Cohesity
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Brian H.
Verified UserHigher Education · 201-500 employees
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.
- 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
- 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
Switched From
Our back end storage was getting too slow and too expensive to increase each year.
Why they chose it
"Cost and the perceived ability to deliver the features we required."
Fabian C.
Verified UserFinancial Services · 1001-5000 employees
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.
- 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
We are waiting for some new features to be added, like cluster support for Windows and RedHat cluster, it’s taking some time
Switched From
We had so many issue with NetWorker’ it will take too long to list them all.
Why they chose it
"It was not only a backup tool but an hyperconverged platform for our backup and archives"
scott k.
Verified UserBanking · 1001-5000 employees
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.
- support is very helpful for all of the issues that seem to creep up daily
- There 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
Switched From
lifespan of the product ended
Why they chose it
"not my decision"
Tim Z.
Verified UserUtilities · 5001-10000 employees
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.
- Having access to Helios is feature
- And the setup and install of Cohesity was seamless
- Choesity support is one of the best support teams
- I wish there were report or custom reports option
Switched From
evault backups kept failing.
Why they chose it
"I worked with Cohesity before at a previous job."
Brent R.
Verified UserEducation Management · 1001-5000 employees
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.
- Ease of use and the simple interface
- Connect Cohesity to vCenter, select VMs to backup, and select the backup schedule
- 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
Switched From
I like the integrated HW/SW solution
Brian C.
Verified UserEntertainment · 1001-5000 employees
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.
- 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
- 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
Switched From
VDP was being discontinued
Why they chose it
"Ease of use and available features in GA"
Verified Professional
Sporting Goods · 201-500 employees
Getting Better All the Time
Sporting Goods
- 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
- The API has a ways to go
- It has gotten considerably better over the last year
Switched From
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.
Jason S.
Verified UserConsumer Goods · 1001-5000 employees
Better backups with Cohesity!
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.
- 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
- 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
Mike O.
Verified UserMining & Metals · 201-500 employees
Set and forget backups
I have been able to easily backup, replicate, and restore data. It helps me sleep at night
- Ease of use
- Easy to set and monitor backups and a choice of restore options make this product a stress reliever
- Hardware monitor features could be better (temp, and so on)
Chris M.
Verified UserHigher Education · 1001-5000 employees
Cohesity - modern backup and more
Verified reviewer
- It just works
- Racked and installed in under 1 hour and was able to backup and test recovery in very short order
- So far, I have not found anything that I do not like
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