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Evan
Computer Networking, 10,001+ employees
Used less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed January 2022
Your workload kept safe with Cohesity
Joshua
Verified reviewer
Insurance, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Cohesity solves your backup and storage problems!
We have been very happy. We have eliminated tape backups, eliminated our legacy NAS devices, and added new features we didn't know we would even get at the time we purchased... like O365 backups and AD backups. The engineering team is aggressively working to extend the product to more use cases in the data management realm.
PROSCohesity has been a quick and easy win for our department. Setup and installation was quick and we were able to start backing up our VMs and legacy NAS devices. We have been able to eliminate time consuming and costly tapes by replicating our monthly's to a remote Cohesity cluster. In the future we will utilize cloud via Cohesity as well.
CONSThere have been a handful of patches that need to be administered from the command line vs the gui process that normally makes updates a snap.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
Cohesity offered file shares in addition to backup capabilities so that we could retire legacy NAS devices. Rubrik was substantially more expensive. The Storage Craft offering was an intriguing budget option, but didn't seem quite as fleshed out as Cohesity who had much larger market presence.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Tired of dealing with tapes both in terms of cost and time. Legacy file servers needed replacement.
Michael
Verified reviewer
Logistics and Supply Chain, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2020
Peace of Mind
Cohesity has been excellent to work with. The local team is always helpful and responsive, support is excellent, and the product exceeds all expectations. We started small because we were uncertain that they could do all of the things we heard about during the pre-sale process, but we couldn't be happier with the product. We are currently in the process of tripling our capacity and adding additional features because we were so impressed by every aspect of Cohesity.
PROSBackups were always a pain point for us and required constant attention prior to moving to Cohesity. Cohesity makes backup and recovery simple to manage and requires no attention. It just works. This had freed up resources to focus on improvements to other areas of the business.
CONSIntegration was painless. When we first implemented Cohesity there were some reporting features that were lacking, but each new release has addressed this and we now have access to all of the reports and features that we were missing.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
There were many factors, but the culture and philosophy of Cohesity was a big part of the decision. The price was less of a factor, but it was much cheaper than the competition.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
We were looking to replace an aging file server and Cohesity was a perfect fit. They were able to easily migrate the data and provide additional features and functionality for a much lower cost.
scott
Banking, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed May 2023
neutral
The tool seems like it is in it's infancy - restoring is more difficult than it needs to be and the "instant recovery" seems great in theory, but the vMotion aspect takes way too long to be usable in our capacity.
PROSsupport is very helpful for all of the issues that seem to creep up daily.
CONSThere are so many features that we ( and support ) do not seem to know about. IT would be very helpful if these features were easily accessible rather than hidden away. Furthermore we have requested this several times from support and we seem to get back generic documentation rather than insightful feedback. Many of the features are flaky and require constant monitoring / case opening to resolve. We have opened a lot of cases in our timeline thus far... many.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
not my decision
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
lifespan of the product ended
Mark
Machinery, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
Mark's Cohesity review
Over the the Cohesity is a set and forget it solution.
PROSThe easy of setup and use and having in all in one applicance (software and hardware).
CONSThe process for patching the appliance is a little clunky.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
It was easy to use solution, an appliance based solution and it was more cost-effective.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
It was expensive and very difficult to administer.
Fabian
Financial Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2020
Cohesity... 18 months later
We had so many issue with our old backup tool that I won’t know where to start. Now with Cohesity I can finally spend my time doing something else then firefighting. Also, As a backup administrator, I know that the backup we do every day can be restored quickly in case of issue.
PROSOur journey with Cohesity started about 18 months ago and we are still so happy with the product. It’s working perfectly, it’s still fast and reliable as from day 1.
CONSWe are waiting for some new features to be added, like cluster support for Windows and RedHat cluster, it’s taking some time.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
It was not only a backup tool but an hyperconverged platform for our backup and archives
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
We had so many issue with NetWorker’ it will take too long to list them all.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2021
Scalable and high performance back-up solutions and more!
Great innovator that really listens, if you provide feedback.
PROSBeing a platform for secondary data opens up a lot of possibilities: back-up of workloads, NAS, applications, but also being target for archive data combines nicely. Additional analytics on data, combined with a great scalable solutions gives everything needed for solving secondary storage challenges.
CONSCurrenlty not supporting complete MS365 stack.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
More functionality regarding storing secondary data.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Scalability and performance
Brian
Higher Education, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Cohesity is a great backup solution that can do much more, and the feature list is growing.
We have been very happy with our relationship with Cohesity. The company listens to users and I have seen features I requested added to the product. Reporting used to be a weak point, not it is very good comparatively.
PROSThe software has a nice interface and a very concise dashboard. Backups are completed consistently and we have not had trouble with restores. We also back up OneDrive and Sharepoint data with the software. Support is very good.
