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."Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"Cohesity has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."
"Cohesity DataProtect is easily manageable, and you can see every option from the user interface."
"We like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server."
"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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The flexibility is very good."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"At times, you may click the wrong server or click too fast and accidentally restore a cluster of servers. It would be very helpful to have a cancel option under restores."
"They could always keep up with continuous interface refinements."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
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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