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We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Cohesity Imanis Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite.""It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light.""Bacula is pretty stable.""It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers.""The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community.""It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure.""The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."

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"Its big data and archive data features are the features that I have found most valuable. I can use it in a big virtual environment.""It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery."

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"The initial setup could be a bit easier.""We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist.""We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI.""Bacula needs a graphical user interface because, for administrators, the command-line interface is okay, but for the average user it is not very easy.""It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company.""A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed.""Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."

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"The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment.""The limitation that I see in Cohesity is that the minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which is more than a small customer needs."

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  • "This is an open-source solution."
  • "We have a perpetual license."
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  • "It's priced properly for the market."
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    Overview

    Bacula Enterprise is a highly scalable, especially robust and secure data backup and recovery software. Its unique low cost subscription model empowers data centers to truly escape data volume price traps. With a high degree of flexibility and customizability, Bacula offers native integration with a wide range of hypervisors, databases, file systems, cloud interfaces and containers. High numbers of enterprise organizations worldwide (incl. NASA, Bank of Austria, Swisscom or Sky PLC) have adopted Bacula Enterprise backup software in mission critical environments because of its advanced features and ability to handle high data volume at very low cost.

    Radically simple backup, recovery, and data management for Hadoop Distributed File System and NoSQL distributed databases including MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchbaseDB, Hbase, and others.

    Sample Customers
    NASA, SwissCom, Navisite, Turner Studios, Bank Austria, Caixa Bank, SdV Plurimedia, Leibniz University Hannover, Zeta Global, Tricore, NetLog, Siemens, LocaWeb, wbsGo, itesys, Queens School of Computing, Escrypt.
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    University9%
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    Small Business56%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Bacula Enterprise is ranked 29th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Cohesity Imanis Data is ranked 86th in Backup and Recovery. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Cohesity Imanis Data is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cohesity Imanis Data writes "Has good big data and archive features ". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Cohesity Imanis Data is most compared with .

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