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."Cohesity DataProtect is user-friendly and straightforward. The setup process was effortless, and both the backup and restore operations are speedy."
"We can run test scripts on production data."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"The customer service and support are fast and professional."
"The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."
"The enterprise search and instant restore are pretty valuable. Also, the Helios stuff is pretty good and the SAS engine for ransom malware detection."
"The dashboard is very easy to use."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting. There are very granular reports from each grid. There are also some built-in reports within Helios (SAS Management Console) that offers basic reporting. However, for complex, large-enterprise environments, a more robust reporting engine that supports detailed audit reporting and enhanced ad hoc reports would be welcome."
"The error handling could be improved."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."
"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."
"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"Currently, the solution does not have the capability to restore a single mailbox, so you lose a lot of time having to restore for example ten mailboxes just to recover one."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"The reports could be made in an easier way."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
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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