I am using Metallic for backing up Microsoft 365.
Founder and Director at BMBE SOLUTIONS
Flexible, affordable, and scalable
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of Metallic is its flexibility and user-friendly."
- "The integration of Metallic could improve. It would be a benefit if Metallic could integrate with multiple applications or platforms."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
The solution has helped our business.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Metallic is its flexibility and user-friendly.
What needs improvement?
The integration of Metallic could improve. It would be a benefit if Metallic could integrate with multiple applications or platforms.
In the future, the solution could add more features to help end-users be efficient.
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For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Metallic for a few weeks.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Metallic is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have found the scalability of Metallic to be good.
I found the solution best suited for small businesses.
How was the initial setup?
I found the implementation of Metallic to be simple, I come from a technical background.
What about the implementation team?
I had some assistance from our local reseller for the implementation of the solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Metallic is an affordable solution.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Metallic an eight out of ten.
I have not used the solution enough to give it a higher rating.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: reseller
Solutions Architect with 51-200 employees
NetApp E Series and CommVault Simpana
Data protection is a challenge for most organisations and many are very dissatisfied with their current solutions – common issues tend to be:
- Point solutions are used for VMware/Hyper-V, physical servers, laptops, remote offices and archiving which increases complexity and costs
- Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBAs) are used, whilst they work well, they further increase the costs
- Ever increasing amounts of data are becoming difficult to backup in the amount of time available
- Tape backups can be unreliable, restores are slow and they are expensive to manage
To address the problem NetApp and CommVault have created joint reference architectures that consist of NetApp E-Series storage and CommVault Simpana software – just add virtual or physical servers and away you go.
So how do these joint reference architectures solve these issues?
- NetApp E-Series provides:
- Huge amounts of high-throughput and easy to expand storage, at a cost per TB way lower than PBBAs, that either negates the need for tape or keeps its use to an absolute minimum
- CommVault Simpana provides:
- A single solution to address all the above data protection use cases – managed from one console
- An advanced software based de-duplication engine, similar to that found in PBBAs, tightly integrated with the data protection application
- Advanced techniques for reducing backup times (i.e. source-based de-duplication, archiving, incrementals forever and array snapshots)
So we know it is good, but how much does it all cost?
Hypervisor licenses | Non-hypervisor licenses | Replicated Disk Libraries | Price | |
Small | 6 CPUs | 1 Tb | 2x31 TB NL-SAS usable | £23,000 |
Medium | 12 CPUs | 2Tb | 2x103 TB NL-SAS usable | £63,000 |
Large | 24 CPUs | 4Tb | 2x181 TB NL-SAS usable | £85,000 |
The beauty of this solution is that it includes two disk libraries therefore backing up to tape will often not be required, unless very long term retention is needed and even then it is likely to be very infrequent.
The above table is designed to demonstrate the affordability of the solution, in reality most organisations would want to customise both the software licenses and the amount of storage capacity to meet their exact needs.
Download the NetApp E-Series & CommVault Simpana datasheet to learn more.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We are Partners with EMC and CommVault.
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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Scalable with good pricing and a reliable performance
Pros and Cons
- "The diversity on offer is very, very good. Everything is supported. It's great."
- "It would be a bit unfair to say that it's complex, due to the fact that it supports so many different workloads, however, if there's anything that is a bit of a shortcoming, then it's the fact that there's a bit of complexity involved when dealing with the product."
What is our primary use case?
I both use the solution myself and provide services to my clients using the product. Mainly, I use the product for virtual machine backup, Office 365 backup, file servers, SQL Service, Oracle, et cetera.
What is most valuable?
The diversity on offer is very, very good. Everything is supported. It's great.
The product has a very close partnership with Microsoft with regards to the current implementation, and always has the latest support - or, rather, the support for the latest iteration of software provided by Microsoft or Oracle. It's excellent in that sense.
The solution has been quite stable. It offers reliable performance.
The solution is very scalable.
The pricing is quite good. We have no complaints in that area.
What needs improvement?
It would be a bit unfair to say that it's complex, due to the fact that it supports so many different workloads, however, if there's anything that is a bit of a shortcoming, then it's the fact that there's a bit of complexity involved when dealing with the product.
