We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik 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. Rubrik is praised for its automated policy enforcement and efficient ransomware detection. 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. Rubrik could expand compatibility with open-source databases, improve documentation, and strengthen its ability to back up remote sites.
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. Rubrik customers appreciate the support team's expertise and fast response.
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. Rubrik's setup is simple, and users say the support team was available to assist as needed.
Pricing: Cohesity's pricing is higher than its competitors, although some customers consider it affordable. Some users find Rubrik's pricing expensive, but many say it’s justified by its encryption and security features. Rubrik's license includes both software and hardware without any additional costs.
ROI: Cohesity DataProtect provides security against ransomware and efficient file retrieval. Rubrik provides peace of mind and some cost savings, but users say that quantifying the ROI is difficult.
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. Users like Rubrik’s advanced ransomware features, excellent support, and automated policy enforcement. However, some had issues with its remote backup abilities and high price tag.
"The customer service and support are fast and professional."
"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."
"One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."
"We like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"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."
"Cohesity DataProtect is easily manageable, and you can see every option from the user interface."
"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"Mounting recent backups to create new servers rather than cloning servers in VMware drastically cut down required time."
"The most valuable feature of Rubrik for me is its user-friendliness and efficiency."
"Rubrik is cheap, and you get good performance."
"The file search feature across all backups has been helpful."
"Instant recovery of virtual machines allows for the restoration of services in minutes."
"We had some VMware issue as VMware did some changes on the AHCI drivers. Rubrik saved our environment those times."
"Drives the back-end through a powerful, well-documented API."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"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."
"The error handling could be improved."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"Initial setup can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"There are some features to improve on in Rubrik. For instance, they should have a tool where we can integrate with our SAP HANA. Directly from the HANA studio, we should be able to do a backup. That's what I'm looking forward to in the future."
"The main pain points we experienced was the stability of the system. We received a lot of instability when we have upgraded from a certain version to a new version. The newer version was completely filled with bugs and we needed to purge the system every week until we update to a newer version that was available one year later. The stability of the code is the main problem, they need to make it better."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten. There is always room for improvement."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Zerto, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Rubrik report.
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