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."Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with minimal downtime for our main customers. These features have significantly improved our recovery time objectives."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."
"The system automatically takes down the nodes one at a time and performs the upgrade and brings the node back up before proceeding to the next. Upgrades can now be done at any time with a high level of confidence."
"Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection."
"The most valuable features are the rapid VM restores and the ability to quickly find files and download them directly to my desktop so that I can put them where I need them to be."
"The solution is stable."
"I found value in the instant recovery with DataMove. I found value in the protection group model for applying policies to VMs. And in the overall UI navigation and the way that the application is laid out in the web browser."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The solution is stable."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"Many of the reports are basic, at most, and at times we had to open a support ticket to help find or develop a report for our needs."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."
"The GUI is in need of improvement."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th 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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