We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."
"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."
"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."
"This solution is easy to manage."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable. Being a cloud version, it has more flexibility, and it allows me to incorporate different workloads and consolidate all the data in one place. It has good high availability, and it is also easy to maintain."
"Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with minimal downtime for our main customers. These features have significantly improved our recovery time objectives."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The solution is very stable."
"This solution has a feature called Domain Boost, which allows for source deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression and the Data Domain Boost."
"It is stable. I would rate the stability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"We are very satisfied with this solution. It's easy to use and efficient."
"The most valuable feature is the performance because you can back up data really quickly."
"Its pricing is not overly expensive."
"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."
"I think Cohesity could add more platform support. For example, they could improve integration with DB2 or make the integration S3 object storage a little tighter. Some of that stuff could use some work, but overall, it's a relatively comprehensive platform."
"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"The support is pretty bad."
"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 some problems with backing up on the Power Platform. PowerServer is an IBM product, and it forces us to back up over LAN, which is not suitable for us."
"The firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
"We would like faster instant recovery."
"The size and scale of the product are limited and could be improved."
"DD Boost."
"The tool's pricing could be cheaper."
"The usage of this solution is a bit difficult to develop processes, and it takes a long time to market permits."
"Its management can be improved."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 61 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Rubrik and Dell PowerVault.
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