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Easy data protection!
February 23, 2020

Easy data protection!

Kurt Pritchett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Other

Modules Used

  • DataProtect
  • Helios

Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity Helios

Cohesity is currently being used on our environment for backup and recovery of structured and unstructured data. We also use the replication feature to replicate all data off-site for disaster recovery. We use Cohesity to backup Microsoft SQL databases as well and have given our DBA's ability to backup and restore databases for themselves. It's currently only used within our technology department but could be used in the future by other admins throughout the district to restore data on their own, thus alleviating this task from our department. We were using EMC networker and backing up data to Datadomain, and I can tell you had the backup and recovery software and storage all is one is easier to manage.
  • Cohesity restores data well.
  • It can de-duplicate data very well.
  • The alerts sent out could be more descriptive.
  • It would be nice to be able to restore Active directory objects.
  • Cohesity is easier to manage, so less time creating backup jobs and restoring data.
  • Cohesity only one appliance in our datacenter vs. multiple servers and separate storage, which saves money on power and rack space.
Cohesity support is incredible. Every time I've had to call them with an issue, the first person I spoke with was able to solve my issue. They also have an excellent support library of white pages. They also, proactively, keep you up to date with any patches to the appliance or the client software.

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 is well suited to use for backing up and restoring all data. It's also useful for deploying CIF shares that would be used for storing secondary data like analytical information. I really can't think of any scenarios where this would be less appropriate.

Cohesity Feature Ratings

Enterprise Backup ()
Not Rated
Data Center Backup
10.0
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
Not Rated
Business application protection
Not Rated
Multiple backup destinations
Not Rated
Incremental backup identification
Not Rated
Backup to the cloud
Not Rated
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
10
Management dashboard
10
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

Using Cohesity Helios

Evaluating Cohesity Helios and Competitors

The Cohesity appliance is much easier to manage due to the application and storage altogether. There is no need to manage servers and storage separately, like with Veeam and Networker. EMC and Veeam support is excellent, but Cohesity support is on another level.