Commvault Cloud vs Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) comparison

Commvault and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Commvault is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4, while Dell Technologies is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.5. Commvault holds a 3.4% mindshare in BRS, compared to Dell Technologies’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Commvault users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Commvault Cloud

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95% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) compete in comprehensive data protection solutions. Commvault Cloud seems to have an edge in pricing and support, while Dell PowerProtect DP stands out for its robust features.

Features: Commvault Cloud offers comprehensive data management, powerful automation capabilities, and flexible storage options. Dell PowerProtect DP features strong integration with VMware, high-performance data compression, and advanced deduplication. Users find Dell PowerProtect DP's features more valuable for complex environments.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Commvault Cloud could enhance reporting tools, improve speed, and offer better user documentation. Dell PowerProtect DP needs an easier configuration process, improved documentation, and a smoother upgrade path. Both products have feedback concerning ease of use.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Commvault Cloud is generally straightforward to deploy with responsive customer support. Dell PowerProtect DP necessitates a more complex deployment but benefits from detailed customer service. Users find Commvault Cloud easier to implement, while Dell PowerProtect DP requires more initial effort but offers strong support.

Pricing and ROI: Commvault Cloud is seen as cost-effective with quick ROI. Dell PowerProtect DP, though pricier, is believed to offer significant long-term value due to its functionality. Users perceive Commvault Cloud as more budget-friendly, whereas Dell PowerProtect DP's expense is justified by its robust capabilities.

To learn more, read our detailed Commvault Cloud vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) Report (Updated: June 2026).

Buyer's Guide

Commvault Cloud vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)

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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

Commvault Cloud optimizes cost and efficiency by consolidating licenses, enhancing automation, and ensuring reliable, scalable data management.

Sentiment score

2.9

Dell PowerProtect DP offers high reliability, significant ROI, and 90% malware protection, enhancing cost efficiency and data reduction.

Instead of purchasing multiple backup tools, I can now use one tool to manage or back up all environments.

Sanjay Singh Bisht

Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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The data reduction allows customers to maintain their capacity without needing to purchase new hardware, which is beneficial.

Harsha_Wijesinghe

Senior Solution Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In terms of cost, because of deduplication and compression, we can almost say there is a savings of 20% to 30%.

NimitPuvar

A VP Enterprise Sales at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd.

I see it as both time-saving and money-saving.

LANRE OGUNDARE

Senior System Engineer at Tenece Professional services

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.2

Commvault Cloud support is highly rated for responsiveness and expertise, despite occasional communication delays and non-local support challenges.

Sentiment score

7.7

Dell PowerProtect DP's mixed reviews highlight positive technical support but note challenges with delays and communication issues.

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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If I were to rate customer service from zero to ten points, I would give it ten out of ten.

LANRE OGUNDARE

Senior System Engineer at Tenece Professional services

Challenges exist in certain Linux-based cases.

SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

On the one or two occasions where we needed to engage with Dell support, they've been most helpful.

Edgar Orare

Senior Systems Engineer at NTT DATA

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

Commvault Cloud offers scalable data protection, easily accommodating growth with flexible hardware options and seamless environment expansion capabilities.

Sentiment score

6.0

Dell PowerProtect DP offers scalability and flexibility, handling diverse storage needs but may require newer models at higher capacities.

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Scalability is great here, and it achieves this without downtime.

LANRE OGUNDARE

Senior System Engineer at Tenece Professional services

Because it is all based on the controller, which has a limited number of expansions.

MinaMagdy1

Senior System Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I think it is just a case of putting another node in and slotting it in, adding it to the storage, which is exactly what you would expect from enterprise equipment.

Burger Beukes

Infrastructure Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Commvault Cloud is highly stable, offering reliable performance with minimal disruptions and quick resolution of occasional issues.

Sentiment score

8.1

Dell PowerProtect DP is highly rated for stability, scalability, and reliability, with excellent support despite minor network configuration issues.

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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Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is a stable solution because it's a mature product.

Edgar Orare

Senior Systems Engineer at NTT DATA

None of the customers has experienced any downtime.

LANRE OGUNDARE

Senior System Engineer at Tenece Professional services

Regarding stability, I have not really seen any lagging, crashing, or downtime on Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) itself.

Burger Beukes

Infrastructure Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Commvault Cloud requires improved UI simplicity, cost-effectiveness, seamless integration, enhanced backup reliability, and better automation for efficiency.

Dell PowerProtect DP needs improvements in cost-effectiveness, usability, setup, integration, management, scalability, software compatibility, and storage options.

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

Making more advanced features such as ransomware recovery easier to use would improve Commvault Cloud.

