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What is Cohesity?

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.

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Recent Reviews

Robust Solution For All BCDR Needs

10 out of 10
February 28, 2023
We use Cohesity DataProtect as our backup and disaster recovery solution for our multisite environment. We backup physical machines, …
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Cohesity DataProtect.

10 out of 10
May 18, 2022
We use Cohesity DataProtect to manage the backup environment. We have seen good data footprints after using Cohesity DataProtect. The ease …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Retention options (55)
    10.0
    100%
  • Management dashboard (54)
    9.9
    99%
  • Platform support (55)
    9.5
    95%
  • Deduplication and file compression (54)
    8.9
    89%

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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
VR
Vishal Ranjan
Senior Storage Administrator
Paramount (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees)
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What is Cohesity?

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.

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Features

Data Center Backup

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Product Details

What is Cohesity?

Cohesity offers AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity is used to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data—across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. Cohesity solutions can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner. Cohesity is headquartered in San Jose, CA and states that currently their customers include six of the Fortune 10 and 42 of the Fortune 100.


Key Features

  • Increases data resilience: Simplifies data management with a unified platform for data isolation and protection, backup and recovery, automated DR orchestration, and threat scanning.

  • Accelerated data recovery: Improves data recovery times and reduces business impact in the event of data loss due to an outage or ransomware attacks with air-gapped, immutable backups. Results include 98% reduction in recovery time.

  • Lower data costs: Consolidates data from across legacy systems, data centers, edge, and clouds, into a single platform. Results include 50% or more lower data management costs, 30 hours of staff time saved weekly.

  • Threat intelligence: ML/AI-driven data discovery and classification to identify sensitive data, assess the impact of an attack, and to understand sensitive risk across the organization.
  • Multi-cloud, API-driven solution: Integrations with hundreds of business systems and key SaaS applications for turn-key data backup, protection, recovery, and security.

Cohesity Features

Data Center Backup Features

  • Supported: Flexible deployment

Additional Features

  • Supported: Single management platform
  • Supported: Enterprise Data Protection
  • Supported: Comprehensive database recovery
  • Supported: NAS instant access
  • Supported: Data immutability
  • Supported: Unlimited immutable snapshots
  • Supported: Instant mass restorer of VMs
  • Supported: Unlimited clones and zero cost clones
  • Supported: Rapid RTO/RPO
  • Supported: Backup as a service
  • Supported: Global Actionable Search
  • Supported: FIPS-compliant AES-256 encryption
  • Supported: Automated global indexing
  • Supported: Global deduplication and compression
  • Supported: Threat protection
  • Supported: Data classification
  • Supported: Data isolation and recovery
  • Supported: AI/ML-powered cybersecurity
  • Supported: Extensible APIs and 3rd party integrations
  • Supported: Erasure coding

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Cohesity Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesNA, LATAM, EMEA, APJ
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Veritas NetBackup, Rubrik, and Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI are common alternatives for Cohesity.

Reviewers rate Retention options highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Cohesity are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Cohesity Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)60%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)40%
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 11, 2024

DataProtect easy way to protect your environment.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
This is great to use in the way that we use it by protecting and providing Nas. This is also a good option for someone that needs to protect their whole environment but they don’t want multiple products and complexities. Lastly, this was a pretty good price and plays well with a lot of other products.
January 29, 2024

Cohesity - A Versatile and Easy to Use Backup Solution.

VR
Vishal Ranjan
Senior Storage Administrator
Paramount (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Cohesity is an all-rounder as a tool for an organization's backup requirements. Due to its versatility, we use it for backing up our on-prem and AWS servers, and it works well. The price point is also on the lower side, so that is also a plus point. Configuring the backup of instances is fairly easy and straightforward. We have approx. 2000 instances are currently being backed up, and we don't face any challenges operating on a day-to-day basis.
May 29, 2023

Cohesity Backup Is Your Next Generation Backup Solution

Shawn Robertson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Shawn Robertson
Platform Manager
Acceptance Insurance Corporation (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
April 22, 2023

Great value for the money

TS
Tomasz Schabowski
ICT Manager
Lothian Valuation Joint Board (Government Administration, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
One of our system's database's become corrupt under the update. We have used Cohesity DataProtect to restore/download and mount the database to the server. The whole operation was very easy as you can download any files backed up to the cloud by download rather than full restore. The whole time taken to restore the database was much less than the other systems.
March 21, 2023

Cohesity DataProtect Offers Piece of Mind!

Joshua Van Camp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Van Camp
Security & Infrastructure Engineer
Gleaner Life Insurance Society (Insurance, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Cohesity has solutions that scale across a wide variety of organizations and a strong ability to scale, but some smaller organizations might not be able to absorb Cohesity at its lowest entry-level price points. For an organization with one or two servers and a handful of users, this product would probably be overkill.
March 14, 2023

Cohesity DataProtect is a worthy product and easy to evaluate

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
In a highly virtualized environment, this solution really shines. I would think if you are still using bare metal servers it may not be the best fit for you, but there can't be many of those types of setups left. In our case, we back up 100 VMs and then send copies to a blob cloud storage provider for disaster recovery purposes. Cloud can also be used as an archive tier; we have not yet had to do this, as we have plenty of space on our cluster still. The dedupe and compression work really well.
February 28, 2023

Robust Solution For All BCDR Needs

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Marketing & Advertising Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Cohesity DataProtect is a very robust solution that suits the needs of large companies. Protecting multiple locations is made simple and replication between multiple appliances makes recovery very easy in a worst case scenario. Smaller companies might find it to be overkill or out of the price range for what their needs are. The solution is top notch but is higher on the price scale.
February 23, 2023

Cohesity solves our corporate backup struggles

Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Works great for replacing old backup technology with a modern, extremely fast and reliable hyperconverged platform. No more swapping tapes! Offsite storage to the cloud with easy recovery and ability to spin up in the cloud or restore back to the cohesity environment. Deduplication and compression technologies are integrated so you don't waste any space.
November 06, 2022

Cohesity DataProtect - it just works!

