Cohesity vs. Veeam Backup for Azure

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cohesity
Score 9.1 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
Veeam Backup for Azure
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Veeam® Backup for Azure delivers native, policy-based protection for reliable recovery from accidental deletion, ransomware and other data loss scenarios. With an API-first approach, immutable backups and full- and file-level restores ensure resilient protection that’s easy and cost-optimized, freeing up time and resources for more strategic IT priorities. Immutable and Encrypted - Data integrity through WORM state and encryption Logically…
$40
per year per Azure VM (Back up and recover in Azure only with 24/7 production support)
Pricing
CohesityVeeam Backup for Azure
Editions & Modules
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BYOL edition
$40
per year per Azure VM (Back up and recover in Azure only with 24/7 production support)
Free Edition
Free
Backup up to 10 Azure VMs FREE with no limitations on features or number of restores.
BYOL edition (Hybrid-/multi-cloud)
VUL Portable licensing
Backup and recover anything, anywhere via Veeam Universal License for any supported workload – cloud, virtual and physical – interchangeably
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CohesityVeeam Backup for Azure
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CohesityVeeam Backup for Azure
Considered Both Products
Cohesity
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.
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 …
Veeam Backup for Azure

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Features
CohesityVeeam Backup for Azure
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
8.6
Ratings
3% above category average
Veeam Backup for Azure
8.3
Ratings
7% below category average
Universal recovery8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.70 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Platform support9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options10.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Encryption8.10 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
8.5
Ratings
4% above category average
Veeam Backup for Azure
7.7
Ratings
11% below category average
Continuous data protection8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection8.60 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
-
Ratings
Veeam Backup for Azure
8.0
Ratings
13% below category average
SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
CohesityVeeam Backup for Azure
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.8
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CohesityVeeam Backup for Azure
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.
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When migrating from on Prim to AWS then to AZure the process was a little challenging because of some of the way we configured up front but once we went from AWS to Azure it was no looking back. We didn't have the extra storage to move things around like most companies to but it worked out great and we were also able to store more cold backups on Azure due to the low cost of cold storage.
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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.
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  • Reduce storage costs and minimizing the impact on network consuption.
  • Veaam Backup for Azure provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that our data is backed up and available for recovery correctly.
  • Replication: Veeam Backup for Azure helps us to replicate our workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes and compliance needs.
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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)
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  • Documentation around service account permissions was a little sparse when we implemented it
  • It's sometimes hard to get the reason behind a (rare) job failure without going into logs
  • The UI around snapshots and backups could do with some clarity around the restore points that will be available
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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.
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Plainly, the product just works. I don't have to babysit it.
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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.
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Still clunky compared to the on-prem version but getting better with every release. It does what it needs to do, and does it well. They are stuck with some limitations in the way Azure works so I don't know how much better they can make it but they've just added 365 backup management all from the same pane so it seems they're not done yet.
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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.
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Great support team!
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Online Training
content was good and hands on lab to get the live feel of the application
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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.
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Backup Exec was a very clunky application and took forever to backup to and restore from. We would backup to SSD external hard drives from a flash array, but the process still took forever to finish. Sending our data to the Azure blob storage via Veeam is a faster and more secure process than saving to the external hard drives with Backup Exec.
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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.
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  • We have had fast recovery of documents when needed; sub 10 minutes from start of restore to complete and in the users hands
  • Easily a value add for backing up files outside of the given Microsoft retention period; piece of mind
  • Easy tool to use with minimal training required to use it and set up backups
  • When you do change your cloud licensing it does require manual intervention to update backup data requirements. if the business makes changes then your backup person may not know to make these changes
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ScreenShots

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Veeam Backup for Azure Screenshots

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