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."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."
"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"The support is awesome. They are very fast, competent and friendly."
"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."
"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 four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."
"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"It is a scalable product."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"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."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"The solution's dashboard or UI can be enhanced and made more user-friendly than its competitors."
"When a new release is launched, there may be some bugs that need to be addressed by the developers. However, they promptly resolve these issues, and the software runs smoothly once again."
"The support is pretty bad."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th 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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