We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Cohesity DataProtect is highly regarded for its simple installation process, extensive capabilities, and user-friendly interface. It offers immediate recovery, a live VM environment, and effortless setup of SMB shares. However, it may have limitations when it comes to older platforms, and its pricing is considered to be on the higher side. Veeam Backup for Office 365 is praised for its uncomplicated setup, reliability, and user-friendliness. It provides reliable backup services for Microsoft 365 and offers scalability and affordability. Nevertheless, it lacks integration with solutions such as SharePoint and exhibits inconsistent performance.
"The recovery process is effective, especially when it comes to other types of data, such as VMs, and overall, the performance is commendable."
"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."
"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 spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores."
"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."
"This solution is easy to manage."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable. Being a cloud version, it has more flexibility, and it allows me to incorporate different workloads and consolidate all the data in one place. It has good high availability, and it is also easy to maintain."
"The solution is also easy to manage and work with."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Veeam Backup gives you the option to backup your data from the cloud to on-premises."
"The solution helps reduce our workload."
"It is easy to set up. You can use some functions to make sure you get the maximum bandwidth to do the backup. It has an option to bypass Microsoft network limitations and things like that."
"We are able to store it on various cloud providers such as Amazon S3, Rocket, Azure, and IBM Cloud. It can also do on-premise integration, and we are able to use storage from on-premise. We are also able to recover data. It is a really good and intuitive solution. Veeam has developed a fantastic product. I've never seen anything that I don't like about Veeam. It looks like a very complete solution. It is really mature, simple to use, and quite interrogative. It also has APIs for writing scripts."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the replication functionality."
"Veeam is affordable and end-to-end configuration is straightforward, whether you're going from source to destination or vice versa. Retrieval is also easy."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."
"They could always keep up with continuous interface refinements."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"The product is still young and is continually improving. There have been a couple of buggy releases in the software that have caused us minor issues, so possibly some better QA before releasing would prove to be useful. We have also been inquiring about new app and functionality via the Marketplace that was teased months back but has yet to come to fruition."
"The GUI is in need of improvement."
"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"Pricing is an area for improvement, and I would rate it at five out of ten."
"In some instances, a customer is not necessarily backing up Microsoft 365. For instance, they might be backing up a large Oracle database. It would be nice if they could tweak it to compress the file, so it's easier to transfer a huge file."
"When using Veeam Backup for Office 365 when there is a server that's running, I have to have a hard drive installed on it. For example, if I want to use another storage solution, I can't incorporate it very well. If I want to use SMB or other protocols I cannot use them with the Veeam Backup for Office 365. They have the support in the other Veeam Backup and Restore solutions, but it doesn't support it in this solution. Hopefully, in the future, they figured it out."
"When you add a new site for backup, it gives you a notice that there is a new site, but the way you select that and configure that could be slightly better. It works, but it is not always very clear. For example, for the URL, you need to hover over the title or the name of the site. You should see it immediately on the screen. It should have a better user interface for selecting what you want to back up so that you get a more clear overview of the sites that are there and the ones that you want to combine in a backup. Its user interface should be more user-friendly. It has a lot of scrolling and doesn't give you a complete overview when needed. That's the main thing why it is not very user-friendly. It should have a better user interface."
"The solution needs to improve its speed."
"It's a new product. It's not mature."
"The capacity storage is a challenge everywhere in the backup industry. The general feedback people are coming back to about this is that there is no deduplication based on it."
"If Veeam could offer backup as a service for data backup and recovery, that would be great. We'd like something like what Druva is offering at the moment."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 7th in Cloud Backup with 67 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Safe storage, reliable, and easy to use". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Cirrus Backup, Commvault Cloud and Rubrik. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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