We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It has a lightning fast restore."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"No longer does it take several hours to backup a VM or troubleshoot a backup issue."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"The product is easy to put in place. All backups are done very quickly. It's easy to perform restores. What I prefer in the product is its simplicity. There are no useless settings to define, and everything is ready after the initial setup."
"By using their Helios Cloud service, you have all your clusters, no matter where they are located, in one web portal."
"It makes our administrators' lives much easier to combine backup, archiving, and services like hosting file shares in one central system with only one user interface."
"We are very satisfied with the product as a whole—all the backup functions, the data protection functions. We are very satisfied with those, and the product is very simple to use."
"I like the performance of the restore feature."
"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."
"In terms of what could be improved, it just needs some maturity."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"When a new release is launched, there may be some bugs that need to be addressed by the developers. However, they promptly resolve these issues, and the software runs smoothly once again."
"The tool could benefit from further improvements in AI features, particularly in areas such as a generative AI chat interface. This feature could help answer queries about the data being protected. One feature that would greatly improve our experience with the product is the ability to identify data redundancies through a central console. This feature would help us reduce storage costs by managing redundant data."
"We have to do a lot of POC to show why ExaGrid is good."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage is ranked 47th in Backup and Recovery with 1 review. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage writes "A competitive and balanced solution that offers solid performance at a reasonable price". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Zerto, whereas ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage is most compared with Synology DSM, Stonefly VSO Backup And Disaster Recovery Appliance, Rubrik, Cohesity Helios and Commvault Cloud.
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