Cohesity DataProtect and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) are two leading solutions in the data protection market. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and robust performance.
Features: Cohesity DataProtect offers simplicity and scalability, an intuitive interface, and seamless data integration. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) provides extensive capabilities for different environments, advanced security measures, and highly configurable backup options.
Room for Improvement:Cohesity needs to improve its reporting accuracy, data management capabilities, and interoperability with various platforms. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires better integration with third-party applications, more straightforward configuration processes, and enhancements in scalability.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cohesity DataProtect is known for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a more complex deployment process and receives mixed feedback on customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Cohesity DataProtect offers lower setup costs and a quicker ROI. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has higher initial costs but provides long-term value through robust features, justifying its higher price.
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.
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.
The support can depend on the region, and for larger customers, I advise having a Technical Account Manager for better assistance.
Challenges exist in certain Linux-based cases.
On the one or two occasions where we needed to engage with Dell support, they've been most helpful.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) support from Dell EMC is consistent.
Cohesity DataProtect is built on a scale-out architecture, which means it can effectively scale to meet various needs.
The product offers flexibility for scalability, making it user-friendly and adaptable to different performance requirements.
On the whole, any problems were more related to hardware limitations rather than issues with Cohesity DataProtect itself.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is a stable solution because it's a mature product.
There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation.
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.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires more updates and innovations in AI-powered cyber resilience.
You cannot integrate with any other third-party solution or your Data Domain since it is very tightly coupled and has limited licenses with respect to capacity that are integrated directly with Avamar.
One area of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) that can be improved is probably more integrations with third-party software, particularly third-party backup software.
I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.
Pricing is competitive with other software vendors.
The pricing of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is competitive compared to its peers in the market.
The platform is based on a scale-out architecture with each node having compute, RAM, SSD, and HDD.
Cohesity DataProtect's architecture ensures that agent installations automatically reflect in the dashboard, allowing for seamless integration into backup jobs.
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.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a scalable architecture, offering flexibility, so you can always scale the capacity to meet any increased demands.
AI integration enhances backup operations by analyzing data and ensuring malware protection.
It is easy for rebooting and upgrading since everything is managed from a single pane through DPA, where you can upgrade everything including your backup solution and backup storage in a one-touch interface.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Cohesity DataProtect | 2.0% |
| Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) | 0.7% |
| Other | 97.3% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 19 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 43 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 6 |
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"
The PowerProtect DP series appliances is the integrated appliance solution from the Dell data protection appliances portfolio.
PowerProtect DP series appliance: Simple, efficient and agile data protection
The DP series is an all-in-one backup appliance that reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions and vendor relationships. The DP series simplifies deployment and management—while delivering powerful, enterprise-grade data protection capabilities for small, mid-size and enterprise organizations at a low cost-to-protect.
It is an integrated solution that offers complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication, instant access and restore, search & analytics, seamless VMware integration — plus, cloud readiness with disaster recovery (DR) and long-term retention (LTR) to the cloud — all in a single appliance.
With the DP series, customers reduce their time-to-protect and become more agile with a solution that’s fast, protected more efficiently, can be recovered quickly and is reliable.
Simple to deploy, scale and manage
The DP series enables organizations to protect a broad ecosystem of applications quickly with a single system management console, consolidating workload protection, and eliminating infrastructure or data sprawl. The easy-to-use System Manager simplifies backups and automates daily tasks, including monitoring, management, reporting, analytics and search. The DP series delivers all-in-one data protection: protection storage and software, search and advanced monitoring and analytics, combined with cloud extensibility. It offers integration with VMware, SQL and Oracle management tools so that admins can use familiar UIs.
Powerful cloud, performance and efficiency
The DP series can scale to fit the needs of enterprises with the ability to protect up to 195 PB (logical) of data to the public, private or hybrid clouds with Cloud Tier, with no additional hardware.7 Plus, native Cloud DR with end-to-end orchestration allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from on-premises DP series environments to the public cloud with AWS, Azure, or VMware Cloud on AWS —3 clicks to failover and 2 clicks to failback.
The DP series provides support for modern applications like MongoDB and MySQL and is optimized for VMware. It provides fast, single-step recovery of individual files, dynamic policies for VMs as well as complete VMware images, which can be instantly accessed and migrated live from the DP series appliance back to the production environment (using vMotion) while still running, further simplifying and optimizing VM recovery. Plus, instantly access up to 64 VMs with up to 60,000 IOPS to meet the strictest SLAs.
Data protection search simplifies file-level-recovery (FLR) activities with an easy-to-use search interface. The DP series is also built on the industry-proven Data Invulnerability Architecture (DIA), for encryption, fault detection, and healing.
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