Azure Site Recovery vs Commvault Cloud comparison

Microsoft and Commvault are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category. Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.6, while Commvault is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. Microsoft holds a 9.9% mindshare in DRS, compared to Commvault’s 7.7% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Commvault users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

Commvault Cloud and Azure Site Recovery compete in the backup and disaster recovery category. Commvault Cloud seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive data protection and management capabilities across various environments and comprehensive compliance features.

Features: Commvault Cloud offers extensive backup and data protection capabilities across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, focusing on robust security measures and advanced disaster recovery options. Its comprehensive data management and integration support make it ideal for complex infrastructures. Azure Site Recovery is mainly focused on disaster recovery within the Azure ecosystem, highlighting ease of migration and automated synchronization capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Commvault Cloud could improve its user interface consistency across platforms and provide better documentation for smoother onboarding. Pricing models and licensing transparency are needed for better adaptability to organizational needs. Azure Site Recovery could enhance cost predictability and faster, comprehensive support, particularly in scalability and complex recovery scenarios.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Commvault Cloud presents deployment challenges, particularly on-premises, requiring substantial technical expertise. It provides extensive documentation and responsive though inconsistent technical support. Azure Site Recovery has a more straightforward deployment approach, especially in hybrid cloud settings, focusing on integration simplicity. Commvault's customer service excels in certain regions but faces challenges elsewhere due to language and time-zone differences. Azure Site Recovery could improve its multi-region support for consistent service.

Pricing and ROI: Commvault Cloud generally incurs higher costs due to its comprehensive feature set and enterprise focus. Organizations report varied experiences in terms of cost-benefit, with ROI often greater in environments needing extensive data integration. Azure Site Recovery's pricing, driven by usage and cloud resources, can lead to unpredictability but often reflects competitive rates for Azure-centric scenarios. Its ROI is more notable in Azure-centered operations.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

7.2

Azure Site Recovery is cost-effective, time-saving, and reliable, optimizing virtual machine processes and offering an alternative to secondary data centers.

Sentiment score

7.2

Commvault Cloud reduced operational costs, improved data protection, and enabled significant return on investment with streamlined backup management.

Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.4

Microsoft's Azure Site Recovery support is knowledgeable but inconsistent, with mixed reviews on response times and communication efficiency.

Sentiment score

7.2

Commvault Cloud's customer service is effective and responsive, though improvements are needed in staffing and local support options.

During a global outage that affected our operations, there was no apology or in-depth follow-up from Microsoft.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Microsoft support could be improved as it rates only a five out of ten, with slow response times and a preference for email over phone communication even in severity B cases.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

We primarily rely on our Cloud Support Partner for support.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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The number of people who know Commvault Cloud is lesser compared to Veeam.

Kamal Gulati

Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.

At the pre-sale cycle, we have spocks aligned from Commvault with whom we get in touch, and they provide all the required support that we need.

Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

Customer support has very closed departments, requiring us to shuffle between them to get one thing done because representatives have limited accessibility.

reviewer1544721

Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Site Recovery is scalable, excelling in cloud migration and disaster recovery for businesses, despite regional scalability variations.

Sentiment score

7.5

Commvault Cloud offers scalable integration across platforms, though faces challenges with SQL and Windows Server configuration complexity.

I would rate the scalability of Azure Site Recovery as a nine out of ten.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Scalability is provided because they are offering 99.95% availability.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Azure Site Recovery is a very scalable product and service mechanism.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Site Recovery is highly rated for stability and scalability, frequently scoring between seven and ten by users.

Sentiment score

7.7

Commvault Cloud is praised for its high stability, reliability, strong support, and minimal issues, ensuring continuous dependable operations.

The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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I have not faced any downtimes with Commvault Cloud.

Kamal Gulati

Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.

Commvault Cloud is highly stable, and I would rate it a ten out of ten.

DarshanDivekar

CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Room For Improvement

Azure Site Recovery needs better integration, deployment, stability, security, and support, with improved logging, pricing, and platform compatibility.

Commvault Cloud users seek improved usability, clearer licensing, better support, enhanced integration, and advanced features for a streamlined experience.

If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud.

Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

I feel that the support is not yet up to the mark, with not enough professional engineers to provide assistance.

DarshanDivekar

CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery offers cost-effective DR solutions despite complex billing, with average monthly site-to-site replication costs at $225.

Commvault Cloud is cost-efficient for enterprises, yet can seem pricey for SMBs; evaluating licensing options is recommended.

It was not the expensive part of our costs.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.

DarshanDivekar

CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery is praised for seamless failover, ease of use, compatibility, but may be costly for smaller clients.

Commvault Cloud offers scalable data protection with fiber backup, global deduplication, cloud integration, security, and centralized management.

Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

Azure provides a 99.99% SLA for their uptime, ensuring that even during outages due to patch releases, there is no data loss, merely hindered accessibility.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

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We can back up unlimited TBs due to our per node license.

reviewer1544721

Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Other features include endpoint solutions, integration with Office 365, ransomware protection, archival for long-term retention, and no ingress or egress charges.

