Cohesity will help you sleep peacefully at night.
October 11, 2017
Cohesity will help you sleep peacefully at night.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity Helios
Cohesity was originally purchased to be secondary storage. The price per GB was far lower than a traditional storage array. It met the requirements for our secondary storage, including off-site replication.
We later expanded our use to include VM backups and expanded it into other business units.
We also use it to spin up test virtual machines based on existing images that we can easily test out ideas on complicated VMs. It's provided more features than we originally needed and has met business needs we didn't realize we needed.
We later expanded our use to include VM backups and expanded it into other business units.
We also use it to spin up test virtual machines based on existing images that we can easily test out ideas on complicated VMs. It's provided more features than we originally needed and has met business needs we didn't realize we needed.
- Cheap secondary storage. For us, we were able to get storage at almost half what a typical storage array was quoted at for the same space.
- Off-site replication. Extremely easy to setup and use.
- VM backups and restores. Simple, yet powerful interface that allows limitless options to how and where backups are stored and protected.
- Support from Cohesity is far above the bar set by major hardware vendors. They will solve your issue, even if it turns out an issue you have isn't their product. Clearly, their support is motivated to make you as a customer value their assistance and feel confident with their products
- Very small physical footprint for the amount of storage provided.
- Extremely resilient hardware capable of running fully even with bad nodes or disks.
- There could be better documentation on designing custom workbench applications to work with Cohesity (workbench apps allow you to search and process reports from the data saved to the device).
Overall Satisfaction Continued
- We've been able to significantly decrease the initial investment cost associated with long-term storage of data.
- Cohesity has a much less power requirement than the comparable monolith type storage array with the same amount of storage.
- Cohesity has already saved me at least 120 man hours thanks to it's powerful backup engine.
- EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS and Veeam Backup & Replication
Compared to EMC Isilon, the amount of storage you get is far greater for the same amount of money.
Compared to the licensing requirement of Veeam, Cohesity costs far less in overall operating expense than licensing Veeam.
Compared to the licensing requirement of Veeam, Cohesity costs far less in overall operating expense than licensing Veeam.