The Cohesity Alternative Built for Modern Cloud Protection
Commvault outperforms Cohesity on workload coverage, compliance reporting, and retention costs — delivering unified data protection and cyber resilience from a single platform.
8 EB
Of customer data secured
Proven
Cloud App resilience with Cloud Rewind
1,600+
Patents driving cyber resiliency
$0
Cleanroom infrastructure tax
19+
Tools consolidated into one unified platform
Challenges enterprise teams face with Cohesity
Are these pain points holding your team back?
Limited workload coverage
Experiencing coverage gaps in your complex environment? Cohesity can fall short in protecting legacy platforms, modern apps, and edge cases, requiring workarounds and extra point tools.
Poor reporting and visibility
Struggling with weak reporting and audit visibility? Cohesity customers often ask for better reporting, which can make it harder to support compliance quickly under pressure.
Costly storage requirements
Retention costs too high? Cohesity can drive more data into costlier tiers or require manual data lifecycle management steps to meet long-term retention goals.
How Commvault solves your data protection challenges
Modern data protection and recovery designed for hybrid cloud.
Fast, proven recovery
Experience clean recovery with confidence through automated recovery testing and validation workflows, designed to enable data integrity before bringing systems back online.
Reduced operational sprawl
Simplify operations across your enterprise with centralized management and broad platform coverage, reducing the need for extra tools as workloads and data footprint expands.
Actionable threat signals
Turn threat signals into action with guided, AI-enabled recovery workflows that reduce noise and enable confident decision making during a cyber incident.
SEE HOW WE COMPARE
Comparison overview
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Deployment Flexibility | Commvault supports multiple deployment models, including cloud-native SaaS, self-managed software on your choice of infrastructure, virtual appliances, and pre-built appliances (including validated hardware reference designs). | Cohesity offers multiple deployment options but is commonly deployed on Cohesity-branded appliances, and management consistency across deployment models varies. SaaS coverage varies significantly by workload. |
EDiscovery and Compliance Workflows | Commvault enables legal teams to search data across the entire environment (on-prem, cloud, and SaaS) without needing a 3rd party tool – potentially reducing risk associated with compliance. | Cohesity’s search is primarily an admin function. It does not offer a native, end-to-end legal hold workflow where a legal team can lock data (not just snapshots), review it in a specialized portal, and export it in legal-standard formats. |
Long-term Retention | Commvault offers mature, native, and fully integrated tape storage features and recovery procedures. Commvault also supports native archive tiers across all major clouds to help standardize long-term retention without multiple tools. | Cohesity requires purchasing, deploying, and integrating 3rd party software (QStar) for tape archival and supports fewer cloud archive targets than Commvault. |
Cloud Reconstruction | Commvault Cloud Rewind restores the entire cloud environment, including networking, security groups, and infrastructure-as-code configurations reducing recovery time from weeks to minutes. | Cohesity’s Cloud Rebuild capability restores cloud applications provisioned via Terraform for select AWS workloads, but does not extend to the networking and security group reconstruction that Cloud Rewind covers. |
Identity Resilience | Commvault offers automated, forest-level recovery for Active Directory and can recover any Active Directory object in minutes. Additionally, Commvault Cloud simplifies finding and reversing unauthorized identity changes to help address active identity-based attacks in their tracks. | Cohesity can restore users and attributes, but Cohesity’s AD forest recovery depends on Semperis, a separately licensed 3rd party add-on, vs. Commvault’s native automated forest recovery. |
Commvault
Deployment Flexibility
Commvault supports multiple deployment models, including cloud-native SaaS, self-managed software on your choice of infrastructure, virtual appliances, and pre-built appliances (including validated hardware reference designs).EDiscovery and Compliance Workflows
Commvault enables legal teams to search data across the entire environment (on-prem, cloud, and SaaS) without needing a 3rd party tool – potentially reducing risk associated with compliance.Long-term Retention
Commvault offers mature, native, and fully integrated tape storage features and recovery procedures. Commvault also supports native archive tiers across all major clouds to help standardize long-term retention without multiple tools.Cloud Reconstruction
Commvault Cloud Rewind restores the entire cloud environment, including networking, security groups, and infrastructure-as-code configurations reducing recovery time from weeks to minutes.Identity Resilience
Commvault offers automated, forest-level recovery for Active Directory and can recover any Active Directory object in minutes. Additionally, Commvault Cloud simplifies finding and reversing unauthorized identity changes to help address active identity-based attacks in their tracks.
Cohesity
Deployment Flexibility
Cohesity offers multiple deployment options but is commonly deployed on Cohesity-branded appliances, and management consistency across deployment models varies. SaaS coverage varies significantly by workload.EDiscovery and Compliance Workflows
Cohesity’s search is primarily an admin function. It does not offer a native, end-to-end legal hold workflow where a legal team can lock data (not just snapshots), review it in a specialized portal, and export it in legal-standard formats.Long-term Retention
Cohesity requires purchasing, deploying, and integrating 3rd party software (QStar) for tape archival and supports fewer cloud archive targets than Commvault.Cloud Reconstruction
Cohesity’s Cloud Rebuild capability restores cloud applications provisioned via Terraform for select AWS workloads, but does not extend to the networking and security group reconstruction that Cloud Rewind covers.Identity Resilience
Cohesity can restore users and attributes, but Cohesity’s AD forest recovery depends on Semperis, a separately licensed 3rd party add-on, vs. Commvault’s native automated forest recovery.
