Cohesity vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cohesity
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects the world’s most 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
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Veeam® Backup for Microsoft Office 365 eliminates the risk of losing access and control over Office 365 data including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams — so that data is always protected and accessible.
$1.80
per month per user
Pricing
CohesityVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Editions & Modules
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
$1.80
per month per user
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Community Edition
Free
BaaS for Microsoft 365
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CohesityVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
CohesityVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Considered Both Products
Cohesity
Chose Cohesity
it went down to 3 top companies and even thou Cohesity was not the cheapest when we compared the recovery time and options Cohesity was really standing out. On top of that, it was the first solution with Teams and Group-based SharePoint backup as an option. OneDrive backups is …
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Chose Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
As I stated earlier, Veeam is a great solution that just works and isn’t super expensive like with Rubrik, Cohesity etc. however it is bring your own storage. Whether that’s disk or cloud. However as a result it doesn’t have quite as many add one and features as those other …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
CohesityVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
9.2
55 Ratings
8% above category average
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
8.8
75 Ratings
2% below category average
Universal recovery8.050 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery9.052 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.048 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.948 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations9.051 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.053 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.542 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.954 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots9.551 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.552 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.954 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Platform support9.555 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options10.055 Ratings9.174 Ratings
Encryption9.051 Ratings8.766 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
8.8
7 Ratings
8% above category average
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
8.5
67 Ratings
1% below category average
Continuous data protection9.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics8.47 Ratings8.065 Ratings
Malware protection8.77 Ratings8.142 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.84 Ratings9.331 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
-
Ratings
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
8.8
64 Ratings
0% below category average
SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings7.747 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings9.462 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search00 Ratings8.855 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings9.559 Ratings
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CohesityVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365
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Score 9.6 out of 10
Axcient x360Cloud
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Spanning Backup
Spanning Backup
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
CohesityVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(65 ratings)
9.1
(211 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(3 ratings)
9.1
(7 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(5 ratings)
8.9
(211 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(27 ratings)
8.9
(208 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CohesityVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365
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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Veeam Software
Users who accidentally deleted databases stored in their OneDrive were not able to recover them via Microsoft backup, so I used Veeam backup for Office 365 to recover the files needed for an important project. Veeam for Office 365 is great, and it is easy to recover lost Microsoft Teams files in a meeting.
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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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Veeam Software
  • My CFO seemed to have lost a whole year of important emails. I simply restored them to his mailbox in a matter of minutes.
  • An employee left the company but an issue came up with a quote this person sent out. I could search his mailbox and got the quote as well as all communications from that customer.
  • It is nice to be able to search emails in various mailboxes without disturbing the user.
  • It is also nice to go back in time. Say they deleted those emails last month I can go back years if needed.
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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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Veeam Software
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 isn't 'multi geo' aware - this means we have to manually select resources to back up depending on their geo-location.
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 doesn't backup Private Channels users create in a Team - there are workarounds for this but it would be nice if this just worked.
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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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Veeam Software
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 just works so well and is so easy to use. I researched multiple options for Office 365 backup and none seemed to be as easy to setup and use as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and the pricing was very comfortable to us. I can't imagine any reason why we would change away from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
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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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Veeam Software
The functionality is very intuitive and easy to understand how to use the product. If anything, the information presented could be a little more verbose. I feel like it is lacking in the amount of information being shared regarding the backups compared to other products like Veeam Backup and Recovery.
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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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Veeam Software
Even though we are a small non-profit, support has always been there for help when needed. They are responsive and knowledgeable. If there are any shortcomings from Veeam for support, it is entirely on our end. With a small IT department, we easily get backlogged with projects.
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Implementation Rating
Cohesity
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
Would have marked a 10 but the storage in AWS was very complicated. Would be nice to have more help/guidance connecting to external storage.
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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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Veeam Software
As I stated earlier, Veeam is a great solution that just works and isn’t super expensive like with Rubrik, Cohesity etc. however it is bring your own storage. Whether that’s disk or cloud. However as a result it doesn’t have quite as many add one and features as those other products. But it does backup great.
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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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Veeam Software
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Cohesity
  • Several hours a week of admin time no longer needed to deal with tapes.
  • Many hours a year saved in that the admin no longer has to deal with LTO drives, LTO drive firmware, tape libraries, tape library firmware, a physical server connected to tape library, etc. Retired old legacy NAS devices that in some instances no longer had firmware updates. One system to administer and maintain.
  • Piece of mind. We replicate from our onsite cluster to an offsite cluster in the event of a DR event at HQ.
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Veeam Software
  • We use this tool to store our most sensitive Data safely where it's easy to get access while even offline mode.
  • Streamlines our off boarding process for data retention by leveraging Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
  • Flexible data storage either onsite or in the cloud. Which is very cost effective.
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ScreenShots

Cohesity Screenshots

Screenshot of Cohesity Data Cloud in the DataProtect Summary DashboardScreenshot of DataHawk Dashboard: Identify Potential Data Exfiltration and Behavior AnalyticsScreenshot of Screenshot of Threat DetectionScreenshot of FortKnox Cyber VaultScreenshot of Site Continuity

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Screenshots

Screenshot of backup creation for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Teams data. Jobs can be scheduled to run when and as often as desired.Screenshot of advanced search capabilities and flexible recovery and export options to perform eDiscovery on Microsoft 365 mailboxes, emails, files or sites — as easily as one would with a traditional on-premises data backupScreenshot of restoration of Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Teams data from a Veeam backup. Veeam offers over 25 ways to restore from Office 365 backups to meet the specific recovery needs of any business