Cohesity Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.4 out of 10

Score

8.4 out of 10

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Pros

Ease of Use: Reviewers have consistently found the GUI of Cohesity very easy to navigate and utilize efficiently, contributing to a seamless user experience. The intuitive design allows users to operate the platform without extensive training, enhancing their overall efficiency in data management tasks.

Versatility in Backing Up Environments: Users have appreciated Cohesity's flexibility in backing up all types of environments, showcasing its adaptability across different regions. This versatility enables users to deploy the solution effectively in various settings, meeting their diverse backup needs with ease.

Fast Backup and Restore Capabilities: Many users highly value Cohesity for its quick backup and restore capabilities, emphasizing the importance of rapid data recovery. The efficient data retrieval process ensures minimal downtime and enhances overall productivity for users relying on timely access to critical information.

Reviews

70 Reviews

Great Product That Does What It Is Supposed To

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 13, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our experience with the Cohesity DataProtect Platform has been overwhelmingly positive as we been able to manage our 500+ VMs and physical servers with only a few backup policies. Backups: VMs are currently being added to jobs automatically through tagging. But, we also manually add VMs to jobs at times as we need to split up the load of VMs to multiple backup jobs. We try to keep a ratio of 15 VMs to 1 job. After getting a Cohesity Agent on a SQL server and syncing it with Cohesity, it is simple to set a backup/retention schedule for Log, Incremental, and Full backups based on policy. We utilize the Cohesity APIs to produce daily reports on jobs that have succeeded, failed, paused, etc. We send an email to our Systems team with this information and log it in a .csv. This allows us to give a timeline to backup auditors as well as let us know when something isn't going right. Restores: We have used Cohesity to restore granular files as well as restore SQL databases. VM's restore to vSphere directly. VM's typically restore quite quickly and work right away as long as they're restored to the original vSphere they came from. Individual files can be searched on multiple VM backups and downloaded locally or placed back on source machine. SQL Databases can be restored to any SQL server instance, not only the original. As long as the SQL versions match. *We have had some luck restoring databases from older SQL versions to newer SQL versions.

Pros

Intuitive user Interface.
Good reporting and metrics.
Cohesity restores data well.

Cons

Replication performance - We needed support to provide some customizations in order to get our replication to work properly to another offsite cluster. We have been told that this issue is fixed in the newest general release.
Support - I would characterize the support as very good, but in a few instances I could tell my support agent needed to go higher up his chain to get clarification on features. I believe Cohesity is rapidly growing their support infrastructure as they put more hardware in the field.

Likelihood to Recommend

Reliable backup solution with many options and friendly/logical backup/restore infrastructure.

Verified User

Strategist in Human Resources (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 7, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were using Cohesity as a network file solution, however that has changed and now we us it as a backup solution. Currently it is being used in all 3 of our locations. The backup solution is being used to backup SQL and Oracle databases, File level backups, and VM backups.

Pros

Make adding items to be backed up easy.
The search feature for file restore is quick.
The restore process is quick.

Cons

Improvement in the accuracy of their documentation.
Remove the amount of times you need to log in to view support info.

Likelihood to Recommend

Scott Noel

Systems Engineer in Engineering at Sheetz (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Easy data protection!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 23, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity is currently being used on our environment for backup and recovery of structured and unstructured data. We also use the replication feature to replicate all data off-site for disaster recovery. We use Cohesity to backup Microsoft SQL databases as well and have given our DBA's ability to backup and restore databases for themselves. It's currently only used within our technology department but could be used in the future by other admins throughout the district to restore data on their own, thus alleviating this task from our department. We were using EMC networker and backing up data to Datadomain, and I can tell you had the backup and recovery software and storage all is one is easier to manage.

Pros

Cohesity restores data well.
It can de-duplicate data very well.

Cons

The alerts sent out could be more descriptive.
It would be nice to be able to restore Active directory objects.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cohesity is well suited to use for backing up and restoring all data. It's also useful for deploying CIF shares that would be used for storing secondary data like analytical information. I really can't think of any scenarios where this would be less appropriate.

Kurt Pritchett

Senior System Administrator in Information Technology at CLAYTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Cohesity: Great product

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 18, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our primary initiative was with the Cohesity Data platform, and we used it as a SaaS solution tied to our Amazon cloud. It has consolidated all of our applications, containers, backups, etc. onto a single pane of glass for super simple management, remediation, and repair if it's needed. We love it.

Pros

Consolidation
Data management

Cons

Pricing
Automation

Likelihood to Recommend

We really like the simplification, consolidation, and ease of management that the Cohesity solution we went with provides to us. It's a great way to save time, money, and effort, freeing up our resources for other things. The consolidation and right-sizing of the solution in the cloud are also really nice and help save lots of money.

Verified User

Technician in Marketing (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

I'll buy Cohesity again

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 18, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have 4 units spread across several data centers and on-premise locations. Two units used as a File Server and 2 units used as a repository for backups.

Pros

Intuitive user Interface.
Good reporting and metrics.

Cons

Setup was not very easy, not intuitive.
Ability for multi-tenant (VLAN) was not quite there yet.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very good for File Server applications. Maybe not so good for only a repository, at least not yet.

Ezra Owen

Dir. Infrastructure in Information Technology at Lume Technologies (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Cohesity offers reliability - finally!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, Cohesity is only being used by IT. We are working on the ability for end-users to log into the portal to be able to restore files that they own (primarily in their own user profile). This product is our backup and recovery solution and it has been a fantastic improvement over our previous utility. IT has been able to eliminate the use of tapes in our environment and speed up the restoration of files due to the elastic search function.

