We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Cohesity DataProtect is highly regarded for its simple installation process, extensive capabilities, and user-friendly interface. It offers immediate recovery, a live VM environment, and effortless setup of SMB shares. However, it may have limitations when it comes to older platforms, and its pricing is considered to be on the higher side. Veeam Backup for Office 365 is praised for its uncomplicated setup, reliability, and user-friendliness. It provides reliable backup services for Microsoft 365 and offers scalability and affordability. Nevertheless, it lacks integration with solutions such as SharePoint and exhibits inconsistent performance.
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window."
"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."
"This solution is easy to manage."
"The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor."
"The most valuable aspect for me is that I don't have to deal with media in terms of tapes like our existing system does."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"The support is awesome. They are very fast, competent and friendly."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 has good security, and I also like the process they use for backups."
"The solution is easy to use. It's very simple and clients find it very easy to find all objects and things they need with the Veeam Explorer."
"Technical support in Veeam is good."
"The tool is easy to use and straightforward regarding restoration and creating backups. It's user-friendly, providing results and sending alerts when something goes wrong."
"The setup is very simple. It takes 15 minutes."
"It is very easy to integrate. You can do it very fast."
"It is a stable solution."
"Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is reliable and easy to use."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"I would like to see the management of multiple nodes inside a tenant. If you want to manage a Cohesity environment, you either go on a per-node base, and you can hop from one node to the other, or you need to implement their SaaS capability but it always needs an internet connection. We would really like to have some kind of local management entity so that we can see all the Cohesity nodes in a customer environment and manage those nodes centrally. That's something that we would really like, and they are really working on it."
"A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often."
"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."
"I like that Cohesity offers the chance to have data on-premises and on the cloud. All the data is automatically sent to the cloud."
"We use a yearly subscription. However, I believe the price could be lower."
"They need more documentation, awareness, and assistance."
"They should include some more options to send alerts in existing monitoring software."
"Pricing is an area for improvement, and I would rate it at five out of ten."
"The solution could offer better reporting."
"The capacity storage is a challenge everywhere in the backup industry. The general feedback people are coming back to about this is that there is no deduplication based on it."
"In some instances, a customer is not necessarily backing up Microsoft 365. For instance, they might be backing up a large Oracle database. It would be nice if they could tweak it to compress the file, so it's easier to transfer a huge file."
"The solution is costly."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 7th in Cloud Backup with 67 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 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 Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Useful instant backup and resort, reliable and responsive support". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Cirrus Backup and Druva inSync. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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