Cohesity solves our corporate backup struggles
Updated February 23, 2023
Cohesity solves our corporate backup struggles
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity Helios
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.
Overall Satisfaction Continued
- Office 365 Integration
- Cloud backup / offsite DR
- Cost savings from having to purchase and manage physical tapes, as well as the man-hours to swap them in and out and store them off site.
- Extremely fast recovery times, can bring up a restored VM back in our environment in under a minute. Get back up and running much quicker.
- Simplifies our disaster recovery strategy.
- Initial cost can be pricey depending on your storage needs.
- Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam worked well for us but we wanted an 'all-in-one' product that was easy to manage. Veeam has a lot of similar functionality but you have to provide a server and storage for it.
Do you think Cohesity delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cohesity's feature set?
Yes
Did Cohesity live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cohesity go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cohesity again?
Yes
Cohesity Feature Ratings
Using Cohesity Helios
5 - IT uses it to maintain backups and facilitate user recovery objectives as necessary
- Backups of legacy servers and files
- Backup of Office 365 data
- Offsite cloud storage to AWS Glacier