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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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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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  • Platform support (55)
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  • Deduplication and file compression (54)
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Product Details

What is Cohesity?

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity makes it easy 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 is trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, including six of the Fortune 10 and 42 of the Fortune 100.


Key Features

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

  • Accelerate data recovery: Improve data recovery times and reduce business impact in the event of data loss due to an outage or ransomware attacks with air-gapped, immutable backups. Proven results include 98% reduction in recovery time.

  • Lower data costs: Consolidate data from across legacy systems, data centers, edge, and clouds, into a single platform that saves customers time and money. Real-world results include 50% or more lower data management costs, 30 hours of staff time saved weekly.

  • Best in class threat intelligence: Highly accurate 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: Integration with hundreds of business systems and key SaaS applications for turn-key data backup, protection, recovery, and security.

Cohesity 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: Flexible deployment
  • 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

Cohesity Screenshots

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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.

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

The most common users of Cohesity are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 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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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
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity DataProtect has made the VM backup so easy as it doesn't need any proxies and works seamlessly using the APIs and it also provides a centralized Helios interface, which helps in managing multiple setups.
  • VM backup using the APIs
  • Application aware backup
  • Backup copy & replication
  • Helios management interface for centralized management
  • Add support for public cloud applications
  • O365 backup
It suits very well where you need to take the virtualized environment backup of any hypervisor like Nutanix, VMware, etc.
Joshua Van Camp | TrustRadius Reviewer
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Jamie Orth | TrustRadius Reviewer
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)
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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.
Mark Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Cohesity DataProtect is well suited for backing up Windows physical servers (Win2012-Win2022) and VMware workloads.
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
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).
John Predmore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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

Cohesity - It just works

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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.
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.
Reliable backup solution with many options and friendly/logical backup/restore infrastructure.
February 25, 2020

I'll buy Cohesity again

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Very good for File Server applications. Maybe not so good for only a repository, at least not yet.
Jay Stelmach | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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.
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
I enjoy Cohesity as a backup solution. When it works it does a great job at providing a backup solution. If there is ever a need to engage with the support staff they are very knowledgeable and eager to assist. Finding files or VMs is quick and easy to locate the item to restore and the speed of restore is quick. I would score them higher but the documentation that they provide you will isn't always accurate. They have provided me with knowledge base articles in an attempt to easily resolve my issue only to find that there were steps missing.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It was easy to implement and do a POC. After it was shown to be the superior product it was easy to flip to production. Issues have been dealt with promptly or put on the roadmap for a future release. Backup and restore became as easy as they're supposed to be.
  • The various ways to quickly reover data. Cloning and instant volume mounts (Exchange restores) have been great options.
  • Ability to use it as secondary storage for VMDK's that don't need to be on Tier 1.
  • Using it as a NAS device.
  • Ability to backup Isilon!
  • Mainly cosmetic stuff that is currently being addressed.
  • Expiration times for clones.
Well suited for backups of an entire virtual environment with an agent to catch any physical server. Using as a NAS/filer to store your data and protect it at the same time. Replicating data for DR off-site has worked great. The option to use a clone to test or verify settings without bringing a VM back fully online is great.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are an MSP in the Netherlands. We use Cohesity to back-up all our own systems and a lot of systems of our customers. We offer back-up as a service for our customers with Cohesity. The interface and scalability makes it very easy for us to provide back-up as a service.

