Cohesity Data Cloud vs MSP360 Backup comparison

Cohesity and MSP360 are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.5, while MSP360 is ranked #59. Cohesity holds a 0.7% mindshare in BRS, compared to MSP360’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of MSP360 users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

MSP360 Backup and Cohesity Data Cloud cater to different needs within the data management landscape. Cohesity Data Cloud often stands out due to its comprehensive feature set and advanced capabilities.

Features: MSP360 Backup users highly value its straightforward backup options, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. Cohesity Data Cloud is recognized for its extensive data management capabilities, enterprise scalability, and robust integration options. Cohesity’s broader feature set often appeals more to users needing advanced functionalities.

Room for Improvement: MSP360 Backup users recommend improving reporting tools, adding more automation features, and enhancing the user interface. Cohesity Data Cloud users suggest enhancements in data migration tools, reducing the complexity of certain operations, and streamlining user workflows. MSP360’s simpler interface contrasts with Cohesity’s complexity which remains a concern.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: MSP360 Backup is noted for its quick and straightforward deployment process paired with responsive customer service. Cohesity Data Cloud’s deployment is more complex but supported by comprehensive documentation and robust customer service. MSP360’s ease of deployment is often seen as advantageous for smaller setups, while Cohesity’s support system helps mitigate its complex initial setup.

Pricing and ROI: MSP360 Backup users find the setup cost affordable with a satisfactory ROI, making it a cost-effective solution. Cohesity Data Cloud, despite having a higher initial setup cost, delivers substantial ROI due to its advanced features and performance, offering good value for money.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity Data Cloud

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

14th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Management Platforms (DMP) (6th), AI Data Analysis (15th)

MSP360 Backup

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

59th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

47th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (33rd), MSP Backup (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity Data Cloud is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MSP360 Backup is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cohesity Data Cloud	0.7%
MSP360 Backup	0.8%
Other	98.5%

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Featured Reviews

Shiva Kinnera

Technical Lead at Cognizant

Support and connection issues affect user experience

I currently work at TCS in a different domain using AWS and Azure cloud backup. I switched from Cognizant to TCS four months ago, where I previously used Cohesity Data Cloud and Cohesity tools. I prefer Cohesity Data Cloud over AWS. While cloud functionality is similar across platforms, Cohesity Data Cloud's console, options, and web console are superior to AWS. The pricing of Cohesity Data Cloud depends on the data volume and retention period. Compared to alternatives, Cohesity Data Cloud is somewhat expensive. Regarding technical aspects, connection issues need to be addressed promptly. I would rate it eight out of ten, as these issues require immediate resolution to meet client requirements. Overall review rating: 9/10.

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CONRAD FORREST

President at MTS Consulting Group, Inc.

The solution provides the ability to backup all types of cloud drives, is inexpensive, and has decent support

MSP360 Backup provides the backup functionality, but we need to provide the storage component. We can use Azure, AWS, or another provider, but we need to choose the storage provider and create a bucket to store our data. The vendor is making changes to improve the functionality of the service and the separation of storage, but I would like to see more integration and a knowledge base of the tool. Currently trying to understand why the storage is separated and how to implement the storage properly is a challenge. Using the solution incurs additional charges for the device storage and backup which are not included in the service. Unlike other solutions such as Kohl which includes everything at one price. MSP360 Backup can be improved by adding inclusive pricing.

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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 hyper-converged architecture and scalability are hugely important for growing service companies."

"The clone feature is very nice. You can restore workloads onto Cohesity's storage, which is also nice to have when you don't have enough space to restore on the server."

"Cohesity Data Cloud is user-friendly, and anyone can use this tool; the support is really good, especially the web support, and the dashboard and everything are good."

"My favorite feature of Cohesity Data Cloud is the setup, as it is very fast compared to other solutions; I have worked in different clouds, and Cohesity Data Cloud stands out as superior."

"It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery."

"We use Cohesity Helios primarily in our data management strategy for backup and reporting."

"I find the most important feature to be data protection."

"My favorite feature of Cohesity Data Cloud is the setup, as it is very fast compared to other solutions; I have worked in different clouds, and Cohesity Data Cloud stands out as superior."

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"The UI is pretty good. It's very simple. That is one thing that we like about this. It's very user-friendly."

"One massive advantage of this solution, as compared to more enterprise products, is that no firewall changes are needed on the client's premises. For the product to back up from the client's premise to the cloud, it just needs port 8 and port 443, which are anyway always open. This was one of the things that made us decide to go with the product. It is very difficult to justify a firewall change for a small client who doesn't even know what a firewall is and how to maintain a firewall, or doesn't have anybody maintaining their firewall. You then have to maintain the firewall. MSP360 Backup takes away firewall change requirements, VPNs, or channels that are needed for the backup."

