Cohesity DataProtect vs Druva inSync comparison

Cohesity and Druva are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Cohesity is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3, while Druva is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.4. Cohesity holds a 3.9% mindshare in CB, compared to Druva’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Druva users who would recommend it.

Cohesity DataProtect

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85% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Druva inSync and Cohesity DataProtect are leading solutions in the cloud data protection category. Druva inSync is often favored for its competitive pricing and efficient support, while Cohesity DataProtect stands out due to its comprehensive features, making it a preferred choice for organizations seeking extensive data solutions.

Features: Druva inSync has seamless integration, effective data deduplication, and innovative ransomware protection. Cohesity DataProtect offers expansive data management features, automatic tiering, and comprehensive backup and recovery functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Druva inSync could improve in enhancing its endpoint features, supporting longer data retention periods, and expanding customization options for varied business needs. Cohesity DataProtect might benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing initial costs, and enhancing the intuitiveness of its user interface for first-time users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Druva inSync is straightforward to deploy and offers responsive customer support. Cohesity DataProtect, although slightly complex due to its hybrid model, offers a structured onboarding process with flexibility for complex infrastructures.

Pricing and ROI: Druva inSync provides a cost-effective setup with significant ROI through efficient resource utilization. Cohesity DataProtect, while requiring a higher initial investment, offers substantial long-term ROI due to its scalability and advanced features. The choice may depend on immediate budget constraints versus anticipated long-term returns.

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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 (9th)

Druva inSync

Ranking in Cloud Backup

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 3.9%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Druva inSync is 2.5%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cohesity DataProtect	3.9%
Druva inSync	2.5%
Other	93.6%

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Featured Reviews

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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Ahmad Mohammed EL-DADA

Manager, Information Technology at KUN Sports

Provides server-side and backend application support but needs better interface

The last update made the interface look somewhat unfamiliar to users. Data recovery was technically flawless at some point. However, an update after a merger changed things. The current procedure for data encryption is not as straightforward as before, and we're facing some challenges. Specifically, one user encrypted their data, and since they have left the company, we cannot decrypt it. This has resulted in a loss of access to that data.

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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 ease of use and the GUI have really been most valuable to us. Configuring the system to do what we need is simple and straight forward and a lot of guesswork has been removed. One of my favorite features with Cohesity is Kroll for Exchange item-level recovery. The software is simple to use and fast."

"With the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."

"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."

"A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window."

"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."

"I love the ability to clone a virtual server in only minutes."

"The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor."

"We can run test scripts on production data."

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"It has a straightforward installation."

"All the data is well encrypted. In addition, the data is split into pieces so that if an endpoint is attacked or compromised with any kind of ransomware, the compromised machine can be relocated or restored. All the data that was previously backed up can be restored from the cloud. It has a lot of security features. Druva currently offers only the cloud version on AWS. Being a cloud solution, Druva goes by a lot of security compliances and provides a security portfolio. People are very skeptical of the data security in cloud solutions, and Druva has given consideration to that. It has some good geo-location features. If a machine is lost, when the machine is switched on and connected to the internet, that machine can be geo-located and tracked. It also has got the geo-wipeout feature. If someone tries to take out the data from a lost machine, they won't be able to do that. The moment an IT admin comes to know that the machine is no longer with a user, he or she can auto-run the geo-wipeout feature so that the data cannot be read by any third party. Duality replication is a unique thing about this solution. Everybody's data is not backed up if the data is common. Similar data is not backed up from other machines. The data backup also happens very smoothly. The bandwidth choking is very less. When the data is getting backed up, the users do not even get to know. There is no impact even when the users are not using high-speed bandwidth."

"Druva inSync is very easy to use."

"The recovery aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."

"You don't need a certified administrator to manage this product."

"Our customers do not need to purchase third party storage or a separate server for data backup."

"Druva is offered as a service so that we can access it from any enterprise-based browser or URL. We also have a single sign-on, which allows me to log in securely. Hence, I can easily access the system, configure it, perform day-to-day monitoring tasks, and check for any issues or configurations needed. Overall, it's a simple and easy-to-use tool with a high-speed and straightforward interface for management."

"On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution a 10."

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Cons

"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."

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

"We are highly dissatisfied with the level of support and functionality provided for HANA within the Cohesity product."

"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."

"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."

"There is room for improvement in terms of price."

"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."

"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."

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"The support of other cloud services needs to be improved. It has very good cloud support for AWS but not with others."

"The backup time is very poor. The backup runs continuously. It goes on from morning till night. The system performance also becomes very poor when Druva inSync is running."

"The user quota is an area that needs to be improved."

"I would like to see security improved in the next release."

"The product needs to improve its support."

"If I could have an accelerator or something to back up the solution on the cloud, that would be helpful. Also, it would be helpful if the accelerator could give me a buffer of a couple of days for any kind of immediate recovery on an offsite."

"One functionality I would like is the ability to manage multiple Office 365 tenants from a single console."

"The speed could be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"With respect to pricing, make sure that you look at both Rubrik and Cohesity as they are very similar and are quite competitive."

"The tool's pricing is average."

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

"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."

"The pricing model is impressive and very effective."

"My advice is to always negotiate for better pricing."

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

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

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"The pricing is thirty-five dollars per year or three dollars per month per user."

"It's approximately $4000.00 per user for one year."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very cheap and ten being very expensive."

"Out of all the solutions we evaluated, Druva inSync was the most affordable."

"It is an expensive product for the middle class or SMB customers in India. A lot of top-level big companies also cannot afford this solution. During the license period, one can download the entire data from the cloud without paying any additional cost. This way the data can be easily recreated from the stored data when a machine is lost or the data is compromised."

"Once you decide to go with this product the cost can be worked out with the vendor."

"The price is quite good, It's approximately $4000.00 per user for one year."

"The pricing is good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	40

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	3

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 Druva inSync?

Druva is offered as a service so that we can access it from any enterprise-based browser or URL. We also have a single sign-on, which allows me to log in securely. Hence, I can easily access the sy...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Druva inSync?

Pricing is average, but compared to the other solution, they need to revise their price list.

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What needs improvement with Druva inSync?

Currently, there is not anything required for improvement as they are already enhancing their existing solutions. We have suggested improvements for geolocations and other matters. To make Druva in...

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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

Druva inSync is a comprehensive data protection and governance platform that enables organizations to securely backup, recover, and manage their critical data.

With its cloud-native architecture, inSync offers scalable and efficient data protection across endpoints, cloud applications, and servers. It provides automated backups, ensuring that data is always protected and easily recoverable in case of any data loss or system failure.

In addition, inSync offers advanced data governance capabilities, allowing organizations to enforce data retention policies, monitor data usage, and comply with regulatory requirements.

With its intuitive user interface and robust security features, Druva inSync is the ideal solution for organizations looking to safeguard their data and ensure business continuity.

Druva

Sample Customers

Tribune Media

TRC Companies, Inc., ANDRITZ, Inc., Allergan, Plc, ServiceNow, Live Nation, Shire, DHL, Leidos, NASA, UC Berkeley, Leica, Hatco Corporation, Flex, Enphase.

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