Cohesity Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

85 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for Cohesity are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Use: Reviewers have consistently found the GUI of Cohesity very easy to navigate and utilize efficiently, contributing to a seamless user experience. The intuitive design allows users to operate the platform without extensive training, enhancing their overall efficiency in data management tasks.

Versatility in Backing Up Environments: Users have appreciated Cohesity's flexibility in backing up all types of environments, showcasing its adaptability across different regions. This versatility enables users to deploy the solution effectively in various settings, meeting their diverse backup needs with ease.

Fast Backup and Restore Capabilities: Many users highly value Cohesity for its quick backup and restore capabilities, emphasizing the importance of rapid data recovery. The efficient data retrieval process ensures minimal downtime and enhances overall productivity for users relying on timely access to critical information.

Cohesity Reviews

5 Reviews

Engineering

Very great Backup and Restore solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 23, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity is used by our internal IT department for backup and restore. It has been used mostly for backups using ESXi. MSSQL and Exchange will also be backed up with Cohesity. You can create BackUp groups and link them to vCenter Folders. As soon as you create a VM in this folder it will be automatically backup. Also SQL Backup is easy to set up and once you know how the restore is also easy.

Pros

SQL backup.
ESXi backup.
Very fast restore.
File search.
File Protection
File Restore

Cons

Little issue that can't be solved yet.
Some problems with SQL restore.
Sometimes a little bugs in the GUI.

Likelihood to Recommend

You can restore VMs very fast so your business is online in less than one hour. It's also possible to search your backup files and restore only that file that you need within seconds. I think Cohesity can be used in most of the business. You are able to back up a lot of products.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Entertainment company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 7, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were using Cohesity as a network file solution, however that has changed and now we us it as a backup solution. Currently it is being used in all 3 of our locations. The backup solution is being used to backup SQL and Oracle databases, File level backups, and VM backups.

Pros

Make adding items to be backed up easy.
The search feature for file restore is quick.
The restore process is quick.

Cons

Improvement in the accuracy of their documentation.
Remove the amount of times you need to log in to view support info.

Likelihood to Recommend

Scott Noel

Systems Engineer in Engineering at Sheetz (Retail, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Cohesity works for Fundaments

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 31, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a cloud provider and have two Cohesity clusters. In these clusters, we have a total of 20 nodes (hardware C2500 and C2505) with a total of 24.5 TB Storage Capacity for Metadata. Our customers have protection jobs with their own storage domain.
With this, we provide our customers with a reliable backup solution. Customers can restore backups themselves, both on file and VM levels. Backups for O365 are also slowly getting there. Even when it is in the cloud, customers still want this environment to be backed up 'locally'.
We ourselves make internal use of all the above functions and the Active directory backup option. We are very satisfied with this.

Pros

Backing all kinds data (VM, O365, NFS volumes, etc.)
Restoring data to vCenter

Cons

Make faster releases on the outcome of new products (e.g. update of VMware)
Backup other product like Sharepoint

Likelihood to Recommend

As a cloud provider for customers, but also for your own environment, it’s suitable for most of your use cases. At the moment, except for Sharepoint, I can't think of anything we need that we can't back up as a cloud provider.

Miranda de Wilde

Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at Fundaments B.V. (Environmental Services, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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The best backup and secondary storage solution currently available

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 12, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity is being used by the infrastructure department as a backup solution for all our customers across the country.

Pros

Scale out storage
Support
Easy to use
Price / Performance ratio

Cons

KB-articles
Better third party plugins
Multitenancy support

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited as a scale-out back-up solution, where you can easily add more nodes to a cluster for extra backup storage. It's less appropriate in areas where multiple customers need access to the web interface, as there is currently no multitenancy support.

Verified User

Administrator in Engineering (Information Technology & Services company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Cohesity is hyperconverged secondary storage at its best

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 20, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use cases for Cohesity include secondary storage of file shares and backups for our environment. We are also doing some test and dev, but the secondary storage and backups are superb; would give a very high recommendation for anyone looking into hyper-converged secondary storage!

Pros

Pulling backups of files, VMs, and other services couldn't be simpler. Very intuitive and customizable!
We are using profile redirection and Cohesity handles this well, glad to make use of efficient network storage!
Dedup & compression have time, energy, resources, and lower overall costs while raising quality of service!

Cons

Could be simpler to do Test & Dev
Looking forward to a mobile application
Analytics are nice, could be more straight forward

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for small or large environment, easy to add nodes and increase hardware capacities, tremendous flexibility in backup and secondary storage.

Etienne Jacquot

IT System Administrator in Engineering at University of Pennsylvania (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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