Compare Cohesity DataProtect vs. IBM Spectrum Protect
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"This solution is easy to manage." "Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups." "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." "The most valuable feature is ease of use." "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 restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes." "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." "Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive." | "The best part of this solution is that it just works." "The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication." "The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature." "This solution has improved our organization through better file and database recovery." "The interface is easy to use." "The archiving feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution." "Instead of taking three different backups of your systems, you're taking only one. You're able to crack that open and get what you need. The incident recovery, where it creates the VM and then you're running it, technically you're running it on Spectrum Protect. But then in the background, it's doing the storage motion and moving it off the Spectrum Protect back to your VMware environment. The users don't know the difference." "The most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings." |
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"This solution is only compatible with a limited number of storage arrays, including Pure and Cisco Hyperflex." "Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be." "I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible." "There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved." "The error handling could be improved." "We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage." "The GUI is in need of improvement." "We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup." | "The user interface needs to be improved." "In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support." "We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment." "The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved." "Better integration with other tools and databases is needed." "Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved." "Their support is lacking. I've talked to their developers and stuff in the last couple of weeks and they reassure me that some people have retired, and they're working on getting that bumped back up. But the support lacks a lot to be desired at this point." "This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers." "With respect to pricing, make sure that you look at both Rubrik and Cohesity as they are very similar and are quite competitive." "I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years." "Sizing is important and it is easy to overestimate." "Pricing, setup costs, etc. are pretty typical. The initial cost for Cohesity was less than other products the we evaluated. Cohesity's pricing does offer benefits as DR target costs are less than other solutions. You are not charged for DataProtect licensing for target DR data consumption." | "The licensing fees are on a yearly basis, which for us it is about R400,000 (approximately $27,000 USD)." "The pricing is a little expensive for our current employer, so they want to move to a cheaper solution." "The licensing fees are between $8,000 and $10,000 per year." "IBM provides an open license policy, which is more like a gentlemen's agreement." "One can go with either a PVU licensing model or a capacity based licensing model. Either solution does not block the usage, if over used." "It is fairly reasonable as compared to other solutions in the market." "We have capacity licensing. We use the front end. The capacity licensing is pretty okay on the licensing price. I used to use the old PVU-based licensing in the early environment, but now we use capacity-based licensing." "It is really expensive. Its price is not good for Latin America. Its price is good for the United States or Europe." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: We Implemented Rubrik a couple years ago to back up our Azure cloud environment. We evaluated Cohesity but their features did not offer what we need. Our Account team was great to work with and we… more » Top Answer: 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… more » Top Answer: Pricing, setup costs, etc. are pretty typical. The initial cost for Cohesity was less than other products the we evaluated. Cohesity's pricing does offer benefits as DR target costs are less than… more » | Top Answer: IBM Spectrum Protect is a "Backup and Recovery" product, while Dell EMC Data Domain is the backup *storage* appliance. They have their respective market.
Though I must say that DD is the leader,… more » Top Answer: SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the… more » Top Answer: IBM provides an open license policy, which is more like a gentlemen's agreement. One can go with either a PVU licensing model or a capacity based licensing model. Either solution does not block the… more » |
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Views 30,956 Comparisons 21,035 Reviews 17 Average Words per Review 625 Rating 9.4 | Views 13,023 Comparisons 8,244 Reviews 16 Average Words per Review 565 Rating 7.6 |
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Also Known As | |
| Cohesity | IBM TSM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager |
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| Cohesity | IBM |
Overview | |
Distributed scale-out platform: Replace individual storage appliances with a web-scale platform. Ensure high-availability, pay as you grow by scaling performance and capacity linearly, and eliminate expensive forklift upgrades. Hyperconverged nodes: Bring compute to your data instead of moving copies of data to the compute. Run secondary data workflows including data protection, test / dev and analytics directly on the Cohesity platform. Accelerate IO performance with SSD caching. Support for backups, files and test / dev copies: Consolidate your secondary data on the Cohesity platform with support for NFS and SMB interfaces. Consolidate backups, files, and test / dev copies. | IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point of control and administration for backup and recovery. It is the flagship product in the IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) family. It enables reliable, cost effective backups and fast recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes. |
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Learn more about Cohesity DataProtect | Learn more about IBM Spectrum Protect |
Sample Customers | |
| Tribune Media | CERN, Einstein Healthcare, Nyherji, Allianz Australia, TZM, ABT Online, NCT, Kindred Healthcare Inc., Cobalt Iron, TransGrid, Baptist Health of Northeast Florida, Cash America, Piedmont Healthcare, RWGV, Arkansas Tech University, British Columbia Institute of Technology |
Top Industries | |
Healthcare Company23% University11% Financial Services Firm11% Media Company11% Computer Software Company34% Comms Service Provider12% Manufacturing Company6% Government5% | Healthcare Company18% Financial Services Firm18% Insurance Company7% University7% Computer Software Company40% Comms Service Provider16% Financial Services Firm5% Government5% |
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Small Business18% Midsize Enterprise30% Large Enterprise53% Small Business7% Midsize Enterprise15% Large Enterprise79% | Small Business31% Midsize Enterprise14% Large Enterprise55% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Cohesity DataProtect vs. IBM Spectrum Protect and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
457,459 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery Software with 17 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery Software with 18 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.4, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Simplifies data protection by eliminating legacy backup silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Great stability, reliability, and scalability, but very difficult to manage and get support". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Dell EMC Avamar, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup and Rubrik. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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