It should be easier to implement for tech people. Right now, it's quite difficult.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with the solution for 16 years or so. It's been well over a decade. I've got a lot of years under my belt with it.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of the product is quite good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product can scale. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. There shouldn't be any issues.
We might have about 150 users on the solution currently.
How are customer service and technical support?
We've been in touch with technical support many times. They're okay. Just good, not great.
Sometimes there are people, personnel, that are not that well educated. Sometimes I know more than the person I'm talking to and they are supposed to be helping me with technical problems. It's just not going to work.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup can but a bit complex. It can be a bit difficult to implement, even for someone with a good amount of experience.
We have about 10 engineers that can handle the deployment and maintenance aspects of the product.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is quite reasonable and more than fair. It's not overly expensive.
What other advice do I have?
We are official partners with Commvault. I'm a consultant.
I would advise companies considering the solution to first check out a trial or a demo and to evaluate if it's the right solution for them. If you have a very diverse data center set up, then it's likely going to be good for you. They have a strong implementation of Office 365 backup capabilities. If a company is using 365, it's going to be quite useful.
Overall, I would rate the solution at a ten out of ten. It's quite robust and already has all of the features we need. Of course, its level of diversity has been great. We're quite satisfied with it overall.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Technical support at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
Provides a stable solution with a cloud-based option that is easier to learn
Pros and Cons
- "With the use of the cloud, the solution is easy to learn."
- "Commvault Complete Data Protection would benefit from improving their training resources."
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case of Commvault Complete Data Protection is purely to protect the data in the database.
What is most valuable?
With the use of the cloud, the solution is easy to learn.
What needs improvement?
Commvault Complete Data Protection would benefit from improving their training resources. Some of the topics are very complex and are difficult to explain to our customers. The configurations are complex for users compared to other solutions.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Commvault Complete Data Protection for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This solution is stable. Every three months they perform maintenance and release the latest service.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We currently have approximately 30 customers that use Commvault Complete Data Protection.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Commvault Complete is more complex when compared to some other products.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend Commvault Complete Data Protection to anyone who is considering implementing the solution into their organization.
Overall, I would rate the product an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Data Storage and Protection Team Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Flexible, stable, good cross-platform replication, and has a good management console
Pros and Cons
- "We are using a KVM system in our cloud, and this solution works very well with it."
- "This solution can be complex and difficult to administer because it supports all of the many platforms, so it would help if they could simplify it."
What is our primary use case?
We are using this solution to backup our public and private cloud data. It is very compatible with all backup types and environments. It backs up our databases, as well as other systems such as email and files.
We are using a KVM system in our cloud, and this solution works very well with it.
How has it helped my organization?
With Commvault, we provided trusted environment to our customer and increased our incomes with new customers.
What is most valuable?
The Commvault Console is very good, as it is capable of archive and backup in the same system.
This solution is very successful at cross-platform replication.
What needs improvement?
Virtual machines backup window in GUI is not user friendly. Some improvements should be done to better user experience.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for about three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This is a very stable product, and in fact, one of the reasons that we choose this solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This is a scalable product.
We have been using it more frequently in the past three months, and we have ten companies as clients who are using it for their backups. I do not know how many users they have. We are planning to increase usage.
How are customer service and technical support?
We have been using technical support, and the response time is very acceptable. We have had no problem with support for this solution.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Acronis as our backup solution in this company, but it is not a stable product. It fails as we need to restore a backup, and we needed a stable product. We also needed support for many different platforms. I had worked with this solution at my previous company six years ago and was familiar with it, which is why we choose it.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of this solution is not complex, and it was not hard for me.
The deployment takes between two and three hours.
What about the implementation team?
We deployed this solution in-house, with our experience. We have a backup team of five people who are in charge of deployment and maintenance, although the team consists of three main people. They are backup administrators and backup experts.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did not evaluate other options before we switched to Commvault from Acronis.
What other advice do I have?
This is a product that I recommend because it is stable and has good support. However, it still has some limitations and can be improved.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Expert System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
A leader in backup and archiving, but the solution should have higher availability
Pros and Cons
- "It's the leader in backup and archiving."
