Impressive product
October 03, 2019

Impressive product

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity Helios

We are using it to backup VMware environment, SQL and Exchange servers. We have two clusters that replicate to each other; this process is also very fast. GUI is simple and very responsive. Implementation took only a few hours and backups begin the same day it has been physically racked.
  • Instant mass restore
  • Cloud archiving
  • Incremental forever
  • Very easy to operate
  • Helios Cloud
  • Have more storage vendor compatibility
  • O365 One Drive backups (but it is coming)
If you have may VM's to restore, Cohesity is the product to use. You can recover VM's in a few minutes. Cloud archiving is very easy too. DR is great too. I am replicating to another cluster in my DR center and the transfer speed is very fast.

If you want to take the "snapshots" at the storage level instead of VMware, it is only compatible with Hyperflex and Pure Storage.

Overall Satisfaction Continued

  • Backup windows have been reduced considerably.
  • No more tapes.
  • Can put saved resources towards something else.
Cohesity was the fastest by far. Cloud usage is very simple if you compare it to Commvault. Policies are not only based on SLA policy like Rubrik but on VM's groups.

They are doing real incremental forever; no need to synthetic backup. Commvault needs to do that.

Backups jobs are using each node, which is different than Rubrik and Commvault which are assigning a job to unique nodes.

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

Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
10
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
9
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
10
Management dashboard
10
Platform support
8
Retention options
10
Encryption
9

Cohesity Helios Support

Support is great. They answer kindly and quickly.