. It has all features you need for hybrid environments even if you don't use it. You know the features are there when you needed. Email report is so informative. You get all the details about completed backup without logging in the system
    Incentivized
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    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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    Support Rating
    Vembu Technologies
    It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.
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    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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    Online Training
    Vembu Technologies
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Vembu Technologies
    It wasn't difficult at all, it fact, it was mostly simple, implementation doesn't require much skills and knowledge, but the configuration part does require some skills to create the jobs and configure certain settings, overall, its an easy implementation, especially for experienced IT People
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    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Vembu Technologies
    I tested Vembu against Veeam and for the price, Vembu was the better option. I also had a great support experience as I had to contact Vembu twice after mistakes I made. While using Veeam the software was not as intuitive and support responses were not as swift and accurate.
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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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    Professional Services
    Vembu Technologies
    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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    Return on Investment
    Vembu Technologies
    • For organizations that use different tools for Backup and recovery, this could be the single tool for Storage and Backup Administrators to automate and work effectively.
    • Software cost is lesser thus the money can be invested for other tools/software procurement
    • I don't think there is any negative impact as of now
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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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