Jamie Orth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jamie Orth
FVP, Director of Systems Engineering
SouthState Bank (Banking, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to replace your legacy systems with a modern 'next generation' data protection platform, you cannot go wrong with Cohesity. Backing up VMware, HyperV, NAS, or multiple flavors of databases they have you covered in a simple but reliable solution. Add in automation and your test/dev environments can be kept up to date with real data.
October 11, 2022

Highly Available File Services and Data Protection

Verified User
Systems Engineer
City of Santa Monica (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Cohesity SmartFiles provides file services and data protection on a highly available cluster. Rather than having to manage individual files servers, you have a cluster of file servers all centrally managed. The cluster is easily upgradable and scalable without any disruption in file services. And the data can be easily protected through snapshots, replication to other clusters and the cloud. Additionally features such as storage tiering to the cloud help with the scaling and storage costs as well.
May 18, 2022

Cohesity DataProtect.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
We use TSM before Cohesity DataProtect and we have observed many results in deduplication and the way we use the Cohesity DataProtect appliance is easy.
April 20, 2022

Cohesity DataProtect has been a great investment!

Nick Habets | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nick Habets
Systems Engineer
Samaritan Ministries International (Non-profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
For those organizations with lots of data on-prem this is an awesome solution. For those that have a larger hybrid environment it isn't as convenient to deploy a new cluster into every cloud provider and still get offsite copies replicated and kept track of for DR purposes.
February 23, 2022

Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software

Heine Kaas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Heine Kaas
Senior Information Technology System Engineer
Tusass (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Unless you have the option to move your backup to another location/cluster, then this kind of backup might not be for you. Ex. if you are used to taking home daily backup tapes, then you need to replicate the backup data to another location.
February 03, 2022

Innovative and hyperconverged on not just backups

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Mining & Metals Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Cohesity checks all the boxes when it comes to backups to an on-prem appliance as well as offloading to the cloud as an offsite backup. If you are after some meaningful analytics around backups for reporting when some additional work will be needed as the built-in reporting does not seem too intuitive or useful for those who want more than just an understanding of whether the backup succeeded or failed - we need to understand which, files, directories, partitions or VMs and the cause.
February 02, 2022

Data Backup and Management at a glance

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Entertainment Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Well, as given by the Name, Cohesity is great for Data Management including Backup, Restore, and of course disaster recovery. Also, Archive Services with different protocols are easy to use. There are many other features on the list and this list is growing from day to day, but we are not using them (yet).
February 01, 2022

Enterprise backup made fast and easy

John Predmore | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Predmore
Network Administrator
First Bankers Trust Company, NA (Banking, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe that a highly virtualized (my exposure is only VMware) environment is a great fit for Cohesity DataProtect. But it also works very well backing up our physical servers. We are also backing up MS Active Directory, MS SharePoint, MS SQL, and MS Exchange. Cohesity has app-specific solutions for all of these giving granular restore options and we have leveraged all of them in production.
January 31, 2022

Highly reliable backups and a true partnership with Cohesity

Michael Graff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Graff
Infrastructure Architecture Director
Dolby Laboratories (Entertainment, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
The sweet spot of this product is protecting virtualized on-premise workloads running under VMware. For this use case, the product is highly recommended. Backing up of cloud-based workloads is still something that needs additional development for the solution to be competitive with other products.
January 31, 2022

Cohesity the easy use HCI secondary Data Platform

Martin Völker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Martin Völker
Systemspezialist Infrastructure Datacenter
Miele (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Searching in the indexed Backup Data. For example, if you don´t know where the File is located that you want to restore you can easily search for it. Restore of VM´s is very fast. Even if you are restoring the first snapshot or the thousand snapshot that you made. Deduplication and Compression of data are very efficient.
January 31, 2022

Very great Backup and Restore solution

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Entertainment Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
You can restore VMs very fast so your business is online in less than one hour. It's also possible to search your backup files and restore only that file that you need within seconds. I think Cohesity can be used in most of the business. You are able to back up a lot of products.
December 31, 2021

Helios to the rescue!

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
A feature of Cohesity Helios that I do not hear much about is the Security Advisor. This is a great place to see what may be done to secure your environment better. It has recommendations that a lot of admins would not typically use unless purposely pointed out and that is what the Security Advisor does. It makes it easy to secure your clusters and it detects if a setting was made on one cluster but not the other cluster. A great feature when dealing with a company's hope to survive a ransomware attack and their crucial data.
November 06, 2021

If you’re looking to replace TSM with a new solution look no further than Cohesity

Emma Summers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Emma Summers
Senior Storage Administrator
UCL (Education Management, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Cohesity is very well suited to protecting virtualised workloads and is a significant improvement over IBM Spectrum Protect which we’ve replaced by Cohesity. We also protect a Netapp workload and whilst the on-prem side works really well careful planning of protection jobs is needed if you’ll be archiving these to Cloud.
January 10, 2021

Best disaster recovery product.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Utilities Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
[Cohesity] works great with VMWare. You can created protected folders in VMWare and allow then to sync over to Cohesity, Any server in that folder will automatically be backed up.
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