Cohesity DataProtect vs Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] comparison

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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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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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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (10th), Cloud Backup (15th), AI Data Analysis (19th)

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

Kalaiarasan Meganathan

Specialist at HCLSoftware

Backup operations have become faster and daily recoveries run smoothly for on‑prem workloads

When compared to other tools, the deduplication in Cohesity DataProtect is very fast, and the restore performance is better than other tools. Global deduplication ensures that only unique data blocks are stored, significantly reducing storage consumption. Cohesity DataProtect's dashboard displays options and errors clearly, making it easy to access and understand how to fix issues. Cohesity DataProtect's ability to start processes automatically without manual selections enhances its reliability. Cohesity DataProtect's architecture ensures that agent installations automatically reflect in the dashboard, allowing for seamless integration into backup jobs. This improves operational efficiency, ensuring backups can be triggered without manual refreshes. Additionally, the user interface is intuitive, and the respect of the N-1 rule during updates helps prevent client-affecting issues.

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Ujwal Sawant

Technical Manager at Optimistic Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd

Reliable and efficient for our data backup needs

I would rate the easiness of the initial setup as an eight out of ten. During our initial setup of Quest Rapid Recovery, we encountered some smaller issues, mainly related to version compatibility and system changes. Setting up Quest Rapid Recovery was quick and done within a day. We started by ensuring the required prerequisites were in place. One server was dedicated to Rapid Recovery, and another acted as a proxy for communication. After installing the Rapid Recovery client on both servers and establishing communication, we configured settings and set up a backup schedule, deciding on file-level or full backups as needed. The process was straightforward, making the deployment efficient and completed within a day. One person with the right skills is all it takes for the deployment.

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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

"We were able to eliminate tape backups by utilizing Cohesity to backup our VMs, replicate the backup data to a second offsite Cohesity cluster, and replace our older legacy NAS devices, which greatly simplified our environment and provided a substantial increase in speed."

"It has mainly given us peace of mind knowing that our backups are going to work, and we will be able to easily restore our data, if needed."

"The nice thing is there is no further licensing when you purchase the system, all is integrated."

"Our business thrives on Cohesity storage."

"Administratively, my staff is relieved at the ease of management and ongoing administration with Cohesity."

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

"While we're still new in the implementation, we are excited that we now have a single point of view for all of our backups."

"This solution has given us a three-fold performance increase."

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"I sleep well at night knowing that our systems are protected."

"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."

"Rapid Recovery is one of the most durable and rock-stable solutions."

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

"The fact that it can take a snapshot of everything on a server and replicate it on another server in real-time is the most valuable feature."

"It is pretty simple to set up and use, the ease of use has reduced the administration time involved in our backup and recovery operations, and I can sleep easily at night knowing that I've got one of the best solutions in place for the school."

"It is more fully integrated with the hypervisor, particularly with VMware solution, and it is simple to create replica sets to our VR site."

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

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Cons

"I thought physical RDM's were supported, but apparently that is not the case."

"I think Cohesity could add more platform support. For example, they could improve integration with DB2 or make the integration S3 object storage a little tighter. Some of that stuff could use some work, but overall, it's a relatively comprehensive platform."

"We would like it to have more capabilities for different kinds of PaaS or SaaS services in the Azure cloud, such as Azure SQL or Azure Cosmos DB."

"We have encountered a few cluster crashes because of indexing on XFS file systems this should be fixed in 6.1.0"

"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."

"I think Cohesity DataProtect could be improved because I do not prefer when it works with vendors to protect data in tape and other vendors for bare metal, as it passes responsibility to them."

"I would like to see Cohesity have the ability to do a file level restore from a Windows server, which is storing data on dynamic disk."

"The product is still young and is continually improving. There have been a couple of buggy releases in the software that have caused us minor issues, so possibly some better QA before releasing would prove to be useful. We have also been inquiring about new app and functionality via the Marketplace that was teased months back but has yet to come to fruition."

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"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."

"It's not really Quest's fault, but the only issue that I had during the time when I was doing a lot of our restores is whenever the server reboots, it has to bring all of the repositories back in again, which takes around five to six hours to pull eight terabytes back in again."

"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."

"Sometimes, when we have certain batches for Windows, it needs to be restarted. When it's restarted, the service is configured as a delayed start. Sometimes, you need to wait too long until it rights itself, or you have to do it manually."

"One area where Quest Rapid Recovery has room for improvement is in the handling of snapshots on Hyper-V."

"The archive feature is a little cryptic. I don't think that it is very understandable."

"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."

"GUI response time has a LOT of lag, although in all fairness it might be due to us running more clients than we should on the server."

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

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

"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."

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

"If SQL is in heavy use at your location, I would highly recommend narrowing your PoC testing to Cohesity and Rubrik. They will be competitive on pricing with each other, so really put them through the paces."

"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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"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 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."

"The pricing is on the higher end."

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

"It is a little expensive. However, I haven't compared it to other solutions. Being a nonprofit, it is always good to have nonprofit discounts on products."

"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."

"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

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Performing Arts

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	43

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

Questions from the Community

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The pricing of Cohesity DataProtect is cost-efficient.

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

There are several areas that have room for improvement, and I believe there are other aspects that could be enhanced as well.

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Overview

Cohesity DataProtect integrates with VMware and cloud services like AWS and Azure, offering rapid VM restores and mass recovery, ransomware protection with immutable snapshots, intuitive UI, and scalability. It also consolidates data management, reducing data fragmentation.

Cohesity DataProtect provides comprehensive data protection and management through a user-friendly platform. It offers seamless integration with existing infrastructure, minimizing downtime and maximizing data security. Intuitive features like automated processes, centralized management, and robust search capabilities enhance operational efficiency. Despite areas needing improvement in reporting, interface usability, and legacy support, the platform remains a reliable choice for data backup, recovery, and ransomware protection. Users benefit from its compatibility with VMware, SQL, and Exchange and its ability to replace outdated tape systems while supporting cloud replication and test environments.

What key features does Cohesity DataProtect offer?

Rapid VM Restores: Quickly recover virtual machines to mitigate downtime.
Instant Mass Recovery: Simultaneously restore multiple systems.
Efficient Deduplication: Reduces data redundancy effectively.
Ransomware Protection: Secure data with immutable snapshots.
Intuitive UI: Navigate the platform with ease and efficiency.
Software Immutability: Safeguard data against unauthorized changes.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Enhance security with layered authentication.
Role-Based Access Control: Manage permissions based on user roles.

What benefits or ROI can users expect?

Ease of Setup: Simple installation process saves time.
Centralized Management: Unified control over data assets.
Powerful Search Capabilities: Quickly locate and retrieve data.
Seamless Scalability: Easily expand data management as needed.
Reduced Downtime: Efficient recovery processes enhance business continuity.
Comprehensive Coverage: Broad support for multiple environments.

Cohesity DataProtect is successfully implemented across industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, optimizing data protection and compliance needs. Organizations leverage its robust backup and recovery capabilities, ensuring data integrity and security while facilitating efficient resource use and operation management.

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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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