We compared Acronis Cyber Protect and Cohesity DataProtect based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Acronis Cyber Protect is lauded for its versatility, comprehensive malware protection, and effortless data retrieval. Cohesity DataProtect offers instant recovery and built-in integration with Office 365 and Active Directory. Users say Cyber Protect could improve its ability to back up SQL databases, reduce resource usage, resolve conflicts, and improve management features. 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.
Service and Support: Some users had positive things to say about Acronis customer service, while others were dissatisfied with delayed responses and limited real-time support options. 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.
Ease of Deployment: Some users thought Cyber Protect was simple to deploy, but others considered it challenging. Most users consider the setup process for Cohesity DataProtect to be easy, although a few found it more complex than other products.
Pricing: Reviewers say Acronis Cyber Protect is affordable, but some noted that the pricing could be more transparent. Cohesity's pricing is higher than its competitors, although some customers consider it affordable.
ROI: Users say that Acronis Cyber Protect is a worthwhile investment, saving money while safeguarding critical data. Cohesity DataProtect provides security against ransomware and efficient file retrieval.
Comparison Results: Acronis Cyber Protect is a versatile solution that saves customers money and enables easy data recovery. While reviews of Cyber Protect were generally positive, there were mixed reviews about support, pricing, and setup. Users also said it could improve its SQL support and management capabilities. 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.
"The setup is very easy."
"Our customers can backup to local storage and they can back up or replicate to the cloud."
"All the necessary features required to set up a proper backup are already present in Acronis Backup."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is its consistency."
"In my opinion, it's the best product for end-users and PCs."
"I would definitely say the backup and recovery. It used to be a separate module. It was a recovery part and it would literally duplicate the machine to bare bones."
"If you need to recover, it's the best recovery software I've ever used and I've been in this business for over 30 years. Plug a disc in and tell it to recover this machine and it's done. You walk away from it and it's done. Reboot it and it's perfect."
"Cohesity DataProtect is user-friendly and straightforward. The setup process was effortless, and both the backup and restore operations are speedy."
"One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."
"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."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."
"Cohesity customer service is the best that I have ever used. They are extremely fast in responding to cases, fixed all issues, and answered every question in a very timely manner."
"With the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."
"Acronis Backup can improve on the virtualization backups because they are not as good as Veeam Backup."
"It would be nice to have it on the cloud platform without using third-party equipment."
"The initial setup was complex. We had to deploy it through an external consultant team."
"I would like to have more cybersecurity integration to properly round up the product and its offering. In terms of cybersecurity, if the offerings can be more versatile so that it is not just a backup solution, it would be great. Some addition to cybersecurity would really be helpful so that it becomes a kind of a suite of products. Backup and recovery form a part of the broader security strategy. Its integration with other cybersecurity solutions would provide proper visibility to not just your cybersecurity dashboard but also to all of your backups. You would have a pretty good view of the entire security landscape that you are managing."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."
"We would always support better pricing."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"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."
"Their documentation could be refined."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"The platform has certain limitations, mostly stemming from the restrictions imposed by the VMware API and some other factors. One area where there is room for improvement is the tracking of replicated copies, especially in the context of remote archive duplication."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Cohesity DataProtect report.
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