We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and OpenText Data Protector based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found that the speed of restores, especially files and folders, are extremely fast. This bodes well for us, and our end users are always amazed at how fast you can get them their files."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."
"The most valuable aspect for me is that I don't have to deal with media in terms of tapes like our existing system does."
"The enterprise search and instant restore are pretty valuable. Also, the Helios stuff is pretty good and the SAS engine for ransom malware detection."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"Data Protector's granular recovery features make it easy for us to create and restore backups in an understandable and user-friendly manner. With granular recovery, any database or even just a database table can be restored at will."
"It's user-friendly and not overly complicated to configure."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"The stability of the product seems to be quite good."
"I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."
"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"The support is pretty bad."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"The platform has certain limitations, mostly stemming from the restrictions imposed by the VMware API and some other factors. One area where there is room for improvement is the tracking of replicated copies, especially in the context of remote archive duplication."
"This solution is only compatible with a limited number of storage arrays, including Pure and Cisco Hyperflex."
"This solution is not scalable."
"I don't like this solution so much because it's very technical and compared to Commvault and Veeam, it's not so user-friendly. The interface needs improvement."
"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
"The online backups of Office 365 have room for improvement. This is now available for the Exchange Online part of Office 365, but we're still waiting for SharePoint Online, Teams, etc. We know that it's coming, but it takes time."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"The downside of the flexibility on offer is if you over-configure it, it may fail to function as some configurations may not match."
"OpenText Data Protector is more difficult to use and configure than OpenText VIM. The user-friendliness of OpenText Data Protector has to be increased, and the complexity of the tool needs to be reduced."
"The technical support was very slow."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 100 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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