Cohesity DataProtect vs Datto Cloud Continuity comparison

Cohesity and datto are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Cohesity is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3, while datto is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.0. Cohesity holds a 4.0% mindshare in CB, compared to datto’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of datto users who would recommend it.

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Datto Cloud Continuity and Cohesity DataProtect compete in the data protection and backup domain. Cohesity DataProtect appears to have an upper hand due to its extensive feature set justifying the higher investment.

Features: Datto Cloud Continuity provides efficient disaster recovery, seamless integration with infrastructures, and automated backups for small to mid-sized enterprises. Cohesity DataProtect stands out with features like multi-cloud backup, anti-ransomware capabilities, and a scalable architecture suited for larger environments.

Room for Improvement: Datto Cloud Continuity could benefit from improvements in data restoration processes and broader integration capabilities. It might also enhance its scalability for more complex environments while expanding data recovery options. Cohesity DataProtect could improve in simplifying some advanced features and addressing initial deployment complexities. Enhancing user accessibility for non-technical teams and optimizing cost structures could also be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Datto Cloud Continuity boasts straightforward deployment with managed services, ideal for teams with limited resources, and is praised for its responsive customer service. Cohesity DataProtect requires more technical expertise but offers comprehensive support and detailed documentation, catering to organizations needing sophisticated data strategies.

Pricing and ROI: Datto Cloud Continuity is lauded for its predictable pricing and lower initial costs, enabling quicker ROI for smaller businesses. Cohesity DataProtect, although involving higher setup costs, promises substantial long-term ROI by reducing operational costs and minimizing risks associated with data loss in larger IT settings. The investment in Cohesity is justified by its rich features for extensive data management.

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Cloud Backup

8th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (8th)

Datto Cloud Continuity

Ranking in Cloud Backup

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 4.0%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datto Cloud Continuity is 1.1%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Giovanni Golinelli.

Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support

The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup. Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance. We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site. Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.

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Samuel Torres

Support Engineer Tier II at Security First IT

Has an easy initial setup process, but its scalability features need improvement

We use Datto Cloud Continuity for backup computers for end users. We download an agent from the data web page, install it on the client’s computer, and start creating the backup image. Later, it synchronizes with the cloud for the backup process. The platform provides a faster backup process. We…

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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 four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing."

"Cohesity DataProtect is easily manageable, and you can see every option from the user interface."

"It is also very easy to determine which VMs are being backed up and which ones aren't. This is helpful to make sure nothing is being missed."

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

"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."

"I found value in the instant recovery with DataMove. I found value in the protection group model for applying policies to VMs. And in the overall UI navigation and the way that the application is laid out in the web browser."

"Cohesity DataProtect is a converged solution that simplifies backup and allows use of the backed-up data."

"It's stable."

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"The platform provides a faster backup process."

"The solution has the capability to scale well."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

"The recovery time objective and recovery point objective were most valuable. It was easy to use, and it was easy to recover a file. I was the head of sales and a product evaluator for an MSSP, so I never had to deal with recovery from ransomware. However, I was confident that if ransomware had occurred, I would only lose a maximum of 59 minutes of data. The files were encrypted."

"The solution's reliability is one of its most valuable features...It is a very stable solution."

"Datto has strong competition, but they succeeded in linking their service to the device. It's easy for managed service providers to sell and upsell products using their portal and the remote monitoring and maintenance."

Cons

"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."

"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."

"The error handling could be improved."

"Reducing storage capacity requirements and improving security features are also areas that could be enhanced."

"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."

"Cohesity DataProtect needs to improve its reporting capabilities."

"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."

"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."

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"The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Datto's only shortcoming is RMM. They have a portal-based connection service like ConnectWise, but it does backups and keeps things running. Datto purchased Backupify and Kaseya bought Datto. If they upped the ante in their RMM, I could see them dominating the MSP space. At the end of the day, MSPs are responsible for networks, software, devices, and backup. Datto covers all these functions so they could offer a turnkey MSP solution."

"The product's scalability features could be even better."

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud. I love Datto, and I know they're on the right path, but I probably would've focused more on the operating system update management. When you go from the desk to the cloud or from the server room to the cloud, everything changes. Everything is different. You're not in control of your servers anymore. It is from the Active Directory management perspective and not from the perspective of zero-day attacks or other similar things. At the time, more focus on zero-day attacks and business email compromise (BEC) would've been a better protection factor than just educating about how many of these attacks have occurred."

"I don't have any feedback to provide in terms of features that may be lacking."

"They are now providing the device instead of selling it, while wanting their users to sign a three-year contract, and this is something which my clients don't like...I dislike the fact that signing a three-year contract is required."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."

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

"From my last assessment, the pricing for Cohesity DataProtect was reasonable. Compared to its closest competitor, Rubrik, I found Rubrik's pricing to be somewhat high-end. While Rubrik may have more advanced security features than Cohesity DataProtect currently, Cohesity DataProtect is releasing a new solution in the near future that will compete directly with Rubrik."

"Sizing is important and it is easy to overestimate."

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

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. It is cheaper than other backup solutions."

"The pricing model is impressive and very effective."

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"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"As the company grew from business continuity—or what used to be called business BCDR—they brought on services. Certain services, such as SaaS protection, were a value-add, but you would expect to pay for them. They are not going to be free. It is just the life that you live when you're evaluating software vendors, partners, etc. There is going to be some form of a base offering, and then there are going to be different tiers that you need to get up to a better level."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

22%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

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Comms Service Provider

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Questions from the Community

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?

What areas have room for improvement? Is there anything that could be simplified to make it better?

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What do you like most about Datto Cloud Continuity?

The product's initial setup phase is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Datto Cloud Continuity?

I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price.

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What needs improvement with Datto Cloud Continuity?

The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required.

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Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs

Overview

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"

Cohesity

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs is much more than just cloud backup. MSPs can protect clients’ Windows-based computers from downtime and data loss and more importantly, rapidly recover data if disaster strikes.

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