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Veritas Enterprise Vault vs Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Veritas Enterprise Vault
Ranking in Email Archiving
4th
Ranking in File Archiving
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud
Ranking in Email Archiving
10th
Ranking in File Archiving
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the File Archiving category, the mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 10.0%, down from 16.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud is 4.7%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
File Archiving Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Veritas Enterprise Vault10.0%
Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud4.7%
Other85.3%
File Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

Charles Nwaokukwu - PeerSpot reviewer
Head, Datacenter and IT Enterprise Applications at GTBANK
Support for data archiving and integration capabilities enhance data management
The GUI of Veritas Enterprise Vault is not friendly; the user interface can be quite convoluted for users or IT people who are not conversant with it. Even for professionals, it can be complex. Over time, if you get the hang of it, you'll understand it, but it's not something you can teach a user to quickly grasp. It's kind of complex. Veritas could do something to change this situation. I've given feedback quite a number of times through various channels, including during support calls. I remember trying to do a system state backup using our NetBackup feature, and I found out that Veritas NetBackup cannot back up a system state. Having numerous solutions instead of just one backup system can be quite unfriendly. They can back up other things such as databases and file servers, but when it comes to carrying a system state backup, it falls short. Honestly, Veritas Enterprise Vault's costing was one of the main reasons we dropped the integration to the cloud.
Rastislav Maniak - PeerSpot reviewer
Partial Owner at Storage One
Archives emails and files, providing indexes for searching the archives
The tool has had some scalability issues, but now that it's offered as a cloud service, it's easier to manage. However, setting it up isn't as straightforward as it used to be, and there may be limitations with the support provided during setup and testing. Also, the quality of support has declined in the past year.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Veritas Enterprise Vault is the on-premise recall from your email into Outlook."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault has its advantages; it does the work that it's supposed to do effectively."
"Compared to other third-party products, the solution's most valuable features are its cost and security."
"Organizations can streamline governance processes and improve compliance by utilizing automated classification to tag and categorize data."
"The indexing and searching features are the most valuable features of Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"The data retrieval process was seamless with Veritas Enterprise Vault"
"The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago."
"From my experience, the most beneficial aspects of the product are the lower cost per terabyte and the security of old data with ease of access."
"Everything is in one console, including the security and managing the data there, such as mailboxes, email, et cetera - everything."
"The tool streamlines data discovery processes for compliance by setting up a gateway to copy every incoming and outgoing email to the archive independently of the mailbox. This ensures that even if a user deletes their mailbox, the emails are still available in the archive, making it a compliant solution for monitoring all incoming and outgoing emails. Additionally, it offers the ability to place legal holds on important emails."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
 

Cons

"One of the big disadvantages is that the product doesn't cover structured data"
"Cost is high for Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"I believe it needs better reporting features as well as better way of managing SQL databases and their maintenance."
"It requires a lot of maintenance; we had a lot of problems with it as services were falling down or failing, so it's not really easy to maintain."
"The quality of support by Veritas has declined in the last year."
"The stability could be improved."
"Enterprise Vault is an Active/Passive node. It doesn't provide high availability with Active/Active."
"The deployment phase is very hard."
"Technical support could be better."
"The tool has had some scalability issues, but now that it's offered as a cloud service, it's easier to manage. However, setting it up isn't as straightforward as it used to be, and there may be limitations with the support provided during setup and testing. Also, the quality of support has declined in the past year."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."
"It's an affordable solution"
"The pricing is very high."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault pricing is average, and I rate the solution a five out of ten for pricing."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user."
"The tool is expensive, and I rate its price as eight out of ten. It might not be very expensive. However, comparing it with something that's free or already included in the price is challenging, like the Office 365 archive mailbox. Previously, this was part of the subscription price. Now, it's an additional cost, typically covered by departments like legal or compliance rather than IT."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Construction Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Enterprise Vault?
I don't know if the solution is affordable or if it's still a bit expensive in comparison to other products.
What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault?
We just use NetBackup and appliances, and we don't use other solutions. We have NetBackup, and Backup Exec is a lower grade software that we don't utilize. We don't have Access Appliances. We don't...
What is your primary use case for Veritas Enterprise Vault?
The major use cases for Veritas Enterprise Vault are email and file acquisition.
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Also Known As

Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault
Enterprise Vault.cloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Dell, HP, Cisco, Adobe, Symantec, SAP, EMC, Citrix, VMware, Accenture, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, NetApp, Nokia, Panasonic, Red Hat, Salesforce, Siemens, Sony, Toshiba, Twitter, Verizon, Visa, Vodafone, Walmart, Yahoo, ZTE
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