Our primary use case for this solution was as a backup and recovery solution, with the ability to handle VMware and a small subset of physical servers.
IT Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The biggest attraction to the product is its ability to scale up with ease
Pros and Cons
- "The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor."
- "The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor."
- "The one drawback of this quick innovation is that their units were shipped with outdated firmware, but this was quickly remedied, and they have made operational changes to reduce the likelihood of sending outdated firmware again."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We have a rapidly expanding data set that our previous backup solution could not handle and the upgrade path was a complete redesign of hardware and when that solution maxed out, then it was the same over and over again. The biggest attraction to start looking at Cohesity was being able to scale up with ease. After discussing the option and features, it was clear that Cohesity is made to handle things quickly, simply, and with ease.
What is most valuable?
Overall, the simplicity of the solution and the support behind implementation, training, and continued support. The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor.
What needs improvement?
The one drawback of this quick innovation is that their units were shipped with outdated firmware, but this was quickly remedied, and they have made operational changes to reduce the likelihood of sending outdated firmware again.
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For how long have I used the solution?
Less than one year.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Datacenter Management at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Extremely reduces the effort in daily backup and restore tasks
Pros and Cons
- "The absolutely top feature is the easy and fast backup and restore of VMs, which extremely reduces the effort in daily backup and restore tasks, leading to no more effort for administration of a complex backed up and restored infrastructure."
- "Replication between two Cohesity clusters should be be improved in the next releases."
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Lead Technical Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Simple, intuitive single pane for all backup/recovery tasks
Pros and Cons
- "Backups are now much faster and restores are much faster, which is a huge improvement over the previous platform."
Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has greatly simplified backups and recovery for our organization
Pros and Cons
- "It has greatly simplified backups and recovery for our organization."
- "Better cluster support."
Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
After it was up and running, it was simple to add a vCenter and start backups
Pros and Cons
- "It has vastly improved our ability to save money by backing up and replicating our backups off-site."
- "It should have quicker restore times."
Senior Information Technology Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Backup tasks and test development environment.
Pros and Cons
- "We were looking for a robust solution that gives us scalability and recovery."
Director, Administrative & Residential Information Technology at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Fantastic product and the team developing it are top notch. Very excited for future releases from Cohesity.
Pros and Cons
- "Fantastic product and the team developing it are top notch."
Manager of Information Services Infrastructure Team at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The features are still maturing but this solution allows any admin to backup and restore files. The dedupe and compression is very impressive.
Pros and Cons
- "We removed multiple backup systems and replaced with Cohesity."
- "Faster backup and restores, reduced costs of backups."
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