We performed a comparison between AvePoint Cloud Backup and Cohesity DataProtect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Backup solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is the only product in the market that offers platform backup."
"The most valuable features are the email backup and the SharePoint backup."
"The most promising feature of the product is data security policies, which make it simpler to include compliance processes."
"The product's initial setup phase was super easy."
"The recovery options in Microsoft 365 are not adequate and it does not help to recover data from the recycle bin that is older than 90 days. The solution has made us more efficient and helps to recover data that is older than 90 days."
"It is the best product in the market for Office 365 backup, and our customers are satisfied with it."
"It is a very good and stable solution...With AvePoint's support, our experience has been exceptional"
"The initial setup is super easy."
"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."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"It makes our administrators' lives much easier to combine backup, archiving, and services like hosting file shares in one central system with only one user interface."
"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."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's initial seed. The initial seed of around 10 TB of SharePoint data took 45 days to complete."
"The restoration could be faster."
"It would be beneficial to have a more optimal Google Backup for larger environments."
"Some customers choose other backup solutions because AvePoint is Office 365 and CRM backup system, but they have other backup needs for Azure and so on. Such customers often choose another backup solution instead of AvePoint."
"It is not a traditional restore process and it is somewhat limited in what we can do."
"It is challenging for small or medium-sized businesses to purchase it."
"For improvement, AvePoint can provide details on how the tool's backup scope works."
"The component in the product that can be improved revolves around the area where the tool should focus on providing more of a custom touch to the policies."
"They could always keep up with continuous interface refinements."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"Physical RDMs on virtual machines could be a bit easier to configure and plan out."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"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."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"The product is still young and is continually improving. There have been a couple of buggy releases in the software that have caused us minor issues, so possibly some better QA before releasing would prove to be useful. We have also been inquiring about new app and functionality via the Marketplace that was teased months back but has yet to come to fruition."
AvePoint Cloud Backup is ranked 14th in Cloud Backup with 8 reviews while Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 7th in Cloud Backup with 67 reviews. AvePoint Cloud Backup is rated 8.8, while Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AvePoint Cloud Backup writes "Focuses on not just backup but also on providing highly granular restore capabilities, ensuring that data can be restored at a very specific level rather than restoring entire environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". AvePoint Cloud Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup. See our AvePoint Cloud Backup vs. Cohesity DataProtect report.
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