Commvault Cloud vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Commvault and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Autonomous Operational Resilience category. Commvault is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0. Commvault holds a 39.0% mindshare in AOR, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 40.8% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Commvault users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

Commvault Cloud and HPE Zerto Software compete in the cloud data management and disaster recovery space. Commvault Cloud seems to have an edge in comprehensive support and competitive pricing, while HPE Zerto Software stands out for its strong disaster recovery capabilities, providing value for organizations prioritizing these functions.

Features: Commvault Cloud offers robust data protection, management, and backup capabilities, ensuring data resilience. Key features include backup and recovery functionalities, management of data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and strong security measures. HPE Zerto Software excels in near-synchronous replication, continuous data protection, and supports a wide range of platforms, enabling seamless data recovery and providing flexibility for cloud or on-prem deployments.

Room for Improvement: Commvault Cloud could improve by simplifying its user interface for non-technical users, enhancing documentation for better ease of use, and optimizing the learning curve for new users. HPE Zerto Software can enhance its services by advancing its multi-cloud integration capabilities, refining its user interface for better navigation, and ensuring more granular reporting and analytics for process improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Commvault Cloud offers a straightforward deployment process backed by responsive customer service, ensuring smooth transitions. HPE Zerto Software provides a user-friendly deployment experience, known for its dedicated disaster recovery support and specialized assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Commvault Cloud provides competitive pricing with substantial ROI due to its efficient data management and extensive support network. HPE Zerto Software entails higher implementation costs but justifies this through its sophisticated disaster recovery features, delivering substantial ROI for businesses that prioritize disaster recovery functions.

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Autonomous Operational Resilience category, the mindshare of InfoScale is 11.7%. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 39.0%, down from 50.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 40.8%, down from 50.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Autonomous Operational Resilience Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	40.8%
Commvault Cloud	39.0%
InfoScale	11.7%
Other	8.5%

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Featured Reviews

TABISH JAVED

Site Reliability Engineer (Certified) at Kyndryl India

Automated recovery has minimized downtime and supports seamless multi‑datacenter failover

Beyond pricing, there are areas where I would like to see InfoScale improved or enhanced. Veritas offers three management approaches. The first, which Veritas currently recommends, is Veritas Operation Manager. The second is the Cluster Manager Java Console graphical interface. The Cluster Manager Java Console has not been revised since version 6.1 or 6.2. This tool was critical for me, particularly valuable when managing small cluster footprints of 20 to 30 server nodes. I relied heavily on this tool, but Veritas has moved away from it in favor of Operation Manager. I recommend Veritas continue evolving this tool rather than discarding it. The third approach is the command line, suitable for individuals with extensive Veritas expertise and experience, but command line use in live environments consumed excessive time, leading me to prefer the graphical interface. Apart from pricing, I have not discovered disadvantages. The product is excellent. My concern is Veritas discarding the Cluster Manager Java Console in favor of Veritas Operation Manager. Setting up Operation Manager requires time and a dedicated server that runs continuously. I had to create a single server just for Veritas Operation Manager. While this works well for larger environments with hundreds of clusters, it is less useful for smaller deployments. I still recommend Veritas reconsider this application and evolve it by incorporating new features from Veritas Operation Manager. Adding these new features to the Java console would be beneficial because that tool runs on my laptop without consuming environment resources, and I can connect directly to clusters from my laptop. I am not opposing Veritas Operation Manager, which is excellent and resembles hardware management consoles for power machines, but smaller tools that previously performed these tasks should remain as options to provide clients with greater ease. From a features and functionality perspective, I do not find missing features in InfoScale at this moment. However, I am not actively using Veritas, managing only legacy machines on older hardware. I am upgrading operating systems but not Veritas due to contract expiration and end-of-life status. The contract is not being renewed because the customer wants to move away. Since I have not logged into VCS since 2021 and transferred responsibilities to another team, I am unaware of features arriving in version 8 or beyond and cannot comment specifically on recent Veritas introductions.

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Sanjay Singh Bisht

Server Administrator at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd

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.

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reviewer2802231

Dev Ops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees

Near-zero downtime has protected critical workloads and now simplifies hybrid cloud recovery

The best features of HPE Zerto Software are mainly very sophisticated and relevant to the current market. The data protection CDP part has real-time replication, unlike other solutions that have snapshot backups. We can set it up hourly, making it ideal for use with workloads. Another attraction is the near-zero RTO, with automated failover within minutes and one-click failover and failback. Currently, we are using a hybrid cloud solution, and HPE Zerto Software supports multi-cloud environments, making it easy to migrate between on-premises and cloud. Regarding the impact of HPE Zerto Software on our RTOs, we have near-zero RTO, meaning the system must be back online within thirty minutes if we measure the time. It is very quick to recover services. With HPE Zerto Software's near-synchronous replication, we have some CDP protection, so we typically write interceptions along with some asynchronous replication. There is almost real-time replication available.

