COMMVAULT® CLOUD VS. COHESITY

Move from Chaos to Clarity with Commvault 

Protect your organization’s resilience by choosing a trusted partner that delivers continuous business, ongoing innovation, and consistent stability for your organization. Don’t feel pressured to switch to Cohesity to fill the gaps created by the loss of Veritas’ data security capabilities. 

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Cohesity vs Commvault
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Industry Leadership

Recognized by top analysts as a leader in the industry

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13x

in a row, named a Leader and ranked #1 in 5 out of 6 Use Cases in the Gartner® Critical Capabilities 2024 report. 

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Highest 

Ranking for strength of offering and named a Leader in Forrester® Data Resilience Solutions, Q4 2024. 

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Leader 

Named a “Leader” and “Forward Mover,” positioning Commvault at the top of the leaderboard for the 2024 GigaOm Sonar for Cloud-Native Data Protection. 

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Commvault vs. Cohesity

Only Commvault® Cloud enables continuous business for the cloud-first enterprise.

Commvault

  • Continuous testing and frictionless recovery

    Commvault Cloud’s Cleanroom Recovery offers comprehensive testing and failover that enables secure and quick recovery of applications into an on-demand cleanroom to provide reliable cyber recovery.

    The result?

    Reduce the complexity and cost of managing on-premises cleanrooms to enable uninterrupted business continuity.

Cohesity

  • Inadequate testing and recovery options

    Cohesity’s limited capabilities rely on third-party applications and lack any-to-any portability. They do not offer a flexible dissimilar Cleanroom target, forcing customers to depend on manual, complex, and expensive testing and recovery processes.

    The result?

    Complex, costly, and untenable requirements for readiness and recovery for the hybrid enterprise.

Commvault

  • Don’t just restore data – rewind and rebuild 

    Cloud Rewind automates the backup, replication, and recovery of entire cloud environments, including applications, data, and dependencies, for quick and efficient recovery with minimal manual intervention. 

    The result?

    Significantly increase application resilience in public clouds with app environment level discovery, protection, rewind, recovery, and rebuild Capabilities. Dramatically reduce time to rebuild after a cyber attack from weeks to minutes. 

Cohesity

  • Inadequate cloud resilience capabilities 

    Limited to backing up and restoring data without the required dependencies, lacking comprehensive environment discovery. Requires scripts and manual execution or automated pipelines, which can be error-prone and time-consuming during a disaster. 

    The result?

    Cohesity’s backup and recovery capabilities are not built to protect and recover all the cloud resources used by dynamic, distributed auto-scaling apps that rely on software-defined cloud infrastructure.  

Commvault

  • AWS data protection for a cloud-first world

    With rapid recovery that scales to petabytes of data and billions of objects, you’ll have the confidence that you can quickly and easily recover Amazon S3 or DynamoDB data in the event of an operational error, disaster, or cyber attack. 

    The result?

    The ability to scale seamlessly with your organization’s data, while providing the power of file level indexing that helps you find, protect and restore exactly the right data among billions of cloud files and objects, fast. 

Cohesity

  • Increased cost and restore times 

    Cohesity uses full-scale, point-in-time backups for AWS, resulting in dramatically slower backup and restore times. 

    The result?

    Increased backup costs, restore times, and management complexities. 

Commvault

  • Built-in data security

    Commvault Cloud provides a layered approach to threat detection that extends its monitoring capabilities beyond just backup data to actively monitor live production data.

    The result?

    Always-available critical threat prevention features you can rely on.

Cohesity

  • Dependent on separate tools

    Cohesity’s ransomware detection and recovery features are 100% dependent upon third-party apps purchased separately from their marketplace or their cloud-based Helios and DataHawk tools.

    The result?

    Increased risk that your data and systems will be completely isolated from the very tools that “protect” them.

Commvault

  • Proactive: Earlier detection and response

    Commvault Cloud provides a layered approach to threat detection, providing enticing decoys that mimic real world assets and threat hunting in production and backup data.

    The result?

    Earlier warning of potential threats and the ability to quickly respond and mitigate any impact.

Cohesity

  • Reactive: Delayed detection and response

    Cohesity’s detection features can only monitor their own backup data.

    The result?

    By the time a threat is detected, the damage has already been done.

Commvault

  • Any workload. Anywhere.

    Commvault Cloud supports the broadest spectrum of data platforms, workloads, and cloud-native applications. Customers gain peace of mind with consistent and integrated security for all of their data, wherever it lives.

    The result?

    No-fuss integration that enables you to easily plug us into your data environment.

Cohesity

  • Limited protection coverage

    Cohesity is much more limited in terms of what data they can even backup, with no support for critical workloads like Azure Active Directory, Oracle Cloud, and many other cloud-native databases and applications. The Cohesity and Veritas integration is expected to be complex and time-consuming, taking several years. Customers may face challenges during this transitional period due to the lack of platform integration.

    The result?

    Patchwork protection that requires more tools and creates more complexity.

Commvault

  • Build. Scale. Grow.

    Commvault Cloud customers can choose a mix of appliance, reference architecture, virtual, cloud, and even SaaS to best fit their evolving business needs. Plus, features like global deduplication, dynamic provisioning and power management reduce infrastructure costs on-premises and in the cloud.

    The result?

    The ability to build and scale your environment with one solution, all at the industry’s lowest TCO.

Cohesity

  • More and more appliances

    Cohesity customers have reported that they are spending more with Cohesity than they did with previous solutions. And they’re unable to mix and match different appliance models or vendors in a cluster, limiting flexibility.

    The result?

    Exponential costs that limit your availability to scale, locking you in.

Seamlessly transition to Commvault® Cloud 

​Create a customized strategy for your organization with Commvault’s trusted migration services. Our team will guide you through the migration process, eliminating uncertainty in moving from your current vendor.

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Customer quotes

What our customers are saying

“We were looking for an offering that could protect the many key platforms deployed across our environment, and Cohesity couldn’t check either of those boxes.”

Gilman Treantos

Administrator, IT – Backup/Storage Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina

“Right now, we operate Commvault, Veritas, HPDP, and Backup Exec, and Commvault’s by far the product that’s got the highest success rate for backup and restore, and it is a good 20% better.”

Scott Hunter

AstraZeneca 

“Compared to Veritas and Dell EMC, Commvault Complete™ Backup & Recovery is the most cost-effective solution. We worked with Veritas and Dell in the past, but only Commvault provided the functionalities to meet our distinct backup requirements, while supporting the diverse hardware portfolio. With Commvault technology, we are confident that our data is always secure and readily available.”

Sunil Tripathy

AGM-Core IT, Jindal Saw Ltd. 

“We looked at EMC Networker and Veritas NetBackup, but Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery was easier to operate and troubleshoot, and it gave us flexibility to use any disk for back up without tying us to a specific hardware vendor. Commvault was the only solution offering all these advantages.”

Ali Yazici

IT Service Manager , Kuveyt Türk Participation Bank 

SWITCH GUIDE

Making the switch to Commvault Cloud is easy

Change doesn’t have to be hard. Download our step-by-step guide to making the switch from Cohesity to Commvault Cloud.