For either ourselves or our customers it helps in the business continuity and disaster recovery. We can restore files/folders/VM's very quickly when needed.
  • Easy to learn
  • Scalability
  • Folder/File Restores
  • Support
  • In the first few years the software parts could use some improvement, it is getting better with every update though.
  • The layout of how to implement Cohesity needs to be thought of before hand. Changing it after implementation is time consuming.
  • It is very well suited for back-up on a large scale. Also scaling and growing the Cohesity cluster with time is very easy.
  • It is not as fully developed yet as Veeam as an allround backup solution but it's getting there.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are a managed service provider (MSP) in the Netherlands that were the first adopters of the product in our country. We use it for backing up all our client's virtual machines throughout data centers in the Netherlands. We run the Fundaments Cloud and deliver Infrastructure as a service. Cohesity delivers a multi-tenant portal for the backups and provides a plugin for vCloud Director. It can backup thousands of virtual machines without scaling issues.
  • Backups of virtual machines with VMware products.
  • Scale-out storage, no more issues with running out of disk space with your backups.
  • Multi-tenant possibilities that help us solve the issue of letting clients be in control of their own backups as a managed service provider.
  • Further adopting managed service providers.
It's well suited when you need a scale-out storage system that scales with a growing organization. When running a small environment, however, with a few hosts and a few VMs for an office environment the investment is steep.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity is currently being used for data protection and secondary storage. It will expand to disaster recovery in 2020. It is being used for our corporate datacenter and thus protects us organization wide. It addressed low backup job success rates and offloading secondary storage onto cheaper disk. In addition we will implement its analytics capability for archive, GDPR compliance checks, and PII identification.
  • Data protection has been rock solid.
  • Support and customer service is responsive and knowledgeable as well as courteous.
  • Secondary storage (SMB/NFS) work as advertised and save us money.
  • The web UI still needs a little refining especially around the wording in alerts and messages to users.
  • International sales resources in APAC.
Using Cohesity for data protection is amazing. They are the Uber of the data protection world. Setting up sources and targets is so simple. The backup procedures are crisp, and the results speak for themselves. 99%+ success rate since install.
Less appropriate would be backing up really old legacy apps that need specialized plugins or agents. i.e. Lotus Nnotes or something like that.
Mike O'Rourke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cohesity is being used across the entire organization for data backups, protection, and part of our disaster recovery options. We replicate backups across sites and archive to the cloud. It is also used for temporary development and test environments.
  • The user interface is very easy to learn and operate
  • Deployment of the platform takes about an hour from unboxing, racking, to setting up your first backup jobs.
  • Tech support is very responsive and follows through
  • The physical device agent is a bit quirky but has come a long way and improvements are being made all the time
I am sure there are some areas where this may not be well suited but I am not aware of them. This product provides data protection and NAS storage that is indexed and searchable. Its fast and has a small rack footprint.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cohesity is being used by the infrastructure department as a backup solution for all our customers across the country.
  • Scale out storage
  • Support
  • Easy to use
  • Price / Performance ratio
  • KB-articles
  • Better third party plugins
  • Multitenancy support
It's well suited as a scale-out back-up solution, where you can easily add more nodes to a cluster for extra backup storage. It's less appropriate in areas where multiple customers need access to the web interface, as there is currently no multitenancy support.
Adam Rasner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We initially purchased Cohesity as a data protection product to displace Microsoft Data Protection Manager that was undersized for our environment. This was leading to poor performance, failed backup jobs, and a generally unreliable backup system. Later, we expanded our use case to land tier 2 (lower performance) applications data on the Cohesity, saving us up to 60% versus using traditional high performance storage area network.
  • User interface
  • Easy of implementation
  • Ability to scale, "pay as you grow"
  • The architecture could be better designed so you can put more nodes in a cluster
  • Some of the initial purchased equipment is already close to end of life
  • You can't mix and match generations of Cohesity equipment in the same enclosure
It's a great data protection product and secondary storage target, and it integrates well with the cloud.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Cohesity as the primary backup/data protection solution company nationwide. We have three physical clusters in our main data centers. We also are using 5 virtual clusters at our smaller data centers.
  • Cohesity provides a very intuitive user interface. I was able to provide restore training to our other admins in ten minutes.
  • Indexed file search makes it extremely easy to find all snapshots of that contain a file even if the end user does not have an exact file name.
  • It is extremely easy to set up and monitor backup jobs. We also easily set up alerts to email us in event of an issue
  • Cohesity’s latest version includes an all cluster dashboard that gives you the ability to see the health of all nodes easily. I hope they continue to expand this capability.
  • There is the capability to schedule email reports. It would be great if they could be the to send only for failures.
Cohesity is a great primary backup/data protection solution. We are using it at all our main and remote data centers. It is very easy to set up and monitor backup jobs. I have not worked with any other backup solutions that made file restores this easy. We also use the replication functionality for disaster recovery/business continuity.
Kurt Pritchett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We are currently using Cohesity for our primary backup/data protection solution. We have a VMware virtual infrastructure and all of our production servers are getting backed up with Cohesity.
  • Cohesity is great at finding files for day to day restore operations. It's like a "Google search tool".
  • Cohesity is great at cloning a VM into a test environment. The whole process only takes a couple min.
  • Cohesity is great at making it clear which servers are a which servers are not getting backed up.
  • Cohesity's Auto protect feature is great. Your servers get backed up as they are created.
  • I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a server using a dynamic disk.
  • Cohesity needs a way to backup SQL databases without an agent.
  • Cohesity cannot run a backup of a single VM.
Cohesity is well suited for simple backup and restores and in a DR situation. It really solves all secondary storage problems with a very simple user interface.
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