We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both products received high marks from users. However, Cohesity DataProtect users found deployment to be easier, and consider it to be more affordable than do users of Veeam Backup Replication.
"This solution is easy to manage."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."
"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."
"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."
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"By using their Helios Cloud service, you have all your clusters, no matter where they are located, in one web portal."
"Cohesity customer service is the best that I have ever used. They are extremely fast in responding to cases, fixed all issues, and answered every question in a very timely manner."
"The backup and replication capabilities are quite good."
"It's got a very good user-friendly interface. It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to restore the VMs into a test environment."
"Pricing is fairly reasonable and not overly expensive."
"The technical support is good."
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"I have been in contact with technical support and they are very good."
"The most valuable features I have found to be Instant Recovery, quick restore and rollback, and asynchronous copy. It is a complete solution for our needs."
"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."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI."
"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."
"The GUI is in need of improvement."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"While the Veeam Backup Replication tool can mostly back up all the data in the environment, the AIX from IBM backup capabilities nowadays could stand improvement as they are not featured on a single pane of glass."
"I cannot recall coming across any features that were lacking."
"I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product."
"There are certain solutions, such as Rubrik and Cohesity, that are little by little, taking market share. Veeam needs to be more aggressive to keep their dominance in the space."
"Occasionally, in the course of upgrading one's virtualization platform, the backup can be ruined."
"In the future, I would like to see better support for direct backup to tape."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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 & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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