Compare Cohesity DataProtect vs. Unitrends
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 predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome." "They have great support." "It's not easy to scale it." "I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports." |
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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." | "If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great." "I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added." "It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market." "I would like to see more storage options for the free version." |
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." | "Their licensing depended on the number of CPUs you had." "With respect to cost, my advice is to get what you need." |
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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 » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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| Cohesity | Unitrends |
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. | Unitrends increases uptime, productivity and confidence in a world in which IT professionals must do more with less. Unitrends leverages high-availability hardware and software engineering, cloud economics, enterprise power with consumer-grade design, and customer-obsessed support to natively provide all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity. The result is a “one throat to choke” set of offerings that allow our customers to focus on their business rather than backup. |
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Learn more about Cohesity DataProtect | Learn more about Unitrends |
Sample Customers | |
| Tribune Media | NHL Players Association, Salvation Army, Sligro Food Group, Mason General Hospital, Tec Group, Saldab IT, Baker Tilly, Clinton Savings Bank, Ennit Magna Bank, Manukau Institute of Technology |
Top Industries | |
Healthcare Company23% University11% Media Company11% Financial Services Firm11% Computer Software Company33% Comms Service Provider12% Manufacturing Company6% Government5% | Wireless Company15% Non Tech Company15% Wellness & Fitness Company10% Marketing Services Firm10% Computer Software Company23% Comms Service Provider17% Construction Company8% Government8% |
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Small Business18% Midsize Enterprise30% Large Enterprise53% Small Business6% Midsize Enterprise14% Large Enterprise80% | Small Business29% Midsize Enterprise46% Large Enterprise25% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Cohesity DataProtect vs. Unitrends and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery Software with 17 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 31st in Backup and Recovery Software with 4 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.4, while Unitrends is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Simplifies data protection by eliminating legacy backup silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "An easy-to-use solution; lacks clear cloud unification and direction". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Commvault, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Backup, Rubrik, Nakivo and Arcserve UDP. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Unitrends report.
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