Cohesity vs. Datto SIRIS

Cohesity

Datto SIRIS

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cohesity	Score 9.0 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Cohesity offers AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects critical data workloads across on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS with backup and recovery, threat intelligence, cyber vaulting, files and objects, and recovery orchestration.	N/A
Datto SIRIS	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	Datto SIRIS is a BCDR solution built for MSPs to prevent data loss and minimize downtime. Utilizing a cloud-first approach, MSPs can offer their clients local backup and recovery with a cloud-based repository and full disaster recovery in the cloud. All of this administered from a multi-tenant cloud portal that allows MSPs to view, manage and recover client data from a single interface.	N/A

Pricing

Cohesity

Datto SIRIS

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cohesity	Datto SIRIS
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Datto sells 100% through the channel. Specifically, Datto partners with managed service providers (MSPs). The MSPs then sell direct to small and mid-sized businesses, worldwide.

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Community Pulse
	Cohesity	Datto SIRIS
Considered Both Products	Cohesity PJ Patrick Jaramillo Systems, Infrastructure and Network Engineer Chose Cohesity Veeam Required installation on one of our on prem servers which ideally, we did not want. We are trying to reduce our on-prem footprint and Cohesity provided a solution that was completely cloud based. Incentivized Helpful? TM Tom Mockus Director of IT Chose Cohesity We selected Rubrik for two reasons. The first was an already existing relationship with the 3rd party VAR that recommended Cohesity. The second was the low cost of Cohesity to back up our data center in a short amount of time also. I am not sure they are the strongest product … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Veeam is the best. Cohesity takes fast backups and provides good deduplication. Rubrik, it's Rubrik—nothing to write home about. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Easy to manage and faster to implement and we have the total control of our backup deployment, and we can fine tune as per our business needs and Cohesity gives all the option for implementing the same. Cluster based storage and backup solution and option to manage multiple … Incentivized Helpful? VR Vishal Ranjan Senior Storage Administrator Chose Cohesity First and foremost is that due to Cohesity being able to support different types of backup, Cohesity reduces the need to use different products, and since most of the stuff can be done from the GUI, it is very easy to use as well, unlike, let's say TSM on which we will have to … Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Robertson Platform Manager Chose Cohesity Cohesity provided more features out of the box and not all they extra licensing to enable. The performance that Cohesity was able to provide was the main reason for our decision to change our backup solution to a new product instead of increasing our foot print with our … Incentivized Helpful? TS Tomasz Schabowski ICT Manager Chose Cohesity it went down to 3 top companies and even thou Cohesity was not the cheapest when we compared the recovery time and options Cohesity was really standing out. On top of that, it was the first solution with Teams and Group-based SharePoint backup as an option. OneDrive backups is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Cost, Ease of management, Ease of implementation, and Global deduplication are why I chose Cohesity DataProtect. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Cohesity DataProtect provides a much more reliable solution. The deduplication that happens is second to none and I've never worked with anything like it. So much time and space is saved by the appliance along with the Cohesity DataProtect magic. Incentivized Helpful? Jamie Orth FVP, Director of Systems Engineering Chose Cohesity Cohesity simplifies the environment by having data protect along with clustered storage and configurable in a multi-site environment for easy off-site requirements, including cloud integration. The HTML5 interface outshines Veeam and NetBackup, which look like dinosaurs … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Systems Engineer Chose Cohesity Much better user interface, ease of use and administration, easier connectivity to the cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Rubrik. We currently use Rubrik for backups and we use Cohesity for NAS. Cohesity has been good for small NAS workloads if you are already using it for backups as well. It seems to be the jack of many trades and they are constantly adding more features and functionality. … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Anderson Infrastructure Manager Chose Cohesity Cohesity DataProtect is vastly simpler to use. Its interface is much more intuitive. Being that Cohesity DataProtect can be an applicance-based