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Commvault Cloud vs IBM StoredIQ comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud
Ranking in eDiscovery
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (4th), 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)
IBM StoredIQ
Ranking in eDiscovery
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the eDiscovery category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 4.4%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM StoredIQ is 3.2%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
eDiscovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud4.4%
IBM StoredIQ3.2%
Other92.4%
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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.
GB
Delivery Manager at Gesel
Helps with GDPR compliance through data discovery and management
We knew that we have a lot of scanned docs inside our repositories, but there was a big issue where we needed to know which content was really an image. Because of the OCR made at runtime during the scan, now we know exactly the data we have. When you have zipped documents the scan will unzip them and find the data inside.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Metallic has definitely improved our ability to back up and restore email, as well as the other online systems."
"The cloud integration is a massive win for us, giving us a single backup service for all of our on-premise and cloud systems."
"This is a very stable product."
"Real-time synchronization is a good feature."
"Commvault provides us with a single platform to move, manage, and recover data."
"Commvault software is a single platform where you can enable whatever you want to use, like endpoint protection, and you can enable those licenses on a single platform screen, which is where I see the value add because it is a single management tool."
"In the VM, we have Live Recovery, Live Mount, and Live Sync."
"The functionality and features of Commvault were much better compared to other solutions."
"IBM StoredIQ Suite helps to address problems like data discovery, records management, compliance activities, storage optimization, and data migration initiatives."
"In terms of ROI a company will, in a short time, recover from the initial investment, because the product, other than allowing a company to be GDPR compliant, will give a lot of information on how the storage is used and this will guide the IT to better usage of this resource."
 

Cons

"The product is a bit complex."
"There could be improvements to the backup failures."
"Data center backup must be improved."
"The navigation of it needs improvement in terms of the UX. The product itself, it works as expected. It's all user experience and user interface improvements that could be made and it could be made a little more consumer-friendly."
"Commvault could make the product more cost-effective on the public cloud side."
"Commvault is more expensive than Veeam, which is the reason that we are changing to Veeam for cloud environments."
"There is room for improvement in the data center application running on the cloud for the platform."
"Their single pane of glass solution is daunting at first. It's not the easiest interface but, as with anything that you use, eventually you'll get better and better at it."
"The product was born and designed to be used inside the IT department, but it would be improved by allowing end-users to search for info related to specific needs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Commvault is quite high in terms of pricing and licensing."
"The cost of an integrator license is moderate and its features cover most customers."
"Everyone else offers the subscription-based model nowadays, while Commvault Complete Data Protection still has the traditional license model, where you must buy a set of licenses. You pay for one hundred licenses even if you only use fifty virtual machines, so the licensing model needs improvement."
"One of the issues with backup vendors is that they overprice, or overvalue their products."
"There is now a subscription based licence option that, depending on your environment, could offer a more efficient method to licence the solution if you are OPEX cost driven rather than CAPEX."
"The solution is worth the money."
"We went from Veritas NetBackup to Commvault. We switched due to upfront licensing and costs. We have more visibility into what we're actually purchasing. It seemed like, overall, the cost of Commvault was cheaper."
"The tool is cost-effective."
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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%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business58
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
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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...
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Also Known As

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