AvePoint Cloud Backup vs Commvault Cloud comparison

AvePoint and Commvault are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. AvePoint is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.7, while Commvault is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6. AvePoint holds a 3.7% mindshare in CB, compared to Commvault’s 10.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of AvePoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Commvault users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Commvault Cloud and AvePoint Cloud Backup compete in the data management category. Commvault appears to have the upper hand with its extensive features and wide compatibility.

Features: Commvault Cloud is known for its comprehensive capabilities, including data integration, compatibility across platforms, and fast backup and recovery. AvePoint Cloud Backup focuses on office productivity suite backups with a specialization in restoration tasks and immutable storage.

Room for Improvement: Commvault Cloud users want a less complex interface and better integration with emerging technologies. They also seek more intuitive documentation. AvePoint Cloud Backup users desire clearer pricing and better backup policy customization. They also want faster initial seed processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Commvault Cloud provides various deployment options and is praised for its technical support, though support quality may vary regionally. AvePoint Cloud Backup shines for its straightforward cloud deployment and responsive technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Commvault Cloud is viewed as comprehensive but costly, with value evident in operational efficiencies. It suits larger enterprises due to its licensing fees. AvePoint Cloud Backup offers flexible subscriptions, appealing to straightforward user-based subscriptions with predictable costs.

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Categories and Ranking

AvePoint Cloud Backup

Ranking in Cloud Backup

9th

Ranking in SaaS Backup

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Backup

2nd

Ranking in SaaS Backup

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

110

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (3rd), eDiscovery (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd), File Archiving (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of AvePoint Cloud Backup is 3.7%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 10.3%, up from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Robert Hedblom

Cloud and Solution Principal Architect at sumNERV Provider AB

Focuses on not just backup but also on providing highly granular restore capabilities, ensuring that data can be restored at a very specific level rather than restoring entire environments

The fact that AvePoint focuses on restore capabilities, not just backup is valuable. The main intention of backup is to restore data, and that's the major differential with AvePoint compared to other vendors. Many claim to do backup, but that's not the same. The crucial part is the ability to perform granular restores, having restore-level objectives (RLO) instead of restoring entire SharePoint sites when you only need a single document. AvePoint excels in providing extremely granular restore capabilities with great Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). AvePoint Cloud Backup comes with Immutable Storage and our OPEX licensing model also includes Unlimited Storage.

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Matt Reller

Principal Platform Engineer Storage/Backup at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is the only product in the market that offers platform backup."

"The most promising feature of the product is data security policies, which make it simpler to include compliance processes."

"The backup and recovery functionalities of the product are very useful."

"It is the best product in the market for Office 365 backup, and our customers are satisfied with it."

"The most valuable features are the email backup and the SharePoint backup."

"I rate the overall solution a 9 out of 10."

"The initial setup is super easy."

"The SaaS feature of AvePoint Cloud Backup is very strong."

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"The product alerts the security team about threats."

"Commvault provides the status of a backup or restore operation."

"It's the leader in backup and archiving."

"It's a software-based solution so we just need a license to expand it."

"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."

"The expanse of the decoys that they have is valuable. They cover everything on the corporate side that you would think of, such as Windows, Linux, and even applications like SAP. They also go into the OT environment and emulate OT devices as well."

"Integration with Active Directory and the Azure platform make it a complete solution."

"The email archiving feature is very smooth and better than others."

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Cons

"The configuration could be made easier."

"For improvement, AvePoint can provide details on how the tool's backup scope works."

"The restoration could be faster."

"The component in the product that can be improved revolves around the area where the tool should focus on providing more of a custom touch to the policies."

"AvePoint Cloud Backup's pricing could be lower and more flexible. Particularly, when dealing with smaller customers or more minor businesses, obtaining competitive pricing for bundles rather than on a one-by-one basis remains challenging."

"I would like to see improvements in the tool's initial seed. The initial seed of around 10 TB of SharePoint data took 45 days to complete."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"It is not a traditional restore process and it is somewhat limited in what we can do."

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"They could work on the implementation of the features."

"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."

"The tool must improve the 1-Touch recovery of Oracle and Active Directory."

