We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both products received high marks from users. However, Cohesity DataProtect users found deployment to be easier, and consider it to be more affordable than do users of Veeam Backup Replication.
"We are saving valuable datacenter rack space, which is critical as we evaluate co-location options."
"Instead of four different solutions for protecting VMs, physical servers, SQL, and NAS, we now have one solution with Cohesity that is lightning fast and has amazing features."
"The solution is stable."
"The customer service and support are fast and professional."
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"The dashboard is very rich and provides details needed for a moderator."
"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."
"The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."
"A quick-working solution that is very user friendly."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"We get a lot of features with Veeam and we are happy to use this solution. After shutdown, the servers here automatically turn off and Veeam is keeping up all this. It's tension free work."
"Replication is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that I can back up the whole machine and then restore it relatively fast."
"Pricing is fairly reasonable and not overly expensive."
"Good compression when storing data."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"I would like to see the management of multiple nodes inside a tenant. If you want to manage a Cohesity environment, you either go on a per-node base, and you can hop from one node to the other, or you need to implement their SaaS capability but it always needs an internet connection. We would really like to have some kind of local management entity so that we can see all the Cohesity nodes in a customer environment and manage those nodes centrally. That's something that we would really like, and they are really working on it."
"The solution's dashboard or UI can be enhanced and made more user-friendly than its competitors."
"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."
"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."
"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."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"Some support replies for a broken backup task have been "rebuild the job from scratch" and this is a bad thing to do if you have many VMs and repositories."
"During the initial setup especially, there's a bit of a learning curve."
"The solution could improve by having a version to be compatible with the Linux system. They have improved the storage depository using the Linux proxy and Linux storage, but it can completely run on the Linux environment it would be much better."
"The only improvement I could think of is it could be cheaper—cheaper is always good. Sometimes the product is just finished. Cheaper is always nice for the customer, but the company needs to benefit so that they can keep maintaining the product. New Windows versions, etc., always take some work. At the moment, I wouldn't switch to another solution because of the money."
"The price can be a bit expensive."
"The tech support needs improvement."
"The Veeam backup application interface is application-based and not web-based."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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 & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Arcserve UDP. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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