We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veritas Backup Exec 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."Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"The solution is stable."
"It is also very easy to determine which VMs are being backed up and which ones aren't. This is helpful to make sure nothing is being missed."
"Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with minimal downtime for our main customers. These features have significantly improved our recovery time objectives."
"A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window."
"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"Cohesity customer service is the best that I have ever used. They are extremely fast in responding to cases, fixed all issues, and answered every question in a very timely manner."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"It is a good backup tool."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"We would like it to have more capabilities for different kinds of PaaS or SaaS services in the Azure cloud, such as Azure SQL or Azure Cosmos DB."
"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."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a Windows server, which is storing data on dynamic disk."
"Physical RDMs on virtual machines could be a bit easier to configure and plan out."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."
"Their UI requires a manual refresh. It doesn't seem like it updates itself sometimes when you're moving from screens or waiting for a change to take effect, so you have to manually refresh."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veritas Backup Exec 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 Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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