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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

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    Cohesity Data CloudDigitalOcean
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cohesity Data CloudDigitalOcean
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cohesity Data CloudDigitalOcean
    Considered Both Products
    Cohesity
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    DigitalOcean
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Cohesity Data CloudDigitalOcean
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Cohesity Data Cloud and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.6
    59 Ratings
    0% above category average
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery8.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.152 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.153 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots9.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.356 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.754 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support9.155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options10.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Cohesity Data Cloud and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    0% below category average
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Cohesity Data Cloud and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    DigitalOcean
    9.2
    36 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.931 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.932 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.723 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.733 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.632 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings6.55 Ratings
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    Cohesity Data CloudDigitalOcean
    Small Businesses
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
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    User Ratings
    Cohesity Data CloudDigitalOcean
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (70 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (27 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cohesity Data CloudDigitalOcean
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project.
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    Pros
    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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    DigitalOcean
    • DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
    • The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
    • DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
    • DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
    • DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials
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    Cons
    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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    DigitalOcean
    • Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
    • While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
    • There are no regions available on South America.
    • They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    DigitalOcean
    I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!
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    Usability
    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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    DigitalOcean
    I honestly can't think of an easier way to set up and maintain your own server. Being able to set up a server in minutes and have fully control is awesome. The UX is incredibly intuitive for first-time users as well so there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to giving DigitalOcean a shot.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
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    Performance
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
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    Support Rating
    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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    DigitalOcean
    They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.
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    Online Training
    Cohesity
    content was good and hands on lab to get the live feel of the application
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    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. Amazon has a complex UI and is on the expensive side. DigitalOcean is simple to use and is easily manageable and the servers can easily be set up without additional cost and such.
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    Scalability
    Cohesity
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    DigitalOcean
    Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.
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    Professional Services
    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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    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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.
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    DigitalOcean
    • Positive - Elastic computer instances make it possible to pay for only for what you need.
    • Positive - Competitive pricing - some of the products that DigitalOcean offers are much cheaper than those offered by competitors.
    • Negative - Having to go to other cloud computing platforms for more specific, advanced services like Computer Vision optimized services, GPU cloud compute instances, etc...
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