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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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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 Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | NA, LATAM, EMEA, APJ |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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
| Consumers | 0% |
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| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 60% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 40% |
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March 11, 2024
DataProtect easy way to protect your environment.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We mainly used this to protect data from an old Nas platform. We then we’re also able to present that data as a view through Cohesity. It was nice to be able to protect and present this data. We have also looked into protecting the rest of our environment because this is capable of doing so.
- Easy GUI
- Cheap
- Next Gen design
- Stability
- Years of experience
- Support
January 29, 2024
Cohesity - A Versatile and Easy to Use Backup Solution.
Cohesity has been a great addition to our organization as a backup solution. We have been using it for the last 5 years now, and it is being used for backing up AWS instances, on-prem servers, and NAS shares. Using Cohesity is fairly easy since all configurations can be done from the GUI. However, at the same time, it is still not fully mature, and every now and then, we do face issues where we have to work with the support and development team to resolve them.
- Cohesity is very easy to use.
- Cohesity is versatile, we can backup all type of environment.
- Cohesity is very flexible, it can very easy deployed in any region.
- The support quality can be improved.
- The tool is still not mature, so we end up doing a lot of troubleshooting.
- The turnaround time for resolving an issue should be improved.
We are currently using Cohesity for our on-prem backups, and backup as a service for all our M365/O365 applications. Our previous vendor was not able to complete all backups within a 24 hour time period, this caused items to miss backup schedules. A second appliance was added to try and help this issue, and it did for a brief period, then it was an issue again. Instead of adding a 3rd appliance we started shopping around for a new product.
- Fast Backups
- Really Fast Restores
- Immutable File System
- Currently have no issues with the product
- If I had to come up with one item, I do have to restore VM's to physical hardware from time to time for deployment testing. I have to use a 3rd party product to deploy a backup to a bare-metal item. This would be a nice feature if it was native to Cohesity.
- I wish I would have heard of Cohesity years ago and not about 3 years ago. I could have used them about 10 years ago.
March 21, 2023
Cohesity DataProtect Offers Piece of Mind!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity DataProtect allowed my organization to modernize our backup system away from tapes and into a modern data management system. No longer have to deal with ordering and configuring new media, swapping tapes in and out to libraries, and or data safe. All of our VMware workloads along with our unstructured data are now backed up via Cohesity. We were also able to retire multiple legacy NAS devices and move the data all into one Cohesity cluster.
- Easy to setup and begin backing up all data types
- Provision new file storage
- Active directory backups
- Allow for seamless upgrades to the software
- Unified reporting experience
- The 3rd party apps could see more development
- Some of the view sorts default to 100 results vs all
- EOS/EOL on hardware hasn't always been the clearest
- Sizing process during acquisition could be streamlined
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The
trial period was great; we were able to leverage the virtual edition to
fully test features before bringing the actual hardware onsite for a
POC. The solution has worked well and has outclassed our previous setup
in both ease of use as well as efficiency and speed. One year in and we continue to be impressed by Cohesity. New
features have been released and we have had great success with restores. We are now closing in on the end of our second full year
utilizing our Cohesity cluster and it is performing as well as ever. I
would recommend firing up a virtual instance of the cluster so that you
can easily test out the complete functionality of the Cohesity
ecosystem. They are adding applications that can be run directly on the
cluster against your backups so that your production workloads are not
negatively impacted. The product continues to perform beyond our initial
expectations. User feedback is taken very seriously and I have
personally seen improvements implemented that I specifically requested.
The entire platform is being used to host other applications which can
work with your backups, as well as a new software/cloud-only option
which would be nice if you no longer want to host your own hardware. After more than 2 years I have to say the data deduplication
and compression have really continued to shine. We have not needed to add
additional capacity, something that was an annual occurrence with our
old backup system.
- Reliable backups
- Live restores
- Backups to cloud providers
- Fast searching of backups
- More visibility into cloud data allocations would be good
- Reporting was a bit lacking at first but they have steadily improved this area
- Cost is a bit high, but lower than competitors
February 28, 2023
Robust Solution For All BCDR Needs
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity DataProtect as our backup and disaster recovery solution for our multisite environment. We backup physical machines, virtual machines, and all of our databases using it. Cohesity DataProtect allows us to store all of our data in multiple locations with cross site replication and archives the cloud and keeps all of the data safe with immutability and encryption. The UI and reporting makes it easy to report to provide easy to follow information to the higherups. We utilize Helios with Cohesity DataProtect, to have complete control over the appliances from a single pane of glass.
