Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup vs Cohesity DataProtect comparison

Barracuda Networks and Cohesity are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.5, while Cohesity is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.4. Barracuda Networks holds a 0.8% mindshare in CB, compared to Cohesity’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Barracuda Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Cohesity users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Cohesity DataProtect and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup compete in the cloud and data protection category. Cohesity has the upper hand due to its comprehensive features, ease of integration with platforms, and highly rated scalability.

Features: Cohesity offers rapid VM recovery, advanced data indexing, and a unified backup solution that simplifies administration. Its seamless integration with VMware and scalability features are highly regarded. Barracuda provides reliable backup retention policies, Microsoft 365 synchronization, and virus detection through Microsoft Defender, but is seen as less feature-rich.

Room for Improvement: Cohesity users suggest improvements in cluster support, application integrations, and replication workflows. Enhancements in the update process and legacy system support are also desired. Barracuda needs to expand integration beyond Microsoft 365, streamline file recovery processes, and enhance data location capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity provides flexible deployment options, including on-premises and hybrid cloud, with customer service praised for its expertise. Barracuda operates in public and hybrid clouds, with good technical support, but Cohesity's broader deployment compatibility offers an advantage.

Pricing and ROI: Cohesity's pricing is noted for simplicity and potential long-term cost savings due to feature integration. Bundled licensing and virtual edition options are available. Barracuda is cost-effective with flexible pricing tailored to customer needs, potentially offering lower annual costs. Both products show strong ROI, though Cohesity offers more pronounced savings over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Ba...

Ranking in Cloud Backup

25th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (11th)

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Cloud Backup

10th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (10th), AI Data Analysis (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 2.8%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cohesity DataProtect	2.8%
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup	0.8%
Other	96.4%

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Featured Reviews

Liam Trosad

Full Stack Developer at BairesDev

Reliable backups have protected all cloud data and now provide quick recovery for users

The features include easy setup, easy to use, and unlimited storage. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup has positively impacted my organization by helping us with lost productivity when someone deletes a cloud-stored item and we can retrieve it easily. With wrong creation of Teams and no owners assigned, we get notified. It helps me worry less that in the worst-case scenario, mailboxes and Teams are easily restorable to continue with online learning at a very low risk. It also proves useful, for instance, where a user accidentally loses or deletes an important email or a file in the mailbox. The team can easily restore what has been lost.

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Kalaiarasan Meganathan

Specialist at HCLSoftware

Backup operations have become faster and daily recoveries run smoothly for on‑prem workloads

When compared to other tools, the deduplication in Cohesity DataProtect is very fast, and the restore performance is better than other tools. Global deduplication ensures that only unique data blocks are stored, significantly reducing storage consumption. Cohesity DataProtect's dashboard displays options and errors clearly, making it easy to access and understand how to fix issues. Cohesity DataProtect's ability to start processes automatically without manual selections enhances its reliability. Cohesity DataProtect's architecture ensures that agent installations automatically reflect in the dashboard, allowing for seamless integration into backup jobs. This improves operational efficiency, ensuring backups can be triggered without manual refreshes. Additionally, the user interface is intuitive, and the respect of the N-1 rule during updates helps prevent client-affecting issues.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product is deployable anywhere. It is also scalable and reliable."

"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is it's synchronized well with Microsoft 365. Additionally, the solution is able to identify through Microsoft Defender if there are viruses and will provide a notification."

"Overall, I am a very satisfied user of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup."

"The product enables us to restore lost files."

"The initial setup is pretty simple."

"We've noticed fewer data losses by 90% compared to our previous tool since implementing Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup."

"The product's most valuable feature is the backup retention policy."

"Overall, I would rate Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup a nine out of ten."

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"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 spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores."

"The recovery process is effective, especially when it comes to other types of data, such as VMs, and overall, the performance is commendable."

"Cohesity has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not."

"No longer does it take several hours to backup a VM or troubleshoot a backup issue."

"After linking a cloud subscription, like Azure for example (AWS and Google are also supported), you can "spin" a VM onto the cloud from any backup snapshot."

"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."

"Cohesity DataProtect is a reliable solution for performing backups within a suitable timeframe, and its forever incremental model is particularly effective for the customer's needs. Additionally, the solution handles instant recovery and file-level recovery from a VMware image backup seamlessly."

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Cons

"Navigating through folders and finding files can be a bit slow, taking up to three to five seconds between clicks, which feels slow compared to the speed in SharePoint or a browser."

"Locating and recovering files can be confusing."

"What would be great should be either a guaranteed restore or a guaranteed restoring speed."

"The tool does not support Google Support. I have only Microsoft 365 customers. I don't have a good solution for my G-suite customers."

"The solution may be improved by allowing integration with other platforms."

"Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup can be improved by addressing that when performing a restore, the search filter and the mailbox filter can be confusing, depending on what you want to achieve."

"They should adapt to new parameters as the market grows."

"We needed assistance with the implementation of the solution from the vendor. The process could be easier."

"Their documentation could be refined."

"For the support, I can provide a rating of four only because they initially provide some steps, but later say they are not sure, which is a problem in a production environment."

"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."

"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."

"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting. There are very granular reports from each grid. There are also some built-in reports within Helios (SAS Management Console) that offers basic reporting. However, for complex, large-enterprise environments, a more robust reporting engine that supports detailed audit reporting and enhanced ad hoc reports would be welcome."

"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."

"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."

"A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"The product's pricing is fair and competitive."

"This is a cost-effective solution."

"The product's pricing is based on the customer's needs because every customer is different."

"The price is reasonable compared to other products."

"Ensure that you understand the per TB licensing model. Also, Exchange backups are not native to Cohesity and require Kroll."

"The tool's pricing is average."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"Pricing, setup costs, etc. are pretty typical. The initial cost for Cohesity was less than other products the we evaluated. Cohesity's pricing does offer benefits as DR target costs are less than other solutions. You are not charged for DataProtect licensing for target DR data consumption."

"The solution's pricing is quite high, more so than that of its competitors, Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik."

"Cohesity came in at the best price."

"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it's neither costly nor cheap."

"Licensing is per node and per protected terabyte. You will also pay 10-15% annually for support."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	43

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

I chose 8 out of 10 because it cost-effectively backs up the entire M365 environment and retains backups indefinitely. Restores can be very granular, for example, to restore single email messages. ...

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What needs improvement with Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup can be improved by addressing that when performing a restore, the search filter and the mailbox filter can be confusing, depending on what you want to achieve. Resto...

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What is your primary use case for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

My main use case for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is that it is very easy to configure, manage, and restore items when needed. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is also very proactive at managing ...

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What do you like most about Cohesity DataProtect?

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 m...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataProtect?

I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation, despite being content with its existing features.

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Also Known As

Barracuda Cloud to Cloud Backup

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Overview

Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides comprehensive, cost-effective, scalable protection for your Office 365 data. It automatically backs up all your email ,OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Groups, and Teams data to Barracuda Cloud Storage. And when time is of the essence, restoring what you need takes just a few clicks.

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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:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

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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