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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

    IBM Guardium

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Guardium is IBM's data security posture management solution, that aims to offer organizations comprehensive visibility, actionable insights and real-time controls to help users comply with regulations, preserve privacy and secure sensitive data no matter where it is stored.N/A
    Pricing
    Cohesity Data CloudIBM Guardium
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cohesity Data CloudIBM Guardium
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Pricing is dependent based on data source environment.
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    Community Pulse
    Cohesity Data CloudIBM Guardium
    Considered Both Products
    Cohesity
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    77 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    61 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    Features
    Cohesity Data CloudIBM Guardium
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Cohesity Data Cloud and IBM Guardium
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.6
    59 Ratings
    0% above category average
    IBM Guardium
    -
    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 IBM Guardium
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    0% below category average
    IBM Guardium
    -
    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
    Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
    Comparison of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) features of Cohesity Data Cloud and IBM Guardium
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    -
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    IBM Guardium
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Shadow & Dark Data Identification00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Data Access & Entitlement Mapping00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Security Posture Assessment & Risk Prioritization00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive, Agentless Scanning00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Data Lineage and Flow Tracking00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Automated Remediation Workflows00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Real-Time Data Detection and Response (DDR)00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    AI-Ready Security Guardrails00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Automated Compliance Mapping00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
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    Cohesity Data CloudIBM Guardium
    Small Businesses
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cohesity Data CloudIBM Guardium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (70 ratings)
    9.5
    (68 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    5.6
    (34 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (27 ratings)
    4.5
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cohesity Data CloudIBM Guardium
    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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    IBM
    IBM Guardium DP is suitable for monitoring, auditing, data discovery, vulnerability analysis, and risk detection and investigation in relational and non-relational databases, cloud database services, indexed databases, and non-relational databases as well. IBM Guardium DPR is appropriate for supporting the process of detecting anomalous behavior in accessing sensitive data, helping to optimize the work of cybersecurity analysts or data team analysts by providing the data officer within our organization with insight into compromised users, compromised databases, or file servers containing sensitive data.
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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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    IBM
    • Provides complete monitoring of data access and usage activities.
    • Provides customizable security controls and policies that help us meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
    • Uses advanced algorithms and machine learning to detect abnormal behavior patterns.
    • Helps us protect sensitive and confidential data by controlling access.
    • Integrates easily with other security systems and tools.
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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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    IBM
    • Cleanup the menu bar- way too many items.
    • Ktap support for newer O/S. Recently, I have had to open support tickets to get the most recent support for the RHEL Kernel.
    • Also, upgrading agents to V12 doesnt not have the same Flex or exact match for KTAP as 11.5. You would think V12 would have the same Kernel support as 11.5. Clients are moving to V12.
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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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    IBM
    It is a perfect system to detect problems that we do not see manually, it is light, with a very simple learning curve and with great protection of our data, we will use it forever.
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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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    IBM
    This software is not the easiest to use in all work environments, each department has some difficulties accessing and managing some functions, it can be considered a complex softy, but I consider it necessary to have it in the company due to its security qualities of warm cans, it offers exactly what it promises but with a little difficulty in its configuration.
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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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    IBM
    There has been great support coming from IBM. It is easy to use and a great way to keep our data secure. I would recommend this to other possible users and if I were to move companies, I would recommend we use this there too. Thank you
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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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    IBM
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    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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    IBM
    IBM Security Guardium has extended capabilities of automatically locating databases and assessing the vulnerabilities and configuration flaws in them. IBM Security Guardium stacks up against other products due to the additional features that can be easily added to your IT systems after installation. Additionally, Guardium has the ability to monitor a mainframe database environment which makes it the best choice!
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    Scalability
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Only a few users in our shop for now
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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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    IBM
    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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    IBM
    • Security and monitoring are important in a financial institution
    • Constant visibility and auditing of companies is easy with IBM Guardium.
    • la seguridad y monitored es important en una entidad financiera
    • la visibilidad y auditoria constante de empresas es facil con IBM Guardium
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    IBM Guardium Screenshots

    Screenshot of the IBM Guardium Data Protection dashboard showing all the features. One click can take you to databases or to data analytics.Screenshot of IBM Guardium Data Protection: The S-TAP and GIM Dashboard gives real-time visibility into the health and performance of S-TAPs. It is used to track the status of different S-TAP versions, see database activity across inspection engines, and view detailed insights by operating system.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.