solution, deploying it is much simpler. Also, Cohesity DataProtect can provide the hardware so there is a single vendor for both … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Data footprint and ease of use. Manage the data. Deduplication ratio of the outcome. Incentivized Helpful? Nick Habets Systems Engineer Chose Cohesity Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Van Camp Security & Infrastructure Engineer Chose Cohesity At the time of purchase, we had looked at Rubrik and StorageCraft (prior to Arcserve acquisition). Rubrik at the time seemed relatively comparable in terms of backup features but did not have the ability to provide unstructured data shares. Rubrik was also substantially more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Cohesity won out against all others based on speed, capacity, features, and cost. Being able to demo the unit with a VM was extremely helpful -- we were able to get real-world compression and dedupe values without on-prem hardware during our POC. We appreciated the ease of … Incentivized Helpful? John Predmore Network Administrator Chose Cohesity We used to use the NetApp SnapManager suite, I've found Cohesity to be more reliable, easier to configure, and restores to be faster. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Graff Infrastructure Architecture Director Chose Cohesity We replaced Barracuda with Cohesity. Barracuda was a nightmare to manage and was not very reliable. Rubrik is highly similar to Cohesity from a features perspective, but the sales and support personnel at Rubrik were unpleasant to deal with compared to Cohesity. With Rubrik … Incentivized Helpful? Martin Völker Systemspezialist Infrastructure Datacenter Chose Cohesity IBM is good but it´s old and really big and not easy to manage. And the License fees and so are worth it. Veeam I have a look on and 4 years ago I selected Cohesity because it was easier to manage, dedup was better and it is one hyperconverged infrastructure. Rubrik is or was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Cohesity saved money and time, Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity I was not involved in that project but we had Actifio before. Incentivized Helpful? Surender Vangala Senior Technology Consultant I Chose Cohesity Cohesity is cheaper as compared to other legacy backup products. It has easy and simple hardware & software installation, easy management, and comes with lots of modern era features. Cohesity comes with built-in features like reports, offers lots of additional apps in their app … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cohesity Excellent technically, great support team and excellent value for the price. Incentivized Helpful? KP Kurt Pritchett Senior System Administrator Chose Cohesity The Cohesity appliance is much easier to manage due to the application and storage altogether. There is no need to manage servers and storage separately, like with Veeam and Networker. EMC and Veeam support is excellent, but Cohesity support is on another level. Incentivized Helpful?	Datto SIRIS Joseph Rapoport M.A., DCDS, DCAT, DCP-SaaS, DCP-DCMA Sr Systems Engineer Chose Datto SIRIS In my experience with Veeam, you have to supply your own storage while the Datto appliance is a self-contained solution. Incentivized Helpful? Jon Daley Owner Chose Datto SIRIS Datto seemed to be better than other vendors I trialed, and I inherited an Alto device, so it was easy to stay with them. I also assumed the backups had been working with the previous contractor, but it turns out they had been failing for months and no one knew it. Incentivized Helpful? JS Jonathan Sheldon Director Chose Datto SIRIS Datto SIRIS BCDR is the gold standard, the product that other on-premises backups strive to be. It is reliable, fast, saves company money and time. Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Beal Senior Office Administrator Chose Datto SIRIS We have not used or tested anything similar to Datto. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Friedli Level 2 Support Analyst Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is not as feature-rich as Veeam, but it still offers the main features in a great backups solution that will help in a recovery situation. It is mainly meant for smaller businesses, so it's not a Veeam replacement. From that perspective, Datto fills a great void in … Incentivized Helpful? BN Ben Nichols System Administrator Chose Datto SIRIS We've chosen to go with Datto RMM after finding other platforms that didn't quite meet the requirements of growing endpoint management. Incentivized Helpful? Karl Fulljames COO Chose Datto SIRIS ShadowProtect quality has decreased over the years and their price has increased. Datto is far superior in terms of UI, datacentre capabilities as well as confirmation of backup successes. Veeam offers these same features in a more complicated format but also lets you roll your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is far and away the best backup vendor we have ever used. The product works extremely well, and is very easy to implement and