We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cohesity DataProtect is user-friendly and straightforward. The setup process was effortless, and both the backup and restore operations are speedy."
"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."
"It makes our administrators' lives much easier to combine backup, archiving, and services like hosting file shares in one central system with only one user interface."
"The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."
"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"After linking a cloud subscription, like Azure for example (AWS and Google are also supported), you can "spin" a VM onto the cloud from any backup snapshot."
"The ease of use and the GUI have really been most valuable to us. Configuring the system to do what we need is simple and straight forward and a lot of guesswork has been removed. One of my favorite features with Cohesity is Kroll for Exchange item-level recovery. The software is simple to use and fast."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"It is fairly stable."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"Many of the reports are basic, at most, and at times we had to open a support ticket to help find or develop a report for our needs."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"The tool could benefit from further improvements in AI features, particularly in areas such as a generative AI chat interface. This feature could help answer queries about the data being protected. One feature that would greatly improve our experience with the product is the ability to identify data redundancies through a central console. This feature would help us reduce storage costs by managing redundant data."
"The support is pretty bad."
"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."
"It would be great to add SQL Object Level restore, so user objects, tables, etc. can be restored without having to restore the entire DB."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"There are some questions as to how safely they are storing backup data."
"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
"It could be a little more customizable."
"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 69 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 45th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Unitrends report.
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