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Veeam vs. Cohesity
Top reasons enterprises
choose Veeam over Cohesity:
- Stronger cyber resilience and faster recovery
- Lower TCO and increased cost predictability
- Faster, more reliable recovery to minimize downtime
- Automated recovery you can trust
- Proactive threat detection
- Ransomware Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide
- Veeam vs. Cohesity Executive Brief
- Veeam Data Platform Feature Comparison
Feature Comparison
Why Choose Veeam Over Cohesity
| Feature | Veeam Benefits | Cohesity Limitations |
| Cyber Recovery | ||
| Threat detection during backups |
Real-time threat detection and mitigation during backups, with IoC tools, entropy analysis, file system activity analysis, and signature-based scans to flag malware. Also features Recon Scanner for proactive threat detection. |
Cohesity only detects anomalies after backups, lacks detection methods like detecting Indicators of Compromise, and relies on cloud-based analysis, which requires an internet connection. |
| Threat detection during recovery |
Ensure clean data restoration and prevent reinfection by scanning during recovery with Threat Hunter, featuring a signature-based malware detection engine and a YARA engine for custom detection patterns. |
Cohesity lacks a built-in signature-based malware scanning tool, relying only on third-party tools to be deployed in a “jump bag,” adding cost and complexity. |
| Clean room recovery |
Automatically ensure that you recover clean data only with Secure Restore, which scans restore points for malware in an isolated cleanroom during recovery. |
Cohesity lacks true clean room capabilities, leaving businesses at risk of reinfecting themselves. Their approach forces customers to either trust compromised data or spend extra time manually validating backups. |
| Cyber incident response services |
Recover from ransomware with Veeam's comprehensive incident response services, featuring patent-pending threat assessment, pre-incident education, negotiation, settlement, and recovery support. |
Cohesity depends on third-party partners like Mandiant, causing extra costs, delays, fragmented communication, and limited in-house expertise. Their reactive approach leads to longer downtime and higher recovery risks during cyber threats. |
| Pricing | ||
| Software licensing |
Veeam’s front-end instance licensing offers predictable pricing as data grows. It does not require extra licenses for factors such as creating backup copies, extending retention periods, or reducing data. |
Cohesity's capacity-based licensing penalizes data growth, complicates budgeting, and requires extra licenses for additional backups and retention. Cloud recovery costs more due to VMware and appliance requirements. |
| Hardware |
Eliminate vendor lock-in and optimize costs, while ensuring seamless scalability. Veeam’s hardware agnosticism lets you (re)use any hardware that fits your performance needs and budget. |
Cohesity locks you into a set of hardware series and models that may not fit your budget. |
| Architecture |
Thanks to Veeam’s modular architecture, you pay only for the infrastructure you need. Deploy and pay only for the compute or storage you need, not full appliances each time. |
Cohesity’s rigid, appliance-based architecture makes scaling costly. You must buy full appliances each time you need to scale, even if you just need a couple of TB more. You are stuck with what Cohesity dictates, not what your business needs. |
| Recovery | ||
| Recovery to the cloud |
Easily and cost-effectively recover any workload to the cloud with direct restore to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud without the need for additional software, hardware, or licensing. |
Incur unnecessary costs and complexity to restore to the cloud, as Cohesity must deploy appliances clusters and VMware in the cloud before recovering data there. |
| Cross-platform recovery |
With cross-platform recovery for the broadest set of platforms, you can recover data even if the original hypervisor or cloud is unavailable: VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM, Red Hat VM, Proxmox, AWS, Azure, and Google (e.g., VMware to AWS). |
How do you migrate or recover data if the original hypervisor is no longer available, as Cohesity lacks cross-platform recovery? The only option is a costly recovery to the cloud. |
| RPO & RTO |
Meet the lowest RPO and RTO, down to seconds or minutes, with instant recovery for VMs, physical machines, workstations, apps, and NAS, storage snapshot orchestration, and CDP-based replication. All in one platform! |
Cohesity cannot meet the RPO and RTO of seconds or minutes that critical data sets require, as it only recovers from backups (no storage snapshot or VM replica) and lacks instant recovery for some workloads. |
| Orchestration | ||
| Recoverability verification |
Automatically verify that recoveries will succeed thanks to isolated and robust data recoverability tests (e.g., application tests) and recovery plan verifications for backup, storage snapshot, VM replication, and CDP-based VM replication. |
Cohesity’s recovery verification is only for VMware, only for backups, and is limited to basic boot tests. |
| Recovery orchestration |
Eliminate manual work by creating sophisticated recovery orchestration plans for backup, storage snapshot, VM replication, and CDP. Creating orchestration plans is easy; drag-and-drop steps from a list of 25+ pre-built steps into your plans! |
Cohesity forces you to manually execute the steps of your recovery plans, as it does not offer advanced orchestration plans like Veeam. They also do not provide orchestration for CDP, VM Replication, or storage snapshots. |
| Documentation |
Effortlessly provide reporting to executives and board members for compliance with an automated and detailed recovery plan, recovery test, and recovery process reports that document each step of these processes. |
Cohesity does not provide such detailed recovery orchestration reports. |
| Hardware | ||
| Hardware agnosticism |
Control hardware costs and avoid hardware lock-in, as Veeam enables you to use any server or storage vendor from 70+ vendors. |
Cohesity must be installed on certified systems from only a handful of vendors, limiting choice and flexibility. |
| Hardware integrations |
Integrating Veeam with your storage enhances backup and recovery. Veeam orchestrates storage snapshots for 70+ storage arrays and integrates with 8+ deduplicating appliances. |
Cohesity cannot leverage your hardware to accelerate backup and recovery as well as Veeam, as it integrates only with a handful of arrays and only orchestrates backup from storage snapshots, not recovery. |
| Portable backup files |
Enjoy the ultimate data portability as Veeam provides self-describing backup files that do not depend on any infrastructure components. You can easily move them around and restore them, even if you have lost backup servers. |
Cohesity stores backups in a proprietary format that inhibits restoring from anything but a Cohesity appliance, leading to vendor lock-in and possibly the inability to restore at all. |
