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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    OpenText Data Protector

    Score4.9 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Data Protector standardizes and consolidates backups across multiple platforms. It provides secure, comprehensive backup protection for business-critical data and applications whether virtual, physical, or online in the cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    CohesityOpenText Data Protector
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CohesityOpenText Data Protector
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    CohesityOpenText Data Protector
    Considered Both Products
    Cohesity
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    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    CohesityOpenText Data Protector
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Cohesity and OpenText Data Protector
    Feature
    Cohesity
    8.6
    59 Ratings
    3% above category average
    OpenText Data Protector
    8.2
    10 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Universal recovery8.050 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.152 Ratings7.78 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.148 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Business application protection8.148 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.151 Ratings8.89 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.153 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.142 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.154 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Snapshots9.151 Ratings8.45 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.356 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.754 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Platform support9.155 Ratings8.37 Ratings
    Retention options10.055 Ratings8.87 Ratings
    Encryption8.151 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Cohesity and OpenText Data Protector
    Feature
    Cohesity
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    4% above category average
    OpenText Data Protector
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CohesityOpenText Data Protector
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (69 ratings)
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.4
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (27 ratings)
    6.7
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CohesityOpenText Data Protector
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    OpenText
    Well suited: scenarios with very specific backups schedules; backups saved in tape libraries. Less appropriate: environments with older Operational Systems and older hardware, such as tape libraries.
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    Pros
    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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    OpenText
    • It is very reliable on the server side to provide a trustworthy back end.
    • The install was simple and provided an easy way to install and backup Unix servers.
    • The support was always helpful and responded quickly.
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    Cons
    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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    OpenText
    • Increase the range of support for new platforms.
    • Improve the attention of support cases in terms of speed of attention.
    • Keep me better informed of the latest solution updates.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    OpenText
    It was just not a good fit for our organization. We have an EMC SAN, Data Domain backup storage, and VMWare. Without any other HP software or hardware in our environment I do not see the need to continue using a product that is not well integrated with our other brands
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    Usability
    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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    OpenText
    Very easy to use. What needs to improve is to make it easier to configure some integrations and features, such as office 365 integration, acropolis integration, block change-based backup, etc. Despite we have documentation, even following all the steps, the integration is hard to implement or doesn't work in the end.
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    Performance
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    The Reporting-Server and the Reports depend on the settings.
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    Support Rating
    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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    OpenText
    It is the weak point of this software, although it is improving little by a little. The first level of support does not solve almost anything until you move on to a higher level that is more involved.
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    Online Training
    Cohesity
    content was good and hands on lab to get the live feel of the application
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    Pick one person to help you through the process.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    OpenText
    When selecting a backup solution for our virtual environment we chose HP Data Protector for its cost savings in licensing, our familiarity with the software and the ability to backup to disk, tape or both with the standard installation.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    Here the license model from the Micro Focus Data Protector and DP4CW should merge. It causes argumentation problems if you license two products here.
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    Scalability
    Cohesity
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    We use the tool in different installations and combinations of functions and hardware.
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    Professional Services
    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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    OpenText
    The professional services had some details of low promptness in the attention of cases.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    OpenText
    • Positive impact. I have not worked with HP Data Protector enough to provide the ROI. It simply worked when we needed it to.
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    OpenText Data Protector Screenshots

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