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."The dashboard is very rich and provides details needed for a moderator."
"Cohesity has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not."
"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."
"The most valuable features are the rapid VM restores and the ability to quickly find files and download them directly to my desktop so that I can put them where I need them to be."
"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."
"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."
"Backups are quick and painless to set up."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI."
"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 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."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"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."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Maybe they could improve reporting capabilities and predictions."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
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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