"There could be improvements to the backup failures."

"They reply to the support portal weekly, but there are some delays."

"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."

"You can't change Metallic's retention policies without contacting the Commvault support team."

"Setup is complex."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"It is very good for many of my customers in the banking and finance segments. The price isn't a problem there, but in some other industries, people ask for a cheaper solution. When the price is an issue for the customer, we recommend Veeam, Metallic."

"I would say that the pricing policy of the product is flexible and good."

"The pricing part of the solution is based on a subscription model, which is based on the number of users or storage capacity."

"I am not sure, but I believe that the cost is $7 USD per user."

"The platform is more expensive than other vendors."

"It costs a little bit more than other competitors in the market."

"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."

"We went from Veritas NetBackup to Commvault. We switched due to upfront licensing and costs. We have more visibility into what we're actually purchasing. It seemed like, overall, the cost of Commvault was cheaper."

"The product is very competitive for pricing in some countries because it is possible to set up Commvault hardware with other vendors using its certification."

"New licensing is easy and affordable."

"In India, this is a very expensive product."

"Our cost is around $20,000 per month. The previous year, it was around $30,000 per month. It now costs less because Commvault changed the licensing type for providers."

"The price should be reduced because it is too expensive for our customers."

"Metallic is an affordable solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

How does AvePoint Cloud Backup compare with Veeam Backup for Office 365?

AvePoint Cloud Backup for MS Office 365 is a SaaS backup whose features include secure storage and unlimited and automated backups. The storage is saved in AvePoint’s Azure storage or it can also b...

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What do you like most about AvePoint Cloud Backup?

The product's initial setup phase was super easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AvePoint Cloud Backup?

When I deal with enterprises, good pricing is achieved. However, pricing becomes less favorable for smaller companies. Offering a package plan for multiple small clients would be beneficial.

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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.

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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...

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What do you like most about Commvault Complete Data Protection?

IntelliSnap and file system backups are valuable features.

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Compared 9% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs AvePoint Cloud Backup

Compared 9% of the time

Acronis Cyber Protect vs AvePoint Cloud Backup

Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 13% of the time

AWS Backup vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

HPE Zerto Software vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 3% of the time

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

Overview

AvePoint Cloud Backup is a comprehensive data protection solution designed to safeguard critical business data stored in Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. It offers automated and secure backup and restore capabilities, ensuring that organizations can recover their data quickly in the event of accidental deletion, data corruption, or cyberattacks. With AvePoint Cloud Backup, businesses can easily manage and monitor their backup and restore processes through a centralized dashboard, enabling efficient data protection and compliance management.

This solution also provides granular recovery options, allowing users to restore individual files, folders, or entire sites with ease. AvePoint Cloud Backup offers flexible retention policies, enabling organizations to meet their specific data retention requirements.

Additionally, it provides advanced security features such as encryption and multi-factor authentication to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of backed-up data.

With its user-friendly interface and robust features, AvePoint Cloud Backup is a reliable and efficient solution for organizations seeking comprehensive data protection for their Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 environments.

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Commvault Cloud is the ultimate cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of the hybrid
enterprise. Beyond its core functionality of data backup and recovery across diverse workloads, including applications, databases, virtual machines, and files, Commvault Cloud stands out as a robust defense against ransomware. Going beyond backup, the platform integrates advanced data security features such as encryption, access control, and threat detection, safeguarding against unauthorized access and cyber threats.

With tools for data management, classification, and migration, businesses can optimize storage costs, enhance accessibility, and comply with regulations seamlessly. Boasting cloud integration with major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Commvault Cloud leverages the scalability and flexibility of the cloud for comprehensive data protection and management. The platform's automation capabilities streamline tasks, and its reporting and analytics features provide valuable insights into data usage, potential risks, and optimization strategies. Commvault Cloud is not just a security tool; it is a key component of cyber resilience, enabling organizations to not only protect against cyberattacks but also recover swiftly and minimize the impact of incidents. Elevate your cyber resilience strategy with Commvault Cloud.

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Sample Customers

Swedish Match, Hydro, Mercury IT, Avepoint

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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