Commvault Cloud vs Veritas System Recovery comparison

Commvault and Veritas are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Commvault is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4, while Veritas is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.0. Commvault holds a 8.7% mindshare in DRS, compared to Veritas’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Commvault users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 70% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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70% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery are two competitive solutions in the data management and recovery sector. Commvault Cloud takes the lead in terms of comprehensive features and adaptability, making it an excellent choice for robust data management, while Veritas System Recovery excels with specialized recovery tools, appealing for dedicated backup operations.

Features: Commvault Cloud offers extensive data management capabilities including automated workflows, cloud integration, and a centralized administration console, ideal for diverse data environments. Veritas System Recovery is known for its advanced disaster recovery mechanisms, efficient system restoration capabilities, and ability to handle large data volumes for essential VM and server backups.

Room for Improvement: Commvault Cloud could enhance its user interface for less technical users, reduce complexity for smaller installations, and improve documentation for enterprise features. Veritas System Recovery would benefit from expanding cloud integration options, enhancing user-friendly interfaces, and improving support for complex multi-cloud environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Commvault Cloud provides a seamless deployment process with flexible support channels tailored to diverse infrastructure needs, offering a smooth implementation experience. Veritas System Recovery is praised for straightforward deployment but relies heavily on customer-initiated support routes, which can be cumbersome for complex issues.

Pricing and ROI: Commvault Cloud requires a higher initial investment but promises significant ROI over time with its extensive feature set, suitable for businesses needing comprehensive management. Veritas System Recovery offers a more cost-effective setup, making it an attractive choice for those prioritizing affordability and efficient recovery benefits.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

112

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (4th), eDiscovery (3rd), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd), File Archiving (1st), SaaS Backup (2nd), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st), AI IT Support (7th)

Veritas System Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

25th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 8.7%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas System Recovery is 1.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud	8.7%
Veritas System Recovery	1.6%
Other	89.7%

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

Featured Reviews

Ankit Gagneja

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.

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Sareesh V

Sr.System Administrator at Suwaidi

The solution can be used for DR testing and allows running an infinite number of full backups

When we consider the backup model of other products like Veeam, their incremental backup just adds to their first full backup. With Veritas System Recovery, we have the option to run an infinite number of full backups according to our requirements. With my cloud version of Veritas System Recovery, I can have a full backup every month, which is not possible with any other vendors. Other vendors will claim that the original copy is strong enough, but the customers have to ensure that bugs won't cause any problems in the future. However, with Veritas System Recovery, you can run a full backup this month and again run a full backup on the first or thirtieth day of the next month.

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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

"Among the best features are the BMR (Bare Metal Recovery), Live Sync, and IntelliSnap, which is used for snapshots of hypervisor storage. It's predefined so you only need to enable it and it works. I haven't seen anything like this in other backup tools like Veritas NetBackup or Dell EMC or TSM. We will use snapshotting for all our machines."

"Commvault Backup & Recovery's search utility is its most valuable feature."

"The product is a reliable solution."

"Commvault integrates well with all types of operating systems and supports heterogeneous environments."

"With the use of the cloud, the solution is easy to learn."

"Overall, this is a unified solution and it's wonderful."

"IntelliSnap for snapshot collection is one of the most efficient and easiest ways to back up large amounts of data."

"IntelliSnap and file system backups are valuable features."

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"You can back up the whole image, not just files and folders, but the image from the server, and you can restore the whole image."

"It has a user-friendly interface."

"Offers good recovery quickly."

"With Veritas System Recovery, we have the option to run an infinite number of full backups according to our requirements."

"The solution captures the system state, so when we restore the system, it will be restored to the state it was in at the time of the backup."

"The tool helps automate system recovery. The solution is most useful in scenarios involving restoration to a different environment. For instance, when migrating from a physical server to a virtual one, the tool facilitates conversion."

"The installation was straightforward."

"You can back up the whole image."

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Cons

"The tool should revise its licensing."

"There is room for improvement in terms of data security."

"When you deploy Complete Data Protection for past services, it's more complicated because you cannot directly back up from the previous service host. We have to build a proxy server, like a middleware, to directly access the past database server. It's complex and hard for beginners to figure out."

"The new HTML5-based management portals are very nice, but do not yet have all of the features of the Java-based client."

"The only problem is that some of what we snap most of is the VMs. We found about 10% of the VMs that we can't snap because they're too interactive. It actually causes the application to crash."

"The setup is not that straightforward or easy. Even the documentation is not generic or public like other products."

"Their single pane of glass solution is daunting at first. It's not the easiest interface but, as with anything that you use, eventually you'll get better and better at it."

"They need to improve when it comes to large, video file archiving. They're good, but they have not met my expectations as a customer in this area."

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"The tool's deployment could be easier. The deployment itself isn't the issue; rather, the problem lies in configuring policies and testing everything before it's ready. We invest a significant amount of time in preparing for various scenarios. However, we often encounter situations where changes have occurred since our initial preparations. This can render the automation less valuable."

"Veritas System Recovery Manager offers some manager solutions, but there is room for improvement."

"It needs an easier interface."

"This solution needs an easier interface that is more comprehensible. Also, sometimes we have issues with restoring images when we initialize the servers."

"Lacks the ability to protect the database snapshot."

"The product's integration capabilities are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"The reliability is sometimes lacking."

"The pricing could be cheaper."

More Veritas System Recovery cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is fairly in line with the other products we've compared it with recently. We do spend more on it than we did in our Backup Exec days, but it's fairly competitive with some of the other best-in-class data protection platforms."

"We work with Commvault and a partner on our environment needs according to capacity, licensing, pricing, components, modules, etc. Additional costs depend on your backup needs."

"One of the issues with backup vendors is that they overprice, or overvalue their products."

"Compared with other backup technologies, Commvault is a bit more costly, but we are satisfied with the support, the services, and the features that we get with Commvault."

"It is a little too high. I would like to get more of a consumption model or more of a periodic true-up type of model that is more friendly to the ups and downs that you may have in your data instead of locking into multi-year agreements."

"It was not very popular because of its previous cost, but they have been working on the pricing, and now anyone can afford to use Commvault. They changed the modeling criteria for their pricing. Previously, there was only the capacity modeling based on your content capacity. In this case, they would give you a license and you would have to pay it. Now, most of the environment is virtualized so you can have the best CPU, VMs, etc. You buy whatever you need and pay for what you need."

"The price could perhaps be lower as well."

"The solution is expensive, but it is worth the money."

More Commvault Cloud pricing and cost advice

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There is no need to pay any additional fees apart from the licensing costs attached to the solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Energy/Utilities Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	57
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	82

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

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.

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What needs improvement with ThreatWise?

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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 Consultancy Services where we pitch all these solutions to customers from the bac...

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What do you like most about Veritas System Recovery?

The tool helps automate system recovery. The solution is most useful in scenarios involving restoration to a different environment. For instance, when migrating from a physical server to a virtual ...

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What needs improvement with Veritas System Recovery?

The tool's deployment could be easier. The deployment itself isn't the issue; rather, the problem lies in configuring policies and testing everything before it's ready. We invest a significant amou...

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What advice do you have for others considering Veritas System Recovery?

The tool is a last resort. We primarily focus on preventing situations where its use becomes necessary. While we sell and test this tool, our customers don't frequently need to use it because it pr...

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Also Known As

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

Veritas System Recovery 18, System Recovery 18, System Recovery

Overview

Commvault Cloud is the ultimate cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of the hybrid
enterprise. Beyond its core functionality of data backup and recovery across diverse workloads, including applications, databases, virtual machines, and files, Commvault Cloud stands out as a robust defense against ransomware. Going beyond backup, the platform integrates advanced data security features such as encryption, access control, and threat detection, safeguarding against unauthorized access and cyber threats.

With tools for data management, classification, and migration, businesses can optimize storage costs, enhance accessibility, and comply with regulations seamlessly. Boasting cloud integration with major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Commvault Cloud leverages the scalability and flexibility of the cloud for comprehensive data protection and management. The platform's automation capabilities streamline tasks, and its reporting and analytics features provide valuable insights into data usage, potential risks, and optimization strategies. Commvault Cloud is not just a security tool; it is a key component of cyber resilience, enabling organizations to not only protect against cyberattacks but also recover swiftly and minimize the impact of incidents. Elevate your cyber resilience strategy with Commvault Cloud.

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Veritas System Recovery 18 delivers superior backup and disaster recovery for servers, desktops, and laptops with a single unified solution that enables businesses to recover from downtime or disasters in minutes. With patented Restore Anyware technology, IT administrators can rapidly restore exactly what they need, when and where they need it - including entire physical and virtual machines to bare metal or dissimilar hardware as well as files, folders, and granular application objects. Unlike other technologies, Veritas System Recovery also provides cross-platform Physical to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual to-Physical (V2P) recoveries, making it the perfect complement to physical and virtual environments.

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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

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