DG

David G.

Computer Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/16/2021

"More efficient backup"

4/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

I like the security of the system per user and enterprise level security, easy data management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

I have no problems with the configuration and performance of the particular system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AH

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/18/2021

"Helios for Audits"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

We like that this all sits on the same hardware as the Storage that we use. It keeps it fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

It feels like this product is very aggressive in trying to cover many bases. Sometimes there is value in covering one base really well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AH

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/29/2021

"Cohesity Helios is Awesome"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

Easy to navigate great reports and works as intended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

Gaining access to be and admin was a pain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LV

Larik-Jan V.

Chief Technology Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/17/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Strong scalable secondary storage platform"

5/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

Scalability, strong growing feature set and performance. Users are being heard if they provide feedback. Multitenancy and multi-cloud support gives a great feature set, clearly focused on future adoption of any cloud platform. Ease of use and maintenance: simple, single pane of management with strong and fast responsive HTML5 UI. Support is great and easy accessable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

Currently, not the whole MS365 stack is supported. Planning of version updates is sometimes getting behind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CH

Corey H.

Network Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/14/2020

"Tired of Backups? Try Cohesity."

5/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

Cohesity performs backups in a consistent, reliable fashion without over-complication. Recoveries are quick and granular recovery offered across a large number of sub-systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

We have experienced some bugs that have caused minor issues. vCenter integrations are fantastic and allow for VM tagging automation, but we have had issues with the tags getting ignored. vCenter might be to blame more than anything, but it was a large hiccup for us. Cohesity support is extremely responsive and we have never had an issue getting something resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cohesity solving and how is that benefiting you?

The obvious is that we are utilizing Cohesity to provide a highly versatile rapid recovery data platform. We can recover individual files and entire VMs in minutes. VM recovery actually mounts the recovered VM on the Cohesity cluster and copies it in the background, providing a great time to recovery. But that really is the shortest path to a use-case with this solution. Cohesity offers a full platform of tools, apps, and unconventional storage analytics to ensure that the data you have doesn't just sit. It will detect ransomware and offer automated recovery solutions. You can turn your Cohesity cluster into your file server with a simple restore function with Views. Views are file shares you can stand up in minutes. Updates are seamless and performed in the background without interruption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Joshua V.

Network Administration Supervisor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/10/2020

"Cohesity Replaces Tapes and NAS"

5/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

The ability to get rid of traditional tape media backups via archaic terrible software. Our backup window has gotten significantly shorter and we have confidence that we can restore files or full VMs back into our environment. We are in the process of replacing legacy NAS devices with Cohesity storage and the process has been very simple. Support has been good when we have needed them for small config issues or questions on best practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

Some features like AD backups were in 6.3 literature, but aren't actually released until 6.4 That said, it we were able to run this in beta. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cohesity:

We looked at Rubrik and StorageCraft. Rubrik was more expensive with less features. StorageCraft was a good value play, but didn't have the breadth or market support that Cohesity has. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cohesity solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're done with tape. We're done with our legacy NAS devices and we have a clear path forward when we are ready to start sending some of our data to the cloud for long term archiving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Alessio A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/1/2020

"Powerful BackUp And Restore Appliance That Will Be Even Greater In The Future"

4/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

You can create BackUp Groups and sync them with you vCenter. As soon as so create a VM in the specific folder, the vm will be backuped.That is very useful and you don't have to configure every backup for every vm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

Unfortunately, it often happens that bugs are delivered with updates. Sometimes also critical matters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JS

Jay S.

Adjunct Professor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/10/2020

"Reliable Backups and More"

5/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

The platform just works. Coming from out other platform, Cohesity has made life so much simpler. It has cut our full backup window from 48 hours to 3 hours (using incrementals forever). Even if I were to push fulls across the environment, it would still get it done in under 24 hours for the whole environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

I wish that they had automated backup testing (for full VM restores and files from particular backups). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cohesity:

Look into Rubric, but they do not have the elastic search function, which is a HUGE time saver. It dropped our time to restore a file from hours to minutes without requiring as much information from the end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cohesity solving and how is that benefiting you?

We no longer use tape in our environment, which has gained us 20-30 hours a month across the team. The backups now work flawlessly across the board and that is a weight off of my shoulders. We are also now situated to be able to backup to the cloud AND backup our cloud infrastructure once we move in that direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JP

Jonathan P.

Managing Director

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/20/2020

"Best of Breed Backup/Recovery and Second Tier Storage"

5/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cohesity:

Get your hands on the software and have a bakeoff with others in the backup and recovery space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cohesity 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AF

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/20/2020

"Easy Management and Faster Recoveries"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cohesity?

Backups using web GUI made easy access from anywhere. Easy policy management, Job creation and recoveries are so fast as compared to other backup vendors. Non-disruptive upgrades, easy expansion and hassle-free hardware replacements and able to manage with less man power and no worries about house-keeping jobs. Easy connect to cloud to use as destination for Cohesity backup and archives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cohesity?

latest version supports of Linux backups

Few bugs on their LTS releases which needs to be tested well before they release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.