We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Unitrends 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."Backups are quick and painless to set up."
"The support is awesome. They are very fast, competent and friendly."
"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."
"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"It's stable."
"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 everything is ready after the initial setup."
"The dashboard is very easy to use."
"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."
"The ability to back up both physical and virtual appliances under one roof."
"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"If you are a large organization, this is a product for you."
"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."
"Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance)."
"The backup feature and recovery option are good because they allow the instant recovery of Hyper-V nodes and files."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."
"When a new release is launched, there may be some bugs that need to be addressed by the developers. However, they promptly resolve these issues, and the software runs smoothly once again."
"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."
"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."
"Initial setup can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release."
"I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a Windows server, which is storing data on dynamic disk."
"This solution is only compatible with a limited number of storage arrays, including Pure and Cisco Hyperflex."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"It could be a little more customizable."
"No appliance update notifications."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"The solution's base operating system needs to be improved."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Unitrends 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Zerto. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Unitrends report.
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