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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Carbonite Server

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ACarbonite Server (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a full backup and discovery solution. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite Server users can protect virtually any type of file on both physical and virtual servers, NAS, SAN and external hard drives. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution assures that users without an IT department and those that are the IT department…

    $800.04

    per year

    Cohesity

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Cohesity offers AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects critical data workloads across on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS with backup and recovery, threat intelligence, cyber vaulting, files and objects, and recovery orchestration.N/A
    Pricing
    Carbonite ServerCohesity
    Editions & Modules
    Power
    $800.04
    per year
    Ultimate
    1,300.08
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Carbonite ServerCohesity
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsTrial and paying customers have access to our valet install free of charge. Call and speak to a specialist who can remotely connect to your machine to ensure it's installed and configured correctly to protect your critical data.—
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    Carbonite ServerCohesity
    Considered Both Products
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    Carbonite ServerCohesity
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Carbonite Server and Cohesity
    Feature
    Carbonite Server
    8.6
    21 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Cohesity
    8.6
    59 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Universal recovery8.37 Ratings8.050 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.28 Ratings8.152 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.97 Ratings8.148 Ratings
    Business application protection10.014 Ratings8.148 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.015 Ratings8.151 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.019 Ratings8.153 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.020 Ratings9.142 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression7.612 Ratings8.154 Ratings
    Snapshots10.010 Ratings9.151 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.99 Ratings8.356 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.59 Ratings9.754 Ratings
    Platform support7.510 Ratings9.155 Ratings
    Retention options7.711 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Encryption8.511 Ratings8.151 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Carbonite Server and Cohesity
    Feature
    Carbonite Server
    -
    Ratings
    Cohesity
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
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    Score6.4 out of 10
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Cove Data Protection
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Carbonite ServerCohesity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    8.3
    (69 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.8
    (6 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (27 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Carbonite ServerCohesity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    More than enough for small companies with several on-prem servers. In 2021, it wouldn't be wise to pit all important data to a single backup service. Carbonite Server is solid, but it's not 100% reliable so I'd definitely recommend having multiple backup services either on the cloud in conjunction with other backup services so the user has multiple safety nets in case of disaster and failed granular restorations.
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    Cohesity
    Cohesity has been awesome. The performance (speed) that it has been able to provide has actually given me back time every month. I have to test my backups monthly, and the Cloning process that Cohesity has available from it's backup has given me days back each month. It just a few minutes I can have VMs restored for testing and documentation. This took a couple days with the previous vendor.
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    Pros
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • The end-user experience is as simple and robust as I have ever seen from a backup solution. The end-user dashboard, should you choose to allow them access, is intuitive and granular.
    • eVault has the best bandwidth management I have experienced. The endpoint target is available for all operating systems and is intelligent and efficient using very low overhead. It includes data de-dupe and encryption while using very little system resources. Combine these features with bandwidth throttling and you can backup a large amount of data over any size wire.
    • eVault's deployment options will fit any budget and size environment. You can deploy using your own hardware, even. They really focus on providing the right solution for each customer instead of making each customer fit into their pre-determined box.
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    Cohesity
    • Easy to use and setup new backup and restore jobs.
    • Extremely fast recovery time, can spin a VMware backup VM up in well under a minute.
    • Granular recovery search options, easy to find specific files or systems to recover (or SQL DB).
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    Cons
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • The backup report really needs improvement. It is really pathetic, as it gives wrong information. It is not suitable for auditing.
    • The Exchange DAG backup should support instead of configuring each exchange server.
    • Cloud infrastructure supports a lot of AWS and Azure instances that are coming up.
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    Cohesity
    • Reporting could always be better- executive-style reports have to be generated from data at multiple points.
    • Some tasks that could be brought to the UI that today we have to call support on (for example when an NFS mount is still active but we cannot see it from the UI)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    We packaged carbonite server with the end user product that they provide but we have had issues where the end user site has been down for days at time and backups for both server and user are backing up but we do not the get notification that it was completed for several days. There appears to be latency issues with the mail delivery for completed backups. Additionally, I have used other backup products and find the Carbonite website interface very clunkly and difficult to navigate.
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    Cohesity
    We have been very pleased with this backup solution. It is fast and reliable, and supports our VMware infrastructure. The company's support has been great, including proactively replacing our nodes when the flash memory was reporting high wear. Support is offered on-shore as well. We plan on continuing to use this product for the foreseeable future.
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    Usability
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Product needs a lot of improvements in some features like Cloud and Reporting.
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    Cohesity
    Cohesity Helios is very easy to use and the web up is simple to navigate and the main dashboard presents a very good and clear overview summary of protection status, capacity and other vital metrics. If you have multiple clusters you can get a single pane view of overall status which is awesome.
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    Support Rating
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Some of the requests we could not get resolved on time. They took a long time to provide the reason for the issue we had raised.
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    Cohesity
    Support is quick to respond but lacks that ongoing responsiveness if the issue is not simple. There will be large gaps in replies if they need to resort to escalation and when there are timezone differences between yourself and the person who picked up the ticket.
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    Online Training
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    No answers on this topic
    Cohesity
    content was good and hands on lab to get the live feel of the application
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    Implementation Rating
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    We had appliance and we just needed to setup the Director Console which was straight forward and easy.
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    Cohesity
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    Alternatives Considered
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Netbak is a great product but we also had a secondary issue of having to backup several PC's on site and at remote locations. Carbonite helped with both and gave us one central admin console to be able to check the progress of all our backups, where netbak would have required us to setup a tunnel or use the internet to move data back to our main office.
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    Cohesity
    We looked at Veeam and although it's a great product when we priced out the licensing of both primary and disaster datacenters it became much too expensive. Rubrik is a great product and very similar to Cohesity. In the end, Cohesity had a secondary storage play as well as a better UI and better compatibility with lower tier cloud storage. We also like the way Cohesity did protection jobs vs Rubrik's virtual machine centric backup. CommVault is a product we still use today due to its massive features and the ability for bare metal backups. Cohesity does a much better job in the area of UI simplicity, virtual backup ease, and ease of management.
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    Professional Services
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
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    Cohesity
    Overall Cohesity professional services like the rest of Cohesity are brilliant. We had some poor advice around how to carve up our Netapp protection jobs which has set us back but it has been acknowledged that a mistake was made by Cohesity and they promise for future engagements with new customers the lessons learnt with us will be integrated into their planning workshop for NAS onboarding.
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    Return on Investment
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • While EVault can become expensive if you have a lot of data to store, but you have to keep in mind that it does not cost you anything more to restore your data in the event of an emergency. Some systems give you a great upfront cost, until you actually need to retrieve your data.
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    Cohesity
    • We've a few occasions where Outlook items have been permanently deleted. Cohesity Backup had mulitple backups allowing us to restore the lost items.
    • Can be managed by O365 Security Groups meaning offboarding is easier and ensuring licences aren't take unneccesarily
    • Backup of Sharepoint and Teams has been very helpful.
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