Cohesity

Score8.9 out of 10

85 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cohesity?

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.

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Retention options
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
Category average: 8.9
Management dashboard
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
Category average: 8.9
Backup to the cloud
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
Category average: 9.2

Deduplication and file compression
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
Category average: 9
Encryption
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up
Category average: 9
Universal recovery
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
Category average: 8.7

Patrick Jaramillo

Systems, Infrastructure and Network Engineer in Information Technology at Clarendon Corporate Service (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With our move to M365 we needed a solution to backup our Microsoft Online Data. Cohesity provided a solution that required no tool or agent installed onto our on-premise infrastructure. Everything is hosted via cloud which was ideal for to reduce our on-premise footprint.

Pros

Complete Cloud Solution
Easy to use Interface
Restoration of deleted items made seemless.

Cons

Include a dashboard that tells you how many of your licences have been used.
Separate Live mailbox and Archive mailbox backups
Some Errors could be made a bit more clear.

Return on Investment

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.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup for Azure

Other Software Used

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Carbon Black Endpoint, Adobe Acrobat

Tom Mockus

Director of IT in Information Technology at MDI Hospital (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cohesity as a back up for our data. It is used to protect our data in case of a disaster or a Cybersecurity incident.

Pros

Back up of data
Air gap
PACS data

Cons

Needs to improve for O365 data
Easier functions

Return on Investment

It has provided us the ability to back up our data center
It's air gapped back up is nice
Id like to see more features

Alternatives Considered

Rubrik

Other Software Used

Nutanix AHV, Microsoft 365

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity is our primary backup solution for more than 1500 servers in two different datacenters. It also provides File shares for several customers. We migrated from Commvault two years ago and are very pleased with the result. Cohesity is much faster to backup and restore and can provide instant recovery for the VM environment.

Pros

Physical server backup
VMware backup and restore
file serving - NFS, CIFS and S3

Cons

report features could be improved - particularly for a managed services environment

Return on Investment

improved performance of backups and restores
better compression and deduplication than prior solution
fewer engineers required to support

Usability

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity is a storage plus backup solution and also it can be used as file share solution which makes it an easy to go product while selecting the backup solution and the business problems that Cohesity solved is faster backup and recovery and it also provides the option to manage multiple Cohesity clusters from a single management console

Pros

Easy to learn
Easy to implement
Faster Backup and restores

Cons

Networking Complexity
Backup can be complication if not implemented properly

Return on Investment

Faster backup and recovery
Easy management

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup for Azure, Veeam Backup for AWS, Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED) and Druva Data Resiliency Cloud

Other Software Used

Druva Data Resiliency Cloud, Arcserve Backup, Veeam Data Platform

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had problems with long backup times. Our one-year DPA took about 6 hours to back up. Now, we are able to back up our whole system in under 2 hours, and we are able to do 10-minute backups. We are also able to replicate to an off-site Cohesity and not overlap backups from the night before. We are able to restore a whole image in minutes. We can also run the VM on the Cohesity appliance if needed. The de-duplication we are getting is about a 4 to 1 debupe ratio.

Pros

lock down backups from ransomware.
Fast recovery time.
deduplications.

Cons

Software
Support
Price

Return on Investment

Fast to restore and take a backups.
We spend about 30% less on waiting on backups to restore.
It just works.

Alternatives Considered

Dell Avamar, Rubrik and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Other Software Used

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Dell Avamar, Rubrik

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Retention options

Management dashboard

Backup to the cloud

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Deduplication and file compression

Encryption

Universal recovery

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