"It has allowed me to implement a cost effective, highly configurable solution."

"MSP360 Backup's most valuable feature is its backup interface."

"The solution is simple to use and easy to configure."

"The feature that I have found most valuable is its online backup capacity because you don't have to do an entire backup again and again, it just does whatever you type in, you type a, it goes a, you type b, it goes b. It doesn't take an entire site up again and again. So that incremental and bit by bit backup is important, it is a nice feature here."

"General ease of use and performance of the Windows version is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature for me is that I can see what has has been successfully backed up and what not. I do not mean the file or folder view, because that's problematic with GDPR, but I mean which machines have successfully backed up. It's very valuable because you don't have to check the machines. The second feature is that you can change backup settings in the portal."

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Cons

"The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions."

"The limitation that I see in Cohesity is that the minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which is more than a small customer needs."

"The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions."

"Their documentation portal is not up to date for newer releases and I strongly recommend Cohesity to increase their efforts on the documentation portal."

"In terms of functionality, Helios has been effective, but sometimes it doesn't show the exact cluster name for backups."

"Sometimes the support team does not provide proper assistance during critical issues from the cloud end."

"They still have quite some way to go for improving their agents."

"The only concern I have with cloud implementation is that if you have a presence on-premises, trying to use the cloud may become a performance challenge."

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"The main improvement is that it should have GDPR compliance. That's the problematic point. They say they are GDPR compliant, but they are not."

"The product could be more user-friendly."

"The restore time could improve. When we had an issue the restore time was lengthy."

"The graphics are looking a bit old and should be updated."

"As for what can be improved, some reports could be simplified so that you know how much backup you have done and what your backup details are. That report is available but it is very tough to get. I would like to know "today I have just uploaded 35 MB, tomorrow I have loaded 10 MB so my trend of backup is increasing.""

"They can add some production backup capabilities and the ability to do single instance back up. At the moment, it doesn't do deduplication on the standard backup. So, the issue is backing up PSG files for customers who have limited bandwidth. The other issue is that I don't like the implementation of the SQL backup. We do use SQL ourselves using a PowerShell script with the VDA tools as a module. That's how we back up. The rotation feature would be nice to have, but I know that they've got it on their dashboard or on their list to look at. They can also do a few tweaks to the dashboard. I would like the reporting capabilities on the portal to be much more granular. Normally, I export it to a text file, and then I run it through a pivot table in order to look at it from a cost-recovery point of view and to see when the backup last ran and if it was successful when it ran two or three days ago. Such a feature would work really well for my market. They can also add a cost-effective backup for Android and Apple cellphones. I've had one or two customers who were looking for this feature. I haven't found this functionality at the moment. I've been looking for a product that does that."

"We could basically use just a more concise visual dashboard reporting on the status of the various machines."

"Using the solution incurs additional charges for the device storage and backup which are not included in the service."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Regarding pricing, it's very costly and I rate it a four."

"It's priced properly for the market."

"Competing products sometimes use deceptive marketing to make their products seem a lot cheaper. Comparing apples-to-apples, DataPlatform wins out."

"It includes a standard licensing fee. Once a year, there is a rebranding fee. The licensing costs are available on the internet for MSP360 Backup. There is a discount structure where if you have over 50 devices, you get a 50% discount. So, my cost is $2 a license per month."

"I rate the price of MSP360 Backup a seven out of ten."

"The solution is expensive."

"MSP360 is vastly cheaper than its competitors and has almost all the same features."

"The cost is pretty inexpensive. Around four to five dollars per device, per workstation on each server."

"It provides a good cost savings compared to our previous cloud backup."

"We have a very good return on investment."

"Its pricing needs improvement."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

University

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

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Also Known As

Imanis Data, DataPlatform, Cohesity Helios

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Overview

Consolidate your backups, file shares, object stores and data for dev/test and analytics on a web-scale data management platform.

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MSP360 Backup is a comprehensive data protection solution designed for businesses of all sizes. It offers a wide range of features and capabilities to ensure the safety and security of critical data.

With support for various storage destinations, including local drives, network shares, and cloud storage providers, MSP360 Backup provides flexibility and scalability. It also offers advanced scheduling options, allowing users to automate backups based on specific time intervals or events.

The solution supports both full and incremental backups, minimizing storage requirements and optimizing backup speed. MSP360 Backup also includes built-in encryption and compression, ensuring data privacy and reducing storage costs. Additionally, it offers easy file and folder recovery, allowing users to quickly restore lost or corrupted data.

With its intuitive user interface and robust set of features, MSP360 Backup is a reliable and efficient solution for businesses looking to protect their valuable data.

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