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# Cohesity Review

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-   Pricing and Plans
    
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## Overview

Cohesity

4.6

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### About Cohesity

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data—across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. Cohesity solutions can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner. Cohesity is headquartered in San Jose, CA and is trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, including six of the Fortune 10 and 42 of the Fortune 100.

Cohesity is designed to help businesses manage and encrypt enterprise data from ransomware and malware attacks. The platform enables managers to consolidate backup point products and securely recover data.

Administrators can assign custom policies to multiple jobs across businesses in accordance with service level agreements (SLAs). Cohesity offers a mass restore feature, which allows teams to instantly recover virtual machines (VMs) and files. Additionally, supervisors can secure data in the pub...

lic cloud in compliance with multi-factor authentication (MFA), role-based access control (RBAC), and SOC II Type 1 certification. Cohesity lets stakeholders automatically move backed-up data to archives and utilize AI-based tools to detect and defend against ransomware attacks. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email and an online contact form.

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## Cohesity User Interface

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-   4.65Customer support
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## Cohesity Features

-   Popular features found in Data Management
    
    Access Controls/Permissions
    
    Activity Dashboard
    
    Automatic Backup
    
    Customer Database
    
    Data Connectors
    
    Data Import/Export
    
    Data Migration
    
    Data Quality Control
    
    Data Security
    
    Data Synchronization
    
    Data Visualization
    
    Multiple Data Sources
    
-   More features of Cohesity
    
    Action Management
    
    Activity Tracking
    
    Ad hoc Query
    
    AI/Machine Learning
    
    Alerts/Escalation
    
    Alerts/Notifications
    
    Anomaly Detection
    
    Anti Virus
    
    API
    
    Application Management
    
    Approval Workflow
    
    Archiving & Retention
    
    Audit Management
    
    Audit Trail
    
    Authentication
    
    Automated Containment
    
    Automated Scheduling
    
    Backup and Recovery
    
    Backup Log
    
    Backup Scheduling
    
    Bare-Metal Restore
    
    Behavioral Analytics
    
    Behavior Analytics
    
    Behavior Tracking
    
    Business Continuity Exercising
    
    Business Impact Analysis
    
    Capacity Analytics
    
    Capacity Management
    
    Capacity Planning
    
    Cloud Backup
    
    Cloud Encryption
    
    Collaboration Tools
    
    Compliance Management
    
    Compression
    
    Configurable Workflow
    
    Configuration Management
    
    Continuous Backup
    
    Continuous Monitoring
    
    CPU Monitoring
    
    Credential Management
    
    Crisis Management
    
    Customizable Reports
    
    Data Analysis Tools
    
    Database Support
    
    Data Classification
    
    Data Discovery
    
    Data Loss Prevention
    
    Data Management
    
    Data Recovery
    
    Data Replication
    
    Data Retention Management
    
    Data Storage Management
    
    Data Verification
    
    Deduplication
    
    Differential Backup
    
    Disaster Recovery
    
    Duplicate Detection
    
    eDiscovery
    
    Email Alerts
    
    Emergency Notification
    
    Encryption
    
    Event Logs
    
    File Quarantining
    
    HIPAA Compliant
    
    Incident Management
    
    Incident Response Checklists
    
    Incremental Backup
    
    Indexing
    
    Information Governance
    
    Insider Threat Protection
    
    Intellectual Property Protection
    
    Intrusion Detection System
    
    Local Server Options
    
    Maintenance Scheduling
    
    Master Data Management
    
    Metadata Management
    
    Monitoring
    
    Multi-Cloud Management
    
    Multi-Factor Authentication
    
    Multi-Location
    
    Multimedia Archiving
    
    Multi-OS
    
    Multiple Format Support
    
    Multiple Programming Languages Supported
    
    Multi-User Collaboration
    
    NOSQL Database Management
    
    Password Management
    
    Patch Management
    
    Performance Analysis
    
    Performance Management
    
    Performance Monitoring
    
    Personally Identifiable Information Protection
    
    Plan Development
    
    Policy Management
    
    Predictive Analytics
    
    Ransomware Protection
    
    Real-Time Analytics
    
    Real-Time Data
    
    Real-Time Monitoring
    
    Real-Time Notifications
    
    Real-Time Reporting
    
    Real-Time Updates
    
    Relational Database Management
    
    Remote Access/Control
    
    Remote Monitoring & Management
    
    Remote Server Options
    
    Reporting/Analytics
    
    Reporting & Statistics
    
    Resource Management
    
    Risk Alerts
    
    Risk Analysis
    
    Risk Assessment
    
    Risk Management
    
    Role-Based Permissions
    
    Rules-Based Workflow
    
    Scenario Planning
    
    Scheduled/Automated Reports
    
    Scheduling
    
    Search/Filter
    
    Secure Data Storage
    
    Secure Login
    
    Security Auditing
    
    Security Management
    
    Sensitive Data Identification
    
    Server Monitoring
    
    Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
    
    Single Sign On
    
    SSL Security
    
    Status Tracking
    
    Storage Management
    
    Tagging
    
    Task Management
    
    Task Scheduling
    
    Third-Party Integration
    
    Third-Party Integrations
    
    Threat Intelligence
    
    Two-Factor Authentication
    
    User Interface
    
    User Management
    
    Version Control
    
    Virtual Machine Monitoring
    
    Visual Analytics
    
    VM Backup
    
    Vulnerability Management
    
