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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
110
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (3rd), eDiscovery (3rd), Cloud Backup (2nd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd), File Archiving (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (4th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st)
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

Matt Reller - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides extremely fast backup, is easy to manage, and is flexible
Commvault Cloud's automated policies provide the notification we need to ensure our data is secure and managed correctly. Commvault Cloud provides excellent visibility across all of our organization's data. It is extremely important to our organization that Commvault has a unified platform that offers recovery across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS workloads. It has helped our organization improve by simplifying the way we manage our environment. We could not manage the same environment with only half of our current staff. We have yet to find anything in our environment that Commvault does not support. Commvault Cloud's Risk Analysis helps us identify, categorize, and classify sensitive data enabling us to take the appropriate actions to protect it. Commvault does a good job helping us limit our exposure and ensure compliance. Commvault has helped us reduce our data management costs significantly. Compared to Dell Avamar, the costs are vastly different. Commvault is much more cost-effective. We are licensed by capacity, so we don't have to worry about licensing different features. We have all the features that are licensed by capacity. And as far as ongoing support costs and other expenses, they are much lower than what they were with Dell Avamar. Commvault also gives us the flexibility to use any storage we want, while Avamar is tied to the Data Domain, which is not cheap to support. It has helped us reduce our backup time unless we are using Data Domain. This is because we can perform deduplication and compression on the client layer, which reduces the load on the network. We cannot do this with Data Domain. In fact, if we even attempt to perform a quick progress check before sending data to the Data Domain, the system fails completely. We learned this the hard way. We are using many more advanced features in Commvault Cloud than we ever did in Dell Avamar, simply because we had to license each feature separately in Avamar. As a result, we did not perform many backups in Avamar, such as all database backups (DB2, SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL). These backups were performed outside of Avamar. We are now using Direct Connect agents for all of our databases. This allows us to perform incremental backups, which we could not do with the previous method. As a result, we have reduced our backup times by two-thirds, or even more in some cases. Compared to when we were backing up directly to Data Domain, Commvault is now running our backups ten times faster. This has resulted in a significant reduction in our backup times. Commvault has helped us reduce the RPO. Even in Data Domain, it has reduced our storage times by about half. It has also helped us reduce the threat detection time. We reduced the RTO significantly with Commvault. Commvault has helped us reduce downtime primarily due to the increase in the performance of resources.
Salman Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Functional application availability
There are not many options available for AIX backup. They provide the agent for AIX, but it could be more mature, and they should improve that option. They also provide the AIX agent, which is similar to the Windows and Linux agents. Since we use AIX machines, we need to take backups of those machines. However, the options available in that agent are limited. Therefore, the new version should have improvements in that area.

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Pros

"The most valuable feature is the deduplication ratio. It saves most of our space and reduces the network traffic."
"It is much more scalable and flexible than everything else in the market."
"The solution includes the best compatibility metrics for integration and they are managed by Google support."
"Commvault's many features can be explored to get more value from more solutions."
"The solution provides us with a single platform to move, manage, and recover our data across on-premise locations. Some of the guys have been using it to move a virtual machine from VMware to the Microsoft solution, Hyper-V. They back it up and then they restore to the different virtual machine provider, and that works great."
"This is a very stable product."
"Commvault is a stable solution for Red Hat Linux."
"It helped us reduce the number of servers that are required for a stable operation."
"This is a reliable system that supports Veeam backup and recovery for Windows."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows are the backups, ease of use, and report manager."
"The installation of Veeam Agent is straightforward."
"The initial setup, if it is error-free, is very simple."
"The most valuable features are backup and restore. This solution is also easy to use."
"The product is free to use. We don't have to pay for a license."
"Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows's most useful features is the ease of use and user-friendly."
"The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is easy to use and performing a recovery is easy to do."
 

Cons

"The tool should revise its licensing."
"Setup is complex."
"I would like Commvault to have a feature for cybersecurity threats, e.g. securing the target backup repository. Commvault just started testing and releasing this feature, but it needs to be stabilized."
"They can always improve the interface design to make it easier. Sometimes, you need to click two or three times to do something. They should look at what tabs are used most and make them more accessible, to cut the time it takes to get to that information."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately two days. However, the process could be more simple."
"Reduce the complexity for better understanding of the reports. There are a lot of variables in which you can get confused while elaborating on reports."
"Compared to Rubrik, MongoDB Data Protector, and NetBackup, Commvault is better. The licensing team was quite tricky recently because they stopped the unlimited files for that license. Commvault made a bank of 500GB only, a node-based license can take it, which is disappointing. Reporting needs to be more granular. Also, there should be a showback of data being backed up, and the backup cost to share the cost internally with the department."
"I would like more communication informing us on what Commvault is doing in the background."
"We can't use tape for primary storage on Veeam."
"Interface could possibly be improved."
"Maybe in the future, they could do something better with the user interface and the performance, but so far it's a really good, efficient solution."
"There isn't really anything I would like to improve. Maybe the solution could be more secure."
"With the currency exchange, the solution ends up being quite expensive."
"The backups can go slow."
"The compression ratio and application ratio could still be improved in this solution. Reporting could also be improved, for better monitoring."
"There should be an option to use the solution for physical machines."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Hands down, Metallic provides us with more predictable costs for our backup requirements. You are getting what you pay for. If they are charging you X amount of dollars at that point, that is what you are going to pay. So far, I have not seen any hidden costs or any kind of gotchas. It is pretty cut-and-dry. They will let you know, "Hey, you are going to use our storage and it will cost you this much. You are going to use your storage, then we are going to charge you this much to backup.""
"Licensing could be better explained. Sometimes, it's unclear what features are available in different licensing models."
"Commvault's license fee is per server-based."
"The solution is licensed based on the number of objects that we're going to back up, and that's a known quantity. As a result, we get predictable costs for our backup requirements."
"I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten."
"Our yearly cost is around €20,000... The cost is based on the number of users and the amount of data. They sell it per terabyte."
"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."
"The pricing has improved. It is simplified compared to the way that it was a few years ago. It is fairly straightforward and pretty easy to articulate to customers, which is handy."
"We have a license package."
"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis."
"The licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis, and the fees are much lower than what I pay for NetBackup."
"We have a cloud provider agreement with Veeam. We are also paying for the agent."
"The solution is free of cost for end users but for enterprise use, a license per user is required."
"It is less expensive than one of its variants."
"The pricing is good."
"The solution is inexpensive, more so than other products."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Photography Company
20%
Performing Arts
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Commvault?
The tool is affordable. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. Implementation requires additional costs because we need Commvault Professional Services.
What needs improvement with Commvault?
Data center backup must be improved. We also want the product to provide us with a cloud-based backup. If we use Microsoft Exchange Online for email services, we want to know how to get a backup in...
What do you like most about Commvault Complete Data Protection?
IntelliSnap and file system backups are valuable features.
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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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