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Best of Breed Backup/Recovery and Second Tier Storage
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Cohesity is built from the ground up with a cloud first mentality. Their vision is remarkable and implementation is beyond impressive. It has simplified backup and saved us time and money.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that they have not designed the product with third party load balancers in mind, and instead you have to use DNS round robin. The CIFS/NAS feature is great, unfortunately you cannot have multiple virtual storage paths and virtual name spaces for different NAS shares.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were in a great position to greenfield everything as part of a divestment. When choosing a backup and recovery solution we wanted something newer, and more agile than what we had been using. This checked all the boxes we had, in addition the NAS feature has quickly become a hit.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get your hands on the software and have a bakeoff with others in the backup and recovery space.
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Cohesity Is A Blend Of Operational Efficieny And Cost Effectiveness
What do you like best about the product?
We started with a single cohesity box and ended up with 8 systems ... Cohesity is a blend of cost effective storage designed for secondary or archival data as well as integrates well with number of other systems like Vmware, Pure storage or AWS with API's available to the user. Backing up VM's , indexing data and restoring data is a bliss and lightening fast. At the same time the data compression and dedup is robust and best in the category of secondary storage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially the software releases were too frequent as the product was still evolving and they were doing too many changes and feature releases at short notice. We had to do frequent code upgrades to keep up with the development pace.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helped save us retire our old back up tools and tape libraries. Significant savings when we migrated the archival and less frequently accessed data from our tier 1 storage including the repositories and file servers. We can backup several type of data sets including virtual machines on Vmware, RDM's, physical servers, EC2 instances and what not from the same console.
Cohesity: A better backup solution than File solution
What do you like best about the product?
Setting up a backup job, restoring files and VMs, and searching for these items are quick and easy. The install process and implementation can be done in half a day depending on the size of your environment. Restoring a 100GB VM from Cohesity was completed and back up and running in under 10 minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation that is provided with the support pages are not always accurate. Some features do not work as well as anticipated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When it work it works well. When it is down it can take several hours to get it functioning correctly
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it before you buy it. Make sure that it can do what is expected.
Implementation was easy, support staff is superb
What do you like best about the product?
The overal experience is satisfying. We use Cohesity back-up solution to safeguard three of our datacenters. The original setup was quite simple and the few problems we encountered where quickly fixed. Cohesity is actively developing the software and new features are added constantly. Also, the possibility to run a virtual edition of their software is quite interesting for some implementations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation is missing sometimes, and some settings are difficult to find.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have consolidated our back-up environment with one solution instead of multiple.
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Veeam, rubric
Simplified and Extremely Efficient
What do you like best about the product?
The Simple interface and dashboard allows all of our DevOps staff easy access to review jobs and restore within seconds.
What do you dislike about the product?
The SQL Server backup jobs have had issues intermittently which is concerning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Simplified backup solution with data replication for DR in the Cloud.
We currently have all production data replicated the following cloud targets:
All production data -> AWS Glacier
All Police production data ->AWS Gov
Design & Construction drawing archive -> AWS Glacier
Replication Performance to AWS Gov and CJIS Compliance for use with Police car/body cam video capture and storage/archive.
Predictable pricing and scalable architecture that doesn’t penalize us for data growth in future.
We currently have all production data replicated the following cloud targets:
All production data -> AWS Glacier
All Police production data ->AWS Gov
Design & Construction drawing archive -> AWS Glacier
Replication Performance to AWS Gov and CJIS Compliance for use with Police car/body cam video capture and storage/archive.
Predictable pricing and scalable architecture that doesn’t penalize us for data growth in future.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to submit a tech support ticket to establish response time during a POC.
Cohesity our solution for Back up as a Service
What do you like best about the product?
After implementation when the storage stands you can manage everything from the web interface. Managing your back-ups from the web interface is very easy especially on a larger scale it works really well, compared to other solutions.
Also when we need more storage we just buy another unit and add them to the current cluster. It makes it very easy to scale for our company.
Also when we need more storage we just buy another unit and add them to the current cluster. It makes it very easy to scale for our company.
What do you dislike about the product?
The software updates sometimes come to soon. Support is always ready to help really quick but I feel if they did less updates with more testing it would better.
In the beginning we were missing some features which would make live easyer, but more and more of these features are getting enrolled with every new software update. But like I said the software updates could use more testing.
In the beginning we were missing some features which would make live easyer, but more and more of these features are getting enrolled with every new software update. But like I said the software updates could use more testing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The way it scales is really useful for us. We can deliver back-up solutions to our customers without much extra work.
The time we put in our old back-up system compared to Cohesity has drastically decreased.
The time we put in our old back-up system compared to Cohesity has drastically decreased.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you look for a easy to use very scalable back-up solution, Cohesity if definitely the way to go.
Cohesity, backup for your virtual environment
What do you like best about the product?
Scale-out storage, multi-tenant portal and vCloud Director support. Their support is also quick and good. Quick development of new features. The interface is a state of the art and works on all devices through HTML5.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support for multi tenancy and vCloud director took a while to create, but other then that the development does go quick for new functions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scaling problems with backup storage are solved with scale-out. As wel as easy multi-tenancy for our clients.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Once setup its easy to use and upgrade with new nodes.
This product reduced our replication times by a factor of 3
What do you like best about the product?
I liked having this as a hyper-converged unit, so I can scale the storage with the software. The development cycle is also very fast, so new features are always being added.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product has some maturing to do, in terms of feature set.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This provides secondary storage, backups, and NAS functions in one unit!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do a POC - you have to see it in action!
Great Solution
What do you like best about the product?
The absolute ease of backups and restores. I've setup SMB/NFS and used it, plus the cloning is slick. The different options and speed at a file, folder or VM restore is great. It's great to have a solution that does more than just back stuff up.
What do you dislike about the product?
No different than anywhere else, when there are issues we work through them and a lot of the time it is upgrade that resolves the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VM and NAS backup/protection. Having a reliable platform that works and is dependable.
Its About Time Secondary Storage and Data Protection got the Uber Treatment
What do you like best about the product?
A few fateful years ago, Uber brought to market the most amazing new thing we had ever seen. They allowed us to pay for a ride in someone else's car. WOW! So I know what you are thinking... "That's not new!" You're right. What they actually did was take a service that had been monopolized for so long by taxi companies and made it amazing. Taxi's are known for being expensive, dirty, a little smelly, squeaky brakes, having rude drivers, hard to catch, etc etc etc. Uber gave us the ability to easily find a ride, know the fare before we ride, pay a much lower fare, ride in someone's personal car that they care for b/c it's their personal car, provide reviews to weed out bad drivers (and riders), and do it all using an app. In short, they took the mundane and made it accessible, simple, efficient, affordable... This is what Cohesity has done for secondary storage and data protection. Cohesity looked at this technology space and said, "We can uberfy this thing." And they did. I can setup a new cluster of cohesity and protect my data in less than one working day. I can then schedule, retain, replicate my backups all through an intuitive and efficient html 5 gui. And as an added bonus, why not put all that processing power to work by allowing it to be a integral part of production work loads by offering secondary storage in the same way on the cluster. WOW!
What do you dislike about the product?
It could be seen as a plus or minus. But they don't support data protection for some legacy technologies... lotus notes for example. To me this makes sense b/c they are a forward looking company. This may push some customers to look for other more traditional "taxi" vendors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data protection moved from 80% success to 100% success. We now have a platform that will grow with us and is future proof as we move to cloud, ROBO, DR, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't wait. The product is all it says it is and so much more.
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