Why teams switch from Cohesity to Commvault
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Gain software-defined flexibility
Teams are exhausted with proprietary platforms. Commvault’s software-defined architecture lets you leverage existing, low-cost commodity storage, eliminating vendor lock-in and drastically lowering your TCO. -
Achieve hypervisor and cloud mobility
Help meet cyber insurance mandates and unlock smooth data mobility. Easily recover workloads across diverse environments – eliminating hypervisor and cloud lock-in. -
Gain certainty in the future
Avoid the risk of a complex, multi-year merger. Commvault’s proven, unified codebase helps keep your data safer and more secure than beta-testing disjointed, transitional architectures from Cohesity and Veritas.
Switch from Cohesity in weeks, not months
Most customers switching from Cohesity won’t need professional services. But for complex environments or teams that want expert guidance, Commvault’s migration services make the transition smooth.
Discover
Gather data about your environment to scope and recommend migration strategies.
Options
Identify the most appropriate, efficient, and cost-effective strategy through a collaborative workshop session that explores migration options, grouped by business value.
Define
Design the Commvault Cloud platform for your environment
Plan
Develop project plans for server-by-server migration and map the old configuration to the new Commvault configuration for automated deployment.
Success stories
Real results from companies that chose Commvault over the competition.
The Challenge
Looking for a mature offering that could protect the many key platforms deployed across environments and Cohesity could not check either of those boxes.
The Solution
Commvault’s modern approach to data management was able to deliver on both plus provide the recovery speed demanded by our customers-in today’s fast-moving culture, no wants to wait. They want their data fast and they want to be able to use it and consume it as quickly as possible. That’s definitely one of the major motivators we had for choosing Commvault.
The Challenge
"Rubrik and Cohesity do some things well…”
The Solution
Commvault is super easy to use, cost-efficient, and flexible. It is an ideal tool to span our multi-faceted workloads across all our cloud vendors and on-premises from location to location…Commvault has many more features and functions.”
The Challenge
Backing up a large volume of unstructured, dispart data, including engineering files that must be kept indefinitely.
The Solution
Relies on Commvault Cloud Autonomous Recovery for automated backup and recovery for on-premises data and optimizes backup and recovery for cloud and SaaS workloads with Commvault Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365.
Time cut in backup management
Cost-savings and gained deduplication rates
Certification & compliances
Enterprise-grade security & compliance
GovRAMP authorized
The most stringent confidentiality, accessibility, and availability standards set forth for U.S. government contractors and agencies.
FIPS 140-3 compliant
Validates cryptographic modules for encryption and document processing for handling sensitive data.
ISO/IEC 27001: 2013 certified
Establishes international standards for managing risks to the security of information.
Applicable for Commvault Cloud SaaS customers and Remote Managed Services (RMS) Platform.
NIST 800-53 CP9 & CP10 compliant
Establishes standards for contingency planning and configuration management to maintain the security of information systems and protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or modification.
VPAT 2.5 — WCAG and 508 compliant
Describes the accessibility of Commvault Solutions in conformance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
SOC 2 Type II certified
Provides security standards and criteria for the acceptance, processing, storage, and transmission of credit card information.
Applicable for Commvault Cloud SaaS customers.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Commvault compare to Cohesity?
Commvault and Cohesity both protect and recover data, but Commvault is often chosen when environments are more complex (hybrid, multi-cloud, several apps & databases, and compliance requirements). You get broad workload coverage, flexible storage choices, and strong cyber recovery capabilities like cleanroom recovery and threat scanning, all managed from one platform. Cohesity may not be the best fit if you need one platform to cover a wide mix of apps, clouds, and compliance needs.
What’s the main difference between Commvault and Cohesity?
Commvault is designed to give you a unified platform for protecting, recovering, securing, and governing data across all your environments and workload types, with consistent policy management, threat detection, and reporting. If your environment includes multiple clouds and constant change, Cohesity can require more 3rd party point solutions and workarounds to stay protected.
Can I migrate from Cohesity to Commvault?
Yes! Customers typically start by mapping retention and recovery requirements, then move in phases by workload or site to reduce risk (often running side by side during the transition). That keeps you compliant and your data protected while you modernize. Commvault Professional Services and partners can accelerate discovery, policy mapping, and future planning.
Why should I choose Commvault over Cohesity?
Choose Commvault if you want fewer tools to manage, fewer exceptions to deal with, and more confidence during recovery. You get broad workload support, strong cyber recovery readiness, AI-assisted resilience, and consistent governance as you grow. For organizations dealing with complex hybrid estates and strict recovery expectations, Cohesity can be harder to scale without adding extra complexity and more moving parts.
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