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."Cohesity DataProtect is easy to deploy and operate."
"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."
"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."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."
"The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."
"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"If you are a large organization, this is a product for you."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration."
"Backup/archive to multiple locations."
"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"In terms of what could be improved, it just needs some maturity."
"I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a Windows server, which is storing data on dynamic disk."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"Microsoft Exchange online mailbox backups would be fantastic."
"Many of the reports are basic, at most, and at times we had to open a support ticket to help find or develop a report for our needs."
"In terms of the product itself, there have been a handful of patches that have had to be applied outside of the GUI via the command line. It's very straightforward and easy and in the same redundant fashion, but not quite as simple as one or two clicks. I'm hoping that will decrease going forward."
"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."
"At times, you may click the wrong server or click too fast and accidentally restore a cluster of servers. It would be very helpful to have a cancel option under restores."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"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."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 69 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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