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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
5.7
Cohesity DataProtect users achieve cost savings, efficiency improvements, and gain benefits like security and reduced downtime within months.
Sentiment score
4.7
Veritas Alta Data Protection enhances efficiency and security, delivering approximately 10% savings through time, cost, and resource optimization.
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
We have not seen a visual return on investment with Cohesity DataProtect in terms of cash, but when you consider how the software protects and treats your data, we can confirm its value in our environment.
Backup and Protection Specialist
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
I reduce two hours of my day, as before Veritas Alta Data Protection I needed two hours to check our environments.
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
We can see approximately 10% in savings, which could be in terms of time saving or money saving.
Assistant General Manager System at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.4
Cohesity DataProtect offers responsive, proactive support, though time zones and communication channels occasionally cause service delays.
Sentiment score
4.9
Veritas Alta Data Protection's support is strong but needs improved accessibility and localized assistance to address time zone issues.
The customer support for Cohesity DataProtect is perfect.
Technical Consultant Bakup Solutions at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
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
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
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 a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
With Veritas Alta Data Protection, we are very satisfied so far, as the support is responsive and opening a ticket results in very quick returns.
Consultor Tecnologia at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Cohesity DataProtect offers high scalability and smooth expansion, benefiting diverse workloads with its hyper-converged, scale-out architecture.
Sentiment score
5.8
Veritas Alta Data Protection receives high praise for its scalable, flexible, and cost-effective compatibility with multiple storage systems.
Cohesity DataProtect is built on a scale-out architecture, which means it can effectively scale to meet various needs.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
I have not seen any backup software work with this level of scalability.
Backup and Protection Specialist
Cohesity DataProtect's scalability is quite flexible as you can use one single node or a cluster with many clusters, up to 32 nodes.
Technical Consultant Bakup Solutions at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Veritas Alta Data Protection is not expensive, which makes it scalable.
Assistant General Manager System at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability of Veritas Alta Data Protection is great, as I do not have problems with one master or two primaries or three, four, or 10 primaries.
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Cohesity DataProtect is stable and reliable, with effective upgrades and support mitigating occasional hardware and software issues.
Sentiment score
8.4
Veritas Alta Data Protection is highly rated for stability, reliability, and scalability, with improvements since 2020 and no significant issues.
On the whole, any problems were more related to hardware limitations rather than issues with Cohesity DataProtect itself.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
Veritas Alta Data Protection is stable in my experience.
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Cohesity DataProtect needs better reporting, faster restores, improved communication, updated functionality, intuitive interface, and refined automation for legacy systems.
Veritas Alta Data Protection needs integration, usability improvements, pricing adjustments, and enhanced user interface to ease transitions and learning.
The container functionality is very limited at the moment, not covering the whole container.
CIO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Some limitations in virtual environments, we cannot expand to use the software for huge clients.
Backup and Protection Specialist
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
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
Veritas Alta Data Protection can be deployed on multiple cloud providers, including Azure and GCP.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
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 a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Cohesity DataProtect offers competitive, bundled pricing with flexible licensing and straightforward setup, often more cost-effective than Rubrik and Veeam.
Veritas Alta Data Protection offers subscription pricing, considered costly by some, but includes discounts, consultations, and training value.
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 a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Customers do not receive the real pricing advantage because the distributor keeps a margin, and the vendor also keeps a margin.
Manager, Network Ict at Associated Motorways (Private) Limited
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 provides instant recovery, user-friendly interface, VMware integration, reliable security, scalability, and cost-effective backup solutions.
Veritas Alta Data Protection offers agility, ransomware protection, compatibility, cost efficiency, comprehensive reporting, and ease of use across cloud environments.
The platform is based on a scale-out architecture with each node having compute, RAM, SSD, and HDD.
Evangelist / CTO at fgnext
Global deduplication ensures that only unique data blocks are stored, significantly reducing storage consumption.
Specialist at HCLSoftware
The option to maintain evidence in Europe for regulatory compliance, the ability to maintain the backup with the same technology and same control plane, along with the same solutions to use backup solutions such as S3 or similar services in AWS, is what we are working with.
CIO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
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 a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Multi-factor authentication is enabled, ransomware protection is enabled, and all security checks have been put in place.
Manager, Network Ict at Associated Motorways (Private) Limited
 

Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect
Ranking in Cloud Backup
15th
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
79
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (10th)
Veritas Alta Data Protection
Ranking in Cloud Backup
19th
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
12th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 2.1%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Alta Data Protection is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cohesity DataProtect2.1%
Veritas Alta Data Protection0.8%
Other97.1%
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
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
18%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Healthcare Company
12%
Construction Company
11%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise43
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

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.
What is your primary use case for Cohesity DataProtect?
I use Cohesity DataProtect for backup, analysis, and recovery purposes.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Alta Data Protection?
In our country, because Veritas Alta Data Protection works with a distributor and vendor, the margin is topped up two times. Customers do not receive the real pricing advantage because the distribu...
What needs improvement with Veritas Alta Data Protection?
The compression rate on the Flex Appliance of Veritas Alta Data Protection needs to be improved. When compared to EMC Data Domain, although the compression rate feature is present, it needs further...
What is your primary use case for Veritas Alta Data Protection?
Veritas Alta Data Protection is used for enterprise-level backups in our environment.
 

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