Highly reliable backups and a true partnership with Cohesity
January 31, 2022
Highly reliable backups and a true partnership with Cohesity
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity DataProtect
We use Cohesity to perform regular backups of all our on-premises workloads. These workloads consist of both physical machines as well as virtual instances running in a VMware environment. We perform daily backups and keep those backups for up to one year depending on the backup type. In addition, we leverage the ability of the platform to store archives of our backups in the cloud leveraging native cloud services.
- Ease of use - the platform is simple to manage and does not require a lot of daily care and feeding by my administrators
- Reliable - the platform is able to protect my workloads reliably without a lot of backup failures
- Great support - the Cohesity team has been a partner to us throughout our use of the solution, taking our feedback and implementing it as improvements to the platform.
- Innovative - the Cohesity team is consistently working to improve the product and add new capabilities.
- The abilities of the SaaS-based solution - Data Management as a Service still have some room for improvement, especially in the area of backing up cloud-based workloads.
- Releases can sometimes have bugs - always good to wait on rolling out new releases until the kinks have been worked out.
- Delivery of fixes for known issues sometimes takes longer than I would like
- Ease of use
- Low Administrative burden
- Reliable backups
- Cloud Archiving and cloud recovery
- The primary benefit for my company has been a dramatic reduction in time spent managing backups for our organization. With our previous solution, my backup admin would have to spend 5-10 hours a week managing and remediating our backup systems. With Cohesity the solution "just works" and has reduced that to 1 hour per week or less.
- The ability to archive our backups to the cloud has reduced the amount of on-premise storage we've had to pay for. This means we are not having to constantly grow our backup clusters as the amount of data we are backing up or retaining has increased.
We replaced Barracuda with Cohesity. Barracuda was a nightmare to manage and was not very reliable. Rubrik is highly similar to Cohesity from a features perspective, but the sales and support personnel at Rubrik were unpleasant to deal with compared to Cohesity. With Rubrik the engagement was high pressure and transactional - I felt like I was dealing with used car salesmen, while Cohesity has always been more interested in a true partnership type relationship.
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