DarshanDivekar

CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The public cloud acts as a bigger solution for the on-premise while the on-premise acts as a DR for the public cloud workloads.

Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

112

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (4th), eDiscovery (3rd), Cloud Backup (4th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (6th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 9.9%, down from 23.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 7.7%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery as a Service Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Azure Site Recovery	9.9%
Commvault Cloud	7.7%
Other	82.4%

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Featured Reviews

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions

There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer. When you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.

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Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

Hybrid backup strategy has improved recovery orchestration and now supports flexible DR planning

I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that different data protection organizations are coming up with, which basically revolves around tiering of not frequently accessible data to glacier kind of storage, plus bringing in a high level of compression and deduplication capabilities. All those features I believe are there in other customers and they are bringing in new use cases from the AI perspective which I have not recently seen in Commvault. I have seen that Dell does have such features. We recently pitched a solution to the customers where we talked about data tiering and the other AI use cases, identifying the data by itself and autonomously taking decisions on how to tier the data between the different storage classes that we have. Those kind of capabilities that we have proposed to the customer as far as the partner solutions are concerned. I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud. The rest of the features pretty much align with the other enterprise solutions that we have in the market. It is just the AI capability that is being asked by the customers as well as that I see missing with Commvault.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

University

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	57
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	82

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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What is your primary use case for Azure Site Recovery?

My main use case for Azure Site Recovery is that we are doing cross-region disaster recovery and processing.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ThreatWise?

Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.

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What needs improvement with ThreatWise?

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What is your primary use case for ThreatWise?

I work with a variety of backup solutions including Commvault, Avamar, Rubrik, and similar tools. I am part of Tata Consultancy Services where we pitch all these solutions to customers from the bac...

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

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Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise

Overview

Azure Site Recovery ensures seamless disaster recovery with features like scalability, automated file synchronization, real-time dashboards, and secure processes. It achieves a 99.99% uptime SLA and is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and user-friendly interface.

Azure Site Recovery is a comprehensive disaster recovery service featuring load-balancing, fast snapshots, and native Azure integration for reliable performance. It manages virtual machine synchronization with seamless failover and data consistency, aiding in reducing secondary site expenses. With its robust architecture, the service supports organizations in maintaining business continuity, meeting regulatory compliance, and minimizing downtime through regular failover drills. Its implementation often capitalizes on Azure's reliability, ensuring infrastructure uptime and reduced hardware requirements.

What are the essential features of Azure Site Recovery?

Scalability: Adjusts to varying data loads for optimized performance.
User-Friendly Console: Simplifies configuration and management processes.
Automated File Synchronization: Ensures data consistency across locations.
Real-Time Dashboards: Offers immediate insights into system health and recovery status.
Secure Processes: Protects data with advanced security protocols.

What benefits and ROI should users consider when evaluating Azure Site Recovery?

Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces need for extensive hardware investments.
Reduced Downtime: Ensures quick recovery, maintaining business operations.
High SLA Guarantees: Provides reliability with 99.99% uptime.
Resource Efficiency: Saves time and effort in disaster recovery management.

Organizations in industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail implement Azure Site Recovery for its robust disaster recovery capabilities. The service navigates regulatory challenges with ease, aiding businesses in data duplication, VMware replication, and infrastructure backup. Its efficiency is leveraged to maintain critical systems during outages, facilitating business continuity and operational stability.

Microsoft

Commvault Cloud offers comprehensive data management with strong backup and recovery, security, and compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud setups. Supporting a variety of applications, its cost optimization and integration capabilities enhance data management and infrastructure operations.

Commvault Cloud facilitates seamless data management and protection for organizations dealing with complex IT infrastructures. Its capabilities spread across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring robust disaster recovery and compliance, while optimizing storage strategies. Extensive application compatibility and integration with IT infrastructure solutions allow for efficient data movement and enhanced security.

What are the key features of Commvault Cloud?

Backup and Recovery: Reliable data protection across environments.
Data Management: Seamless operations in hybrid and multi-cloud contexts.
Disaster Recovery: Comprehensive recovery features.
Compliance: Ensures adherence to regulatory standards.
Security: Advanced encryption and threat detection.
Cost Optimization: Efficient strategies and resource utilization.
Integration: Supports a wide array of IT applications.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Data Security: Protects sensitive information effectively.
Scalability: Adapts to extensive infrastructure needs.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses through optimization.
Simplified Management: Streamlined for better operations.
Comprehensive Support: Enhances compatibility and usability.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and technology, Commvault Cloud supports the protection of virtual machines, databases, and physical systems. It facilitates Office 365, SQL, and VMware backups, ensuring disaster recovery and compliance, while meeting the demanding storage requirements and safeguarding data integrity per industry standards.

Commvault

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company

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