"It's stable."
"I like that it's a simple system."
"The MARS agent makes it easy to use."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The scalability has been good."
"The hardware is always updated and it's saved us a lot of money."
"I like that it's a stable solution and their support is good. I think Microsoft's commercial force is superior."
"It's useful, it works, and it's fairly reliable."
"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."
"This is a very stable product."
"Commvault integrates well with all types of operating systems and supports heterogeneous environments."
"We can go from one page to another page, from office backups to VM backups, or applications like secret backups. So everything can be configured or restored from a single pin."
"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 most valuable features are the ease of use, the graphical interface, and it's high speed."
"We switched to Commvault because we were looking to centralize management. This reduced IT administrator time as well as providing stability and reliability for data backups in a single console."
"The solution is easy to use and the duplication is quite good."
"Lacks an AI system that would enable easier upgrading of the hardware."
"The length of time it takes to restore is our main source of frustration. It would be beneficial to shorten the time it takes."
"I once tried restoring a Linux environment, and the size of the Linux VM or the data disk was really huge. It took a really long time to restore the environment and send the data from the storage to the disk. It took around 25 to 30 minutes, which was much longer than I anticipated. They can improve the duration of such restore operations. In the next release, it would also be good if they could reduce the duration for transferring the data from their storage to the actual storage while creating a virtual machine. They can reduce the duration or increase the data transfer rate."
"The only thing I would say that could be improved is the reporting."
"The monitoring and tagging features could be improved."
"I would like to see better integration with more products, and more services."
"The time required to restore files should be a little faster."
"We would like to see some kind of notification given to the user that a file was not synchronized well or what may have happened."
"The initial setup is rather complex, especially when switching versions."
"Commvault has two management dashboards. The first is the CommCell Console, which is Java-based, and the second is Command Center. We don't always find all the features we need in the Command Center and we need to go through the Java console, and sometimes features are only on the Java console."
"Setup is complex."
"Its dashboard could be improved to provide a summarized version of all the jobs instead of having to go through each one of them. We should easily be able to glance at all issues. If I had not gone with the on-premise version, I would have had regular reports with the cloud version. It would be an advantage if they increase the compression rate of the backup. I am keeping it on-prem, so I'll need more disks depending on the policies that I have in the retention period. Its price could also be lower. If a good solution can be cheaper, it is always an advantage."
"When we started using Commvault, we felt that there were some technical issues with managing it, but we are comfortable enough with managing it now. There were many issues, like index corrupting, when we first started, but all those issues were resolved by the Commvault tech team."
"The main area for improvement is that we sometimes experience negative effects from their updates. If they had a larger test area for their updates, that would help."
"I think there is room for improvement with the reports. They are a little poor."
"The retention log feature could be an issue for us and can be improved. The backup schedule can also be better in terms of how you set it up."
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Azure Backup is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery Software with 14 reviews while Commvault Complete Data Protection is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery Software with 46 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 8.0, while Commvault Complete Data Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Secure, good connectivity, easy to scale, and gives our clients peace of mind". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Commvault Complete Data Protection writes "Can easily restore data in a disaster recovery scenario". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Backup, Dell NetWorker and Dell Avamar, whereas Commvault Complete Data Protection is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity DataProtect and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Azure Backup vs. Commvault Complete Data Protection report.
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