Cohesity DataPlatform Valuable Features

Drew Nelson - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director Of Operations at Purple Communications, Inc

I like that I can launch the cloud-based UI (Helios) from anywhere to view my dashboard. 

The support team is responsive and knowledgeable. 

I like having several options to backup and restore databases. 

The clone feature is very nice. You can restore workloads onto Cohesity's storage, which is also nice to have when you don't have enough space to restore on the server. 

Being able to automate failover for DR with runbook is a very nice feature.

I like that you can use a single pane of glass console to manage multiple Cohesity nodes.

We were starting to feel the struggle with secondary data fragmentation, having multiple copies of a file across locations that were different versions. Users just accepted it as business as usual, but now we will be able to serve much of that via a large NFS share.

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RL
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Being that DataPlatform is a hyper-converged architecture, it scales very well for an MSP (Managed Service Provider) because we can just add nodes as we gain business. Its scalability is hugely important to us, but also just the simplicity of it is really good. It is simple and easy to use, which for an MSP is pretty important because I could be supporting hundreds of clients on that platform. Try doing that in a Connvault environment. Connvault is just super complicated and it would be impossible.  

Simplicity, ease of use, and scale are just phenomenal with DataPlatform.  

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SV
Infrastructure Management Senior Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • Backups - Cohesity makes it very easy to back up our VMware environment. They also have specialized backups for Active Directory, SQL, O365 Email, and legacy storage devices.
  • File services - Cohesity allows us to easily provision new SMB file shares.
  • Easy and non-disruptive Cohesity software upgrades.
  • Our data center size occupancy for Cohesity appliance is reduced by 70% when we install Cohesity.
  • Plug and play installation for new software addition or removal for node addition/removal.           
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