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 is extremely easy to use and intuitive."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"The most valuable aspect for me is that I don't have to deal with media in terms of tapes like our existing system does."
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"It uses all the bandwidth available if not limited and backs up entire servers with all data about four times faster than Windows Server Backup and EaseUS TODO Backup."
"The VM Backup Verification is one of the features I appreciate the most."
"The easy management and a good overview are the most important aspects."
"I could install and configure the trial version in maybe half an hour and had a successful backup of our file server on the same night."
"The fact that it works with Synology is a big valuable point. Also, that we can check the functionality of a backup so easily. Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product. We can save so much time with Nakivo and are very happy that we found it and loved to use it for our solutions."
"It is flexible."
"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."
"All in all, NAKIVO helped us save a lot of time."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"The support is pretty bad."
"The error handling could be improved."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."
"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."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"From an administrator usage perspective, the interface is very intuitive, but maybe the wizard for creating and modifying backup jobs could look a little fancier."
"In terms of what could be improved for the next release, I would probably answer better documentation and licensing models."
"Compression and data deduplication are okay, but they could be improved."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"What must be improved is the response time to technical support requests."
"For us, it would be best to improve the speed of the backup instead of adding new features."
"There are many features we have not had the opportunity to try, such as Tape Backups, Office 365 backups, and many other things."
"At the moment I am pleased with what Nakivo does but I would like more reporting functions and if possible, integration with my RMM system."
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 Dell PowerProtect Data Manager. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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