We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Unitrends 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."It's stable."
"The ease of use and the GUI have really been most valuable to us. Configuring the system to do what we need is simple and straight forward and a lot of guesswork has been removed. One of my favorite features with Cohesity is Kroll for Exchange item-level recovery. The software is simple to use and fast."
"Cohesity has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is stable."
"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"I like the fact that you can recover the VMs inside the appliance. For example, they're basically running this appliance on a Linux-based distribution, and they're spinning off KVM virtual machines inside."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"Microsoft Exchange online mailbox backups would be fantastic."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"I like that Cohesity offers the chance to have data on-premises and on the cloud. All the data is automatically sent to the cloud."
"Initial setup can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"It could be a little more customizable."
"No appliance update notifications."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added."
"There are some questions as to how safely they are storing backup data."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Unitrends 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Zerto. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Unitrends report.
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