CONSThere are a few things which are handled differently from our previous backup software. When restoring a VM you must manually delete the existing VM from vCenter; the old software would do that for you. One approach may not be better than the other, but it did take a bit of sleuthing to figure out why we were getting an error on a VM restore initially.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
Cost and the perceived ability to deliver the features we required.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Our back end storage was getting too slow and too expensive to increase each year.
Cazi
Government Administration, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2022
Centralized and Simplified Data Management and Protection
Cohesity has greatly improved our data protection from our previous backup solution. Being able to centrally manage and protect our data, as well as the advanced security features to protect from ransomware attack, helps us all sleep better at night.
PROSA modern data protection solution built with virtualization and cloud in mind and hyperconverged infrastructure. It helps simplify the backup software and hardware into a single solution.
CONSThe reporting is a little basic, although they do have a custom reporting module for more advanced reporting, although that requires developing your own custom reports.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
We selected Cohesity because it was an all-in-one solution, collapsing the backup hardware, software, and cloud into a single solution with centralized administration.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
CommVault was much more complex and required supporting and maintaining both the backup hardware and software individually.
Tim
Utilities, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2020
Cohesity back and restore
Great. We had issues deployment but that was related to the servers. But cohesity support was very helpful and did a great job.
PROSHaving access to Helios is feature. And the setup and install of Cohesity was seamless. Choesity support is one of the best support teams.
CONSI wish there were report or custom reports option.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
I worked with Cohesity before at a previous job.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
evault backups kept failing.
David
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2020
Head and shoulders above the competition
We were able to implement greatly reduced backup windows and enhance how many backups we take throughout the day giving us a much better ability to recover and various points.
PROSCohesity is an amazing platform that greatly reduced out data management and backup footprint. I really like the ease of use and ability to have one place to go for all of our data protections needs.
CONSThis can be a little difficult to size and configure initially. It can also do a ton of stuff so getting your head around how it works and then be able to move forward with it can take a little time.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
The usability of Cohesity is far easier than Veeam.
Shawn
Insurance, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
Love my Cohesity!!!!!
For us the speed/performance of backup and restores was a great feature of Cohesity. My previous backup was not completing on a daily basis; because the backups were taking way to long to completes. I could not backup everything in a 24 hour time period (with multiple appliances running).
CONSThere have been no complaints with Cohesity. We have been very pleased with the product.
Erwin
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2021
Cohesity for easy scalable back-ups
From a daily basis it really lowered the time we were needed to manage our back-ups. Even when we had issues their support is top of the game and really helpful.
PROSCohesity was for us the perfect solution in providing back-up as a service to our customers. It is easy to scale, easy to configure and very easy to manage.
CONSIt was somewhat behind on features compared to the likes of Veeam for example, but they have been implementing the missing features at a rapid pace. They also value feedback a lot so when requesting a missing feature their development team will look into it.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Mainly because Cohesity was easier to scale
Brian
Verified reviewer
Entertainment, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2020
A great solution for so many workloads
Overall Cohesity has been one of the best vendors we have ever worked with. Their support team started very small and I usually got the same 2 or 3 customer service reps. Now they are much larger but I still get the 1-on-1 attention I need from their team.
PROSCohesity is first a fantastic backup product. We went from four backup solutions to just one. It gives us full off site DR capability by archiving to Azure. We protect many workloads such as VMware, SQL, Office 365 and file shares. Beyond that Cohesity is an amazing platform for test and development, file services and marketplace apps.
CONSGetting up and running had a few glitches and it took a couple days to fully grasp the dependencies but once those were taken care of it has run very smoothly. Occasionally bugs will surface during new feature releases but I have not had any problems staying on the LTS track.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
Ease of use and available features in GA
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
VDP was being discontinued
Dustin
Government Administration, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2020
Look no further
Overall experience has been great, no complaints anywhere.
PROSThe visibility of your total foot print and management tools there of saves hours per day.
CONSIts fast growing company so the update speed is fast. If you are looking for a static software for backups...this is not the one.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
all inclusive pricing, not piece milled.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
manageability and visibility
Adam
Law Practice, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
Not only a protection platform
Storage, compression, deduplication, backup and archiving combo like no others.
PROSCohesity redefines secondary storage, providing not only for robust, tamper-protected backup and archiving solution, but also allows to consolidate various secondary storage options and devices under single 'pane of glass' management platform. Ability to centrally manage and assign storage shares has been a great addition. Backups and restores also work as a breeze, including amazing capability to run the restored resource from the platform within seconds, without waiting for full restore.
CONSSomewhat fast release cadence causes a little problems with dependencies and documentation, but that's palatable.
Justin
Financial Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2021
A solid product with room for improvement
Backing up entire VM's through vCenter is a breeze and works well. Application backups (Exchange, SQL, AD) will all require an agent and the agent management is very poor in my opinion. Replication works fine and restore times from locally cached data is quick. There are still a lot of little things that keep this from being a polished solution but the overall product is good.