- Efficient backups
- Deduplication saves space and allows for more storage on the appliance
- Recoveries are quick
- No calendar based scheduling
- Backing up of databases can be clunky
February 23, 2023
Cohesity solves our corporate backup struggles
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently use Cohesity as our backup system and secondary storage for our organization. We use it across the organization for all data. It replaced our tape library system as well as phased out Veeam. We also use it to push a copy of our most recent backups to the cloud via AWS.
- 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).
- Would be nice to have exchange message level recovery built right into the Cohesity interface.
November 06, 2022
Cohesity DataProtect - it just works!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity replaced two legacy 'backup' platforms along with three different storage platforms during a merger of equals. SouthState Bank specifically protects over 1000 virtual servers (VMware) and 100+ MS SQL instances across multiple data centers. Cohesity allows policy-driven data protection that gives us the flexibility to protect test/dev data differently than our production and mission-critical data.
- VMware protection, plain and simple.
- Consolidation of native SQL backups to a centralized console based platform.
- Clean and elegant UI that any engineer only needs a small level of knowledge to master.
- 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)
October 11, 2022
Highly Available File Services and Data Protection
We use Cohesity SmartFiles for file-sharing services. We have migrated most of our active file shares from our Windows file servers to the highly available Cohesity cluster using SmartFiles
- File Shares
- Data Protection
- High Availability
- Reporting
- More polished UI
June 30, 2022
Cohesity DataProtect, an intuitive backup solution
We use Cohesity DataProtect as our data backup solution. This covers VMware VMs, SQL DBs, Windows servers, and Cisco switch configurations. Our previous backup solution was complicated to maintain and use. Cohesity DataProtect was significantly less expensive than the previous solution, along with being vastly easier to use, and came as an appliance solution.
- Very simple an intuitive interface
- Leverages VMWare VADP APIs so it integrates extremely well for VMware backups
- Can be present and NAS storage for native SQL backups
- Lack of MFA when using Active Directory-based user accounts.
- Challenges with authentication with View from external AD domains.
- Hot fix patches need to be installed via cli
May 18, 2022
Cohesity DataProtect.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity DataProtect to manage the backup environment. We have seen good data footprints after using Cohesity DataProtect. The ease of use and the way to manage the data.
- Backup
- Recovery
- Data Management
- We can avoid third party Apps
- Few bugs in UI
- An object can protect in multiple in PGs
April 20, 2022
Cohesity DataProtect has been a great investment!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity DataProtect has allowed us to integrate our backup solution into the same platform as our hypervisor compute platform. This allows us to gain efficiency in keeping it up to date as well as monitor it from a single pane of glass. We were able to upgrade the storage to an enterprise level product that has seen better performance and reliability than our previous solution. With the addition of the Cohesity Helios app we are able to keep a closer eye on backups anywhere we go.
- Better visibility on hardware usage compared the popular alternatives.
- Individual backup jobs have settings requiring less manual effort for new vm's.
- Better dedup and compression visibility than previous product offered.
- M365 integration
- Native integration with our storage provider.
- More API integration instead of installing agents on servers.
February 23, 2022
Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity DataProtect has proven to be very stable, fast, and secure. It helped us to move away from big tape loaders, to a more scaleable setup. Restoring when needed is easy.
- vmware snapshot backup
- Client based backup
- Manual patching and not from GUI.
February 02, 2022
Data Backup and Management at a glance
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Cohesity Data Platform mainly as a backup and restore and disaster recovery system for our clustered VMWare virtual environment. But also as a Platform for archives and other file services. The use case was clearly to replace an old Data Management, Backup, and Disaster Recovery platform. With Cohesity Data Platform, we have a great toolset for managing our fast-growing Data with one single User-interface
- Fast and seamles Backups
- Using existing interfaces like VMWare API
- Restore of a complete VM can be done in really only a few minutes
- SQL has still some bugs
- Enineering needs sometime to long to react on bugs with business impact
- Depending on support department, the quality is changing
February 01, 2022
Enterprise backup made fast and easy
We use Cohesity DataProtect to back up all of our physical and virtual servers as well as desktops. The primary problems Cohesity addressed for us were that we wanted our backup data to be on separate disks than production (this was not the case before) and we wanted faster restore times for virtual machines. We have a Cohesity cluster in each of our data centers and use the replication feature so our backup data has redundant copies.
- Fast VM restores
- Good dedupe/compression
- Easy replication
- Good Dashboards
- Hotfixes complicated to install
- Upgrades don't always populate into GUI
January 31, 2022
Highly reliable backups and a true partnership with Cohesity
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity to perform regular backups of all our on-premises workloads. These workloads consist of both physical machines as well as virtual instances running in a VMware environment. We perform daily backups and keep those backups for up to one year depending on the backup type. In addition, we leverage the ability of the platform to store archives of our backups in the cloud leveraging native cloud services.
