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Commvault Cloud vs Veritas Alta Data Protection comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 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
5.4
Veritas Alta offers a single-vendor data protection with ransomware defense, AWS backup, and reported 10% cost savings.
Instead of purchasing multiple backup tools, I can now use one tool to manage or back up all environments.
Server Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
It is not primarily about cost optimization, but more about protecting our organization against ransomware attacks to avoid being brought to its knees.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
We can see approximately 10% in savings, which could be in terms of time saving or money saving.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
 

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
4.9
Veritas Alta Data Protection's customer service is praised, but APAC users face challenges due to limited resources and time zone issues.
The number of people who know Commvault Cloud is lesser compared to Veeam.
Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.
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
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
This is a challenge for me, especially since I work in APAC, and whenever we engage with Veritas technical support, I must wait for someone in the United States to be available to help with our issue.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
The IVR system should be reduced so that customers can reach support directly, as when someone calls, it is typically for a critical technical issue and the call should connect directly to a representative.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
With the enterprise support model for Veritas Alta Data Protection, the technical support is at a level of nine.
Manager, Network Ict at Associated Motorways (Private) Limited
 

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
6.7
Veritas Alta Data Protection excels in scalable, adaptable, and cost-effective storage options, gaining high ratings for reliability and flexibility.
Veritas Alta Data Protection is not expensive, which makes it scalable.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
 

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
8.4
Veritas Alta Data Protection is highly rated for stability, with no performance issues and effective use of geographic clusters.
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.
Veritas Alta Data Protection needs a user-friendly interface, simplified reporting, and AI features to improve user experience.
I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud.
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
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
Making more advanced features such as ransomware recovery easier to use would improve Commvault Cloud.
Server Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
I want a very simple GUI which even an L1 engineer or L1 cloud engineer can understand and use with minimum supervision.
Enterprise solution architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Veritas Alta Data Protection can be deployed on multiple cloud providers, including Azure and GCP.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
The solution could benefit from some artificial intelligence features where we can restore files or get assistance from the AI side.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
 

Setup Cost

Commvault Cloud's pricing is high with better suitability for large enterprises and offers custom subscription models for cost efficiency.
Veritas Alta Data Protection offers competitive pricing with potential discounts, though regional distributor margins might affect final costs.
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
Since we have been using Veritas Alta Data Protection for the last four years, the price is very friendly.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
Customers do not receive the real pricing advantage because the distributor keeps a margin, and the vendor also keeps a margin.
Manager, Network Ict at Associated Motorways (Private) Limited
Regarding the pricing aspect, we received a pretty good discount when we started onboarding all of our backups to Veritas Alta Data Protection.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
 

Valuable Features

Commvault Cloud offers robust backup, seamless data management, strong security, and scalability, beneficial for diverse organizational needs.
Veritas Alta Data Protection provides robust ransomware protection, cloud integration, automated operations, and cost-effective, secure data management and recovery.
We can back up unlimited TBs due to our per node license.
Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 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
We tested the effectiveness of Veritas Alta Data Protection's granular restoration feature during POC because we had a requirement to test various scenarios like restoring the bucket in a particular region, restoring the bucket in a different region, restoring EC2 instances, restoring containers, and databases.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
The unique selling proposition includes automated policy-driven operations.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
Multi-factor authentication is enabled, ransomware protection is enabled, and all security checks have been put in place.
Manager, Network Ict at Associated Motorways (Private) Limited
 

Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Backup
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (4th), eDiscovery (2nd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (6th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)
Veritas Alta Data Protection
Ranking in Cloud Backup
29th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (22nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 4.6%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Alta Data Protection is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud4.6%
Veritas Alta Data Protection0.8%
Other94.6%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Sanjay Singh Bisht - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Unified data protection has simplified hybrid backups and has improved ransomware recovery speed
Commvault Cloud's best feature in terms of protection is that it provides data protection and accomplishes its job effectively. It offers a unified approach to backup across all environments, including on-premises, public cloud, and SaaS applications such as M365 and Salesforce. I also use it for virtual machines and databases. The unified protection approach helps my team manage different environments effectively. Before Commvault Cloud, I used a separate VM backup tool to protect the VMware environment. For database backup, I had to use the native tool or backup scripts. For the cloud part, I had to use the native AWS or Azure cloud tools. After moving to Commvault Cloud, a single policy or a set of backup policies is applied across virtual machines, databases, workloads, and cloud workloads. I can protect my environments, which reduces manual configuration errors. Regarding visibility, it provides one dashboard to manage and centralize monitoring of all workloads. It is very easy to track backup success or failure. I can see the SLA compliance and storage usage without needing to jump between tools to check or have visibility of it. Regarding the recovery experience, the recovery time has been reduced drastically by using Commvault Cloud. It has simplified cloud management and provides easier manageability to manage retention policies, encryption policies, and compliance rules. This helps reduce operational workloads. Commvault Cloud has impacted me very positively. It simplifies and unifies data protection across hybrid workloads. Instead of managing multiple backup tools for virtual machines, databases, and SaaS applications, I now have a single platform with consistent policies and centralized visibility. This has really reduced my operational complexity and improved backup reliability. Regarding the cyber resiliency posture, the immutable backups and ransomware recovery workflow give me greater confidence in recovering quicker from potential risks. Commvault Cloud has positively impacted me in several key areas: unified backup management across environments, reduced operational overhead, improved ransomware resiliency, faster recovery times, better visibility for compliance, and easier management of hybrid or cloud workloads.
RahulSharma8 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
Cloud backups have secured critical data and have enabled fast recovery from ransomware threats
I do utilize the automated policy-driven operations with Veritas Alta Data Protection. They have helped in reducing manual workloads because manual intervention is required to handle errors or backup job failures when trying to back up a particular AWS account where critical resources are deployed. Discovery takes a lot of time because we are backing up data already in the S3 buckets. We often face challenges with resource discovery because discovery does not happen once a month; it happens daily. Every day, the discovery job runs before backing up resources. We may encounter issues in discovery or related to permissions, meaning if we have backup permissions on a bucket but further intensive permissions are present on any particular file, the Veritas Alta Data Protection job will skip that file. At times, backup fails with one or another error, and manual intervention is definitely needed. It is predominantly automated and policy-driven, but manual intervention is also required sometimes. We tested the effectiveness of Veritas Alta Data Protection's granular restoration feature during POC because we had a requirement to test various scenarios like restoring the bucket in a particular region, restoring the bucket in a different region, restoring EC2 instances, restoring containers, and databases. One more crucial feature for us in selecting Veritas Alta Data Protection is having replication between Veritas Alta Data Protection clusters. Once the primary backup job is complete, Veritas Alta Data Protection runs an SLP job, which is a storage lifecycle policy. This SLP job moves or replicates the data from one Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster to another. If the Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster goes down, the data is still replicated to the other Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
Construction Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Healthcare Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
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 Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

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?
Commvault Cloud is a very powerful tool, but it can be improved in various ways. Commvault Cloud can be improved by simplifying its interface, reducing configuration complexity, and making more adv...
What is your primary use case for ThreatWise?
Commvault Cloud's main core use case is backup and recovery for protecting on-premises workloads, databases, the file system, NAS, and on-premises infrastructure. Another primary use case is immuta...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Alta Data Protection?
The setup cost is quite good and affordable. Since we have been using Veritas Alta Data Protection for the last four years, the price is very friendly. In terms of technical features, it is pretty ...
What needs improvement with Veritas Alta Data Protection?
The solution could benefit from some artificial intelligence features where we can restore files or get assistance from the AI side, as the world is moving toward AI. Specifically, AI capabilities ...
What is your primary use case for Veritas Alta Data Protection?
In the last two years, we faced issues with ransomware. Because of the encryption level which we set with this backup software, we were able to restore all of our data without losing a single file.
 

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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