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."Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection."
"The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor."
"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."
"The spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores."
"Cohesity DataProtect is user-friendly and straightforward. The setup process was effortless, and both the backup and restore operations are speedy."
"The support is awesome. They are very fast, competent and friendly."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"Backups are quick and painless to set up."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"The product is still young and is continually improving. There have been a couple of buggy releases in the software that have caused us minor issues, so possibly some better QA before releasing would prove to be useful. We have also been inquiring about new app and functionality via the Marketplace that was teased months back but has yet to come to fruition."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"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."
"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."
"In terms of what could be improved, it just needs some maturity."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"There's one common issue with tape backups: the tape might have some space left, but Backup Exec says it's not writable and needs replacement. We've encountered this with multiple clients, so it doesn't seem environment-specific. It's likely related to the software. We usually just format the tape and use it again without much investigation."
"Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"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."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
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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