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Data Backup and Management at a glance
February 02, 2022

Data Backup and Management at a glance

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

DataPlatform Virtual Edition

Modules Used

  • DataPlatform
  • DataProtect
  • Helios
  • MarketPlace
  • C6000

Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity Helios

We are using Cohesity Data Platform mainly as a backup and restore and disaster recovery system for our clustered VMWare virtual environment. But also as a Platform for archives and other file services. The use case was clearly to replace an old Data Management, Backup, and Disaster Recovery platform. With Cohesity Data Platform, we have a great toolset for managing our fast-growing Data with one single User-interface
  • Fast and seamles Backups
  • Using existing interfaces like VMWare API
  • Restore of a complete VM can be done in really only a few minutes
  • SQL has still some bugs
  • Enineering needs sometime to long to react on bugs with business impact
  • Depending on support department, the quality is changing
Well, as given by the Name, Cohesity is great for Data Management including Backup, Restore, and of course disaster recovery. Also, Archive Services with different protocols are easy to use. There are many other features on the list and this list is growing from day to day, but we are not using them (yet).

Overall Satisfaction Continued

  • The pricing options on Cohesity are very interesting/competetive
  • It's a rack space saving installation
  • fast restores = business quick working again

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
8.2
Universal recovery
9
Instant recovery
9
Recovery verification
8
Multiple backup destinations
8
Incremental backup identification
8
Deduplication and file compression
8
Snapshots
9
Flexible deployment
7
Management dashboard
8
Platform support
8
Retention options
8
Encryption
8

Cohesity Helios Support

It's a little depending on where the support department is located and of course to whom you are talking. But in general, support is reacting in most cases in a very fast manner. The technical quality of the answers and solutions is very good. Very often they can advise also in areas that are not "Cohesity" specific but helpful (Like VMWare part of the installation etc.)

Using Cohesity Helios

The Cohesity platform with its user interface is easy to implement, rack space-saving, and easy to use on a daily business basis. Backup jobs and policies are easy to define, multiple machines and objects can be grouped for the same tasks. In general, Cohesity makes backup admins' lives much easier.