We compared Commvault Complete Data Protection and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Commvault Complete Data Protection and Veeam Backup for Office 365, Commvault's initial setup is more intricate and time-consuming, necessitating expert assistance. However, Commvault offers a wide range of recovery options, robust disaster recovery solutions, and excellent support. Veeam Backup for Office 365 has a straightforward setup process and is praised for its stability, ease of use, and affordability. Veeam lacks some integration features and automation capabilities, but it provides good backup services for Microsoft 365 and has a user-friendly interface. Commvault is more comprehensive and adaptable, while Veeam is simpler and more cost-effective for Office 365 backup.
"Real-time synchronization is a good feature."
"Restoring is very fast. In testing, I did a restore for a single item from a mailbox. Within a minute, I had the message back in my mailbox. So, it didn't take hours or days. Obviously, there will be a limit. If we suddenly go into DR and have to restore five terabytes of emails for people, then it will take a couple of days, which would be acceptable. For general usage, where we have to do the odd restore, we have never had issues. It happens within minutes."
"Commvault helps to ensure broad coverage with the discovery of unprotected workloads. This is important. From the moment that we set it up, we mostly have customers telling us what they need to back up. Then, you can list the machines that are not yet protected. Sometimes, we can see that they are unaware of this, and say, "We didn't know that those servers were not protected yet," or "We did not back them up yet.""
"The multi-tenancy is the most valuable feature for us because it's the only software that is fully multi-tenant and that has all the features we need to provide to all our tenants. It provides us with advanced features for MySQL and Oracle, among other platforms"
"It's very user-friendly. It supports a wide range of workloads. It's quite easy to use, it's very powerful and it's scalable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The diversity on offer is very, very good. Everything is supported. It's great."
"We specialize in Commvault and IntelliSnap. Commvault covers all our customers' backup needs in one system, and they have complete control over their Snapshot backups. Snapshots are important to our customers because of the size of their data sets."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to back up not only to the cloud but also to your local environment so a copy of your data can be kept on-prem."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Veeam Backup gives you the option to backup your data from the cloud to on-premises."
"I believe the solution is very scalable. We can continuously add mailboxes and sites."
"The support offered by both Veeam and our third party supplier is excellent."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 has good security, and I also like the process they use for backups."
"This covers the areas of backing up Office 365 that Microsoft does not include in its standard routine."
"Veeam makes modular solutions, so you can install Veeam Backup for Office 365 and Veeam Backup and Replication in one single server. You can do an all in one installation, and roll it out."
"There is room for improvement in terms of data security."
"We previously had difficulty with the support being foreign."
"Getting my guys the right access has a learning curve. Sometimes, it is, "Oh, okay. I think I got it for you." Then, they say, "Oh, nope. I logged in but I can't see this." Then, it is, "Okay, hold on. Give me a second. Let me change that. Okay, it's this one." That learning curve has probably taken a little bit longer than some simpler things. So, Metallic has some granularity, and as a systems administrator, I appreciate that. At the same time, I also realize that I have to learn it."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately two days. However, the process could be more simple."
"They don't market their products well. They don't do a lot of marketing to enable them to move forward."
"Commvault is a rich system that might scare somebody the first time they see it because it feels so huge."
"The functional integration could be better."
"Support could improve and the initial configuration would be easier with assistance from a professional engineer."
"Its price could be improved."
"They could include WAN acceleration to compress the traffic to make things faster."
"The solution could offer better reporting."
"This is a cloud solution, and the speed can be slow sometimes."
"It would be a great improvement to be able to recover cover a VM straight to on-prem."
"If you use a device to back up with compression and duplication, the solution doesn't work."
"The solution could improve scalability, both in terms of more storage and users. These two attributes are quite important when you talk about good scalability."
"Technical support could be improved."
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Commvault Cloud is ranked 2nd in Cloud Backup with 104 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Useful instant backup and resort, reliable and responsive support". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Zerto and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Cirrus Backup, Veeam Backup & Replication and N-able Cove Data Protection. See our Commvault Cloud vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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