Cohesity DataProtect vs Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] comparison

Cohesity and Quest Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

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97% willing to recommend

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 26, 2025

Quest Rapid Recovery and Cohesity DataProtect are key competitors in the data protection and backup solutions market. Cohesity appears to have the upper hand due to its integrated features and cloud management capabilities.

Features: Quest Rapid Recovery provides point-in-time recovery and virtual standby capabilities for Windows and Linux environments without needing agent software for VMs. It includes built-in encryption, compression, and deduplication features to optimize storage. Cohesity DataProtect offers seamless integration and elasticity across cloud environments with instant recovery and efficient backup options. It is praised for its search functionality and data management capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Quest Rapid Recovery faces challenges with multi-platform support, needs better reporting capabilities and database backup enhancements. Users report slow response times. Cohesity DataProtect could improve feature integration and expand support for more platforms and databases. Enhancing replication processes and addressing interface issues are also suggested by users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Quest Rapid Recovery is primarily on-premises, with satisfactory but occasionally slow support. Users appreciate the resources but have concerns about case resolution times. Cohesity DataProtect offers versatile deployment models, including hybrid configurations. It is praised for responsive support, though some report delays in complex case resolutions.

Pricing and ROI: Quest Rapid Recovery is considered expensive, especially for basic virtual backups, with pricing often perceived as high based on data amount. Despite costs, users feel the investment is justified for security and peace of mind. Cohesity DataProtect provides competitive pricing with straightforward licensing, offering cost-effective solutions that deliver significant value and ROI through operational efficiency.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (6th), Cloud Backup (9th), AI Data Analysis (8th)

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

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No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Stefan-Motsch

Evangelist / CTO at fgnext

Adopting advanced convergence and seamless management elevates data protections

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. Customers looking for features that older systems provided might find gaps, but these are typically for very specific needs.

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Adam Augustín

Country Manager at Prianto Ltd

Granular recovery, replication is good and offers good speed

It is for any kind of company that uses their own servers. From a global perspective, our clients are small-sized companies. All the SMEs, compared to the Slovakian market, are quite small. It's a small market with small companies. They just want to enhance security and follow regulations It's…

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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

"It offers an easy, quick backup and restore of files and VMs. Also, the "Google-like " search for files is awesome."

"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."

"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."

"After linking a cloud subscription, like Azure for example (AWS and Google are also supported), you can "spin" a VM onto the cloud from any backup snapshot."

"One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."

"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."

"No longer does it take several hours to backup a VM or troubleshoot a backup issue."

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"The data protection strategy varies on a case-by-case basis, but overall, it's doing well."

"Built-in encryption helps to secure our data as it travels from our on-site server to our off-site backup server."

"Not having to switch tapes is wonderful. It makes it so easy. We have an on-prem deployment that we also replicate to an offsite replication host. So by not having to deal with tapes and moving them off-site every day and every week, that's amazing ease of use for us."

"Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."

"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to back up a physical server to another physical or virtual server."

"The most valuable feature is the disaster recovery process from the data center."

"The local mount utility is most valuable. I do restores fairly regularly. Thankfully, I have not ever lost an entire server that I've had to resurrect, but I certainly have people who erroneously saved over a file or have deleted a file. So, we've done that quite a bit. We still have the DL4000 appliance, and we had, kind of, extrapolated that out over a five-year period. Now, we're in year six, so we had to add storage, which we did as a SAN next to DL4000, but prior to adding in that extra storage, we, here and there, would run into situations where for whatever reason, it would want to be pulling a new base image, and then we would run out of storage. So, we would utilize the archive feature and archive the old data that we want to hang on to, but we don't necessarily need it taking up current data storage. Being able to export out really old data is most valuable to us. Then, we just store that on a NAS that we keep in another building."

"The best feature of the solution is the user interface."

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Cons

"In terms of the product itself, there have been a handful of patches that have had to be applied outside of the GUI via the command line. It's very straightforward and easy and in the same redundant fashion, but not quite as simple as one or two clicks. I'm hoping that will decrease going forward."

"Initial setup can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release."

"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."

"Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI."

"When a new release is launched, there may be some bugs that need to be addressed by the developers. However, they promptly resolve these issues, and the software runs smoothly once again."

"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."

"Their documentation could be refined."

"Non-cloud services need improvement."

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"It is quite surprising to me that the configuration cannot be backed up automatically, and I think that Rapid Recovery should have an option for scheduled configuration backup."

"There could be better space management for incremental data. When you use incremental data, the space in the appliance keeps on going up. There should be a better way to manage the space. You have to manage the incremental data to reduce the time."