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Pros

"InfoScale does that all by itself without any dependency on different solutions."

"It integrates well with other solutions."

"It offers High Availability for many applications, including Oracle and SAP environment."

"The best feature in InfoScale is the file system, which is the greatest feature as you can get any storage LUN from any hardware because it's software-defined and create a volume that can consist of storage from two or more different vendors, which avoids any vendor lock-in and makes it easier when you expand as time goes."

"From a recovery standpoint, InfoScale is excellent and easy to manage."

"InfoScale's ability to maintain data integrity and availability during a cyber event such as a ransomware attack is excellent."

"Over the last two years, we did not experience any application failover or receive alerts due to the immediate switchover mechanism in active-active mode that ensures no downtime, helping us significantly with confidence and trust in our organization."

"The best feature is that it supports high availability and automatic failover, which minimizes downtime and helps the environment reduce downtime and improve high availability for critical applications."

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

"Veeam is a good product but I prefer Commvault for backup and DR."

"The solution's interface is easy to use. For manageability, it doesn't matter where the resource is coming from or going to. That's the great power of the Control Panel: It's easy to use and does not matter if you manage on-prem or cloud resources."

"All the management is centralized from that CommServe server. You can manage all the clients and all the infrastructure using one interface and one server... Using the Commvault interface, you can customize and generate multiple reports to easily see what is protected and what is not protected in the environment."

"This is a very stable product."

"What I like about Commvault is that it's very robust."

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

"Everything is flexible in the web console."

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"The near-synchronous replication is key. That has allowed us to provide the low RPOs that we promise. For key systems, that has been the deciding factor."

"The return on investment from Zerto was immediate."

"Zerto is very good at providing continuous data protection. For replication purposes, it's definitely better than Veeam. Veeam doesn't do as good a job as Zerto does when it comes to replication. The other alternative would be to just have backups somewhere. But even with backups, you lose a lot of time because you have to set it all up. With Zerto, you failover, you just click a couple of buttons and you run from the other location."

"The most valuable tool is the dashboard, which allows us to immediately check the DLP status, replication data, and all other data needed to have cleaner and immediate control of the situation."

"The portal is a valuable feature. I am here in Baton Rouge, and I can get into the Vegas data center and see real-time replication on the portal."

"The live failover tests and point-in-time recovery options have been exceptionally valuable features of Zerto for our organization."

"From the simple point of not having to worry about whether or not we are protected in the event of ransomware or disaster, it is worth the money."

"We've never had any major headaches with the virtual-protection groups. They seem to work exactly as they should. If there's ever an issue with replication, we know right away, so it's all been very reliable."

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Cons

"Based on my experience with support, I would rate them a nine, only because occasionally the first person I talk to does not know more than I do and it needs to be escalated to reach someone more knowledgeable."

"Many customers can see the benefit of InfoScale, but they are usually not able to purchase the product because the license cost is very high."

"Many customers can see the benefits of InfoScale, but they are usually not able to buy the products and solutions because of the licensing costs."

"It's very difficult to implement."

"It could be more stable and more secure."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is a bit expensive, but rather than that, because it is used in critical environments with no competitor, most of the customers go for it anyways."

"The primary concern is licensing cost, as the customer is unwilling to invest further and has begun cost-cutting measures."

"While InfoScale is mainly used by enterprise-level customers, it does not inherently support many applications, which presents a scalability issue."

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"They should move the CommServe outside of Windows machines and the database should be distributed among servers. It's still a single point of failure."

"Technical support is helpful but it can take one or two weeks to sort out issues."

"The customer support is not good."

"HyperScale X is not user-friendly. There are many settings that have to be done on your own."

"We've faced problems backing up our virtual machines."

"In an upcoming release, the reports could be better."

"The HTML interface is a remarkable improvement. However, there are still some features that are not available in that interface that are available in the Java console, but I'm sure that will come with time."

"For simpler environments, they have some templates for startups. Possibly for a smaller environment, they need to do more automatic configuration and selections of users who want to do backups. This is mainly for smaller environments. I would like them to have the same system fit for all environments: small and big environments. Currently, we have to do a lot of configuration of the layout, which takes time. This solution is appropriate for enterprise-level enterprise, but I would like it to be easier to use for SMB environments."

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"With the current updates primarily on the Azure side of it, documentation could be improved."

"Their data backup and restore have some ways to go."

"More user support would be best for me because I'm not in the product all the time. So, having strong support is probably the most important decision on any products that we buy."

"Pricing is kind of expensive, but for what we get, it is probably worth it. I know they just had a huge price increase due to the VMware stuff getting expensive, which added about a thousand dollars a month to our bill."

"Zerto could improve its reporting capabilities."

"The tech support on my latest issue wasn't so great. I had to figure a lot of stuff out myself. It could be that I had a Level 1 tech who was new or something, but it seemed like the tech was spitballing, which does not help me."

"There are quite a few elements in the long-term retention areas that I wish were better."

