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Cohesity

Score8.4 out of 10

86 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cohesity?

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.

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Top Performing Features

  • Retention options

    Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting

    Category average: 9.2

  • Management dashboard

    Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups

    Category average: 9

  • Backup to the cloud

    Ability to store and back up data to the cloud

    Category average: 9.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Deduplication and file compression

    Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities

    Category average: 8.9

  • Encryption

    Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

    Category average: 8.6

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 8.6

Cohesity - The Simple and Powerful M365 Backup

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With our move to M365 we needed a solution to backup our Microsoft Online Data. Cohesity provided a solution that required no tool or agent installed onto our on-premise infrastructure. Everything is hosted via cloud which was ideal for to reduce our on-premise footprint.

Pros

  • Complete Cloud Solution
  • Easy to use Interface
  • Restoration of deleted items made seemless.

Cons

  • Include a dashboard that tells you how many of your licences have been used.
  • Separate Live mailbox and Archive mailbox backups
  • Some Errors could be made a bit more clear.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup for Azure

Other Software Used

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Carbon Black Endpoint, Adobe Acrobat

Cohesity Data Back Up

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cohesity as a back up for our data. It is used to protect our data in case of a disaster or a Cybersecurity incident.

Pros

  • Back up of data
  • Air gap
  • PACS data

Cons

  • Needs to improve for O365 data
  • Easier functions

Return on Investment

  • It has provided us the ability to back up our data center
  • It's air gapped back up is nice
  • Id like to see more features

Alternatives Considered

Rubrik

Other Software Used

Nutanix AHV, Microsoft 365

Cohesity

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity is our primary backup solution for more than 1500 servers in two different datacenters. It also provides File shares for several customers. We migrated from Commvault two years ago and are very pleased with the result. Cohesity is much faster to backup and restore and can provide instant recovery for the VM environment.

Pros

  • Physical server backup
  • VMware backup and restore
  • file serving - NFS, CIFS and S3

Cons

  • report features could be improved - particularly for a managed services environment

Return on Investment

  • improved performance of backups and restores
  • better compression and deduplication than prior solution
  • fewer engineers required to support

Usability

Cluster based storage and backup solution

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity is a storage plus backup solution and also it can be used as file share solution which makes it an easy to go product while selecting the backup solution and the business problems that Cohesity solved is faster backup and recovery and it also provides the option to manage multiple Cohesity clusters from a single management console

Pros

  • Easy to learn
  • Easy to implement
  • Faster Backup and restores

Cons

  • Networking Complexity
  • Backup can be complication if not implemented properly

Return on Investment

  • Faster backup and recovery
  • Easy management

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup for Azure, Veeam Backup for AWS, Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED) and Druva Data Resiliency Cloud

Other Software Used

Druva Data Resiliency Cloud, Arcserve Backup, Veeam Data Platform

Cohesity Backup.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had problems with long backup times. Our one-year DPA took about 6 hours to back up. Now, we are able to back up our whole system in under 2 hours, and we are able to do 10-minute backups. We are also able to replicate to an off-site Cohesity and not overlap backups from the night before. We are able to restore a whole image in minutes. We can also run the VM on the Cohesity appliance if needed. The de-duplication we are getting is about a 4 to 1 debupe ratio.

Pros

  • lock down backups from ransomware.
  • Fast recovery time.
  • deduplications.

Cons

  • Software
  • Support
  • Price

Return on Investment

  • Fast to restore and take a backups.
  • We spend about 30% less on waiting on backups to restore.
  • It just works.

Alternatives Considered

Dell Avamar, Rubrik and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Other Software Used

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Dell Avamar, Rubrik