Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service outshines Commvault Metallic

More simplicity, flexibility, and security than Commvault cloud backup.

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Moving to SaaS should simplify backup and hybrid cloud while securing your data. Cohesity does it better.
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Simple, optimized backup

Simplify and accelerate how you safeguard your data across cloud, on-premises, and edge with an automated policy framework.

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Maximum ease and flexibility

Get a single platform for multiple services, with the flexibility to self-manage and consume as-a-service.

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Integrated data security

Go beyond Zero Trust and enhance your data resilience with secure access controls and AI-based detection and analytics.

Compare Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service vs. Commvault Metallic

Cohesity is simpler, more flexible, and provides a higher level of data security than Commvault Metallic cloud backup.

Key Capability

Cohesity

Commvault Metallic

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Simple, optimized backup

Single backup as a service (BaaS) for the protection of a wide variety of traditional and modern data sources

Yes

Yes

Global control plane to manage and continually safeguard all your data

Yes

No

(A UI for Metallic; a separate UI for legacy Commvault backup)

Parallel data streaming accelerates data backups and restore times

Yes

No

(Metallic ingests data though a single node)
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Maximum operational ease and flexibility

Single product code base for self-managed and
as-a-service backup solution

Yes

No

(Metallic and legacy Commvault backup are two different product code bases)

More productive data with support for advanced services, including data vaulting and governance

Yes

Incomplete

(Disconnected consoles for clouds & services)

Rapid deployment—no supply chain disruption or procurement issues

Yes

Yes

License portability: SaaS and/or self-managed

Yes

No

(Customers cannot move their licenses across consumption models)
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Integrated data security

Threat architecture that goes beyond Zero Trust security principles

Yes

Incomplete

(Patchwork of security features)

Complete data resiliency with encryption, fault tolerance, and immutable snapshots

Yes

No

(Only self-managed encryption keys option)

Secure access controls

Yes

Incomplete

(No SSO and limited RBAC)

AI-driven anomaly detection and analytics

Yes

Incomplete

(Additional Threatwise service based on TrapX acquisition)

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IT leaders choose Cohesity over Commvault

 

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    Michael Lawrence

    IT Operations Manager

    The backup administrator actually stopped doing backup restores with Commvault… it was so much faster and easier to do it with Cohesity.”

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    Cazi Brasga

    Systems Engineer

    ... the Commvault backup software was very cumbersome with its very granular policies. Juggling all of the aging, disparate systems was very time-consuming for our team.”

Cohesity outshines Commvault

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