We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both products received high marks from users. However, Cohesity DataProtect users found deployment to be easier, and consider it to be more affordable than do users of Veeam Backup Replication.
"The system automatically takes down the nodes one at a time and performs the upgrade and brings the node back up before proceeding to the next. Upgrades can now be done at any time with a high level of confidence."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"The spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores."
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"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."
"This solution is easy to manage."
"A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window."
"Cohesity is a cost-effective storage designed for secondary or archival data. It also integrates well with a number of other systems, like VMware, Pure Storage, or AWS with its large array of APIs available to the user."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is definitely very useful and simple to learn, and the restoring processes are very straightforward, making it a very solid product."
"Provides lots of reporting and visualization of how much data has been transferred."
"It has helped us to protect our IP address and critical information."
"For virtualization it's perfect."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use, good integration with others solutions, such as Oracle ERP, and by using the UI you can create and achieve operations you want to do."
"Veeam Backup Replication is stable I have not had any problems."
"The technical support is good."
"Physical RDMs on virtual machines could be a bit easier to configure and plan out."
"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."
"At times, you may click the wrong server or click too fast and accidentally restore a cluster of servers. It would be very helpful to have a cancel option under restores."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"They could always keep up with continuous interface refinements."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"The initial setup is not always easy, and customers often need a lot of help to get Veeam up and running successfully."
"Veeam Backup Replication is a bit difficult to use. If you have used other solutions such as Commvault, you will find it is much easier to use. Veeam Backup Replication does backups in a different way that is not as simple as other solutions. Doing backups of SQL Servers is much easier in Commvault. However, the difficulty could be the lack of experience I have had with Veeam Backup Replication."
"The ability to do more backups should be addressed."
"Margins should not be distinct; instead, they should seamlessly integrate with the Veeam Backup and Replication tools, requiring minimal separation."
"Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have."
"In the future, I would like to see better support for direct backup to tape."
"It would be ideal if they could capture everything and then timestamp and back up everything up to that timestamp."
"Lacks online training."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Dell Avamar. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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