Cohesity solves our corporate backup struggles
November 23, 2018
Cohesity solves our corporate backup struggles
Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity
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).
- Integration with Exchange works but requires using 3rd party software (Kroll Ontrack).
- Would be nice to have exchange message level recovery built right into the Cohesity interface.
- 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.