#1 most frequent
United States of America
65.9%832 installations of 1,263
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
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
Areas for Improvement
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
Who Buys & Uses Cohesity
#2 most frequent
Canada
4.9%62 installations of 1,263
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.0%50 installations of 1,263
Cohesity - The Simple and Powerful M365 Backup
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
Cohesity
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
Cohesity Data Back Up
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
Cohesity - A Versatile and Easy to Use Backup Solution.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cohesity has been a great addition to our organization as a backup solution. We have been using it for the last 5 years now, and it is being used for backing up AWS instances, on-prem servers, and NAS shares. Using Cohesity is fairly easy since all configurations can be done from the GUI. However, at the same time, it is still not fully mature, and every now and then, we do face issues where we have to work with the support and development team to resolve them.
Pros
- Cohesity is very easy to use.
- Cohesity is versatile, we can backup all type of environment.
- Cohesity is very flexible, it can very easy deployed in any region.
Cons
- The support quality can be improved.
- The tool is still not mature, so we end up doing a lot of troubleshooting.
- The turnaround time for resolving an issue should be improved.
Return on Investment
- Using Cohesity has increased the overall savings.
- With Cohesity as our preferred backup tool, we have been able to reduce the number of technologies.
- With Cohesity, we have able to manage the infrastructure with fewer resources.
Alternatives Considered
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI, Tivoli Storage Manager and Veritas NetBackup
Other Software Used
Tivoli Storage Manager, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Cohesity Backup Is Your Next Generation Backup Solution
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are currently using Cohesity for our on-prem backups, and backup as a service for all our M365/O365 applications. Our previous vendor was not able to complete all backups within a 24 hour time period, this caused items to miss backup schedules. A second appliance was added to try and help this issue, and it did for a brief period, then it was an issue again. Instead of adding a 3rd appliance we started shopping around for a new product.
Pros
- Fast Backups
- Really Fast Restores
- Immutable File System
Cons
- Currently have no issues with the product
- If I had to come up with one item, I do have to restore VM's to physical hardware from time to time for deployment testing. I have to use a 3rd party product to deploy a backup to a bare-metal item. This would be a nice feature if it was native to Cohesity.
- I wish I would have heard of Cohesity years ago and not about 3 years ago. I could have used them about 10 years ago.
Return on Investment
- The ROI on Cohesity for us was less than a year.
- Cohesity has give many hours back to my work day each and every week.
- The Immutable File System give me comfort in knowing that my data is safe
Alternatives Considered
Quest Rapid Recovery, Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik
Other Software Used
VMware vCenter Server, Zerto, IBM Turbonomic, IBM Storage FlashSystem
