We performed a comparison between BDRSuite 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."The best thing about it is that it has been adaptable to our business model. We are in industrial networking, and they were adaptable to give us offline installers and offline licenses. That has been the biggest thing. They also allow us to order the licenses on a perpetual basis."
"We invest in the backup so the continuity of the data is not affected."
"I like the fact that BDRSuite can connect to VMware ESXi and automatically pull the virtual machines that I have in that environment. I also like that you can choose to back up the compute to the backup server or go straight to the cloud."
"The product is very reliable and works well out of the box; many of our customers are buying it."
"The ability to map a drive and restore a separate file is most valuable. The restoration activity is good."
"The scalability is good. It can scale. Adding a new server to a foreign location is easy."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to copy quickly. We have about 12 terabytes, and trying to copy that volume size through the file structure would take a week. BDRSuite has a different approach to copying and is much faster."
"Its ease of use and price are most valuable. It is simple and straightforward. Someone who has never used any backup software will easily understand it from the first installation. It is that simple. Price-wise, it is much cheaper than its counterparts."
"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."
"The dashboard is very rich and provides details needed for a moderator."
"The product is easy to put in place. All backups are done very quickly. It's easy to perform restores. What I prefer in the product is its simplicity. There are no useless settings to define, and everything is ready after the initial setup."
"By using their Helios Cloud service, you have all your clusters, no matter where they are located, in one web portal."
"It makes our administrators' lives much easier to combine backup, archiving, and services like hosting file shares in one central system with only one user interface."
"We are saving valuable datacenter rack space, which is critical as we evaluate co-location options."
"It's not that stable yet. Every two weeks, my backup will stop and I have to check it."
"There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up."
"It would be good to have a volume licensing discount. We're a managed IT service provider, so we're backing up not just our own systems but all our clients'. In that regard, as we grow, we're putting business through Vembu. There is not any specific partner incentive at all. So that would be nice to see."
"Scheduling backups is challenging due to the poor quality of the UI."
"It is very easy, unless you know exactly what you're doing, to corrupt the virtual machines and they get locked up. Just brief detail: When you are creating a system, if you don't have absolutely every other little background processes in place, it creates Snapshots of the virtual machines. Once it does that, it then won't be able to have a backup. From that point on you have to destroy the virtual machine, which is completely counterproductive on a large system. There is a fundamental flaw in the setup that can be very dangerous, potentially."
"The product is co-branded, not white-labeled."
"One thing that I reported with the backups: When there are accentuated characters in a path, then we can't restore documents into a folder. There is a bug with the restoration and restoring files with accentuated characters in the path. Hopefully, they have repaired this because otherwise we will restore files and find out that they are not there."
"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"This solution is only compatible with a limited number of storage arrays, including Pure and Cisco Hyperflex."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
BDRSuite is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 62 reviews while Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, whereas Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup. See our BDRSuite vs. Cohesity DataProtect report.
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