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.
"We like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server."
"The most valuable features are the rapid VM restores and the ability to quickly find files and download them directly to my desktop so that I can put them where I need them to be."
"Instead of four different solutions for protecting VMs, physical servers, SQL, and NAS, we now have one solution with Cohesity that is lightning fast and has amazing features."
"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."
"The ability to essentially instantly recover a VM and have it run on the Cohesity Platform while all those bits are technically being recovered in the background is useful to us."
"The customer service and support are fast and professional."
"The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."
"Cohesity DataProtect is user-friendly and straightforward. The setup process was effortless, and both the backup and restore operations are speedy."
"I have used the technical support a few times and they've been reasonably helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the WAN accelerator. This feature allows for large amounts of data from one location to another. If the bandwidth in the environment is slow it makes the transfer slow but the WAN accelerator feature helps speed the transfer."
"Once you set it up, it works very well. You do not have to go back to reconfigure it– it is very easy to use"
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup for Office 365 are the ease of use and instant back and restore."
"It was easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the built-in integration with Office 365, which helps us protect email accounts and servers. We use it on virtual servers on the cloud with Azure, or we can use an agent on physical servers."
"Backup and replication are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the backups, we do not want to lose any files. Each one of the files is updated on a regular long-term basis and kept together in the Microsoft cloud-only."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"The product is still young and is continually improving. There have been a couple of buggy releases in the software that have caused us minor issues, so possibly some better QA before releasing would prove to be useful. We have also been inquiring about new app and functionality via the Marketplace that was teased months back but has yet to come to fruition."
"We would like it to have more capabilities for different kinds of PaaS or SaaS services in the Azure cloud, such as Azure SQL or Azure Cosmos DB."
"I would like to see the management of multiple nodes inside a tenant. If you want to manage a Cohesity environment, you either go on a per-node base, and you can hop from one node to the other, or you need to implement their SaaS capability but it always needs an internet connection. We would really like to have some kind of local management entity so that we can see all the Cohesity nodes in a customer environment and manage those nodes centrally. That's something that we would really like, and they are really working on it."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"The solution is costly."
"If clients are backing up onto tape, Veeam's newest versions don't really deal with that."
"The solution could improve scalability, both in terms of more storage and users. These two attributes are quite important when you talk about good scalability."
"As with all things, the solution can be improved by reducing the cost."
"Veeam is quite expensive."
"The solution should have backup integration features, not just concerning mail but also when it comes to such solutions as SharePoint."
"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."
"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 67 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.2. 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, Acronis Cyber Protect, Cirrus Backup, Commvault Cloud and Rubrik. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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