Commvault Cloud vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

Commvault Cloud vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services

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Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

113

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (4th), eDiscovery (2nd), Cloud Backup (4th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (6th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)

IBM Disaster Recovery Services

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 8.4%, down from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Disaster Recovery Services is 3.8%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery as a Service Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud	8.4%
IBM Disaster Recovery Services	3.8%
Other	87.8%

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Featured Reviews

Sanjay Singh Bisht

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.

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Şefik Mert Polatay

General manager at Atlas Consulting Bilisim Hizmetleri Ltd.

Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability

The initial setup is very easy, user-friendly, and not complex. It mostly comes with all installed, an operating system, database, and security, all included in Power Systems. So users can easily install, configure, and use it. It's integrated with other systems. You can run different systems from IBM Power Systems, AIX Linux, or IBM I operating system. It's also integrated into Windows systems and other databases and servers.

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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

"The product is a reliable solution."

"The solution's stability is excellent."

"Commvault can actually come in and assist you with aspects of the implementation - and they are quite helpful."

"The features I find most helpful in Commvault are its ability to perform incremental backups and significantly reduce backup times for our diverse multi-architecture, multi-environment environment."

"The solution has enabled us to save on infrastructure costs by being able to manage what were disparate data management solutions in one place."

"There is no reason for me to rate them other than a 10 out of 10."

"The most valuable part of the solution is that it is fire-and-forget."

"We find the most valuable features in Commvault Cloud to be from the appliances perspective."

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"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."

"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."

"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."

"The latest IBM environments are very powerful for our clients."

Cons

"The solution requires improvement with its connection and bandwidth."

"I would like them to keep working on the new web interface to migrate out of the old interface because the old interface is a bit complex. It was driving customers away because of the complexity. If they migrate everything (100 percent of the features), this would make the product be perfect."

"The support needs more improvement. I feel that the support is not yet up to the mark, with not enough professional engineers to provide assistance."

"Sometimes there are people, personnel, that are not that well educated. Sometimes I know more than the person I'm talking to and they are supposed to be helping me with technical problems."

"If I were to ask them to work on something, it would be the fidelity of the alerts that occur. They should tell me if it is a real event or not. It is easy for it to identify that something hit it but give me more information. They can build AI into the engine so that I get better output from an alert to tell me if I should really be interested in that or not."

"The Java interface is not great. The Command Center interface is far better and it looks nicer, but it doesn't have all the powerful features available in the CommServe/Java console. The place to improve the product is on the management interface level."

"I think the one thing that could be improved is the customer experience. The interface should be more user friendly."

"Just to keep it running is time-consuming. There are five people on my team. Commvault was supposed to be one of the less time-consuming solutions, but in reality it takes 60 percent of our time just to keep it running, and that's not even fine-tuning it; that's just to keep it running."

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"Stability could always be better."

"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."

"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is bundled with hardware licensing. If I want to increase the hardware, I have to buy exactly the same because it's based on the core hardware license. We cannot tell discount because we have an NDA signed with Commvault because of my academic license. The solution is more expensive than NetBackup and Veeam but cheaper than Rubrik."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"It is quite expensive when compared to other applications in the market. Its license is completely based on workload capacity. If I buy a license for 100 terabytes, I can back up anything. I can back up any platform, technology, or application, which is an advantage. Previously, we had to buy an agent for a particular application, and the cost was different for each agent. Now, the cost is completely based on the storage capacity. The license for one terabyte can cost around $1,700 for backing up anything from your environment."

"There is now a subscription based licence option that, depending on your environment, could offer a more efficient method to licence the solution if you are OPEX cost driven rather than CAPEX."

"Commvault is more expensive than Veeam, which is the reason that we are changing to Veeam for cloud environments."

"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."

"Commvault licensing is a perpetual license so only the support is being renewed yearly."

"Its cost is reasonable."

More Commvault Cloud pricing and cost advice

"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

16%

Construction Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	58
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	82

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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 IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The pricing is perfect. It's not expensive because it's all-inclusive. The operating system, database, security, different file systems. So, overall, it's cheaper than Oracle or UNIX systems with O...

What needs improvement with IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Nothing, it’s almost perfect.

What is your primary use case for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery.

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Also Known As

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

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Overview

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.

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IBM Disaster Recovery Services offers robust and reliable business continuity solutions to safeguard critical operations. Designed for efficiency and effectiveness, these services help businesses maintain seamless operations amidst unforeseen disruptions.

IBM Disaster Recovery Services equips enterprises with the necessary tools and expertise to overcome potential business disruptions. By leveraging advanced technology and methodologies, these services ensure a swift and effective recovery process. They are tailored to minimize downtime and maximize operational capacity, thereby securing data integrity and availability. Organizations can rely on IBM's strategic planning and execution skills to ensure preparedness against diverse disaster scenarios.

What key features define IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Automated Failover: Ensures quick switch to backup systems, reducing downtime.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business requirements efficiently and effectively.
Data Replication: Provides continuous data syncing across multiple locations.
Comprehensive Testing: Regular drills and assessments to validate recovery plans.
Compliance Management: Meets industry regulations to ensure data protection.

What benefits and ROI can users expect from IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Business Continuity: Keeps essential operations running during outages.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces financial impact through strategic downtime reduction.
Improved Resilience: Enhances overall system reliability and disaster preparedness.
Enhanced Security: Strengthens data protection and confidentiality.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlines restoration processes for quicker recovery.

IBM Disaster Recovery Services is implemented across a variety of industries, such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, adapting each strategy to the specific requirements of the sector. For instance, in finance, it prioritizes secure data management, while addressing regulatory compliance, whereas in healthcare, ensuring patient data integrity and availability is paramount. Each industry benefits from customized implementation strategies to mitigate risks effectively.

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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

i-Virtualize, QD, Continuum Managed Services LLC, Royal Arctic Line, Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Philippines, Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited, A-Plant c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology GmbH Hannover, eASPNet Taiwan Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., TriDatum Solutions Inc., M7 Managed Services Ltd., Hospital de la Concepci‹n

Commvault Cloud vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services