Item: Cohesity
Rating: 9
Author: Muhammad Mulla

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Cohesity in our organisation mainly as a backup product. This is for backups of vmware vcenter environments, Office 365 mailboxes, SMB and NFS file shares, Oracle and SQL. It is used to replicate our backup data to our remote site as well as archive to the cloud when required.

Pros and Cons

Data reduction
Replication
Integration with vcenter

NFS file shares
SMB file shares

Likelihood to Recommend

Cohesity is particularly well suited to backups of vcenter and physical server environments. It falls a little short in provision of 'views' or shares to be used by appliances to carry out backups. e.g. you can provision an NFS share 'view' in Cohesity but Cisco Firepower will not accept it as a backup location.

Return on Investment

We've been able to reduce the rack space that was previously taken up by EMC Data Domain with greater or equal data reduction based on application type.

Key Insights

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

Support Rating

8

Pre-sales support in particular was great. On-going support has been up and down depending on the type of issue.

Modern backup with single pane of glass management and great data reduction

Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity Helios