We are near a coin-flip with Rubrik. Same benefits but less power on dedupe.

We evaluated Rubrik, Avamar, NetWorker, and PowerProtect.

I have evaluated other solutions, such as Rubrik.

We evaluated a couple of other products. Rubrik was one of them, and obviously, we selected Cohesity.

I also evaluated Rubrik and Commvault. The main difference between Cohesity, Rubrik and Commvault is price. It came down to price. Cohesity is more affordable.

We were going against another option. It was between Cohesity and another vendor, a pretty big player, called Rubrik. The pricing was better with this solution.

Before going with Cohesity, we spoke with Pure, Commvault, and with Rubrik and Cohesity and Rubrik were identified as the two finalists and we did a proof of concept for both of those.

We did evaluate other solutions and Rubrik was a major contender. Ultimately, Cohesity won out with a Cisco Hyperflex platform and superior support. 

We evaluated Rubrik, Veeam, Nutanix Mine, Barracuda Backup, and Commvault.

We looked at CommVault, Cohesity, Veritas, and Veeam.

Rubrik was the main tool we looked at. 

Prior to implementing Cohesity, we evaluated solutions by IBM, NetApp, Commvalut, and Rubrik.

We looked at Rubrik, which was pricier and did not offer file services at the time. We also looked at a budget play in Storage Craft but were not sure if the product was going to have enough market support to continue. Also, the features seemed rough compared to Cohesity, which felt more polished and finished.

Veeam and Rubrik were both evaluated and turned down.

We did not choose Veeam because the technical complexity was just not there to give us a full solution. Rubrik was passed over, due to the price. 

We evaluated Rubrik, Unitrends, Veeam, Dell, and Cohesity for this project.

We evaluated Veeam with other back end storage as well as Rubrik. Rubrik looked nice but was more expensive and we felt it was lacking features. It would have been a step up from our tired ExaGrid solution.

Prior to choosing this solution, we evaluated Rubrik and Commvault.

In some cases, a greenfield approach is a better fit for the customer's needs. The marketplace is robust. They can work as a filer and replace certain file service workloads, like user share type. You're not going to replace a NetApp or an Isilon solution necessarily, but you can do some consolidation. For example, one customer wanted to do their virus scanning right on the cluster, not their hosts. So you can run Tenable or something. One customer liked it because we could run the Christie Bare Metal Restore. They had physical systems and wanted to have BMR.

We looked at Rubrik and StorageCraft.

Rubrik seemed like a solid product but was substantially more expensive then Cohesity. They also did not do anything outside of backups. StorageCraft offers good value but doesn't have the same expansive features as Cohesity.

We evaluated Cloudian Hyperstore prior to choosing this solution.

We evaluated Rubrik, Commvault, and Veeam.

We evaluated Rubrik. Cohesity is less expensive, and I think it gives us more capacity.

We evaluated Rubrik as well as Veeam. 

Yes, we also evaluated Rubrik.

We did extensive testing with four different competitive vendors.

• Infrascale
• Unitrends
• Rubrik

Yes, NetBackup, CommVault, and Rubrik.

Prior to choosing this solution, we evaluated Commvault and TSM.

ExaGrid and sticking with Veeam.

Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik offer more cost effective solutions than that of Cohesity DataProtect, whose pricing is quite high. 

Veritas and Veeam have easier setups than Cohesity DataProtect. 

We also checked Commvault and Rubrik.

Commvault was also a very complete solution but much more difficult to put in place. Also, the lack of hyperconvergence on the storage side was a blocking factor.

Rubrik was very similar to Cohesity, but we liked in Cohesity the NAS, TEST/DEV and WORM options that allow us to use it for our archives.

We evaluated Veeam.

Yes, Veeam

We evaluated Microsoft Backup and Rubrik prior to choosing Cohesity.

Rubrik.

Isilon.

No

Yes, we evaluated Rubrik and Veeam. Both are very fine products.

Veeam and VMware VDP.

Veeam Backup and Replication.