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Commvault Cloud vs Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (4th), eDiscovery (3rd), Cloud Backup (4th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (4th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (6th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)
Veeam Agent for Microsoft W...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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.
Muhammad Ibtehaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Pre-Sales Manager at Arcana Info
Easy to use and mange with reasonable pricing
The main feature is a specific file type. If we want some PDF files just to back up, the prefix is very easy, and we do everything in Veeam backup. It's straightforward to set up. It's stable. The solution is easy to use. You can centrally manage it. It's potentially free to use.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The data is well-protected. It doesn't age off until it's copied. That's a big feature right there. When you reach the end of your retention, it does not expire until the secondary copy is completed. That allows you to hold onto data that otherwise would have aged off by retention. I like that feature. It's hard to just delete or lose data using the Commvault platform."
"I can leverage on cloud storage technologies as well and restore it with granularity level that I have not seen in any other data management tool."
"The most valuable features of Commvault HyperScale X are all the general functions and the performance."
"The 1-Touch recovery feature is helpful for all customers."
"The most valuable feature is the ability it gives me to automate backups well and consistently, and to follow up on them as well."
"Overall it has great features that fulfill our customers' expectations."
"The data protection itself is very good compared to other products."
"Scalability, as well as stability, are a couple of important parts of this solution."
"Application awareness is very good and the speed of this solution is good."
"The solution is very affordable for small businesses."
"Veeam is very user-friendly and intuitive software."
"It's powerful and user-friendly."
"Technical support is good."
"We are always satisfied with technical support."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a VMware environment."
 

Cons

"I need documentation for Azure backups."
"If I were to ask them to work on something, it would be the fidelity of the alerts that occur. They should tell me if it is a real event or not. It is easy for it to identify that something hit it but give me more information. They can build AI into the engine so that I get better output from an alert to tell me if I should really be interested in that or not."
"Persistent binding is a feature that I would like to see in the next release of Commvault."
"The navigation of it needs improvement in terms of the UX."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly GUI."
"With so many features, sometimes you cannot find what you are looking for in the interface and you have to dig into books online to find out how to solve an issue."
"This solution can be complex and difficult to administer because it supports all of the many platforms, so it would help if they could simplify it."
"The setup is not that straightforward or easy. Even the documentation is not generic or public like other products."
"If they could let you can do replication to physical servers - a backup from physical servers and a replication to physical servers - that will be better."
"The support could be improved a lot, as it is currently non-existent."
"In terms of improvements, they can maybe improve its documentation."
"The predictability of the solution needs improvement. Sometimes, if it's doing something at the back end, it may go slow. Today, the backup completion took four hours, but sometimes it can do the backup in 30 minutes or an hour. With solutions like NetBackup, I can predict to a much higher degree of certainty how long something will take to complete."
"If you are doing an AIX backup then you have to use the CLI because it doesn't appear on the console, the way that Windows and Linux jobs do."
"An area that this solution could be improved would be with the licensing."
"The solution could use some updates to minor details omitted from current reporting."
"The price of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows could improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Commvault HyperScale X is a lot higher than competitors. As a government institution, we have annual costs. We made a budget for one year in advance. It was difficult to calculate the other solution's costs because each solution has another way of licensing. The solution is expensive but it is very good and we know the good quality we will be receiving."
"Commvault Backup & Recovery is priced fairly, and its performance-to-cost ratio is also better than fair."
"The license is paid on an annual basis and the price is reasonable."
"Commvault is more expensive than Veeam, which is the reason that we are changing to Veeam for cloud environments."
"I looked at this at the beginning of the year and I don't remember what the prices were for all the other services, but I thought that Metallic's was fair. It was also highly rated, which was even more important than cost because I need a reliable, secure, backup method."
"Using a subscription-based license has been advantageous."
"Its cost is reasonable, but anybody else can do better benchmarking."
"The cost for Commvault is very expensive, even support is very expensive. The full cost of the solution is 50,000 INR per year, which includes 20 VM backups, server data backup, and 200 desktop and laptop agent licenses."
"The cost for its licenses is reasonable and as per industry standards."
"We purchased a three-year license, and I think that the prices are ok."
"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis."
"Pricing is based on license packaging and duration. Longer term licenses are less per year and license packages also offer a discount."
"It is less expensive than one of its variants."
"We are on an annual license to use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. There are not any additional fees to use the solution."
"The pricing is good."
"For the licensing of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, the customer can choose to pay monthly or yearly. It's up to the customer."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Photography Company
16%
Performing Arts
14%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise10
 

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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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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