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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 |
|---|---|
| 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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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.
April 22, 2023
Great value for the money
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity Helios Backup to the Cloud and Office 365 Backup. We now have reliable offline backups and incremental immutable backups. It provides mission-critical backup and restore. O365 backup comes useful when it emails go "missing" - easy to operate interface helps us quickly recover what's needed. We never had to use any other services and we hope it will stay this way.
- Easy setup
- Great support
- Easy management
- Issue investigation
- Error reporting
- Log browsing
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 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
February 03, 2022
Innovative and hyperconverged on not just backups
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We onboarded with Cohesity to replace an existing backup solution that we felt were no longer innovative while price for renewal kept increasing year by year. Cohesity was both competitive and showed innovation that was regarded as a leader in its field while providing much for solutions than just simple backup allowing us to converge not just the infrastructure but also different solutions into one.
- Snapshot Backups
- Disaster Recovery
- Cloud backup
- Canned Reporting
- Support
- Meaningful error messages
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
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
Very great Backup and Restore solution
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity is used by our internal IT department for backup and restore. It has been used mostly for backups using ESXi. MSSQL and Exchange will also be backed up with Cohesity. You can create BackUp groups and link them to vCenter Folders. As soon as you create a VM in this folder it will be automatically backup.
Also SQL Backup is easy to set up and once you know how the restore is also easy.
- SQL backup.
- ESXi backup.
- Very fast restore.
- File search.
- File Protection
- File Restore
- Little issue that can't be solved yet.
- Some problems with SQL restore.
- Sometimes a little bugs in the GUI.
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.
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.
April 07, 2020
Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- Make adding items to be backed up easy.
- The search feature for file restore is quick.
- The restore process is quick.
- Improvement in the accuracy of their documentation.
- Remove the amount of times you need to log in to view support info.
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.
We are using Cohesity in our organisation mainly as a backup product. This is for backups of vmware vcenter environments, Office 365 mailboxes, SMB and NFS file shares, Oracle and SQL. It is used to replicate our backup data to our remote site as well as archive to the cloud when required.
- Data reduction
- Replication
- Integration with vcenter
- NFS file shares
- SMB file shares
January 27, 2020
Cohesity offers reliability - finally!
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.
- 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.
- I would like to see an easier filtering mechanism on the elastic search.
December 31, 2019
Cohesity works for Fundaments
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
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.
- Backing all kinds data (VM, O365, NFS volumes, etc.)
- Restoring data to vCenter
- Make faster releases on the outcome of new products (e.g. update of VMware)
- Backup other product like Sharepoint
December 10, 2019
The best hyperconverged secondary storage in the market!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- 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.
- Support.
- Stable releases.
- Bug fixes.
December 03, 2019
Cohesity: A better backup solution than a file solution
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- Make adding items to be backuped easy.
- The search feature for file restore is quick.
- The restore process is quick.
- Improvement in the accuracy of their documentation
- Remove the amount of times you need to log in to view support info
November 22, 2019
Backup and archive at a glance
Cohesity is used to replace our older backup and archive solutions because they are too old and expensive.
We currently mainly use it to back up our VMWare virtual desktop and server environment. We are also archiving our Microsoft Exchange email environment to the Cohesity cluster. It could also be a potential solution in the future for file server archiving.
We currently mainly use it to back up our VMWare virtual desktop and server environment. We are also archiving our Microsoft Exchange email environment to the Cohesity cluster. It could also be a potential solution in the future for file server archiving.
- Easy setup of backup policies within the UI
- Creation of backup jobs is very straightforward with all necessary options but without being overloaded
- Grouping of backups to backup groups makes admins live much easier
- Restore of files and VMs is very easy