We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud and IBM Storage Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It never fails. Sometimes we miss a backup, but there's always a reason for it, and it's not the fault of Commvault. In the last three years, we've never had to open a ticket with Commvault."
"The convenience of backing up and restoring simultaneously is very valuable."
"The Commvault Complete Data Protection interface is straightforward to use."
"It helped us reduce the number of servers that are required for a stable operation."
"This is a very stable product."
"The product is user-friendly."
"It is just about as flexible as you can get; simple. You can put it anywhere you want. You can put it on-prem or in your cloud. I could see where a team that's looking for more of a follow the bouncy ball type of solution might get a little confused. "Oh, no. What do you mean I might have to do it this way or I can't do it that way?" Sometimes, people just want to be told what to do. For an enterprise environment, like we are at NDOT, everything we do is not standard. It is not industry standard; it is not normal. We have all kinds of one-offs. We do need flexibility in the solutions that we get. I will say that Metallic has been extremely flexible in that sense, where we are able to follow the bouncy ball if we wanted to. Obviously, we didn't. We did it our way and Metallic, as a whole solution, provided that to us with no issues."
"It has significantly reduced the amount of manual work required to manage our backup operations. We're going from an on-prem to a non-on-prem, we're all doing nonsolutions. So we really can't compare it against anything else."
"The tool's backup engine is very powerful. Previously, our client finished backup with HPE product in 48 hours. IBM Storage Protect completes backup in 8 hours."
"The best point about IBM Storage Protect is that it can use IBM tape environments, which we still use and will continue to use in the future."
"It would be nice to have just one email report come in, then we can filter out failures. If everything is backed up, we really don't need to see the report. If it is in a single report. A simpler customised report would be good."
"The setup is not that straightforward or easy. Even the documentation is not generic or public like other products. You have to be a partner or you have to have a specific account and download it from the vendor themselves."
"The new HTML5-based management portals are very nice, but do not yet have all of the features of the Java-based client."
"The deployment process should be simplified because it is not something that just anybody can do."
"Support could improve and the initial configuration would be easier with assistance from a professional engineer."
"Commvault could make the product more cost-effective on the public cloud side. We are using this solution to back up whatever is still on-prem. We are not using it to back up what is on the public cloud because we have a native backup solution for that, which is provided by the vendor. As our footprint gets bigger, we will continue to evaluate this, but the last time that we did a cost analysis, the cost was not comparable to the solution that public clouds are offering."
"There is room for improvement in terms of data security."
"Commvault HyperScale X could improve by allowing backups of the storage area network (SAN)."
"The product should improve its GUI. It should also support Windows clustering."
"The solution is expensive."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery with 104 reviews while IBM Storage Protect is ranked 43rd in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while IBM Storage Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Storage Protect writes "A stable enterprise solution for backup and restore". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and Zerto, whereas IBM Storage Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect.
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