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Commvault Active Copy Management [EOL] vs Perforce Delphix comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Commvault Active Copy Manag...
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Perforce Delphix
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
Test Data Management (1st), Copy Data Management (1st), Data Masking (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

Enrico Boseli - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Useful disaster recovery, effective copy replication, but complex deployment
The primary use of the solution is for backup and disaster recovery for medium to large size companies.  The solution's most valuable features are copy replication, instant recovery, and disaster recovery. The solution could be adapted to fit other use cases for smaller companies.…
PK
Release Train Engineer at Flash Ai
Automated data masking and provisioning has improved compliance and accelerated secure testing workflows across cloud environments
Some of the best features of Perforce Delphix include its automation of sensitive data discovery and masking with referential integrity for Aurora and RDS, as well as support for diverse data sources including Oracle, SQL, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Additionally, its GUI workflows simplify the creation and scheduling of masking jobs and enhance data governance in cloud hybrid and on-premises environments. Perforce Delphix can deliver up to 25 terabytes of data in just minutes, making it approximately 100 times faster for development and testing needs. Perforce Delphix has positively impacted my organization by saving us 70 to 80% of the time, which has enabled us to complete data sprints earlier, and it has also helped reduce costs. The time to complete one story point has decreased from 10 hours to around 4 or 5 hours, leading to substantial cost savings. Furthermore, it's effective in managing scaled agile enterprise data management, as we orchestrate and govern masking jobs across multiple teams and agile release trains to ensure data privacy standards are maintained.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have received a very good and quick ROI from this solution."
"What I find most valuable about this solution is that it is robust!"
"The solution's most valuable features are copy replication, instant recovery, and disaster recovery."
"The product's technical support is very good."
"This product has improved our organization through its flexibility, functionality, and ease of use."
"Technical support is excellent, they are extremely helpful and their assistance helped make our deployment process run as smoothly as it did."
"It enabled us to keep multiple projects on the go, test out various scenarios, and roll back to previous versions, and it was very robust, very solid, and very useful in that capacity."
"The best aspect of Perforce Delphix is the multi-modality and the ability to handle a large number of files along with decades of commit history since the inception of Synopsys."
"Perforce Delphix has positively impacted my organization by significantly improving turnaround time for test cycles, enabling us to close feature set testing very quickly and enhancing development time due to the availability of real-time data for executing numerous use cases in a non-production environment."
"This solution has provided us the ability to apply Agile Methodology for developers, as each developer has their own virtual database from the parent DB, allowing for concurrent development."
"I have obtained a very large gain in database virtualization with Perforce Delphix, as I can deliver environments very quickly, in a matter of hours or even minutes depending on the size of the production database I want to replicate, and the storage savings are also very large, as Perforce Delphix is able to compress the data and provide very significant savings for my company."
"Our primary use case is cloning databases, and we can complete this process in minutes."
"The most valuable aspect is the product is easy to manage, with a good dashboard. We can easily configure it on the front end and back end."
"It's really easy to install."
 

Cons

"The solution could be adapted to fit other use cases for smaller companies."
"I would like to see a scaled down version to cater to SME needs, where the licensing model is exchanged for a pay per use model."
"The solution is quite high."
"The solution should be offered at a better price."
"I found the solution's initial setup to be very complex and overall deployment was not easy."
"Delphix is a strong solution for virtualization, but it's not strong enough for creating data, so we have to use another solution for creating new data."
"Perforce Delphix has been of great use when it comes to SQL Server, but it should improve mainly when it comes to SAP HANA and Salesforce as I have not seen Perforce Delphix progress much in those areas."
"If you are running a small-scale industry with limited budget, Perforce Delphix may not be suitable because it is costly."
"Delphix could be improved with better usability and an agentless option."
"One thing I would like to see improved is the unusual error messages we receive and some slowness we have while we are updating."
"The solution’s self-service portal must be more interactive and user-friendly."
"The solution's price needs improvement."
"Delphix is quite expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is very effective for the money you spend. They need to have better competent IT department assistants in order to get the best out of the solution."
"The solution's pricing was reasonable and lower than one million."
"I would say the price is a little high but affordable for our needs."
"The cost is $370K annually for the Delphix Masking Engine and Delphix Virtualization Engine."
"The product is a little bit expensive."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Delphix's pricing is affordable."
"I rate the product price seven to eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is the low price, and ten is the high price."
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Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
6%
 

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Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise27
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Delphix?
Regarding my experience with pricing, Perforce Delphix is not cheap. I have no issues with licensing.
What needs improvement with Delphix?
I cannot answer that regarding Perforce Delphix at the moment as I would have to see what the new versions offer. Perforce Delphix is a great product that I find very useful. Regarding Perforce Del...
What is your primary use case for Delphix?
For my main use case, I use Perforce Delphix for test environment and release management. Being able to go back in time and do time-lapse information on Perforce Delphix, along with the ability to ...
 

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