Cohesity vs. OpenText InfoArchive

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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OpenText InfoArchive offers the ease of accessing data and documents eliminating interruption to productivity, allows my organization to cost-effectively upgrade two active data to new applications while keeping historical and complete company data just a click away, It is a scalable solution with cloud services that increases productivity and reduces costs and wasted time.

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• 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).

• OpenText InfoArchive is a highly scalable cloud-based solution for archiving structured and unstructured information, it has been a very helpful tool in my organization because it allows me to quickly address compliance guidelines without changes in costs, saving time in long processes and searches.
• In my organization, this modern tool is essential for its information filing functions, maintaining convenient access to structured and unstructured information, saving time and costs, thus maintaining relevant data in a centralized manner.

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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)

• OpenText InfoArchive is perfect for business processes achieving agility and time and cost savings, it is a software that works perfectly being flexible and easy to use with features that fit all needs, it controls file data for data access contextual, offers a modern interface and maximum security, the features are innumerable and its perfect operation from start to finish.

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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.

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.

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.

content was good and hands on lab to get the live feel of the application

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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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OpenText InfoArchive is a cloud-based solution that offers the ease of searching and secure data navigation by dismantling outdated applications and systems while maintaining productivity, it is a modern, secure and easy-to-use archiving solution with accessible information. with visualization in specific views with data encryption, security and privacy controls, it is very complete and offers a unique experience.

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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.

• 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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• OpenText InfoArchive is a solution that has had a huge impact on my organization addressing privacy and consolidating compliance efforts for structured and unstructured data, since using this cloud-based solution the results have been positive, addressing data archive challenges. organized and safe manner, efficiency of the workforce and develop a business transformation strategy.

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