- Ease of use - the platform is simple to manage and does not require a lot of daily care and feeding by my administrators
- Reliable - the platform is able to protect my workloads reliably without a lot of backup failures
- Great support - the Cohesity team has been a partner to us throughout our use of the solution, taking our feedback and implementing it as improvements to the platform.
- Innovative - the Cohesity team is consistently working to improve the product and add new capabilities.
- The abilities of the SaaS-based solution - Data Management as a Service still have some room for improvement, especially in the area of backing up cloud-based workloads.
- Releases can sometimes have bugs - always good to wait on rolling out new releases until the kinks have been worked out.
- Delivery of fixes for known issues sometimes takes longer than I would like
January 31, 2022
Cohesity the easy use HCI secondary Data Platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity to protect physical MS Cluster, Windows Server, Databases like MSSQL, SAP HANA, Linux Hosts, Oracle Databases LPARS on Power Hardware, and Virtual Hyper V Machines. For the moment at two different location where we replicate the data between. We also use it to deliver some Fileservices like nfs an smb It is because we need an alternative to Spectrum Protect.
- Support is the best i ever see
- Backup ov VM´s
- Indexing and search for Data in the Backup Data
- DB2
- Nutanix AHV integration
- M365
January 31, 2022
Cohesity - It just works
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.
- 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.
- 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.
December 31, 2021
Helios to the rescue!
We use Helios for the Ransomeware detection. Since we have enabled it, we had one time that it did detect, but after investigation, we found that it was an update to an app and deleted a bunch of temp files as a part of the update. We also use it for the marketplace. Great to have ClamAV in the marketplace.
- Ransomware detection with machine learning.
- Easy to install apps.
- Great to see all alerts from all clusters in one place.
- Has the option to use MFA.
- Better written documentation on how Helios integrates with the clusters.
- Have the Helios documentation available inside of Helios instead of the document site.
January 10, 2021
Best disaster recovery product.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity allowed us to backup data more effectively and restore the data fast. We have less issues in Hyper-v and Vmware compared to other products. Also the addition of Helios and marketplace add new options that other products can not provide.
- Helios added additional report and management of two or more clusters.
- The schedule reports is handy to have and setup to ensure backups are running without erros.
- We had issues with Hyper-v. But that was windows issue not really cohesity issue.
July 17, 2020
Modern Backup Era tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Cohesity for in-house backup solution for our entire Infrastructure which earlier was outsourced to 3rd party vendor. Mainly we have vSAN && traditional VMware infrra with Windows, Linux which is hosting MSSQL, ORACLE, SAP HANA & SAP BASIS application. We are able to use lots of improvements in both performance and RPO.
- Infinitely node scalable - Able to increase our cluster capacity based on our needs by adding nodes online
- Faster backup & RTO
- Non-disruptive upgrades - No Service downtime as Cohesity upgrades one node at a time and entire cluster is available during the upgrade
- Test/Dev - Great feature
- Advance Storage Analytics - Will give more insights on storage trend and performance
- OS backup compatibility for new releases of RHEL & OEL to be improved.
- Multi-tenancy has limited scope and looking for support of multi-tenancy across all platforms on Cohesity.
- Documentation - Sometimes support matrix is not up to date on their docs portal.
June 12, 2020
A great value for our enterprise!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently utilize Cohesity as our primary data backup, archival/restore platform, BUT, we have also incorporated this platform as part of our enterprise NAS (secondary NAS). So far, things are going well, but we do have a learning curve that we are trying to get through and utilize this technology to its fullest capability. Backups are primarily SQL databases, file level backups and all our VM backups (as Cohesity replaced the previous VM backup system).
- Extremely streamline admin controls for our SAs.
- Excellent account team and backend support.
- Competitive pricing.
- Data platform/encryption is solid.
- Would like to see a broader analytics offering, including data management & security offerings.
April 13, 2020
Great Product That Does What It Is Supposed To
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- Intuitive user Interface.
- Good reporting and metrics.
- Cohesity restores data well.
- 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.
February 25, 2020
I'll buy Cohesity again
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.
- Intuitive user Interface.
- Good reporting and metrics.
- Setup was not very easy, not intuitive.
- Ability for multi-tenant (VLAN) was not quite there yet.
February 23, 2020
Easy data protection!
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.
- Cohesity restores data well.
- It can de-duplicate data very well.
- The alerts sent out could be more descriptive.
- It would be nice to be able to restore Active directory objects.