manage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is an all-inclusive solution with minor set-up. It's almost turnkey. Veeam requires more knowledge and setup, plus additional storage, although it is more robust and more granular. Datto includes the cloud element built-in, whereas it is something extra with Veeam. For a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto and Barracuda Backup are very similar in design/purpose (both appliance-based with local backups and pushing to an offsite cloud), though Barracuda handles vCenter with a centralized backup console while Datto does not. VEEAM does a better job of backing up VMware than … Incentivized Helpful? Dale Bradford Network Administrator Chose Datto SIRIS We did the reverse, and we looked at this solution to replace Datto.. we regret going with Datto. As a result, we are moving all clients from their platform to Axcient's Replibit BDR solution. We have had such good luck, the backups are faster, and the restoration/export of … Incentivized Helpful? Jorge Vasconcelos Network Admin Chose Datto SIRIS Datto was our solution of choice. Incentivized Helpful? MH Mike Hernandez Operations Manager Chose Datto SIRIS The solution we used prior to Datto was only a cloud, and provided no onsite solution for data recovery. It provided no failover protection against a server meltdown and retrieving files that were either accidentally lost or corrupted could take 24 hours. With Datto, it's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is a legacy product, selected before I got involved in the backup design at the current organization. As there are no issues with it, no alternatives were considered. I used Bakula before and would recommend it or Amanda for an organization looking to save money, as these … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Compared to Solarwinds or EMC Avamar, Datto is more improved, and it's much better at business continuity. Both tools are only cloud-based backup services, but Datto has the option of the local backups as well, which is more efficient for disaster scenarios. Datto has many more … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Weller IT Operations Manager Chose Datto SIRIS These may have carved out a niche in one area or another that make them superior for that specific case, but no one does a better overall job. I would estimate that a Datto box will be the right fit for at least 85% of the SMB's in the US. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Rojas IT Manager Chose Datto SIRIS Very affordable. I used another service known as Naverisk and dropped them as they were more expensive and the service was not as good. Datto is designed for IT consultants so teams are getting a well-designed platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Shadow Protect being the closest on this list, none of the other stack up against what Datto can provide in terms of technology and being able to quickly recover from a disaster or data loss. What brings Datto above the competition is their level of customer support from their … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Farling Managing Partner Chose Datto SIRIS Datto beats Replibit hands down, but the software isn't the biggest differentiator. Support at Datto is FANTASTIC. eFolder hardly provides anything you can call support. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Hutchinson, CISSP IT Director Chose Datto SIRIS The customer to whom I am consulting selected Datto for reasons unbeknownst to me. Had I been involved earlier in the decision process, I would likely have recommended Unitrends, Zerto or another solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto seems much more reliable with better backup success rates. It is easy to use and cost-effective way to backup small data sets. Support is quite good and they have a very good Kbase. Incentivized Helpful? Stana Steen Owner Chose Datto SIRIS The product we tired in the past are either out of business or that product line failed. We have used custom BDR solution purchased from a vendor and found that while it worked you were never sure if the restore would work. We did not want to cobble together a solutions and the … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Schroeder Service Manager Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is a superior product in regards to spinning up servers on the BDR appliance hardware. That is their killer feature. Barracuda's edge is the hardware refresh after 4 years of maintaining subscriptions. Datto requires the purchase of a new appliance after a time period … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS We also use Barracuda for our backup and disaster recovery solution at our clients. Datto is much more expensive than Barracuda, the solutions are very similar, but the one thing I would give Datto the edge on is handling of Hyper-V instances. Datto makes Hyper-V restorations … Incentivized Helpful? Franz Josef Bautista Technical Consultant Chose Datto SIRIS Vembu is easier to set up in on premise and lower hardware requirements Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Cohesity

