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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco TrustSec

    Score5 out of 10
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    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

    Microsoft Defender for Cloud

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) for Azure, on-premises, and multicloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco TrustSecCohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Defender for Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Free Trial
    NoYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Multiple Products
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    Cohesity
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
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    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco TrustSecCohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Defender for Cloud
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Cisco TrustSec and Cohesity Data Cloud and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    Feature
    Cisco TrustSec
    -
    Ratings
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.6
    59 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings8.152 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings8.148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.153 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings9.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.356 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings9.754 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings9.155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings10.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings8.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Cisco TrustSec and Cohesity Data Cloud and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    Feature
    Cisco TrustSec
    -
    Ratings
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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    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
    Cisco TrustSecCohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Defender for Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (70 ratings)
    8.4
    (69 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    7.8
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (27 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco TrustSecCohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Defender for Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    • Control access to critical enterprise resources by business role, device type, and location, so policy changes can be made without redesigning the network.
    • Easily manage access control and segmentation while maintaining compliance.
    • Create and manage policies in an easy-to-use matrix.
    • Reduce the need for costly network re-architecture by automating firewall rules and access control list (ACL) administration.
    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.
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    Microsoft
    I think it's good for cloud-native companies. A company that, from day zero, they're like, "We're going cloud, and this is how we're going to do it." They get it. It works well for them. Smaller organizations that are under X amount of resources- I don't know what that X might mean- but I feel like it plays well in smaller, more nimble organizations. If you're an older organization or if you're extremely large, it starts becoming a little difficult to manage at scale. And you have to sometimes throw bodies at the problem. Maybe not the most eloquent way of saying it, but that's what it feels like.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Reduce operational expenses by simplifying network segmentation and defining security groups based on business roles, not IP addresses.
    • Limit the impact of a data breach by quickly isolating and containing threats using technology already in your network.
    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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    Microsoft
    • It's really well laid out, with an easy-to-use, accessible UI.
    • With Microsoft Defender for Cloud, it has everything you need with the Safelink attachment, the Safelink emails for URL, the way it scans those URLs and attachments within the product, and you're seeing the results. And that adds an extra layer of security for the user, so you feel comfortable knowing the product monitors those. That's something I really like about that product.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Help and solutions if needed, support
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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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    Microsoft
    • Integrations with on-premise workloads can sometimes be challenging. Needs improvement and well standardised integration points
    • Vulnerability categories can be difficult to understand. It should allow teams to focus on critical findings and help them keep aside low-severity or suppressed vulnerabilities
    • Pricing can be improved as it can be over-priced for smaller businesses and would potentially affect their ROI due to the small scale
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Microsoft
    It is a great product that integrates nicely when running an Azure platform and even multi-cloud environment. Not looking for point-solutions but a suite that answers most requirements. It is very comfortable being able to use KQL, workbooks and automation that is native to the azure platform
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    Usability
    Cisco
    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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    Microsoft
    My visibility is limited because I'm only doing very small pieces of what the overall org does. And also, we have limitations on what we're allowed to use. It's not like we get a new product as users or leadership level users, and everything is on, and we can just do whatever we want. We're very restricted in what we can use any tooling within the org because of the different levels of regulatory constraints we have, because of just the nature of who we are inherently. So that's why. I don't think it's necessarily the product. I think it's more or less of what we're able to do with the product.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Cisco
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    Microsoft
    I believe Microsoft Defender for Cloud stacks up well against the other tools we looked at. It is native to the Azure platform and provides the same insights as the other tools. We selected Microsoft Defender for Cloud because it integrates well with the Azure resources and gives the needed insight, security alerts and recommendations.
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Reduction in IT operational costs
    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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    Microsoft
    • Ensuring compliance with data protection regulations can prevent costly fines and legal issues, positively impacting ROI.
    • Effective cloud resource protection can optimize cloud spending and resource utilization, ultimately reducing cloud infrastructure costs.
    • The subscription costs associated with Defender for Cloud can add to an organization's operational expenses, impacting ROI.
    • Smaller organizations may find the feature set and complexity of Defender for Cloud unnecessary, potentially overinvesting in security solutions.
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    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Screenshots

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