We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veritas Backup Exec 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."Cohesity DataProtect is easily manageable, and you can see every option from the user interface."
"With instant DR failover using SiteContinuity, we are able to keep our files available no matter the situation."
"We can run test scripts on production data."
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"The enterprise search and instant restore are pretty valuable. Also, the Helios stuff is pretty good and the SAS engine for ransom malware detection."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."
"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."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"Many of the reports are basic, at most, and at times we had to open a support ticket to help find or develop a report for our needs."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting. There are very granular reports from each grid. There are also some built-in reports within Helios (SAS Management Console) that offers basic reporting. However, for complex, large-enterprise environments, a more robust reporting engine that supports detailed audit reporting and enhanced ad hoc reports would be welcome."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"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."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"The error handling could be improved."
"Maybe they could improve reporting capabilities and predictions."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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