Cohesity solves our corporate backup struggles
Updated February 23, 2023

Cohesity solves our corporate backup struggles

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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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.

Pros

  • 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).

Cons

  • 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.

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 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

Enterprise Backup ()
Not Rated
Data Center Backup
9.4
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
9
Recovery verification
8
Business application protection
9
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
9
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
9
Management dashboard
9
Platform support
9
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

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
It's reasonably priced and works well, we actually just bought a new larger cluster late last year

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