We compared Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Cohesity DataProtect is highly regarded for its simple installation process, extensive capabilities, and user-friendly interface. It offers immediate recovery, a live VM environment, and effortless setup of SMB shares. However, it may have limitations when it comes to older platforms, and its pricing is considered to be on the higher side. Veeam Backup for Office 365 is praised for its uncomplicated setup, reliability, and user-friendliness. It provides reliable backup services for Microsoft 365 and offers scalability and affordability. Nevertheless, it lacks integration with solutions such as SharePoint and exhibits inconsistent performance.
"With the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable. Being a cloud version, it has more flexibility, and it allows me to incorporate different workloads and consolidate all the data in one place. It has good high availability, and it is also easy to maintain."
"Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection."
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"The ease of use and the GUI have really been most valuable to us. Configuring the system to do what we need is simple and straight forward and a lot of guesswork has been removed. One of my favorite features with Cohesity is Kroll for Exchange item-level recovery. The software is simple to use and fast."
"Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with minimal downtime for our main customers. These features have significantly improved our recovery time objectives."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"The most valuable feature is that we don't need different agents to back up our files from different accounts."
"Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is reliable and easy to use."
"The solution is easy to use and stable and can be made to fit one's needs."
"Technical support in Veeam is good."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to restore a specific email. For example, if a user has deleted an email and they would like that particular email back we are able to restore it."
"The installation process is very easy."
"The feature that I like the most is the system backup recovery from OneDrive."
"Veaam technical support, from my perspective, is one of the best technical support I've ever engaged with."
"There is room for improvement in terms of price."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"I like that Cohesity offers the chance to have data on-premises and on the cloud. All the data is automatically sent to the cloud."
"Initial setup can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release."
"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."
"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a Windows server, which is storing data on dynamic disk."
"This solution does provide the option to choose a different target of storage."
"Pricing is an area for improvement, and I would rate it at five out of ten."
"When you are working in the Cloud security is very important."
"If Veeam could offer backup as a service for data backup and recovery, that would be great. We'd like something like what Druva is offering at the moment."
"The documentation for the installation is good. However, if you are new to the environment the installation could be difficult. The first time we did it it took approximately four days."
"In the next release, it should have direct export to tape drive abilities and NDMP support."
"It's a new product. It's not mature."
"The solution announced many features two years ago, and they still have not happened, so I would hope that the next release has these ready to go."
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Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 7th in Cloud Backup with 69 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 58 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 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 Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Safe storage, reliable, and easy to use". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Cirrus Backup, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Rubrik. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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