    Vulnerability Protection
    
    Vulnerability Scanning
    
    Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
    
    Web Access/Restoration
    
    "What If" Scenarios
    
    Workflow Management
    

## Cohesity User Reviews

## Cohesity customer ratings

- Overall rating: 4.6/5
- Total reviews: 54

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 34 reviews (63%)
- 4 stars: 17 reviews (31%)
- 3 stars: 3 reviews (6%)
- 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.7/5
- Value for money: 4.6/5
- Customer support: 4.7/5
- Functionality: 4.6/5

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### Solid Choice for Enterprise Data Protection - Strong on Innovation, Steep on Price

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Suraj D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for free trial
- Reviewed: August 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall experience is great with great support and team. I am looking forward to next innovation from Cohesity.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

It's ease of use which makes Cohesity a great choice. Cohesity Products and Services provide a very good performance and speed. Cohesity Gaia - AI-powered insights with natural language processing for data protection workflows is a very nice product.

#### Cons

I feel pricing of Cohesity products are on a higher side and long backup times makes it not the best product in the market right now.

---

### Cohesity... 18 months later

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Fabian C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Our 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.

#### Cons

We are waiting for some new features to be added, like cluster support for Windows and RedHat cluster, it’s taking some time.

#### Reasons 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.

---

### Cohesity is a great backup solution that can do much more, and the feature list is growing.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Brian H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The 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.

#### Cons

There 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.

#### Reasons 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.

---

### Cohesity back and restore

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Tim Z.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Utilities
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Great. We had issues deployment but that was related to the servers. But cohesity support was very helpful and did a great job.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Having access to Helios is feature. And the setup and install of Cohesity was seamless. Choesity support is one of the best support teams.

#### Cons

I wish there were report or custom reports option.

#### Reasons for choosing Cohesity

I worked with Cohesity before at a previous job.

#### Reasons for switching to Cohesity

evault backups kept failing.

---

### Efficient and cost effective secondary storage and backup solution

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Pranav S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Broadcast Media
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

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.

#### Cons

The KB articles and product documentation can me improved and made more specific and to the point.

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### Set it and forget it

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Brent R.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Ease of use and the simple interface. Connect Cohesity to vCenter, select VMs to backup, and select the backup schedule.

#### Cons

I 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

---

### A great solution for so many workloads

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Brian C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Cohesity 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.

#### Cons

Getting 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.

#### Reasons for choosing Cohesity

Ease of use and available features in GA

#### Reasons for switching to Cohesity

VDP was being discontinued

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### Better backups with Cohesity!

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Jason S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: January 2019
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I found this software to be very clean and organized. I can easily view both of my clusters and manage all their settings. This software will be used to replace my current backup tapes.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Cohesity is a great product that preforms as intended. Backups work with little management and upgrading is very simple. I started using this software about 3 months ago with no prior experience, I have a very good understanding of how this software works.

#### Cons

my biggest complaint is, there is no Cohesity sponsored user training. Many other software businesses offer some user training. This would have made the learning curb much easier.

---

### Set and forget backups

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Mike O.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2019
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I have been able to easily backup, replicate, and restore data. It helps me sleep at night

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Ease of use. Easy to set and monitor backups and a choice of restore options make this product a stress reliever

#### Cons

Hardware monitor features could be better (temp, and so on)

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### Cohesity - modern backup and more

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Chris M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2019
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It just works. Racked and installed in under 1 hour and was able to backup and test recovery in very short order.

#### Cons

So far, I have not found anything that I do not like.

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