We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Nakivo 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. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. 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. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
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. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
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. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: Cohesity's pricing is higher than its competitors, although some customers consider it affordable. Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs.
ROI: Cohesity DataProtect provides security against ransomware and efficient file retrieval. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
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. Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality.
"Cohesity has simplified backups and has cut our costs tremendously."
"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."
"We are very satisfied with the product as a whole—all the backup functions, the data protection functions. We are very satisfied with those, and the product is very simple to use."
"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."
"Cohesity has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not."
"By using their Helios Cloud service, you have all your clusters, no matter where they are located, in one web portal."
"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."
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"It is easy to manage all of the individual backup jobs, check the status every day, and it can even send an email to keep us informed."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"The user interface in general is very good. I"
"The product license and support delivery have been great!"
"Nakivo is an easy-to-use, robust and cost-effective backup solution. I highly recommend it."
"The solution is stable; there is no need to retry any sort of jobs in daily operations."
"Every new version has got some tweaks and improvements in stability and speed."
"We have found all the features of Nakivo to be useful and the solution is easier to use compared to Proxmox. It is user-friendly, we are very satisfied."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"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."
"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"We would like it to have more capabilities for different kinds of PaaS or SaaS services in the Azure cloud, such as Azure SQL or Azure Cosmos DB."
"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."
"Their UI requires a manual refresh. It doesn't seem like it updates itself sometimes when you're moving from screens or waiting for a change to take effect, so you have to manually refresh."
"Reporting is quite limited and not customizable."
"I think it is important to work not only in replicating the virtual machines in Amazon AWS, but in other cloud systems."
"They need a better knowledge base with more information about support issues."
"I would like to see some additional models in the next release to make backups more functional."
"In the future, it would be nice to have support for Zimbra email, Collabora Office, and the NextCloud content collaboration platform."
"It'll help if they offered some automation and more usability for partners."
"I would like to see support for backing up from other platforms, such as physical machines."
"So far, there is no version that supports Polish. If such a version existed, many customers in our region would decide to purchase and implement this solution."
"I would like to have the option of creating a subfolder per job in the backup repository because we had an issue where some files were corrupted and we lost the backup of the majority of the VMs."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and BDRSuite. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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