Pros

The elastic search function allows us to find the files we need to restore even when the user can't remember.
The back ups are reliable and do not need hand holding.

Cons

I would like to see an easier filtering mechanism on the elastic search.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are an all on-prem shop. This solution will allow us to back up our cloud-based servers once we move in that direction. I have tested all of the features and functionality in terms of back up and restores. I'm thrilled with the product. It even helped us during the Server 2008 migration as it allowed us to move databases between servers and it even had backups of the servers that we could restore to in an instant if necessary.

Jay Stelmach

Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Bank of New Hampshire (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Cohesity works for Fundaments

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 31, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a cloud provider and have two Cohesity clusters. In these clusters, we have a total of 20 nodes (hardware C2500 and C2505) with a total of 24.5 TB Storage Capacity for Metadata. Our customers have protection jobs with their

own storage domain.

With this, we provide our customers with a reliable backup solution. Customers can restore backups themselves, both on file and VM levels. Backups for O365 are also slowly getting there. Even when it is in the cloud, customers still want this environment to be backed up 'locally'.

We ourselves make internal use of all the above functions and the Active directory backup option. We are very satisfied with this.

Pros

Backing all kinds data (VM, O365, NFS volumes, etc.)
Restoring data to vCenter

Cons

Make faster releases on the outcome of new products (e.g. update of VMware)
Backup other product like Sharepoint

Likelihood to Recommend

As a cloud provider for customers, but also for your own environment, it’s suitable for most of your use cases. At the moment, except for Sharepoint, I can't think of anything we need that we can't back up as a cloud provider.

Miranda de Wilde

Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at Fundaments B.V. (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Cohesity - It just works

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cohesity across 7 locations to backup and replicate our data. Cohesity allows us to have several copies of our data in different data centers.

Pros

We use replication heavily to get data from one site to another, letting us get data out of areas that are more subject to natural disasters.
The user interface for Cohesity is simple and easy to use; folks that don't use it often have no problem picking it up quickly.

Cons

We attempted to use the archive feature to copy data to AWS, but this hasn't really worked out well for us.
I wish they would run a mailing list that informed of new versions or problems that others are seeing with the product.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cohesity works well if you're attempting to consolidate your data center or if you're trying to get the most out of your investment because of their focus on hyper-convergence.

Carl Holzhauer

Supervisor of Infrastructure in Information Technology at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

The best hyperconverged secondary storage in the market!

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 10, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It all started with one Cohesity box, and currently we have 8 fully populated systems across locations. Cohesity is a blend of cost-effective storage designed for secondary or archival data, and integrates well with a number of other systems like Vmware, PureStorage, or AWS with its large array of APIs available to the user. We are using it for backing up VMs, indexing data, and restoring data, and it's lightning fast. At the same time the data compression and dedup is robust and best among the products we came across.

Pros

Backing data (VMs , physical servers, NFS volumes, Pure storage volumes, etc.)
Running splunk cold buckets.
FIles and folder level restoration.
Disaster recovery planning and replication.

Cons

Support.
Stable releases.
Bug fixes.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's perfect for handling your secondary and archival data. It can replace the legacy backup solutions and tape libraries, and integrate with and leverage most of the available public clouds. Also, they have a virtual cloud edition for AWS, which you can use to take maximum advantage of a hybrid kind of environment. You can also use it to offload snapshots from your costly tier 1 storage like Pure.

Pranav Sharma

Consultant in Information Technology at Cvent (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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A great value for Data Protection with many bonuses that weren't expected!

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 21, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity is now being used across the organization for two primary purposes and several secondary uses. The main use was originally as our secondary storage and data protection. It is fully utilized for this. We also now use it increasingly for file services, moving old NAS units to Cohesity workloads. Finally, we also take advantage of our Cohesity units for file analytics via the Marketplace apps.

Pros

Indexed dedup while staying compressed and encrypted at rest and in-transit.
An easy interface for my non-admin IT staff to be able to work with the system.
We've seen a drastic reduction in our replication traffic for off-site data protection.
Seamless archival to Azure blob storage.
Short backup windows compared to our previous software.

Cons

More apps for the Marketplace are needed!
While it is great that they offer many backup options for cloud offerings, I would like to see some more, like Teams.

Likelihood to Recommend

This is a great solution for a company working to get off of tape and into the cloud for data archival. They offer options for starting out connecting to tapes, but make it very easy to move those workloads to a cloud replication in small increments, so that no databox or similar services are needed to forklift data into the CSP.

They are also very good for Hyper-V, and my company found hard to find a good vendor for this need. They seamlessly support Hyper-V 2016, with support for clusters, VMM, and many other scenarios.

Shawn Gifford

IT Infrastructure Team Lead in Information Technology at Illinois Mutual (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Great Product That Does What It Is Supposed To

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 13, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Intuitive user Interface.
Good reporting and metrics.
Cohesity restores data well.

Cons

Replication performance - We needed support to provide some customizations in order to get our replication to work properly to another offsite cluster. We have been told that this issue is fixed in the newest general release.
Support - I would characterize the support as very good, but in a few instances I could tell my support agent needed to go higher up his chain to get clarification on features. I believe Cohesity is rapidly growing their support infrastructure as they put more hardware in the field.

Likelihood to Recommend

Reliable backup solution with many options and friendly/logical backup/restore infrastructure.

Verified User

Strategist in Human Resources (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience