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Commvault Cloud vs IBM Storage Protect vs Veritas Alta SaaS Protection comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Mindshare comparison

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud3.6%
Veeam Data Platform6.0%
Rubrik3.4%
Other87.0%
Backup and Recovery
Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Storage Protect1.6%
Veeam Data Platform6.0%
Commvault Cloud3.6%
Other88.8%
Backup and Recovery
SaaS Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Veritas Alta SaaS Protection1.8%
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 3658.8%
Commvault Cloud6.1%
Other83.3%
SaaS Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Ankit Gagneja - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
Hybrid backup strategy has improved recovery orchestration and now supports flexible DR planning
I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that different data protection organizations are coming up with, which basically revolves around tiering of not frequently accessible data to glacier kind of storage, plus bringing in a high level of compression and deduplication capabilities. All those features I believe are there in other customers and they are bringing in new use cases from the AI perspective which I have not recently seen in Commvault. I have seen that Dell does have such features. We recently pitched a solution to the customers where we talked about data tiering and the other AI use cases, identifying the data by itself and autonomously taking decisions on how to tier the data between the different storage classes that we have. Those kind of capabilities that we have proposed to the customer as far as the partner solutions are concerned. I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud. The rest of the features pretty much align with the other enterprise solutions that we have in the market. It is just the AI capability that is being asked by the customers as well as that I see missing with Commvault.
reviewer2787573 - PeerSpot reviewer
Interim Head of Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Backup coverage has supported immutable protection and now needs a more modern, intuitive interface
IBM Storage Protect is from a previous generation of backup software. In those days, backup software was complex in setting up and complex to manage. The new software, such as Rubrik, is very easy to use and more relatable to younger engineers because its interface design is more similar to Office 365 and the newer controls and labels that we are accustomed to. The difficulty that we now have with IBM Storage Protect is that for this day and age, compared to other products that are out there, it seems complex. If we look back 15 years ago, all enterprise class backup software was complex, so IBM was not any different. However, many of these older systems, such as Commvault, still have the same complaint that they are very complex because they have tried to keep that same interface and the same way it works. This suits them, but it probably needed a complete overhaul to bring it into the ease of use that we have with modern software. However, that upgrade has not been done. IBM Storage Protect has not been upgraded into a modern platform. It still looks a legacy platform.
SG
Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited
Experience with offsite backup enhances data integrity and reduces on-premise reliance
One of the features of Veritas Alta SaaS Protection that customers are looking for is immutability. This is the most important feature. With the cloud, Veritas Alta SaaS Protection is actually in the cloud, which means they have unlimited space to do their backups. They can expand on a need-to-need basis. The automated recovery feature of Veritas Alta SaaS Protection makes the recovery much easier, as opposed to earlier methods where we were using scripts to do the restore. Currently, it's automated so you just do a click. You select the feature in a graphical interface, making it easy to use even for a newbie.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Commvault's many features can be explored to get more value from more solutions."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, the graphical interface, and it's high speed."
"Commvault gives us a single platform to manage and recover our data. Since we are a research organization, backup is one of the most critical parts of our IT operations and services. Internally, we run it as a managed service, and there is a single console that makes it easy for management to see the performance."
"Without Commvault, or with another solution based on Windows, I don't think the recovery would have been possible."
"Backup and archive with a single window, with a single backup job. You only need to type "c"."
"Over the years, it has actually become cheaper, due to the fact that I've become smarter about how to use it better."
"The solution is easy to use and the duplication is quite good."
"Overall, it is a well-rounded solution."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"We have a long history using Spectrum Protect, and we are working closely together with IBM development to make solutions happen that we need and solve issues very fast."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical, and create offsite copies of all our data for security and recovery purposes."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"Its flexibility is valuable; it is a very flexible solution, there are always more ways than one to do something, and as a software solution you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want so you are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown, you can always expand it."
"The solution is stable; I haven't experienced any bugs or glitches on it."
"The solution is stable; I haven't experienced any bugs or glitches on it."
"The solution's hardware appliance is very scalable and very useful."
"What I like most about Veritas SaaS Backup is that it is easy to work on."
"The automated recovery feature of Veritas Alta SaaS Protection makes the recovery much easier, as opposed to earlier methods where we were using scripts to do the restore."
"We're comfortable using this kind of technology. It's user-friendly."
"I think the most important feature is the ability of SaaS Backup to cover all modules proposed by Office 365, because competing solutions don't cover the total scope."
"The most valuable features are the ease of administration and the ease of configuration."
 

Cons

"The new HTML5-based management portals are very nice, but do not yet have all of the features of the Java-based client."
"Training."
"Persistent binding is a feature that I would like to see in the next release of Commvault."
"I don't know much about the pricing and licensing, but I do know it is very expensive."
"The customer support is not good."
"The implementation is very difficult and should be improved and made easier."
"The initial setup is rather complex, especially when switching versions."
"Not everyone has agents for everything and Commvault has agents for most products. It's the most complete."
"I have found it more complex than some of its competitor products, but because I have worked on the product for a while, I find it fairly simple. Now, I understand how to install it well, but it would still be complex for a novice."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"Its management part can be better and simplified. It is kind of a beast as compared to Commvault or Veeam, but they are more user-friendly. They are also easier to learn, whereas Spectrum Protect definitely takes time. They should simplify it. Our teams are pretty comfortable with it because we have been using it for a long time, but from the perspective of a new user who is evaluating or using this solution, it is definitely more complex in terms of manageability. Its monitoring could be improved so that it can even monitor the jobs that are scheduled by external schedulers. There are situations where a database team might decide to use their own schedulers, but currently, Spectrum Protect is not able to catch those jobs in the Operation Manager console."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"The technical support really needs to be improved."
"One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"There is room for improvement in the service aspect."
"In the future, we would like to see support for virtualized machines."
"When you finish a project, the client should have the opportunity to browse the files rather than simply ending the contract."
"The usability of the solution isn't the best."
"Technical support can be improved."
"The technical team wasn't very helpful."
"Licensing has been a struggle."
"An area for improvement is the product's performance, especially how long it takes to do a job."
"The tool can be improved in terms of maintainability and flexibility, especially as companies grow larger. In these aspects, I feel Veeam is better for cloud and operational purposes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is cheaper than Veeam."
"The cost for Commvault is very expensive, even support is very expensive. The full cost of the solution is 50,000 INR per year, which includes 20 VM backups, server data backup, and 200 desktop and laptop agent licenses."
"Commvault Backup & Recovery is perhaps the best value for our money that I have seen in a backup product."
"Commvault Backup & Recovery is priced fairly, and its performance-to-cost ratio is also better than fair."
"New licensing is easy and affordable."
"The solution is licensed based on the number of objects that we're going to back up, and that's a known quantity. As a result, we get predictable costs for our backup requirements."
"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."
"Commvault licensing is a perpetual license so only the support is being renewed yearly."
"The product is not cheap."
"Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it."
"The licensing is varied. If we have small environments (not many TB being managed) it is best to license by PVUs (depending on the number of cores of the machine). If we manage many TBs we look at licensing by capacity which allows us to use all the agents of the product."
"Spectrum Protect is not expensive, and it is simple to use."
"At scale, the consumption license (per TB) is very expensive."
"We worked our licensing into a capacity model, which is nice. Now, everything is much simpler to manage from a licensing perspective.​"
"It can be perceived as expensive since it is designed for enterprise use."
"We worked our licensing into a capacity model, which is nice. Now, everything is much simpler to manage from a licensing perspective."
"SaaS Backup isn't the most expensive solution."
"The program is quite expensive."
"I would rate this solution's pricing as five out of five."
"This solution is not cheap and not expensive but priced in the mid-range."
"The tool is expensive compared to Veeam."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business53
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise95
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
 

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 c...
What needs improvement with ThreatWise?
I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that...
What is your primary use case for ThreatWise?
I work with a variety of backup solutions including Commvault, Avamar, Rubrik, and similar tools. I am part of Tata C...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Storage Protect?
I do not know the current licensing cost for IBM Storage Protect and how we get our support because our licensing mod...
What needs improvement with IBM Storage Protect?
IBM Storage Protect is from a previous generation of backup software. In those days, backup software was complex in s...
What is your primary use case for IBM Storage Protect?
IBM Storage Protect is my primary tool for backup and recovery. We also use it for immutable backups to protect again...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Alto SaaS Protection?
Veritas Alta SaaS Protection is slightly expensive, but they can do more on it. The exact figure for Veritas Alta Saa...
What needs improvement with Veritas Alto SaaS Protection?
For Veritas Alta SaaS Protection, the only challenge is downtime and the impact of time synchronization whereby diffe...
What is your primary use case for Veritas Alto SaaS Protection?
For the customers that I'm dealing with, they are using Veritas Alta SaaS Protection for long-term retention and offl...
 

Also Known As

Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise
IBM Spectrum Discover
SaaS Backup
 

Overview

 

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
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