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.
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
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Commvault |
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Minimize risk from cyberattacks |
Prevention and detection of malicious activityModern 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 failureCommServe 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 servicesSimple 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 requiredCommand Center and legacy, Java-based CommCell Console (for advanced tasks); inconsistent experience and output across interfaces |
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Protection for in-progress backupsClosed API/RPC protocols for adapters; adapterless dump-to-NAS workflows supporting NFSv4.1 ACLs to protect from exfiltration or sabotage |
Higher risk of data lossLower uptime/resiliency with long backups and extended upgrade windows potentially leading to less frequent backups and missed backups, requiring frustrating and time-consuming troubleshooting |
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Strict access control and bank-grade cyber vaultingImmutability,Cohesity-managed key option; quorum-controlled operations, rapid restore, and time-limited network access (reducing attack surface) |
Greater risk of rogue actionsLimited quorum controls requiring installation of non-default business logic workflows to provide additional approvals for few tasks |
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Reduce downtime with rapid cyber recovery |
Get back to business fastResume NAS file sharing immediately without restore and/or rapidly restore to primary storage |
Files offline longerCan’t immediately put file shares online; slow restore to primary storage, especially for large NAS data sets |
React rapidly to attacksSimple closed-loop SIEM, SOAR integration; complete incident response within Palo Alto XSOAR, Cisco SecureX, Microsoft Sentinel, or CrowdStrike |
Delayed responseSOAR integrations lacking for incident response and resolution |
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Restore production and populate recovery sandboxes fasterImmediate and scalable restore of VMs and databases for faster forensics, sandboxing, and recovery |
Slower recoveryRequires chain-based snapshots for synthetic fulls; limited live mounts and slow cache population |
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Production-grade I/O reliabilityProtected data and uninterrupted instant recovery |
Risk of crashVMs can’t stay mounted through MediaAgent loss or reboot |
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AI-Powered Insights |
Conversational business insightsConversational 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 LLMsNo business insight capabilities based on LLMs or RAG. |
Natural language processingNatural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) for context-aware personally identifiable information (PII) to analyze risk from potential breaches. |
No NLP context for PIINo NLP or ML capabilities for the PII scenario. |
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Maximize data value |
Speedier data reuseRapidly restore to get data immediately for dev/test or analytics |
Slow and limited access to dataInefficient live mount snapshots can bring up only a few VMs or databases |
Data maskingAnonymize sensitive information before it leaves the backup repository |
Potential PII exposureRudimentary internal masking destroys relationships: not useful for analytics |
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Single secure data management platformEnable multiple use cases, including file & object services, DR, and copy data management with reduced attack surface |
Just a backupTraditional single-purpose architecture requiring additional silos for use cases beyond backup and recovery |
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Better TCO |
Free up staff timeModern, easy, and powerful management with a single UI and automated optimization, non-disruptive upgrades, and easy patch management |
Labor intensiveLegacy architecture requiring multiple UIs and frequent monitoring and troubleshooting with painful patch and upgrade management |
> 30% more space efficient than Commvault, including across cloudTypical for most workloads due to superior sliding-window dedupe, Zstd compression1 |
> 43% more space required than CohesityInefficient, large fixed block deduplication (128kb on-prem and 512kb in cloud); limited dedupe across source types |
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Efficient network utilizationLower network bandwidth utilization for replication/archive, reducing cost of using cloud-based backup targets |
Higher network trafficInefficient 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
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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