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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

    Microsoft Exchange

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Exchange is a secure email / messaging gateway with file archiving and encryption / data loss capability, available as a hosted service (Exchange Online) or installed (Exchange Server).N/A
    Pricing
    Cohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Exchange
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Exchange
    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 CloudMicrosoft Exchange
    Considered Both Products
    Cohesity
    Chose Cohesity Data Cloud
    We used to use the NetApp SnapManager suite, I've found Cohesity to be more reliable, easier to configure, and restores to be faster.
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    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    65 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    63 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    68 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
    46 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    52 Answers
    Features
    Cohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Exchange
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Cohesity Data Cloud and Microsoft Exchange
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.6
    59 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Microsoft Exchange
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    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 Microsoft Exchange
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Microsoft Exchange
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    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
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Cohesity Data Cloud and Microsoft Exchange
    Feature
    Cohesity Data Cloud
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    Ratings
    Microsoft Exchange
    7.3
    84 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Anti-malware00 Ratings6.567 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.079 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection00 Ratings8.368 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings6.566 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings7.444 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings6.767 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings8.080 Ratings
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    Cohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Exchange
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    Score7.1 out of 10
    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Exchange
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (70 ratings)
    9.0
    (102 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (27 ratings)
    9.9
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cohesity Data CloudMicrosoft Exchange
    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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    Microsoft
    Creating and receiving emails is simple. Managing contacts is a nice feature, especially connecting to Active Directory. Calendar management is also helpful and sharing access to others' calendars for scheduling meetings is useful. And reserving resources such as rooms or equipment is also useful. Personal and shared mailboxes are good features, as well. Tasks are a little lacking, but other than that, the features are thorough.
    Incentivized
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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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    Microsoft
    • As we have a large user base of 11,000 users we use MailTips to avoid people getting confused with people with similar names in the organization.
    • The integration between Teams Meeting and Resource booking is generally very good. The Scheduling Assistance makes it easy to scan calendars and find free periods to provisionally scheduled events.
    • Marking yourself as Out of the Office and busy is easy, as is sharing your calendar within the team/organization or individuals.
    • Voicemail integration and the ability to receive missed chats in your inbox are highly used and useful.
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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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    Microsoft
    • The two main factors for the better reliability & Uptime of internally hosted Exchange Server depends on Exchange Server configuration and the level of investment the organization is willing to provide for hosting the Exchange Server On-Premise Environment. As the data is stored in the organization’s hardware, any disaster may lead to the loss of email and servers.
    • Losing data might affect business continuity and rebuilding it can be costly.
    • Security remains a major concern.
    • Security of data loss is main concern. To ensure that, organization needs to configure networks, systems and Exchange platform against possible threats.
    • Hardware and license costs are high.
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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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    Microsoft
    Email and calendars in a business setting are requirements. And Microsoft continues to be the standard of business applications. Microsoft 365 makes Microsoft Exchange easy to use. Everything is in the cloud. Let Microsoft take care of the hardware, the software, and the security. You just enable your business users with the functionality they need.
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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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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Exchange has come a long way over the years and has nowhere near the technical overhead required for support as it did back in 2003/2007 and prior. The integrations with Teams, Defender, Sharepoint, Copilot and many other products make it a solid and well-rounded tool used for many day-to-day tasks.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Exchange is setup with multiple servers behind load balancers to provide high availability.
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    Performance
    Cohesity
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    Microsoft
    I would say it's the best email product I've experienced.
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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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    Microsoft
    We have a good enterprise agreement with Microsoft which affords us quick phone support. I have found the support staff knowledgeable and prompt with a solution when required. At times it may be difficult to schedule a call back, this is mainly due to our need for calls early in the morning which happens to be during a shift change at Microsoft support.
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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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Implementation/conversion can be quite complex and, unless you have certified Exchange administrators in-house, you should strongly consider a 3rd party consultant for this implementation.
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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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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Exchange Product The best cloud-based enterprise-grade archiving platform with a host of features that enable files to be securely archived and retrieved with advanced search options. This tool is very easy to use and has a User-friendly interface. It is a highly reliable platform that allows all employees to automatically store their data without any limitations. It offers a cost-effective solution with customized policy management. We are happy that the customer support team is always fast and concerned, and the product's uninterrupted service experience. It is very good that it stores data in real-time without losing it, even in the event of a disaster. The cost-effective solution and integration with other tools are seamless.
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    Scalability
    Cohesity
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    Microsoft
    The only time Exchange has failed us is when we did something to cause the failure.
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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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    Microsoft
    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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    Microsoft
    • It has been an important factor in allowing seamless communication with clients and scheduling business meetings, which in turn works in the company's favor.
    • Haven't noticed any negative impact Exchange has had on our ROI. The support team is also responsive and helpful.
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