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Cohesity DataProtect vs Veritas Alta Data Protection comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.6
Cohesity DataProtect delivers cost, time savings, enhances efficiency, simplifies backups, and ensures swift recovery, achieving ROI within months.
Sentiment score
6.3
Veritas Alta Data Protection offers ROI through time and cost savings, vendor consolidation, and enhanced security against ransomware.
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.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
It is not primarily about cost optimization, but more about protecting our organization against ransomware attacks to avoid being brought to its knees.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
We can see approximately 10% in savings, which could be in terms of time saving or money saving.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
Cohesity DataProtect offers knowledgeable and fast support, though some face challenges with regional differences and global case management.
Sentiment score
3.8
Customer service is good but needs improvements in regional support and availability across time zones for urgent issues.
The support can depend on the region, and for larger customers, I advise having a Technical Account Manager for better assistance.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
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.
Specialist at HCLSoftware
The IVR system should be reduced so that customers can reach support directly, as when someone calls, it is typically for a critical technical issue and the call should connect directly to a representative.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
This is a challenge for me, especially since I work in APAC, and whenever we engage with Veritas technical support, I must wait for someone in the United States to be available to help with our issue.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Cohesity DataProtect is highly regarded for its seamless scalability, supporting both small and large environments with ease.
Sentiment score
7.7
Users praise Alta Data's excellent scalability and cost-effective nature, reporting high satisfaction and capacity for growth without performance constraints.
Cohesity DataProtect is built on a scale-out architecture, which means it can effectively scale to meet various needs.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
Veritas Alta Data Protection is not expensive, which makes it scalable.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Cohesity DataProtect is praised for stability, quick support resolution, minor glitches, reliable updates, and consistent performance in diverse environments.
Sentiment score
8.6
Veritas Alta Data Protection is highly stable, consistently rated nine out of ten, even with geographic clustering functionality.
On the whole, any problems were more related to hardware limitations rather than issues with Cohesity DataProtect itself.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
 

Room For Improvement

Cohesity DataProtect needs improved restoration, customization, robust integration, and enhanced security features to boost user satisfaction and functionality.
Veritas Alta Data Protection requires user-friendly upgrades, simpler interface, AI file restoration, and better documentation and reporting tools.
There is room to improve the user interface of Cohesity DataProtect for more intuitive navigation.
Specialist at HCLSoftware
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.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
The solution could benefit from some artificial intelligence features where we can restore files or get assistance from the AI side.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
Veritas Alta Data Protection can be deployed on multiple cloud providers, including Azure and GCP.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
I want a very simple GUI which even an L1 engineer or L1 cloud engineer can understand and use with minimum supervision.
Enterprise solution architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Cohesity DataProtect offers cost-effective, straightforward pricing with bundled storage, quick setup, negotiable discounts, and affordable annual support.
Veritas Alta Data Protection is cost-effective due to discounts, offering competitive features despite being typically 20% more expensive.
I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.
Technical Director at Procloud
Since we have been using Veritas Alta Data Protection for the last four years, the price is very friendly.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
Regarding the pricing aspect, we received a pretty good discount when we started onboarding all of our backups to Veritas Alta Data Protection.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
 

Valuable Features

Cohesity DataProtect offers fast backups, easy scalability, cloud integration, and robust features like deduplication, unified search, and ransomware protection.
Veritas Alta Data Protection offers robust ransomware defense, seamless cloud integration, automation, cost efficiency, and multi-cloud protection capabilities.
Global deduplication ensures that only unique data blocks are stored, significantly reducing storage consumption.
Specialist at HCLSoftware
The platform is based on a scale-out architecture with each node having compute, RAM, SSD, and HDD.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
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.
Technical Director at Procloud
We tested the effectiveness of Veritas Alta Data Protection's granular restoration feature during POC because we had a requirement to test various scenarios like restoring the bucket in a particular region, restoring the bucket in a different region, restoring EC2 instances, restoring containers, and databases.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
The unique selling proposition includes automated policy-driven operations.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
The best feature Veritas Alta Data Protection offers is integration with existing hyperscalers or virtual platforms as well as integration with current computing platforms, where we can see this working well with our existing scenarios.
Enterprise solution architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect
Ranking in Cloud Backup
10th
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
16th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (10th)
Veritas Alta Data Protection
Ranking in Cloud Backup
29th
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
20th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 2.8%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Alta Data Protection is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cohesity DataProtect2.8%
Veritas Alta Data Protection0.7%
Other96.5%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Kalaiarasan Meganathan - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
RahulSharma8 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
Cloud backups have secured critical data and have enabled fast recovery from ransomware threats
I do utilize the automated policy-driven operations with Veritas Alta Data Protection. They have helped in reducing manual workloads because manual intervention is required to handle errors or backup job failures when trying to back up a particular AWS account where critical resources are deployed. Discovery takes a lot of time because we are backing up data already in the S3 buckets. We often face challenges with resource discovery because discovery does not happen once a month; it happens daily. Every day, the discovery job runs before backing up resources. We may encounter issues in discovery or related to permissions, meaning if we have backup permissions on a bucket but further intensive permissions are present on any particular file, the Veritas Alta Data Protection job will skip that file. At times, backup fails with one or another error, and manual intervention is definitely needed. It is predominantly automated and policy-driven, but manual intervention is also required sometimes. We tested the effectiveness of Veritas Alta Data Protection's granular restoration feature during POC because we had a requirement to test various scenarios like restoring the bucket in a particular region, restoring the bucket in a different region, restoring EC2 instances, restoring containers, and databases. One more crucial feature for us in selecting Veritas Alta Data Protection is having replication between Veritas Alta Data Protection clusters. Once the primary backup job is complete, Veritas Alta Data Protection runs an SLP job, which is a storage lifecycle policy. This SLP job moves or replicates the data from one Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster to another. If the Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster goes down, the data is still replicated to the other Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Government
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise43
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

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...
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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Alta Data Protection?
The setup cost is quite good and affordable. Since we have been using Veritas Alta Data Protection for the last four years, the price is very friendly. In terms of technical features, it is pretty ...
What needs improvement with Veritas Alta Data Protection?
The solution could benefit from some artificial intelligence features where we can restore files or get assistance from the AI side, as the world is moving toward AI. Specifically, AI capabilities ...
What is your primary use case for Veritas Alta Data Protection?
In the last two years, we faced issues with ransomware. Because of the encryption level which we set with this backup software, we were able to restore all of our data without losing a single file.
 

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