Cohesity vs. Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)

Cohesity

Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)

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
Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Hitachi Vantara's Hitachi Data Instance Director's (HDID) snapshot and replication orchestration can automatically create, refresh and expire physical and virtual copies of application data, with no impact on production performance or availability.	N/A

Pricing

Cohesity

Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cohesity	Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Cohesity	Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)
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?	Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) No answer on this topic

Features

Cohesity

Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Cohesity 8.6 Ratings 3% above category average	Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) - Ratings
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	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	00 Ratings

Enterprise Backup

Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Cohesity 8.5 Ratings 4% above category average	Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) - 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	Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)
Small Businesses	Cove Data Protection Score 9.9 out of 10	Hornetsecurity VM Backup Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	Cohesity Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	Cohesity Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cohesity	Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.7 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cohesity	Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)
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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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