Datto SIRIS

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Cohesity 8.6 Ratings 3% above category average	Datto SIRIS 8.0 Ratings 2% below category average
Universal recovery	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Instant recovery	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Recovery verification	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business application protection	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Snapshots	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Flexible deployment	8.40 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Management dashboard	9.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform support	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Retention options	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Encryption	8.10 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Enterprise Backup

Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Cohesity 8.5 Ratings 4% above category average	Datto SIRIS - Ratings
Continuous data protection	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Replication	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Malware protection	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Cohesity	Datto SIRIS
Small Businesses	Cove Data Protection Score 9.9 out of 10	Cove Data Protection Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Bacula Enterprise Score 9.2 out of 10	Cove Data Protection Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Bacula Enterprise Score 9.2 out of 10	Keepit Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cohesity	Datto SIRIS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.7 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cohesity	Datto SIRIS
Likelihood to Recommend	Cohesity is very well suited to protecting virtualised workloads and is a significant improvement over IBM Spectrum Protect which we’ve replaced by Cohesity. We also protect a Netapp workload and whilst the on-prem side works really well careful planning of protection jobs is needed if you’ll be archiving these to Cloud. Emma Summers Senior Storage Administrator Read full review	Datto works well for smaller shops that just need something that will work without needing a great deal of day to day work on it. I only login to the device periodically to see where we stand on space and occasionally when we need to restore something. The offsite datacenter backup which is hosted by Datto works well for us particularly as we do not have our own offsite tech to use. In larger departments other solutions will possibly win out based on required features and setups but for the 1-10 man IT departments the Datto solutions fit in well. Incentivized Matthew Fex IT Systems Administrator Read full review
Pros	The simplicity of the solution and the support behind implementation, training, and continued support. The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor. How fast the solution works. When it comes to implementation (which is done in an hour or so) to backups, to actual recoveries, everything is just quick. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Backups: Datto does what it's supposed to do, backing up data from servers (and workstations, if need be), and then syncing that data to the cloud. Initial setup: Initial setup is pretty straightforward, in most cases the agent installs remotely from the device. UI: The UI is fairly straightforward and intuitive, at least for IT professionals. It is not difficult to find things or figure out what settings do what. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Reporting could always be better- executive-style reports have to be generated from data at multiple points. Some tasks that could be brought to the UI that today we have to call support on (for example when an NFS mount is still active but we cannot see it from the UI) Jamie Orth FVP, Director of Systems Engineering Read full review	VMware integration for backups is only at the host level, not vCenter, so you can't see all VMs from one place to select them for backup. You've gotta add each host individually and then pick from the list that populates from each individually. The system is appliance-based, so when you run out of local space on the appliance, there's no expansion without buying a larger appliance. You either cut back on your backups to use less space, or you open your wallet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	We have been very pleased with this backup solution. It is fast and reliable, and supports our VMware infrastructure. The company's support has been great, including proactively replacing our nodes when the flash memory was reporting high wear. Support is offered on-shore as well. We plan on continuing to use this product for the foreseeable future. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I trust the product and service and am satisfied with the direction of the company Incentivized Franz Josef Bautista Technical Consultant Read full review
Usability	The Cohesity platform with its user interface is easy to implement, rack space-saving, and easy to use on a daily business basis. Backup jobs and policies are easy to define, multiple machines and objects can be grouped for the same tasks. In general, Cohesity makes backup admins' lives much easier. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Usability is great. The web interface is simple and easy to use. While various options are available for client backups, it is very easy to re-use settings of the existing client, so adding new clients is a very fast process. Configuration of the agent on the client-side cannot be easier as well. Datto dashboard provides an overview of the client status, and email notifications can be configured for various events. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Support is quick to respond but lacks that ongoing responsiveness if the issue is not simple. There will be large gaps in replies if they need to resort to escalation and when there are timezone differences between yourself and the person who picked up the ticket. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	My specific example or reason for this rating goes back to a need for support after a client on this platform has a fire. In a nutshell, Datto had no idea how to BMR the image back to the server correctly, and as a result, the RAID on the server was lost, due to the Datto BDR environment not being able to see the RAID card, and the support technician knowing how to inject drivers. Incentivized Dale Bradford Network Administrator Read full review
Online Training	content was good and hands on lab to get the live feel of the application Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We looked at Veeam and although it's a great product when we priced out the licensing of both primary and disaster datacenters it became much too expensive. Rubrik is a great product and very similar to Cohesity. In the end, Cohesity had a secondary storage play as well as a better UI and better compatibility with lower tier cloud storage. We also like the way Cohesity did protection jobs vs Rubrik's virtual machine centric backup. CommVault is a product we still use today due to its massive features and the ability for bare metal backups. Cohesity does a much better job in the area of UI simplicity, virtual backup ease, and ease of management. Incentivized Kris Olson Systems Administrator Read full review	Datto is not as feature-rich as Veeam, but it still offers the main features in a great backups solution that will help in a recovery situation. It is mainly meant for smaller businesses, so it's not a Veeam replacement. From that perspective, Datto fills a great void in options for these clients. It doesn't have the features of Unitrends either, but I have not had great experiences with Unitrends, so I would not recommend that option. Veeam is great for larger environments, and Datto is a fantastic option for the next tier down in size. Incentivized Adam Friedli Level 2 Support Analyst Read full review
Return on Investment	Cost savings from having to purchase and manage physical tapes, as well as the man-hours to swap them in and out and store them off site. Extremely fast recovery times, can bring up a restored VM back in our environment in under a minute. Get back up and running much quicker. Simplifies our disaster recovery strategy. Initial cost can be pricey depending on your storage needs. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	In most cases, Datto will provide the appliance free of charge with a 3-5 year contract which results in a modest monthly fee instead of a large initial outlay and monthly fees. The contract's warranty is top-notch. Failed drives or issues with the appliances are replaced/corrected with free replacements and shipping. Incentivized Joseph Rapoport M.A., DCDS, DCAT, DCP-SaaS, DCP-DCMA Sr Systems Engineer Read full review
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