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Boxafe 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

Boxafe
Ranking in SaaS Backup
33rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
2
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
113
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (4th), eDiscovery (2nd), Cloud Backup (4th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (6th), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the SaaS Backup category, the mindshare of Boxafe is 1.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 5.7%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
SaaS Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud5.7%
Boxafe1.1%
Other93.2%
SaaS Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Srikanth Purushothaman - PeerSpot reviewer
DIRECTOR at Vellore Online Systems
A reliable backup solution that needs to incorporate a flexible pricing model
We use Boxafe for backup.  I like the tool's reliability. Its price is also cheap, and it gets delivered in two days.  Boxafe's pricing policy should be more flexible.  I have been working with the product for seven years.  The product is stable.  I rate Boxafe's scalability an eight out of…
Sanjay Singh Bisht - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Unified data protection has simplified hybrid backups and has improved ransomware recovery speed
Commvault Cloud's best feature in terms of protection is that it provides data protection and accomplishes its job effectively. It offers a unified approach to backup across all environments, including on-premises, public cloud, and SaaS applications such as M365 and Salesforce. I also use it for virtual machines and databases. The unified protection approach helps my team manage different environments effectively. Before Commvault Cloud, I used a separate VM backup tool to protect the VMware environment. For database backup, I had to use the native tool or backup scripts. For the cloud part, I had to use the native AWS or Azure cloud tools. After moving to Commvault Cloud, a single policy or a set of backup policies is applied across virtual machines, databases, workloads, and cloud workloads. I can protect my environments, which reduces manual configuration errors. Regarding visibility, it provides one dashboard to manage and centralize monitoring of all workloads. It is very easy to track backup success or failure. I can see the SLA compliance and storage usage without needing to jump between tools to check or have visibility of it. Regarding the recovery experience, the recovery time has been reduced drastically by using Commvault Cloud. It has simplified cloud management and provides easier manageability to manage retention policies, encryption policies, and compliance rules. This helps reduce operational workloads. Commvault Cloud has impacted me very positively. It simplifies and unifies data protection across hybrid workloads. Instead of managing multiple backup tools for virtual machines, databases, and SaaS applications, I now have a single platform with consistent policies and centralized visibility. This has really reduced my operational complexity and improved backup reliability. Regarding the cyber resiliency posture, the immutable backups and ransomware recovery workflow give me greater confidence in recovering quicker from potential risks. Commvault Cloud has positively impacted me in several key areas: unified backup management across environments, reduced operational overhead, improved ransomware resiliency, faster recovery times, better visibility for compliance, and easier management of hybrid or cloud workloads.

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 was the repository."
"I like the tool's reliability. Its price is also cheap, and it gets delivered in two days."
"Go for Commvault. It is a very strong, stable solution."
"Commvault is a stable solution for Red Hat Linux."
"The most helpful features of Commvault Cloud are its extensive capabilities, as they are in a position to take care of whatever use case presented to it."
"Commvault provides us with a single platform to move, manage, and recover our data across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud locations, and we completely depend on it for managing our data, from backup to restore to replication."
"I recommend the Commvault HyperScale X for its enhanced quality, performance focus, and data isolation."
"We are using a KVM system in our cloud, and this solution works very well with it."
"Scalability, as well as stability, are a couple of important parts of this solution."
"The ability to manage everything from a single pane of glass is another major advantage."
 

Cons

"Boxafe's pricing policy should be more flexible."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing. This is the issue, the reason why we started using Synology."
"There is room for improvement in its user interface and web console, called Command Center. They are improving it every year so if they continue in that direction, I think it will be a very reliable console."
"They can always improve the interface design to make it easier."
"The main area for improvement is that we sometimes experience negative effects from their updates. If they had a larger test area for their updates, that would help."
"Commvault HyperScale X is more expensive for hybrid environments than traditional solutions."
"Commvault is too expensive."
"Permissions can be tricky. There is granularity when trying to get people to write permissions to be able to view, backup, and restore."
"It is quite expensive when compared to other applications in the market."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately two days. However, the process could be more simple."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's price is cheap. I rate it five out of ten."
"It is a bit more than other products, but when you consider the time savings, it is saving money."
"The solution is bundled with hardware licensing. If I want to increase the hardware, I have to buy exactly the same because it's based on the core hardware license. We cannot tell discount because we have an NDA signed with Commvault because of my academic license. The solution is more expensive than NetBackup and Veeam but cheaper than Rubrik."
"Commvault is more expensive than Veeam, which is the reason that we are changing to Veeam for cloud environments."
"Its cost is reasonable, but anybody else can do better benchmarking."
"It is a little too high. I would like to get more of a consumption model or more of a periodic true-up type of model that is more friendly to the ups and downs that you may have in your data instead of locking into multi-year agreements."
"Commvault is quite high in terms of pricing and licensing."
"New licensing is easy and affordable."
"It is cheaper than Veeam."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business58
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
 

Questions from the Community

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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?
Commvault Cloud is a very powerful tool, but it can be improved in various ways. Commvault Cloud can be improved by simplifying its interface, reducing configuration complexity, and making more adv...
What is your primary use case for ThreatWise?
Commvault Cloud's main core use case is backup and recovery for protecting on-premises workloads, databases, the file system, NAS, and on-premises infrastructure. Another primary use case is immuta...
 

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

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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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