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BDRShield vs Commvault Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
BDRShield offers backup efficiency and protection, but users face significant initial costs and delayed financial benefits.
Sentiment score
7.2
Commvault Cloud reduced operational costs, improved data protection, and enabled significant return on investment with streamlined backup management.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
BDRShield's customer service has mixed reviews, with delays in responses but generally helpful technical support despite time zone challenges.
Sentiment score
7.2
Commvault Cloud's customer service is effective and responsive, though improvements are needed in staffing and local support options.
Not needing technical support is even better than good technical support.
Director at Switact
At the pre-sale cycle, we have spocks aligned from Commvault with whom we get in touch, and they provide all the required support that we need.
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
The number of people who know Commvault Cloud is lesser compared to Veeam.
Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.
Customer support has very closed departments, requiring us to shuffle between them to get one thing done because representatives have limited accessibility.
Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
BDRShield is scalable across environments, supporting large data volumes and future growth, with potential hardware upgrades for optimal performance.
Sentiment score
7.5
Commvault Cloud offers scalable integration across platforms, though faces challenges with SQL and Windows Server configuration complexity.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
BDRShield is generally stable with minor Linux issues; praised for reliable notifications and excellent Vembu support.
Sentiment score
7.7
Commvault Cloud is praised for its high stability, reliability, strong support, and minimal issues, ensuring continuous dependable operations.
I have not faced any downtimes with Commvault Cloud.
Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.
Commvault Cloud is highly stable, and I would rate it a ten out of ten.
CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

BDRShield faces criticism for its complex UI, lacking features, support issues, and limited integration and stability options.
Commvault Cloud users seek improved usability, clearer licensing, better support, enhanced integration, and advanced features for a streamlined experience.
There could always be little things that could still be fixed or improved for stability.
Director at Switact
I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud.
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
I feel that the support is not yet up to the mark, with not enough professional engineers to provide assistance.
CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

BDRShield provides cost-effective, flexible pricing options with some licensing complexity, praised for affordability and user-friendly experience.
Commvault Cloud is cost-efficient for enterprises, yet can seem pricey for SMBs; evaluating licensing options is recommended.
Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.
CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

BDRShield excels in automatic backups, seamless integration, and storage efficiency, ensuring quick recovery and effective multi-tenant management.
Commvault Cloud offers scalable data protection with fiber backup, global deduplication, cloud integration, security, and centralized management.
The features I find most valuable are ease of backup, ease of restore, the full restore, just getting some data out of a backup server or even the applications that are in the server, going through the database or going to Exchange.
Director at Switact
We can back up unlimited TBs due to our per node license.
Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Other features include endpoint solutions, integration with Office 365, ransomware protection, archival for long-term retention, and no ingress or egress charges.
CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The public cloud acts as a bigger solution for the on-premise while the on-premise acts as a DR for the public cloud workloads.
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
 

Categories and Ranking

BDRShield
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
18th
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
MSP Backup (1st)
Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
3rd
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (3rd), Cloud Backup (2nd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), File Archiving (1st), SaaS Backup (2nd), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st), AI IT Support (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of BDRShield is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 4.4%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Commvault Cloud4.4%
BDRShield0.8%
Other94.8%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

TA
IT Director at Boom Logic
Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment
I like the fact that BDRSuite can connect to VMware ESXi and automatically pull the virtual machines that I have in that environment. I also like that you can choose to back up the compute to the backup server or go straight to the cloud. BDRSuite enables you to recover data instantly. When we need to recover data, I only need to start a backup job or a restore job. Depending on the speed of the server and the Internet, it should be able to download the files from the cloud and split them back up the way they were like nothing ever happened. The restore options BDRSuite provides are crucial because we use it for a lot of healthcare companies that have HIPAA requirements. BDRSuite is HIPAA compliant. We need it to be readily available and accessible in case something goes wrong. It lets you schedule backups to run every 15 minutes. I don't believe you can do it at shorter intervals because there's no way the original backups will finish in 15 minutes. It allows you to adjust the schedules. For example, if you don't want it to go during certain times, you can set that up. You can also choose between a full or incremental backup. There are settings you can adjust to make it work how you want it. Incremental backup is crucial because a full backup would increase fees or affect the local server because it would back up the entire volume every time. Instead, it does one full backup—say 12 terabytes— and adds to it in increments of 100 gigabytes, 200 gigabytes, etc. Whenever you want to add a backup job, there's a wizard that pops up telling you how to make a new backup job. It asks you what you want to name it and what you want to back up. Then, it asks you if you want to schedule it. There's an interactive display on how to do that.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
86%
Educational Organization
3%
Manufacturing Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business44
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BDRSuite?
The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?
BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...
What needs improvement with BDRSuite?
I really don't know what could be improved about BDRSuite Backup & Replication. I've never had anything that I thought would be nice if that was possible. Every time I thought that, it was alre...
What do you like most about ThreatWise?
Security measures, including encryption and threat detection, contribute significantly to data protection, safeguarding against unauthorized access and cyber threats.
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?
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 rev...
 

Also Known As

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

Overview

 

Sample Customers

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola
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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