- "Its competitor, Veeam, includes backup and replication in the same product. I don't know if Commvault has it or not, but they should if they don't."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case for Commvault is to archive our files. It allows us to move images from temporary storage to permanent storage. Commvault moves everything from the source to the destination, with categorization of the image archive.
What is most valuable?
Archiving and storage are very good.
It's the leader in backup and archiving.
What needs improvement?
The solution needs higher availability.
Its competitor, Veeam, includes backup and replication in the same product. I don't know if Commvault has it or not, but they should if they don't.
Also, they should have a module for reporting and supervising, like Veeam.
For how long have I used the solution?
We've been using the solution for about six months now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing for the solution used to be very expensive, but over the last year or so it's been lowered.
What other advice do I have?
We use the on-premises deployment model.
Commvault is an industry leader. Also, the price is competitive with other solutions, like Veeam. In Morocco, all customers chose Veeam because it's very simple and also their price is not expensive. Now that Commvault has adjusted pricing, they are another solution that people should consider.
I would rate the solution seven out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Unix&SAN team lead at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
A wide range of application-specific agents with very flexible options related to backup, recovery and data management.
Pros and Cons
- "Well documented SQL views and customizable reports, together with scripts and workflows provides ability to automate processes and ensure proper controls are in place."
- "Mostly controls, visibility, cost allocation."
How has it helped my organization?
We have covered all our important applications by backup policy and ensure that application owners are aware, how data is backed up and what RPO is expected, as well as cost of such backup implementation.
What is most valuable?
A wide range of application-specific agents with very flexible options related to backup, recovery and data management.
Also, pretty we
What needs improvement?
Mostly controls, visibility, cost allocation. Other general features like backup protection (via multiple copies), storage optimization (like compression/deduplication, tape refresh etc.) were in place before we switched to CommVault.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Previously, with versions 8 and 9 yes. But starting from version 10 there were no major issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In general, no. But some features like context indexing and searching have some limitations, which should be considered from the very beginning.
How are customer service and technical support?
Customer Service:
I would rate at 9 out of 10. Customer service is arranged pretty well.
Technical Support:
Depends on the topic. Issues related to configuration are resolved in a timely manner by first-line support. But if something needs to be escalated to development, it's really hard to predict when the issue will be resolved, even having BCS. The only way here is to have Professional Service in place, which is not reasonable from a cost perspective. Though, at the stage of initial assessment, first-time deployment or analysis of bottlenecks and potential issues/risks in future, Professional Service is definitely makes sense.
Overall rating: eight out of 10.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Yes, we had different solutions across locations. The decision was made to unify the backup solution across our branches. CommVault was chosen based on multiple factors.
How was the initial setup?
Initial setup is pretty straightforward. But further migrations required a lot of effort (like DR setup, migration to another major version, migration of major components (CS/MA) to another servers, etc.).
What about the implementation team?
We implemented in-house. Vendor (partner actually) was engaged during assessment of our environment before major version upgrade. Professional Service was very valuable. Level of expertise was really impressive.
What was our ROI?
I cannot estimate ROI for backup/archive solutions.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Can't provide such advice. It highly depends on initial environment and estimated growth for year and more.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Definitely yes. I would not reveal other options we looked into but I believe everyone is aware of the top five backup solutions.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Technical support at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
A scalable and stable solution with a straightforward setup
Pros and Cons
- "The solution is scalable."
- "The solution is expensive in comparison to similar solutions."
What is our primary use case?
We deploy the solution on cloud and on-premises, but when we want to go on-premises, we need at least two servers, like CommServe and MediaAgent. Whereas we can use cloud from anywhere, like a web interface, without having a MediaAgent. Everything is flexible in the web console.
What needs improvement?
The solution could improve its security.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the solution for approximately eight months and are currently using the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
We have had a good experience with customer service and support. I rate them an eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. The setup timeframe depends on the bandwidth in the network and the gateway. First, we need to configure a gateway and then configure the endpoint as a physical server. There is only one endpoint, and there is no need to take a gateway or install it. Instead, you can configure it directly to the cloud.
What about the implementation team?
We deployed the solution in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is expensive in comparison to similar solutions.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner

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