We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Cohesity DataProtect is a reliable solution for performing backups within a suitable timeframe, and its forever incremental model is particularly effective for the customer's needs. Additionally, the solution handles instant recovery and file-level recovery from a VMware image backup seamlessly."
"Instead of four different solutions for protecting VMs, physical servers, SQL, and NAS, we now have one solution with Cohesity that is lightning fast and has amazing features."
"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."
"We like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server."
"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."
"Cohesity DataProtect is easy to deploy and operate."
"With instant DR failover using SiteContinuity, we are able to keep our files available no matter the situation."
"I like the performance of the restore feature."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"Physical RDMs on virtual machines could be a bit easier to configure and plan out."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"The error handling 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 rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"We have to do a lot of POC to show why ExaGrid is good."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage is ranked 47th in Backup and Recovery with 1 review. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage writes "A competitive and balanced solution that offers solid performance at a reasonable price". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Zerto, whereas ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage is most compared with Synology DSM, Stonefly VSO Backup And Disaster Recovery Appliance, Rubrik, Cohesity Helios and Commvault Cloud.
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