Cohesity DataProtect vs. Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

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 System Center Data Protection Manager is well suited for Windows domain environments where you need to make backups of Hyper-V virtual machines or bare metal servers. It is possible to backup SQL databases, works pretty well, but sometimes needs consistency checks on backups to properly continue to backup databases. Easy to restore anything to production or to another location.

Incentivized

• Ease of use - the platform is simple to manage and does not require a lot of daily care and feeding by my administrators
• Reliable - the platform is able to protect my workloads reliably without a lot of backup failures
• Great support - the Cohesity team has been a partner to us throughout our use of the solution, taking our feedback and implementing it as improvements to the platform.
• Innovative - the Cohesity team is consistently working to improve the product and add new capabilities.

• Hyper-V backup /restore
• Bare-Metal backup/restore
• Good management console

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• 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)

• Integration with some devices
• Web client
• Slow interface

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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.

Product was a one afternoon initial setup.

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.

IBM is good but it´s old and really big and not easy to manage. And the License fees and so are worth it. Veeam I have a look on and 4 years ago I selected Cohesity because it was easier to manage, dedup was better and it is one hyperconverged infrastructure. Rubrik is or was similar to Cohesity. But they are not so good in Data management on the boxes

Incentivized

• It has freed up 40 hours a month of our service desk staff since they were able to stop focusing so intently on tape management.
• We have gained time back on the engineers since they are not working tickets 10 hours a week just on backup issues.

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• It has saved us on licensing costs and through centralized management.

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