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Commvault Cloud vs Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 31, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Container Backup Software
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
111
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 (3rd), SaaS Backup (2nd), Threat Deception Platforms (1st)
Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes
Ranking in Container Backup Software
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Container Backup Software category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 15.3%, up from 11.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes is 36.4%, up from 35.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Backup Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Commvault Cloud15.3%
Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes36.4%
Other48.3%
Container Backup Software
 

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.
MA
Optimized productivity and efficient re-imaging process enhances operational performance
My opinion about Veeam solutions is based on my previous review for a Veeam product, which we discussed before starting to use the cloud product. Aside from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, I am currently working with just that solution. I work with a cloud solution, which I believe is AWS cloud, though I am not certain. We might have more, but as a system administrator, I have limited visibility. We have global supporters for different teams, such as server team and backup team. I am uncertain whether we use private or public cloud, though it might be private since it is our cloud server for IT. I do not know about the security measures of Veeam Kasten or how its dynamic policies assist my organization in maintaining compliance. The choice of Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes was a global decision. I rate this solution nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"With the use of the cloud, the solution is easy to learn."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication ratio. It saves most of our space and reduces the network traffic."
"The backup and restore capabilities are key. The most useful things to us about Commvault, in general, is the breadth of the applications that it can protect as well as the features inside of it, like deduplication and encryption. When people get their data encrypted, Commvault has a way to tell if somebody is being attacked through a cybersecurity threat because their data changes. So, Commvault has what they call honeypot files out there to look to see if anybody is changing these files. Only Commvault knows which files those are, so nobody should be messing with those files. If it changes, then it will alert you to say, "Oh, I potentially have somebody messing with my files." It will alert you to something going on in your environment that probably shouldn't be happening. We deploy that with all our customers so they have this capability as well."
"I like the product because of its simplicity and the fact that it provides one single interface for managing everything, including storage, data, and policies."
"It's very easy to set up the storage across all platforms. This allows us to be dynamic and change on-the-fly."
"The use of hyperscale storage hardware and Commvault software has allowed us to create a large storage pool and achieve significant savings in our back-end storage costs."
"It is much more scalable and flexible than everything else in the market."
"The most valuable feature is sharing data sets like they're in a private cloud. We call it our "private cloud" because we can share anything that is inside our backup set with our colleagues or with other people, and yet, everything is still in Belgrade, in Serbia. It's not somewhere else on cloud servers. Everything is in our environment."
"The effectiveness of Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes in minimizing operational complexities is saving our lives."
 

Cons

"Commvault's price is quite high."
"I think the one thing that could be improved is the customer experience. The interface should be more user friendly."
"Our customers complain that this is a difficult product to manage."
"The solution's breadth and depth of cloud support are good, but could be better. Some cloud features that are common-sense, especially on AWS, are not completely integrated yet in the product. They are a work-in-progress."
"The initial setup was complicated."
"The most common feedback I get in terms of Commvault is that it can be complex. I always refer my customers back to their own environment. Almost everything that goes into Commvault is a request by a customer. While it can be complex, it can also be very simple. You just need to understand your environment in order to make sure that you really need to turn on that extra feature or thing inside of Commvault. Maybe you don't need those things. It really depends on how simple or complex your environment is, whether you need all of Commvault's features."
"When we send a query to Commvault, they take a long time to answer our questions."
"Its technical support could be better."
"The stability part could be improved a little bit."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could always be lower."
"...the battle came down to pricing, as well as some small features, and Commvault was the best in all the criteria."
"Commvault licensing is a perpetual license so only the support is being renewed yearly."
"I would rate the price of Commvault Cloud seven out of ten with ten being the cheapest."
"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."
"New licensing is easy and affordable."
"In my experience, compared to solutions like Veritas and Veeam, while they do have their technical pluses and minuses, Commvault can save you on average forty percent initially, and then twenty to twenty-five percent annually."
"I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise81
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Commvault Backup & Recovery?
Commvault Backup & Recovery's search utility is its most valuable feature.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Commvault Backup & Recovery?
Commvault Backup & Recovery is priced fairly, and its performance-to-cost ratio is also better than fair. I am not here trying to figure out how to get Commvault to reduce their cost by ten per...
What needs improvement with Commvault Backup & Recovery?
Commvault is a behind-the-scenes operation that's working flawlessly. So how do I know what Commvault is doing for me every month? I would like more communication informing us on what Commvault is ...
What needs improvement with Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes?
They implement it with a token, which allows me to re-image my PCs. I do not think Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes has anything that could be improved as I am happy with it. The stability part could be...
What is your primary use case for Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes?
I use Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes only for backup of shop floor PCs. The effectiveness of Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes in minimizing operational complexities is saving our lives. If we have an impac...
What advice do you have for others considering Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes?
My opinion about Veeam solutions is based on my previous review for a Veeam product, which we discussed before starting to use the cloud product. Aside from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, I am cur...
 

Also Known As

Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise
Kasten K10
 

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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