"Rapid Recovery can only backup the machine or disc, but it can't back up from folders, and files, and things like that."

"The terminology didn't seem easily available. When I go to the website, it is hard to search for things. You get all the articles, then you finally get the search button. They need the search at the top of the knowledge base. Then, on occasion, if you get an error message in the system, which is very important, it says, "Click here for more information," but I never get more information. The search engine doesn't find it or it is some weird error. It has never worked for me."

"I think the self-paced learning and knowledge base can always be improved so that users can self-service without having to contact either a reseller or Quest. I know there are things that I would have been looking for to try and solve. And the only way I could get there was to actually open a ticket rather than go through self-service through the portal."

"For the most part, it is really good in terms of flexibility and choice of recovery methods. What we found lacking was being able to back up virtual volumes that are clustered. We ran out of luck there. There should be an option for backing up clustered virtual volumes."

"When you do a full backup, all of the memory resources on the server are used, which is something that should be improved."

"In case, if there is anything, it would be the speed of the operation to be finished. Even then, I can easily work on the storing function before the operation is finished."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It has reasonable pricing, and we know they can give discounts. If you look at the primary pricing or the list pricing, it conforms to the market pricing, but you have to have a discount on it. Otherwise, it is way too expensive."

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

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

"Cohesity came in at the best price. Setup was included and done in half a day."

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

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

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

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"I don't think the licensing for the product is very expensive."

"It's very expensive which is why I want to drop it. They charge us per core and we have a six-core server. It's expensive to pay for maintenance charges. I want to switch to something cheaper."

"I'm not aware of the exact cost of Quest Rapid Recovery because I'm from the technical team, but in general, the solution is quite competitive cost-wise."

"The pricing is on the higher end."

"I believe the basic license comes with six terabytes, whereas a lot of the other ones are four terabytes. From the price point, it seemed a lot better than the comparative models, such as Datto, Barracuda, and some of the others. I believe Barracuda was about $15,000 for four terabytes, and Quest was around $12,000 for six terabytes. Pricing is based on the period. There is just the maintenance fee that you have to pay annually, or you can pay for a three-year or four-year contract. This includes Premier Support."

"Its price is okay. It is reasonable in terms of the way it works."

"Licensing fees are based on the amount of data that you want to store, which is related to how many customers you want to cover."

"When I purchased the change to the license, it was $1,600. I think that was for changing the license. I don't believe that I had to purchase technical support in a while, so I must've bought maybe for five years, but I don't feel there was a huge cost involved in technical support. Its cost was definitely worth it because we've had a fantastic experience with them."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

13%

Performing Arts

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	43

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	2

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?

There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation, despite being content with its existing features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quest Rapid Recovery?

Dell solutions are approximately 30% to 35% more expensive than Veeam.

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What needs improvement with Quest Rapid Recovery?

The product is expensive.

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What is your primary use case for Quest Rapid Recovery?

We have sold some of the products to our customers, mainly to remove competitors like Veeam and also other appliances that do not have the whole package integrated into just one appliance.

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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

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] provides easy-to-use backup and recovery capabilities, emphasizing granular recovery and point-in-time restoration with simple installation, data replication, and user-friendly navigation.

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] helps manage infrastructure environments with features supporting disk backup, archiving, VM standby, and replication. Despite limitations like sluggish GUI, lack of support for tape and Mac, and high memory use, users appreciate its real-time data replication and strong reliability. The tool is employed in on-prem deployments and aids in disaster recovery, protecting data across cloud and on-premise servers, securing databases, and facilitating quick recovery during failures.

What are Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]'s key features?

Ease of Use: Simplifies operations with a user-friendly interface.
Granular Recovery: Allows detailed data retrieval.
Point-in-Time Restoration: Enables specific time data recovery.
Real-time Replication: Ensures up-to-date data replication.
Compression and Deduplication: Streamlines data management.

What benefits can users expect from Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]?

Improved Storage Efficiency: Enhanced by archiving and disk backup support.
Flexibility: Utilizing VM standby and replication features.
Reliability: Offers fast emergency recovery with minimal admin burden.

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] is integral for industries requiring robust data protection, encompassing crucial server and database backups in compliance-focused environments with SQL databases and Hyper-V hosts, ensuring swift and dependable recovery solutions.

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Sample Customers

Tribune Media

PRIME aerostructures GmbH, Tamworth Regional Council, Rhondda Housing Association, Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co., Guangdong Aiyingdao Childrens Department Store, Nspyre, Tarrant Technology Partners, CloudRunner

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