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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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Users have turned to Cohesity as a modernized backup solution. The platform impresses with its stable, fast, and secure performance over …
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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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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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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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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Data Center Backup

Data center backup tools send data to a secure storage location after encryption and de-duplication

9.2
Avg 8.5

Enterprise Backup

Enterprise backup solutions are implemented by IT professionals to automatically and safely backup data hosted on a range of systems (including cloud-native workloads, servers, databases, laptops and mobile devices) to external cloud storage.

8.8
Avg 8.2
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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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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have turned to Cohesity as a modernized backup solution. The platform impresses with its stable, fast, and secure performance over the years. Customers leverage Cohesity for a variety of purposes, including on-premises backups, file-sharing services, and structured and unstructured data backup and recovery. Cohesity is utilized for disaster recovery, multisite environment backups, and even as a backup as a service for Microsoft 365/Office 365 applications.

Cohesity's integration into hypervisor compute platforms simplifies VM backups without the need for proxies. Managed service providers benefit from using Cohesity as a backup service due to its reliability and ease of configuration through the user-friendly GUI. The platform also serves as part of enterprise NAS, providing customers with a comprehensive solution that covers backups, archives, disaster recovery, file services, and analytics. Cohesity is also set to expand its capabilities to encompass disaster recovery functions.

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

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

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

Support Quality: Some users have noted the need for improvement in support quality, expressing concerns about varying levels of assistance received. They highlighted delays in issue resolution and inconsistent support experiences, such as slow response times from support teams. Feature Set Gaps: Users have mentioned the lack of certain functionalities like calendar-based scheduling and exchange message level recovery within Cohesity, indicating areas where the tool could be more robust to meet diverse user needs effectively. For instance, users desired more seamless integration with third-party applications. Documentation and UI: Reviewers have suggested enhancements in documentation accuracy, user interface polish, and the availability of comprehensive guides to improve overall user experience navigating Cohesity's features effectively. They specifically called for clearer instructions on complex tasks like database backups.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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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.
  • It just works. Don't have to troubleshoot backup issues and no longer have to deal with tape.
  • Ease of updating to new software and or patching the system.
  • Cohesity's drive to add new features and functionality
  • Unified reporting console on storage and consumption
Enterprise Backup (6)
75%
7.5
Continuous data protection
N/A
N/A
Replication
100%
10.0
Operational reporting and analytics
80%
8.0
Malware protection
80%
8.0
Multi-location capabilities
100%
10.0
Ransomware Recovery
90%
9.0
Data Center Backup (14)
89.28571428571429%
8.9
Universal recovery
N/A
N/A
Instant recovery
100%
10.0
Recovery verification
90%
9.0
Business application protection
100%
10.0
Multiple backup destinations
100%
10.0
Incremental backup identification
100%
10.0
Backup to the cloud
100%
10.0
Deduplication and file compression
100%
10.0
Snapshots
100%
10.0
Flexible deployment
100%
10.0
Management dashboard
90%
9.0
Platform support
90%
9.0
Retention options
80%
8.0
Encryption
100%
10.0
  • Several hours a week of admin time no longer needed to deal with tapes.
  • Many hours a year saved in that the admin no longer has to deal with LTO drives, LTO drive firmware, tape libraries, tape library firmware, a physical server connected to tape library, etc. Retired old legacy NAS devices that in some instances no longer had firmware updates. One system to administer and maintain.
  • Piece of mind. We replicate from our onsite cluster to an offsite cluster in the event of a DR event at HQ.
At the time of purchase, we had looked at Rubrik and StorageCraft (prior to Arcserve acquisition). Rubrik at the time seemed relatively comparable in terms of backup features but did not have the ability to provide unstructured data shares. Rubrik was also substantially more money. StorageCraft felt like a strong value play but didn't feel like it had the depth or breadth of Cohesity.
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Product was a one afternoon initial setup.
  • Creating backup policies
  • Provisioning storage
  • Reporting on backup jobs
  • Some of the update patches require putty access
  • Predicting future consumption could be better
  • Trimming existing storage
Yes
The Helios tool gives you visibility into your environment remotely.
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