We performed a comparison between Cohesity Imanis Data and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Its big data and archive data features are the features that I have found most valuable. I can use it in a big virtual environment."
"It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery."
"Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance)."
"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"The ability to back up both physical and virtual appliances under one roof."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"I like the fact that you can recover the VMs inside the appliance. For example, they're basically running this appliance on a Linux-based distribution, and they're spinning off KVM virtual machines inside."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"The backup feature and recovery option are good because they allow the instant recovery of Hyper-V nodes and files."
"The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment."
"The limitation that I see in Cohesity is that the minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which is more than a small customer needs."
"The solution’s UI can be improved. I am saying this because I have seen solutions with better UIs."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
"No appliance update notifications."
"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
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Cohesity Imanis Data is ranked 86th in Backup and Recovery while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Cohesity Imanis Data is rated 10.0, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cohesity Imanis Data writes "Has good big data and archive features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Cohesity Imanis Data is most compared with , whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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