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Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 vs Commvault Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Backup and Restore for Shar...
Ranking in SaaS Backup
30th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Commvault Cloud
Ranking in SaaS Backup
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (4th), eDiscovery (3rd), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd), File Archiving (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (4th), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st), AI IT Support (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the SaaS Backup category, the mindshare of Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 is 1.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 6.4%, down from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
SaaS Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud6.4%
Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 3651.5%
Other92.1%
SaaS Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Pramodh Maheshwar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Engineer - Wintel at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
A scalable solution for backup and restore that has an easy setup
The solution's updates and rollouts of the patches cause a lot of problems. There's no other way around it. Recently, we have also faced RDS and print server issues. One of our clients experienced some remote desktop service issues. These things keep happening with Microsoft. They have a patch, and then they have some other rollout that fixes it. The solution should be more consistent with its patching updates.
Ankit Gagneja - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature includes leaving the stub files behind and integrating that with the recenter feature."
"Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 is easy to use."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The solution has good scalability."
"A very stable and scalable platform (you can backup/restore/protect a couple of MBs or hundred of TBs as well from the same console/platform)."
"We can go from one page to another page, from office backups to VM backups, or applications like secret backups. So everything can be configured or restored from a single pin."
"We are using a KVM system in our cloud, and this solution works very well with it."
"The solution’s user interface for managing the on-prem environment is good."
"Archiving and storage are very good."
"The most valuable feature of Commvault HyperScale X is the automatic nature of its operation. We don't need to worry about sets of documents. It worked automatically, we don't need to think about it. When you set the solution up in a good way, you don't need to worry."
"Global deduplication and the indexing of the data object are the most valuable features. It saves costs on the product side by doing compression and deduplication. It will help you and make your life easy to reach the data that you need within the minimum downtime when it's required."
"Commvault is an all-in-one product that is very simple and operational for business use."
 

Cons

"The user experience needs a little refreshing touch."
"We need more options for the backup schedule."
"I think the solution itself keeps up with everything else. Sometimes it would be nice if they could move a little bit quicker and have faster updates, but in terms of the features, it's absolutely fine and adequate."
"The solution's updates and rollouts of the patches cause a lot of problems."
"I just wanted to compare the features, which are there in EMC NetWorker, which are not available in Commvault. We have things using Networker."
"Reduce the complexity for better understanding of the reports. There are a lot of variables in which you can get confused while elaborating on reports."
"The pricing could be more flexible in terms of licensing."
"Its dashboard could be improved to provide a summarized version of all the jobs instead of having to go through each one of them. We should easily be able to glance at all issues. If I had not gone with the on-premise version, I would have had regular reports with the cloud version. It would be an advantage if they increase the compression rate of the backup. I am keeping it on-prem, so I'll need more disks depending on the policies that I have in the retention period. Its price could also be lower. If a good solution can be cheaper, it is always an advantage."
"You need quite a lot of human resources to maintain a Commvault environment, to keep it operational."
"Commvault HyperScale X could improve by allowing backups of the storage area network (SAN)."
"The solution is expensive in comparison to similar solutions."
"This product is overly complex to operate and run."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s pricing is expensive."
"The solution could also be cheaper."
"Regarding CloudArchiver, you purchase per terabyte."
"Commvault is quite high in terms of pricing and licensing."
"The tool is affordable."
"In India, this is a very expensive product."
"The license for Commvault HyperScale X is paid annually."
"Its cost is reasonable, but anybody else can do better benchmarking."
"The cost of an integrator license is moderate and its features cover most customers."
"The solution is licensed based on the number of objects that we're going to back up, and that's a known quantity. As a result, we get predictable costs for our backup requirements."
"The solution is highly-priced."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
18%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
8%
University
8%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
 

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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.
What needs improvement with ThreatWise?
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 rev...
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...
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services, Bunker Holding Group
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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