We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) 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 most valuable features are the rapid VM restores and the ability to quickly find files and download them directly to my desktop so that I can put them where I need them to be."
"The ease of use and the GUI have really been most valuable to us. Configuring the system to do what we need is simple and straight forward and a lot of guesswork has been removed. One of my favorite features with Cohesity is Kroll for Exchange item-level recovery. The software is simple to use and fast."
"It's stable."
"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."
"We like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server."
"After linking a cloud subscription, like Azure for example (AWS and Google are also supported), you can "spin" a VM onto the cloud from any backup snapshot."
"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate."
"IDPA's best feature is Turbo Boost Technology. The compression and duplication features are excellent, too."
"What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance."
"We use it for complete backup and recovery. We have multiple clients and have created multiple large virtual capabilities and zoning backlogs."
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"The solution is strong."
"We don't need to manage different devices."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"We would like it to have more capabilities for different kinds of PaaS or SaaS services in the Azure cloud, such as Azure SQL or Azure Cosmos DB."
"Reporting is quite limited and not customizable."
"Initial setup can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"Their UI requires a manual refresh. It doesn't seem like it updates itself sometimes when you're moving from screens or waiting for a change to take effect, so you have to manually refresh."
"Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI."
"We would like to see the pricing drop a bit."
"Dell PowerProtect DP needs to include more features and improve backup for a continual base."
"The product's index master feature needs improvement."
"After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised."
"I would like to see integration with Dell EMC's Cloud Tier."
"The solution should be easier to use."
"The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup."
"We cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and Rubrik. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) report.
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