Both Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and Cohesity Data Cloud compete in the data management and protection space. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager has the upper hand in affordability and customer support, while Cohesity Data Cloud leads with its advanced features.
Features: Dell PowerProtect Data Manager offers reliability, comprehensive data protection, and seamless integration with other Dell products. Cohesity Data Cloud provides scalability, efficient backup and recovery capabilities, and valuable multi-cloud integration.
Room for Improvement: Users of Dell PowerProtect Data Manager note challenges with complicated initial setup, occasional slow performance during large-scale operations, and technical complexity. Cohesity Data Cloud users want enhanced customer support, better documentation, and improved guidance.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell PowerProtect Data Manager has mixed reviews regarding deployment with a steep learning curve but satisfactory customer service. Cohesity Data Cloud has a straightforward deployment process with intuitive workflows, but its customer service lacks responsiveness.
Pricing and ROI: Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is viewed as more budget-friendly with favorable ROI, attracting cost-conscious buyers. Cohesity Data Cloud, though more expensive, is considered worth the investment due to its extensive features and long-term benefits.
Consolidate your backups, file shares, object stores and data for dev/test and analytics on a web-scale data management platform.
PowerProtect Data Manager offers efficient data protection capabilities leveraging the latest evolution of Dell trusted protection storage architecture.
With operational simplicity, agility and flexibility at its core, PowerProtect Data Manager enables the protection, management and recovery of data in on-premises, virtualized and cloud deployments, including protection of in-cloud workloads. You can also protect cloud-native workloads across multiple public clouds via our integrated SaaS based PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager.
Modernize how you protect your VMware virtual machines using Transparent Snapshots. Transparent Snapshots simplifies VM image backups for near-zero impact to your VMs or VM resources – and it works with any VMware supported storage. Transparent Snapshots innovation increases backup performance, lowers costs and simplifies management and reduces the risk of data loss.
Streamline data protection directly for applications or Kubernetes containers to Dell PowerProtect appliances and reduce application resource constraints.
Increase business resiliency with PowerProtect Cyber Recovery capabilities to rapidly recover from cyber incidents.
Modular design allows agile delivery of new features and updates. Rapidly evolve to meet future IT demands.
Reviews from Real Users
“We keep an eye on the future, and we are confident that PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect DD series appliances will support our transformation project. Both products are continuously evolving and will cover our future needs, including using the cloud for data protection.” – Dimitris Mavromichalis, IT Deputy Manager at National Bank of Greece
“PowerProtect Data Manager combined with PowerProtect appliances – that’s cutting edge. That’s world leading as far as we’re concerned.” – Drew Hills, Infrastructure Analyst at USC Australia
““Most of my wish list came true with the PowerProtect Data Manager plugin for vSphere, which provides perfect integration with vCenter.” – Dave Chapman, Senior Technician at PSC Publishing
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