PROSProfile creation makes scheduling very easy. Very fast restores from local appliances Excellent deduplication/compressions ratios.
CONSAgent management is cumbersome and feels like an afterthought. This is my single biggest issue with this application Agent installation application doesn't open necessary firewall ports No centralized credential manager No global options for backup exclusions - have to manually set options for each policy you create Software claims immutable backups, but anyone with admin credentials can delete all data on the appliance. Maybe the term 'immutable' is open for debate, but if I can go in and delete all the data on a protection run, then this does not qualify for immutable in my mind. You can put legal holds on data, but this isn't the same thing.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
Rubrik sales team didn't try very hard and their solution was more expensive. Cohesity was talking to me each week, offered POC trials, demos, and on-site technician visit.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Was having major issues with Veeam and cloud backups. Tried for over a year with Veeam and two different cloud providers to get our cloud backup jobs stable and could never achieve it. Veeam does not offer immutability directly through their product but requires you to create and manage your own linux appliance that you have to set up correctly.
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2020
Getting Better All the Time
Ease of use. The software is fairly straight forward and finding and creating backup policies is has simple has a few clicks. You can customize every aspect of the backup job to get the best possible data retention that meets your SLA.
CONSThe API has a ways to go. It has gotten considerably better over the last year.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Originally we where using an old Cloud Based with local storage solution that would take hours to backup and hours to restore. On our trial phase of Cohesity the system cut that down to sub 30 minute restores of ERP database.
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2020
Ease to use backup and management appliance with more features
As said, it is setup very fast and easy to use. Also if you need backups in case of an emergency, it is very easy to handle with the GUI.
PROSIt is setup quickly and up and running in less than 2 hours. It is easy to administrate and also very easy to use on a daily basis.
CONSthere is not soo much not to like, but finding bugs that make admins live harder is definately not very nice. Some integrations like AD Forest recovery are not yet supported.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
Price/value for money and ease of use
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Actifio contract was running out.
Pranav
Verified reviewer
Broadcast Media, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2021
Efficient and cost effective secondary storage and backup solution
This product can alone replace your storage array, backup solution and the Disaster recovery solution. Also, it is a compact four node system and has integration with several other vendors like VMware , AWS, Azure etc.
CONSThe KB articles and product documentation can me improved and made more specific and to the point.
Brent
Verified reviewer
Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Set it and forget it
Deployment was easy and getting familiar with the interface was quick. Once the backup policies are set, and VMs associated with policy, it just works.
PROSEase of use and the simple interface. Connect Cohesity to vCenter, select VMs to backup, and select the backup schedule.
CONSI would like it to be less expensive. I am not saying it is not worth the price, just that less expensive would be nice.
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
I like the integrated HW/SW solution
Kurt
Education Management, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2020
Best backup software we've ever purchased
The overall experience has been great so far. We were able to get multiple admins up to speed how how to recover files and databases with ease.
PROSThe greatest thing about Cohesity is that it's a backup appliance with everything you need built right in. There are no special license to add special features.
CONSAt first some of the features were missing that other vendors were already offering but Cohesity have caught up.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
Cost mainly
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Cost and way too difficult to manage.
Anonymous
5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2020
Cohesity bring HCI to backup
Flexibility. Can use it as backup ,secondary storage, file server, NAS . All-in-one. No more VMs for reporting, media server, master server and so on. Cloud enabled: Can backup to cloud, tier to cloud, DR to cloud and also backup to cloud. And i mean any cloud provider.
CONSIt is not a cheap solution. You need at least 3 nodes. So it is not ok for small size solution.
Reason for choosing Cohesity
more deduplication factor
Reasons for switching to Cohesity
Less complex infrastructure
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2019
Great backup solution, and a great partner
Cohesity has allowed us to move to a global backup platform that has modern cloud based capabilities, enabling a more flexible and cost efficient architecture.
PROSI like the flexibility of the platform to service many backup needs, as well as the ability to act as a file server replacement for branch offices. In addition, the ability to archive and restore on-premise backups to AWS cloud is a major feature that we depend on for our operations. Last but not least, Cohesity has been a true partner as we rolled out their solution, and on more than one occasion has developed or improved their product based on our feedback or issues that we discovered.
CONSas with all software, I wish it were cheaper.
Arnoud
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2019
The great way Cohesity is going
We managed to solved managing 2 systems for 1 product and having to manualy exetend datastores for backupjobs. The support is great and product development is listening to the market and their customers for features.
PROSWe were running into problems with our old backup solution, cohesity gave us the posibility to combine scale-out storage and backup software in 1 design. Making it easier for supporting and maintaining the software. It got great support for VMware software and gets better features with the newer releases. Functionality is almost on par with other vendors giving them a great edge on competition. New versions gives us multi-tenant support for MSP's and vCloud director support.
CONSThe functionality is not completely on par with other vendors, but the new 6.2 release gives us great functionality for vCloud Director and multi-tenant support for MSP.