We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Cohesity DataProtect is highly regarded for its simple installation process, extensive capabilities, and user-friendly interface. It offers immediate recovery, a live VM environment, and effortless setup of SMB shares. However, it may have limitations when it comes to older platforms, and its pricing is considered to be on the higher side. Veeam Backup for Office 365 is praised for its uncomplicated setup, reliability, and user-friendliness. It provides reliable backup services for Microsoft 365 and offers scalability and affordability. Nevertheless, it lacks integration with solutions such as SharePoint and exhibits inconsistent performance.
"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."
"The most valuable aspect for me is that I don't have to deal with media in terms of tapes like our existing system does."
"We like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server."
"Backups are quick and painless to set up."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 has good security, and I also like the process they use for backups."
"Its ability to restore at the item level is very valuable. It is very strong at that. In the past, we had to restore a lot of data only for a couple of items. We can now restore an item as well as an email, which is good for productivity."
"The solution is easy to use. It's very simple and clients find it very easy to find all objects and things they need with the Veeam Explorer."
"It is a stable solution."
"I have used the technical support a few times and they've been reasonably helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the ease of use. You only need to create a folder in your drive and it's as simple as dragging and dropping files to store them."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the backups, we do not want to lose any files. Each one of the files is updated on a regular long-term basis and kept together in the Microsoft cloud-only."
"One of the main features of the solution is it is easy to use."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"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."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"The error handling could be improved."
"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."
"Cohesity DataProtect can improve in the area of databases. We have had some challenges with both Cohesity and Rubrik being able to effectively back up in a timely manner the SQL Oracle workloads."
"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."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"In the next release, it should have direct export to tape drive abilities and NDMP support."
"We would like to have a single management console for all of our backups."
"A while back, I had some trouble using the agent. It might be a problem with older versions. Sometimes, I also have issues installing or making backups from the console to that type of operating system."
"They need more documentation, awareness, and assistance."
"They need to enable the encryption of backups so that nobody can gain access unless they have encryption details."
"When you are working in the Cloud security is very important."
"In some instances, a customer is not necessarily backing up Microsoft 365. For instance, they might be backing up a large Oracle database. It would be nice if they could tweak it to compress the file, so it's easier to transfer a huge file."
"This solution does provide the option to choose a different target of storage."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 7th in Cloud Backup with 69 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 58 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 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 Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Safe storage, reliable, and easy to use". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Cirrus Backup, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Rubrik. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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