"For improvement points, because Zerto is not a backup company, if they could implement some kind of backup solutions, it would help us out significantly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our clients pay for licensing on a yearly basis."

"It is cheaper than NetBackup, but its price can be lower. If a good solution can be cheaper, it is always an advantage. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."

"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."

"The solution is expensive. The subscription is based on a monthly basis. There are additional costs that vary depending on the size of the backup."

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

"Based on the customer's needs, their pricing and model is very confusing sometimes. You need to check with their sales to make sure you are getting the right pricing on whatever you are using. I know that they have simplified a lot regarding the licensing model nowadays, but it is good to always double check and make sure it has everything that you really need."

"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."

"The license for Commvault HyperScale X is paid annually."

"The complete license gives us options for all the features. Commvault does not license based on storage or the management components. It can integrate with any storage vendor. That means that when we are out of storage and need more, we can integrate without additional licensing. In my opinion, Commvault needs to reduce the licensing cost by 20 to 40 percent to make it cost-efficient."

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"It's fair. My biggest gripe with Zerto is the initial scoping. What we were promised didn't work with what we ended up with."

"This solution is far less expensive than SRM and NetBackup."

"There may be less expensive solutions on the market but with Zerto, you get what you pay for."

"We subscribe to their annual license package and we have tier one support with them."

"The pricing seems reasonable. It's still within what we consider to be value-add."

"Zerto is more expensive than competitors, making the price difference pretty high. While it is very expensive, it's very powerful and good at what it does. The cost is why we are not leveraging it for everything in the organization. If it was dirt cheap, we would have LTR and DR on everything because it would just make sense to use it."

"Compared to other options like SRM, Zerto is a more expensive solution, making it primarily suitable for larger organizations."

"As far as I know, the pricing is around $1,000 per VM, but Zerto is changing the pricing model to more of an enterprise-class license. I don't know if there are any additional costs or fees."

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Nov 9, 2014

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Financial Services Firm

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Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

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10%

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Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	5

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Small Business	58
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	82

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My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is good.

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What needs improvement with Zerto?

I believe HPE Zerto Software can be improved by providing more clarity on roadmap features coming.

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Also Known As

Veritas InfoScale Availability, Arctera InfoScale for Kubernetes

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

Zerto Virtual Replication

Overview

InfoScale delivers robust data availability and protection for enterprises by managing critical workloads across hybrid cloud environments, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless performance.

InfoScale is designed to enhance data resilience and operational efficiency. By enabling quick data access across hybrid infrastructures, it reduces potential downtime and enhances business continuity. Its scalable architecture adapts to dynamic workloads, providing reliable performance under pressure while maintaining seamless integration with cloud-based solutions.

What are the key features of InfoScale?

Data Resiliency: Ensures continuous data availability through advanced clustering and replication technologies.
Scalability: Supports dynamic scaling to meet changing demands without compromising performance.
Cloud Integration: Offers seamless transition and operation within cloud environments.
Automated Operations: Streamlines management processes with automation to reduce manual intervention.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Increased Uptime: Improved reliability translates to reduced business interruption.
Cost Efficiency: Potentially lowers operational costs through optimized resource allocation.
Enhanced Security: Provides robust protection measures for critical data assets.
Operational Agility: Facilitates swift adaptation to evolving business requirements.

InfoScale is particularly effective in sectors such as healthcare and finance where data integrity and uptime are crucial. Its implementation empowers industries to handle data-intensive operations efficiently, ensuring continuity and compliance with industry standards.

InfoScale

Commvault Cloud offers comprehensive data management with strong backup and recovery, security, and compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud setups. Supporting a variety of applications, its cost optimization and integration capabilities enhance data management and infrastructure operations.

Commvault Cloud facilitates seamless data management and protection for organizations dealing with complex IT infrastructures. Its capabilities spread across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring robust disaster recovery and compliance, while optimizing storage strategies. Extensive application compatibility and integration with IT infrastructure solutions allow for efficient data movement and enhanced security.

What are the key features of Commvault Cloud?

Backup and Recovery: Reliable data protection across environments.
Data Management: Seamless operations in hybrid and multi-cloud contexts.
Disaster Recovery: Comprehensive recovery features.
Compliance: Ensures adherence to regulatory standards.
Security: Advanced encryption and threat detection.
Cost Optimization: Efficient strategies and resource utilization.
Integration: Supports a wide array of IT applications.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Data Security: Protects sensitive information effectively.
Scalability: Adapts to extensive infrastructure needs.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses through optimization.
Simplified Management: Streamlined for better operations.
Comprehensive Support: Enhances compatibility and usability.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and technology, Commvault Cloud supports the protection of virtual machines, databases, and physical systems. It facilitates Office 365, SQL, and VMware backups, ensuring disaster recovery and compliance, while meeting the demanding storage requirements and safeguarding data integrity per industry standards.

Commvault

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sample Customers

Wayne State University, Zenith Mart

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United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

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