Sanjay Singh Bisht

Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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I believe if they could offer options for higher capacity with QLC drives, it would greatly benefit customer pricing and performance needs.

Harsha_Wijesinghe

Senior Solution Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires more updates and innovations in AI-powered cyber resilience.

SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

You cannot integrate with any other third-party solution or your Data Domain since it is very tightly coupled and has limited licenses with respect to capacity that are integrated directly with Avamar.

Pranav Telang

DGM at Airtel Digital

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Setup Cost

Commvault Cloud's pricing is high with better suitability for large enterprises and offers custom subscription models for cost efficiency.

Dell PowerProtect DP offers flexible licensing and competitive pricing, appealing to enterprises with partner discounts and value-added features.

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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In fact, as I know, even give details inside Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and how much it costs every single component in it, I am going to say it is somehow a bit expensive, why? Let me tell you.

MinaMagdy1

Senior System Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

In terms of quantifiable CapEx reduction, I can estimate a decrease of about 20% to 30% thanks to the efficient deployment and DRE options available in Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA).

Harsha_Wijesinghe

Senior Solution Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Pricing is competitive with other software vendors.

SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

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Valuable Features

Commvault Cloud offers robust backup, seamless data management, strong security, and scalability, beneficial for diverse organizational needs.

Dell PowerProtect DP offers integrated management, scalability, rapid deployment, and reliable data protection with VMware and multi-cloud functionality.

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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AI integration enhances backup operations by analyzing data and ensuring malware protection.

SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a scalable architecture, offering flexibility, so you can always scale the capacity to meet any increased demands.

Edgar Orare

Senior Systems Engineer at NTT DATA

The concept of pre-integrated solutions was very nice, allowing a customer to have a single dashboard to manage everything, which includes backups for desktops, laptops, enterprise applications, virtual and physical servers, along with comprehensive cloud-based backup capabilities.

Amjed Antari

Pre Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

113

Ranking in other categories

eDiscovery (2nd), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (5th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)

Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

34th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 3.4%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud	3.4%
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)	0.7%
Other	95.9%

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Featured Reviews

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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NimitPuvar

A VP Enterprise Sales at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd.

Centralized backup has improved data protection and simplifies secure, compliant restores

The biggest advantage of the product is that it is basically a single appliance which comes with a bundle of backup software and the appliance, as we have a single console to manage it. It also provides other features such as data encryption at rest, along with data deduplication and compression in backup which is very useful. From the centralized dashboard, we can manage the backup job and determine if the backup job is happening appropriately or not. If any backup job fails, we can find out the root cause for the failures. Because it is a hardware-based appliance, we can restore the data immediately, and it provides genuine restore capabilities. In terms of data availability compliance, we are looking for data availability and data security in terms of encryption, data deduplication and compression. It provides data availability as each appliance comes with RAID. If one or two disks fail, then our data appliance is still available for backup. It also provides encryption, so our data is also ransomware protected.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	58
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	82

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	8

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)?

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What is your primary use case for Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)?

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Also Known As

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

Dell EMC IDPA, Dell IDPA, EMC IDPA

Overview

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.

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Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) offers seamless integration and centralized management, making it a user-friendly choice for enterprise data protection. It enhances performance with high deduplication rates and scalable options for secure data management.

Designed for high-end customers and enterprises, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) excels at backup and recovery, offering robust AI-enhanced security and hybrid-cloud capabilities. Its Turbo Boost Technology and single-pane management streamline data protection strategies. Although it has a user-friendly interface, IDPA's complexity during initial setup poses challenges. Notably, pre-integration reduces deployment time, offering comprehensive data security and recovery rates. However, high costs, lack of integrated SSO, and absence of two-factor authentication are areas for improvement. Users also seek better network connectivity, third-party software integration, and VMware interaction improvements, particularly for Linux-based cases.

What are the standout features of Dell PowerProtect DP?

Centralized Management: Streamlines control across environments.
Turbo Boost Technology: Enhances performance significantly.
AI-Enhanced Security: Provides advanced protection mechanisms.
Hybrid-Cloud Options: Ensures flexibility and scalability.
Single-Pane Management: Simplifies operations across systems.

What benefits can users expect to find when evaluating reviews?

Enhanced Scalability: Adapts to varied data growth needs.
Efficient Deployment: Pre-integration cuts down implementation time.
High Deduplication Rates: Optimizes storage efficiency.
Improved Recovery Rates: Bolsters data restoration capabilities.

Government and manufacturing sectors employ Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) for comprehensive data protection and restoration. Its integration with technologies like Avamar and Data Domain supports on-premise deployment, with cloud expansion as an added advantage for secure data management.

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Sample Customers

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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