3 reasons teams choose Cohesity over Rubrik

Overview Beyond Zero Trust

Go beyond Zero Trust

With today’s sophisticated cybercriminals trying to encrypt, exfiltrate, and ransom your data, the need for Zero Trust is a given. You need AI/ML-enabled defense capabilities that minimize your attack surface.

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Gain a proven recovery advantage

When your business is down, every second counts. Recover VMs, databases, and file shares rapidly and at scale, without single points of failure risking VM crashes or data loss.

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Streamline with one platform for the future

Get modern data security and backup, either SaaS or self-managed. Use one platform with limitless scale—so you can expand with file services, repurpose data for dev/test, and generally do more.

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.

Gartner Magic Quadrant 2021

5X Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions

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GigaOm Ranks Cohesity the top Leader in GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection

Gartner Peer Insights 2024

ONLY vendor to be selected Customers’ Choice 5X running for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions

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Highest Leaders score, Strategy and Market Presence, Q4,’22 Forrester Wave for Data Resilience Solution Suites

Cohesity is used by

5

of the Fortune
10 companies

7

of the top
20 US banks

47

of the
Fortune 100

Minimize risk from cyberattacks

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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

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Missing protections

Cannot set WORM-lock periods independently of retention periods - raising costs and increasing compliance risks; no VM vulnerability detection; unable to combine multiple custom IOC rules; unable to combine a feed with a rule.

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Protection for in-progress backups

Adapters use closed API/RPC protocols and adapterless dump-to-NAS workflows supporting NFSv4.1 ACLs to protect from exfiltration or sabotage

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Higher exposure to exfiltration or sabotage

Fewer applications supported by adapters; in-progress NFS dumps may be accessed on the network for exfiltration or sabotage

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Strict access control

Quorum support for multi-person concurrence on sensitive actions

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Greater risk of rogue actions

No quorum controls to prevent unilateral admin actions to maliciously export data or pause vaulting

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Bank-grade cyber vaulting with FortKnox

Immutability, Cohesity-managed key option; quorum-controlled operations, rapid restore, and time-limited network access (reducing attack surface)

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Just a vendor-supplied storage bucket

Customer still responsible for managing multiple risks themselves; fewer layers of protection, doesn’t meet bank requirements or maximize restore speeds

Reduce downtime with rapid cyber recovery

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Restore production and populate recovery sandboxes faster

Immediate and scalable restore of VMs and databases for faster forensics, sandboxing, and recovery

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Slower recovery

Chain-based metadata processing requires background “stitching together” of snapshots when restoring at scale

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Reduced downtime

Resume NAS file sharing immediately without restore, and/or rapidly restore to primary storage

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Files offline longer

Can’t immediately put file shares online; slow restore to primary

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Production-grade I/O reliability

Writes never lost, near instant recovery; not interrupted by reboot or hardware failure

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Risk of data loss

Risk of VM interruption or data loss due to node loss or unplanned reboot

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Simple closed-loop SIEM, SOAR integration

Complete incident response within Palo Alto XSOAR, Cisco SecureX, Microsoft Sentinel, or Crowdstrike

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More complex incident response

Two UIs needed; Lacks Cisco integration

Maximize data value

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Speedier data reuse

Rapidly restore to get data immediately for dev/test or analytics

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Slower access to data

Less scalable live mounting and restore

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Data masking

Anonymize sensitive information before it leaves the backup repository

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Potential PII exposure

Dev/test workflows create risk without masking

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Single secure data management platform

Enable multiple use cases including file & object services, DR, and copy data management with a reduced attack surface

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Just a backup

Single-purpose architecture requires additional silos for use cases beyond backup and recovery

Better TCO

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Freedom to choose SaaS, self-managed, or both

Same GUI for SaaS, on-prem workloads, and M365

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Either/or

SaaS limited to protecting M365; separate GUI for SaaS administration

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25% more space efficient than Rubrik, including across cloud

Typical for most workloads due to superior sliding-window dedupe, Zstd compression1

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33% more space required than Cohesity

Typically due to fixed block sizes, limited dedupe across source types and less compression. No dedupe supported for flash media.2

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Future proof

Mix between whitebox and your choice of a supported major h/w vendor without an expensive lock-in

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Hidden costs

Mixing hardware limited to single vendor

1Space saving estimate based on a typical mix of VMs, databases, and file shares as observed in head-to-head sizing and as relayed to Cohesity by prospects.
2When Cohesity needs 25% less space, if Rubrik needs 100 TB then Cohesity needs 75 TB; compared to the 75 TB that Coheity needs, Rubrik needs 25 more TB, which is 33% more than Cohesity needs; if Rubrik has not quoted 33% more license than Cohesity, then Rubrik is likely not quoting enough license to provide sufficient in-cluster retention to recover rapidly from sophisticated attackers.

Cohesity Data Cloud Bundles | vs. Rubrik

Software Capabilities
Enterprise Data Protection
Instant Mass Restore
Multi-Protocol Backup Target
Ransomware Anomaly Detection
Cloud Cyber Vaulting
Analytics Dashboards & Security Insights
Intelligent Threat Protection
Sensitive Data Classification
Automated Disaster Recovery
Unified File & Object Services
User Accessibility Analysis

1Replication License Included
2DR Site Requires Foundation License

IT leaders choose Cohesity over Rubrik

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Seattle University chose Cohesity over Rubrik to implement a modern backup and recovery solution. Cohesity empowers SU to protect, store, and manage secondary data, and also extend the web-scale platform for a dev/test environment.

Aaron Boruff

Application Administrator, Seattle University

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We are experiencing both time and cost savings with Cohesity because we now rely on one data management platform for backup, archiving, long-term retention, and files. It’s always working and not just one specialist, but our whole team can take advantage of its modern capabilities.”

Curt Kwak

CIO, Proliance Surgeons

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Switching to Cohesity resulted in 20–25% improvement in data reduction compared to other backup solutions.”

Stephen Pyott

Chief Revenue Officer, Stage2Data

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