We compared Cohesity DataProtect and IBM Spectrum Protect based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Cohesity DataProtect offers instant recovery and built-in integration with Office 365 and Active Directory. IBM Spectrum Protect is highly regarded for its ability to integrate with tape libraries and its customization options. Users also praised Spectrum Protect for its compatibility with various products, scalability, and stability. Cohesity DataProtect users have suggested enhancements to its user interface, rollback methodology, and cloud data recovery. Other pain points include file server capacity and legacy platform support. IBM Spectrum Protect could improve its integration with cloud services and make its interface more user-friendly.
Service and Support: The customer service experiences for Cohesity DataProtect have been mostly positive, but some say the quality of Cohesity's support may differ depending on the region. IBM’s customer service is described as high quality, friendly, knowledgeable, and responsive. At the same time, some said the support process can be lengthy.
Ease of Deployment: Most users consider the setup process for Cohesity DataProtect to be easy, although a few found it more complex than other products. IBM Spectrum Protect's initial setup is challenging and demands skilled professionals to configure multiple parameters and features. This process can be time-consuming.
Pricing: Cohesity's pricing is higher than its competitors, although some customers consider it affordable. IBM Spectrum Protect is considered expensive. The pricing model is complex, taking into account factors like processor type and volume.
ROI: Cohesity DataProtect provides security against ransomware and efficient file retrieval. Users have realized benefits from IBM Spectrum Protect’s data protection and retrieval. They appreciate its ability to reduce storage requirements with larger tape sizes.
Comparison Results: Cohesity is regarded as an affordable solution that offers instant recovery and superior ransomware protection. However, users say its customer service is inconsistent across regions, and its rollback methodology has room for improvement. IBM Spectrum Protect is a reliable, customizable solution that allows smooth integration with tape libraries. At the same time, some say that the user interface could be more intuitive and Spectrum Protect could integrate better with the cloud.
"The product is easy to put in place. All backups are done very quickly. It's easy to perform restores. What I prefer in the product is its simplicity. There are no useless settings to define, and everything is ready after the initial setup."
"With instant DR failover using SiteContinuity, we are able to keep our files available no matter the situation."
"The solution is stable."
"The spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"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."
"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."
"By using their Helios Cloud service, you have all your clusters, no matter where they are located, in one web portal."
"Good deduplication and compression features."
"IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."
"The solution is really scalable."
"The solution offers very good flexibility."
"The interface is easy to use."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"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."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."
"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."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"I think Cohesity could add more platform support. For example, they could improve integration with DB2 or make the integration S3 object storage a little tighter. Some of that stuff could use some work, but overall, it's a relatively comprehensive platform."
"A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often."
"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"They took some of the funding off of it for a while. Therefore, instead of being a market leader, they took their position for granted. Then some competitors developed new bells and whistles that they advertise, and due to that lag a few years ago, there are not the resources to explain the differences."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"In terms of features, they've got it all covered. The features they have are quite good. The only downside to it is that it is for an enterprise or big organization. In my opinion, it is not for a small business."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while IBM Spectrum Protect 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 IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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