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Commvault Cloud vs Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

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
6.9
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup enhances productivity and ROI by reducing recovery failures, troubleshooting time, and overall costs.
Instead of purchasing multiple backup tools, I can now use one tool to manage or back up all environments.
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

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
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's customer service is praised for prompt, effective responses, though regional sanctions may limit access.
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.
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
The number of people who know Commvault Cloud is lesser compared to Veeam.
Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.
Customer support has very closed departments, requiring us to shuffle between them to get one thing done because representatives have limited accessibility.
Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Technical support is rated an eight out of ten.
Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
 

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
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers scalability, easy management, high reliability, but may struggle in high-end enterprise environments.
 

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
7.4
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is stable, highly rated for performance, with minimal issues, especially on Hyper-Visor systems.
I have not faced any downtimes with Commvault Cloud.
Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.
Commvault Cloud is highly stable, and I would rate it a ten out of ten.
CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Commvault Cloud requires improved UI simplicity, cost-effectiveness, seamless integration, enhanced backup reliability, and better automation for efficiency.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup needs enhancements in file restore, recovery speed, platform support, scalability, pricing, and user interface.
I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud.
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
Making more advanced features such as ransomware recovery easier to use would improve Commvault Cloud.
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I feel that the support is not yet up to the mark, with not enough professional engineers to provide assistance.
CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V.
Regional Sales Manager at S2
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features.
Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
 

Setup Cost

Commvault Cloud's pricing is high with better suitability for large enterprises and offers custom subscription models for cost efficiency.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is affordable, offers a free version for two VMs, and has variable regional pricing.
Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.
CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.
Regional Sales Manager at S2
The pricing of the solution is considered affordable.
Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
 

Valuable Features

Commvault Cloud offers robust backup, seamless data management, strong security, and scalability, beneficial for diverse organizational needs.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers robust VM backup features, including easy setup, strong compression, and ransomware protection.
It offers a unified approach to backup across all environments, including on-premises, public cloud, and SaaS applications such as M365 and Salesforce.
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Other features include endpoint solutions, integration with Office 365, ransomware protection, archival for long-term retention, and no ingress or egress charges.
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.
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent.
Regional Sales Manager at S2
The ability to perform data compression updates enhances overall efficiency and effectiveness.
Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
4th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
3rd
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (2nd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
33rd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
31st
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
20th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
31
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 Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud3.4%
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup1.0%
Other95.6%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Asif Usmani - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Manager at S2
Lacks multi-platform support and physical infrastructure but excels in storage optimization
We use it for VM backup and Office 365 backup I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy. It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent, especially in optimizing storage capacity compared to others. In terms of…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business58
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.
What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations. Additionally, they should add more p...
 

Also Known As

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

Overview

 

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
Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
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