With Cohesity’s AI Powered Data Security, customers can rapidly respond to and recover from ransomware and disasters, improve cyber resilience, and gain insights from their data using generative AI.
Recognized as a Leader
A leader in all the top analyst reports. Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Omdia, GigaOm, and KuppingerCole recognized Cohesity as an industry-leading vendor in security posture, ransomware protection, unstructured data management, cloud backup, scale-out file storage, and data protection.
19X Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions
GigaOm Ranks Cohesity the top Leader in GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection
ONLY vendor to be selected Customers’ Choice 7X running for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions
Cohesity is used by
of the Fortune 10 companies
of the top 20 US banks
of the Global 500
Minimize risk from cyberattacks
Prevention and detection of malicious activity
Modern data immutability/WORM, 2FA/TOTP, VM vulnerability detection, ML-driven anomaly detection, one-click, industry-leading threat protection and data classification
Windows-based single point of failure
CommServe runs mainly on Windows (limited Linux deployments); and requires complex DR process to avoid metadata loss, resulting in unusable backups
Single, simple, and secure UI across all services
Simple to use web-based UI; ability to administer all jobs and consumption models— including aaS offerings; built from the ground up to be secure
Multiple UIs required
Command Center and legacy, Java-based CommCell Console (for advanced tasks); inconsistent experience and output across interfaces
Protection for in-progress backups
Closed API/RPC protocols for adapters; adapterless dump-to-NAS workflows supporting NFSv4.1 ACLs to protect from exfiltration or sabotage
Higher risk of data loss
Lower uptime/resiliency with long backups and extended upgrade windows potentially leading to less frequent backups and missed backups, requiring frustrating and time-consuming troubleshooting
Strict access control and bank-grade cyber vaulting
Immutability,Cohesity-managed key option; quorum-controlled operations, rapid restore, and time-limited network access (reducing attack surface)
Greater risk of rogue actions
Limited quorum controls requiring installation of non-default business logic workflows to provide additional approvals for few tasks
Reduce downtime with rapid cyber recovery
Get back to business fast
Resume NAS file sharing immediately without restore and/or rapidly restore to primary storage
Files offline longer
Can’t immediately put file shares online; slow restore to primary storage, especially for large NAS data sets
React rapidly to attacks
Simple closed-loop SIEM, SOAR integration; complete incident response within Palo Alto XSOAR, Cisco SecureX, Microsoft Sentinel, or CrowdStrike
Delayed response
SOAR integrations lacking for incident response and resolution
Restore production and populate recovery sandboxes faster
Immediate and scalable restore of VMs and databases for faster forensics, sandboxing, and recovery
Slower recovery
Requires chain-based snapshots for synthetic fulls; limited live mounts and slow cache population
Production-grade I/O reliability
Protected data and uninterrupted instant recovery
Risk of crash
VMs can’t stay mounted through MediaAgent loss or reboot
AI-Powered Insights
Conversational business insights
Conversational business insights with secondary data via large language models (LLMs) and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Governed by existing role-based access controls.
No insights based on LLMs
No business insight capabilities based on LLMs or RAG.
Natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) for context-aware personally identifiable information (PII) to analyze risk from potential breaches.
No NLP context for PII
No NLP or ML capabilities for the PII scenario.
Maximize data value
Speedier data reuse
Rapidly restore to get data immediately for dev/test or analytics
Slow and limited access to data
Inefficient live mount snapshots can bring up only a few VMs or databases
Data masking
Anonymize sensitive information before it leaves the backup repository
Potential PII exposure
Rudimentary internal masking destroys relationships: not useful for analytics
Single secure data management platform
Enable multiple use cases, including file & object services, DR, and copy data management with reduced attack surface
Just a backup
Traditional single-purpose architecture requiring additional silos for use cases beyond backup and recovery
Better TCO
Free up staff time
Modern, easy, and powerful management with a single UI and automated optimization, non-disruptive upgrades, and easy patch management
Labor intensive
Legacy architecture requiring multiple UIs and frequent monitoring and troubleshooting with painful patch and upgrade management
> 30% more space efficient than Commvault, including across cloud
Typical for most workloads due to superior sliding-window dedupe, Zstd compression1
> 43% more space required than Cohesity
Inefficient, large fixed block deduplication (128kb on-prem and 512kb in cloud); limited dedupe across source types
Efficient network utilization
Lower network bandwidth utilization for replication/archive, reducing cost of using cloud-based backup targets
Higher network traffic
Inefficient deduplication creating more bandwidth usage, especially when moving data to the cloud
1 Space saving estimate based on a typical mix of VMs, databases, and file shares as observed in head-to-head sizing and as relayed to us by prospects
Cohesity Data Cloud Bundles | vs. Commvault
Software Capabilities
Enterprise Data Protection
Instant Mass Restore
Multi-Protocol Backup Target
Ransomware Anomaly Detection
Cyber Vaulting
Security Center & Analytics Dashboards
Intelligent Threat Protection
Sensitive Data Classification
Automated Disaster Recovery
Unified File & Object Services
Cohesity Secure
Commvault Operational Recovery
Limited
Cohesity Enterprise
Commvault Autonomous Recovery
Limited
Commvault Cyber Recovery
Limited
1Replication License Include
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