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Cohesity Helios - unpublished, merged with Cohesity

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What is Cohesity Helios - unpublished, merged with Cohesity?

Cohesity Helios is a data management platform from Cohesity, headquartered in San Jose, which provides users with end-to-end protection for virtual and physical workloads, databases, applications, and storage with a single web-scale solution.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Cohesity Helios - unpublished, merged with Cohesity has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 19 ratings of Cohesity Helios - unpublished, merged with Cohesity's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Instant recovery

    Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly

    Category average: 8.4

  • Incremental backup identification

    Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup

    Category average: 9.1

  • Backup to the cloud

    Ability to store and back up data to the cloud

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Encryption

    Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

    Category average: 9.4

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 9

  • Snapshots

    Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met

    Category average: 8.7

Reviews

What users are saying about Cohesity Helios - unpublished, merged with Cohesity.
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Cohesity Helios - A Great Value for our Enterprise!

Incentivized
Ayhan CikmazView profile
Information Technology Executive in Information Technology at Sanko HOLDING (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity [Helios] allowed us to backup data more effectively and restore the data fast. We have [fewer] issues in Hyper-v and Vmware compared to other products. Also, the addition of [Cohesity] Helios and [the] marketplace add new options that other products can not provide.

Pros

  • Extremely streamlined admin controls for our SAs
  • See backup
  • Solid data platform/encryption

Cons

  • I would like to see a broader analytics offering, including data management & security offerings.

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), Arcserve Business Continuity Cloud

Return on Investment

  • Cohesity [Helios] restores data well.
  • [Cohesity Helios has] good reporting and metrics.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication

Usability

A swiss army knife for your data

Incentivized
Joshua Van CampView profile
Network Administration Supervisor in Information Technology at Gleaner Life Insurance Society (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity was brought into our organization as a replacement for traditional magnetic tape backups. We also were looking for a replacement for legacy NAS devices for the storage of unstructured data like home and user drives across the organization.

Pros

  • Backups - Cohesity makes it very easy to backup our VMware environment. They also have specialized backups for Active Directory, SQL, O365 Email, and legacy storage devices.
  • File services - Cohesity allows us to easily provision new SMB file shares.

Cons

  • Replication performance - We needed support to provide some customizations in order to get our replication to work properly to another offsite cluster. We have been told that this issue is fixed in the newest general release.
  • Support - I would characterize the support as very good, but in a few instances I could tell my support agent needed to go higher up his chain to get clarification on features. I believe Cohesity is rapidly growing their support infrastructure as they put more hardware in the field.

Other Software Used

HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube), WhatsUp Gold, VMware ESXi

Return on Investment

  • We have not calculated an exact number but just our labor savings on a yearly basis is immense.
  • We also no longer have to pay for tape media, backup exec licensing, physical server, physical server license, etc.

Alternatives Considered

Rubrik and StorageCraft OneXafe

After using Helios, I cant imagine administration without Helios

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cohesity Helios in our environment to Manage all the individual clusters which we are supporting. We manage all of them from a single UI using Cohesity. No need to log in to all the clusters separately to administrate the day-to-day operations. Even for reporting features, it was very useful. If you are a super admin then you will have all the rights to do everything.

Pros

  • Single UI to manage the clusters centrally.
  • Super admin can do everything from the same UI
  • Good reporting feature which can provide detailed info

Cons

  • I don't see any improving required
  • few additional features can be implemented
  • Additional modes can be implemented to grab user attention

Other Software Used

Dell EMC Networker, IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication

Return on Investment

  • I see multiple tasks can be done from same UI which is a big positive
  • time taken to manage all the clusters has been reduced
  • UI can be improved better

Usability

Cohesity Helios for data analytics

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our main use case for Cohesity is NAS. We use Helios to assist with data analytics and [combine] the data that we have. We are able to search for specific file types or words and then we can use that to make further decisions. We look forward to [furthering] advances in security and will probably use that too.

Pros

  • Accessibility
  • On platform
  • Free

Cons

  • Bugs
  • Nas Focus instead of backups.
  • Out of box usability

Return on Investment

  • We are able to quickly make a share for users.
  • We can worry about security less then we had to before.
  • The management is far less complicated than our previous NAS.

Usability

Cohesity Helios Provides the Single Pane of Glass Admins Want

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cohesity Helios allows for centralized administration and visibility of all of an organization's Cohesity clusters, both on-prem and cloud. It provides the "single pane of glass" that every technology company talks about but rarely fully delivers. Being able to see the status and alerts for every cluster, or even a single cluster, within the organization is a big plus. And if something is alerting, you can go into that cluster's management to gather more detail.

Pros

  • Centralized visibility
  • Centralized management

Cons

  • Reporting is limited

Return on Investment

  • Less time spent managing and monitoring backups

Usability