We performed a comparison between Actifio and Cohesity DataProtect 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."This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"Cohesity has simplified backups and has cut our costs tremendously."
"Its most valuable feature is its ransomware protection, so it has immutable backups."
"The SQL Backup and Restore is very easy."
"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."
"The enterprise search and instant restore are pretty valuable. Also, the Helios stuff is pretty good and the SAS engine for ransom malware detection."
"We are very satisfied with the product as a whole—all the backup functions, the data protection functions. We are very satisfied with those, and the product is very simple to use."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"Cohesity DataProtect can improve in the area of databases. We have had some challenges with both Cohesity and Rubrik being able to effectively back up in a timely manner the SQL Oracle workloads."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"I would like to see the management of multiple nodes inside a tenant. If you want to manage a Cohesity environment, you either go on a per-node base, and you can hop from one node to the other, or you need to implement their SaaS capability but it always needs an internet connection. We would really like to have some kind of local management entity so that we can see all the Cohesity nodes in a customer environment and manage those nodes centrally. That's something that we would really like, and they are really working on it."
"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."
"Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI."
"I think Cohesity could add more platform support. For example, they could improve integration with DB2 or make the integration S3 object storage a little tighter. Some of that stuff could use some work, but overall, it's a relatively comprehensive platform."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"The support is pretty bad."
Actifio is ranked 32nd in Backup and Recovery with 4 reviews while Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Highly reliable, robust, and useful instant recovery". Actifio is most compared with Rubrik, Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our Actifio vs. Cohesity DataProtect report.
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