Cohesity DataProtect and Azure Backup provide cloud-based data protection solutions. Azure Backup is favored for its comprehensive features, making it worth the additional cost users are willing to pay.
Features: Users highlight Cohesity DataProtect's integration capabilities and unified management. They also note its excellent support and pricing. Azure Backup users appreciate its scalability, seamless integration with Azure services, and comprehensive data protection features. While both products have strong features, Azure Backup's tight integration with the Azure ecosystem gives it an edge.
Room for Improvement: Users suggest Cohesity DataProtect could improve by enhancing its reporting and analytics, expanding third-party integrations, and improving backup processes. For Azure Backup, users desire better support for non-Azure environments, faster restore times, and more intuitive user interfaces. Cohesity's improvements focus on operational enhancements, while Azure Backup needs better compatibility and user experience.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect is often praised for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Azure Backup deployment benefits from native integration with Azure, though users mention a steeper learning curve and occasional support delays. Cohesity's easier deployment and strong customer service contrast with Azure's initial complexity and broader resources.
Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect is noted for its cost-effectiveness and fast ROI. Azure Backup, while seen as more expensive, provides significant value in the long run due to robust features and integration. Users acknowledge the higher upfront cost of Azure Backup but consider the investment justified by its extensive capabilities.
Using Cohesity DataProtect is easier to manage, and it simplifies various components into one architecture, reducing the need for extensive human resources to manage backups.
The technical support from Microsoft is good
The support can depend on the region, and for larger customers, I advise having a Technical Account Manager for better assistance.
Azure Backup is scalable since it is a global solution.
Cohesity DataProtect is built on a scale-out architecture, which means it can effectively scale to meet various needs.
I would rate the stability of Azure Backup as nine out of ten; it shows high stability in my experience.
Azure Backup is stable for Microsoft environments.
On the whole, any problems were more related to hardware limitations rather than issues with Cohesity DataProtect itself.
It is not a perfect tool for restoring SQL databases since it requires replacing everything instead of restoring specific files.
The reporting functionality of Azure Backup needs improvement.
The area that I believe needs improvement in Azure Backup is the restoring time.
While there are improvements to be made, such as providing support for older systems like IBM iSeries and tandem systems from HP, the solution overall shifts from older methods to modern practices.
Azure Backup is expensive relative to the value we get from it.
The pricing of Azure Backup is fine; it is a low-cost solution.
I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.
The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its simplicity.
It has a good impact on our cost savings and operational efficiency as it is a low-cost solution.
We use the normal features for Azure Backup, specifically to make backups of the VMs.
The platform is based on a scale-out architecture with each node having compute, RAM, SSD, and HDD.
Some of the most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect for me include instant mass restore, anomaly detection, and its ability to handle large data volumes effectively.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Cohesity DataProtect | 3.2% |
| Azure Backup | 3.0% |
| Other | 93.8% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 26 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 11 |
| Large Enterprise | 22 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 19 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 40 |
Azure Backup is a scalable backup solution with zero capital investment and minimal operational expenses that can help a company achieve maximal data protection. Azure Backup’s System Center Data Protection Manager provides optional integrations that can enable you to protect both advanced workloads running in your datacenter in VMs as well as those that are on physical servers.
Azure Backup has many features that make it a most effective product. Included among these is its ability to easily scale up your storage capacity. It taps into the cloud to give you the ability to expand on a massive scale. This can be done without any monitoring or maintenance overhead.
Benefits of Azure Backup
Some of the benefits of using Azure Backup include:
Reviews from Real Users
There are a number of characteristics that make Azure Backup extremely effective. Two of these are the flexibility that it offers users and its overall effectiveness.
PeerSpot user Ayman Y., an IT manager at NOMAC, notes all of the different backup options that Azure Backup offers. He writes, “It has many features. First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client as you like. You can do a backup from the whole virtual machine as an image. You can do a backup only from files and folders. It has every option. All options are available for the backup, for the restore, for the bandwidth utilization to do backups, even virtual machines or a physical machine. If you need to do a backup of the whole image from the virtual machine, all these options are there.”
PeerSpot user Muzammil M., a senior operations engineer at the AlGosaibi Group, notes the effectiveness of Azure Backup when he writes, “Azure Backup is good because it is entirelycloud-based, which means that you can be 99.9% sure that your backup is safe. This is the reason that I suggest its use for companies that need to back up critical data.”
What is Cohesity DataProtect?
Cohesity DataProtect is a top-level, sophisticated, software-defined backup and recovery solution created for cloud environments. Cohesity DataProtect is made to hyperscale and is one the most thorough policy-based protection solutions available on the market today.
Cohesity DataProtect melds multiple-point products into a single software that is able to be deployed as on-premise or consumed as a service.
Top Features:
Hyperscale made easy: Cohesity DataProtect improves data protection by doing away with the need for backup silos and administers backup and recovery with a single user-friendly, easy-to-understand interface. Cohesity DataProtect provides extensive 24/7 enterprise-class protection for a large, varying set of sources, including virtual and physical servers, NAS and SaaS workloads, relational and distributed databases, and traditional and containerized applications.
Super fast recovery: Cohesity DataProtect offers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and near-instant recovery time objectives (RTOs) to satisfy your business service-level agreements (SLAs). Using Cohesity Helios’ unified data plane and control plane you can immediately search and recover data on any Cohesity cluster, located anywhere. DataProtect distinctively minimizes downtime by immediately mass restoring any amount of virtual machines (VMs) to any point in time, and lowers data protection costs by as much as 70% or more.
Backup as a Service: Feel free to take advantage of the elasticity of the public cloud and the cost-effective value of Cohesity DataProtect when delivered as a service. When you choose an OPEX option, you can eliminate the need for on-premises hardware. There is a SaaS option that will allow you to very simply configure your backup workloads and immediately begin protecting your vital all-important data and applications.
It’s as easy as: sign-up, connect, and protect!
Ransomware protection: Cohesity DataProtect offers stellar recovery at scale. The solution is so intuitive, it has machine learning-based anomaly detection to stop incidents before they happen. Cohesity DataProtection can provide immutable backups, Datalock write once, read many (WORM), encryption, and role-based access control (RBAC).
Cohesity DataProtect integrates well with many of today’s top solutions, including, but not limited to:
Reviews from Real Users
One reviewer, who is head of IT infrastructure at Kampmann says, “Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software,” and goes on to indicate that Cohesity “works flawlessly with easy replication of backups and numerous supported backup sources.”
Another user, who is a senior network engineer at a legal firm, relates that "Cohesity is a robust and feature-rich solution"
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