We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Unitrends 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."Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"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 the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."
"I have found that the speed of restores, especially files and folders, are extremely fast. This bodes well for us, and our end users are always amazed at how fast you can get them their files."
"It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"I like the fact that you can recover the VMs inside the appliance. For example, they're basically running this appliance on a Linux-based distribution, and they're spinning off KVM virtual machines inside."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"The backup feature and recovery option are good because they allow the instant recovery of Hyper-V nodes and files."
"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."
"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 solution's dashboard or UI can be enhanced and made more user-friendly than its competitors."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"Physical RDMs on virtual machines could be a bit easier to configure and plan out."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"The solution’s UI can be improved. I am saying this because I have seen solutions with better UIs."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
"Follow up for the DRaaS service setup. I'm still waiting to schedule a DRaaS test after upgrading several months ago."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"No appliance update notifications."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 44th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Unitrends 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Unitrends report.
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