2018-08-01T07:08:00Z

What do you like most about Commvault?

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about Commvault?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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MC
IT Ops at Schmitech Inc.
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-09-20T19:36:26Z
Sep 20, 2022

The convenience of backing up and restoring simultaneously is very valuable.

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MM
Especialista de respaldos at Engine Core
User
Top 20
2022-06-09T21:08:00Z
Jun 9, 2022

It helped us reduce the number of servers that are required for a stable operation.

JH
IT Senior Systems Engineer at Southland Industries
Real User
Top 10
2022-03-01T08:51:00Z
Mar 1, 2022

Commvault provides data protection. Their engine is ransomware-agnostic so ransomware doesn't compromise our backup data. Therefore, we can rely on their data protection to recover and back up our production system.

AH
Presales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Reseller
Top 10
2021-12-23T13:48:00Z
Dec 23, 2021

The most valuable feature is Commvault's coverage. It has wide coverage to back up every data center environment. The product can back up OpenStack, OpenShift, and competitive solutions don't have this feature. Commvault can handle backing up any virtual workload or enterprise application.

YD
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-12-15T19:56:00Z
Dec 15, 2021

I can collect the target data, then we connect it to Commvault. There is not another system that can connect to our target database or target storage. This is very important for us, because there is the threat of malware right now. This can protect not only the product, but also the backup data from outside threats.

SA
Project Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Top 10
2021-11-24T17:21:00Z
Nov 24, 2021

Commvault helps to ensure broad coverage with the discovery of unprotected workloads. This is important. From the moment that we set it up, we mostly have customers telling us what they need to back up. Then, you can list the machines that are not yet protected. Sometimes, we can see that they are unaware of this, and say, "We didn't know that those servers were not protected yet," or "We did not back them up yet."

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KP
Senior Database Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
2021-11-23T23:24:00Z
Nov 23, 2021

The most valuable feature is the ability it gives me to automate backups well and consistently, and to follow up on them as well. It also provides consistent recovery processes. Whenever we have needed to do a restore, it has worked quickly and efficiently.

AS
Assistant Manager of IT at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2021-11-18T17:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2021

Commvault can perform a backup no matter where you are, and it takes a backup every four hours. No matter when you come to the office, it'll take a backup if you're connected to the internet and check the system for online availability.

MB
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-11-09T22:13:00Z
Nov 9, 2021

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

BB
Senior Deployment Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Reseller
Top 20
2021-11-08T00:47:00Z
Nov 8, 2021

We can go from one page to another page, from office backups to VM backups, or applications like secret backups. So everything can be configured or restored from a single pin.

VJ
Assistant Manager at Shriram Pistons
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-11-01T09:51:00Z
Nov 1, 2021

It's a software-based solution so we just need a license to expand it.

DR
Storage Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
2021-10-31T18:04:00Z
Oct 31, 2021

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

BS
Senior System Engineer at V S Information Systems
Reseller
Top 10
2021-10-18T00:28:00Z
Oct 18, 2021

The recovery features are useful. It is easy to recover data. If something happens, we can easily recover data. We have faced ransomware issues twice, and we recovered because of Commvault.

Kevin Cronin - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Kelyn Technologies Inc.
MSP
2021-06-08T20:32:00Z
Jun 8, 2021

The backup and restore capabilities are key. The most useful things to us about Commvault, in general, is the breadth of the applications that it can protect as well as the features inside of it, like deduplication and encryption. When people get their data encrypted, Commvault has a way to tell if somebody is being attacked through a cybersecurity threat because their data changes. So, Commvault has what they call honeypot files out there to look to see if anybody is changing these files. Only Commvault knows which files those are, so nobody should be messing with those files. If it changes, then it will alert you to say, "Oh, I potentially have somebody messing with my files." It will alert you to something going on in your environment that probably shouldn't be happening. We deploy that with all our customers so they have this capability as well.

MB
Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-04-08T10:54:09Z
Apr 8, 2021

The user interface is very easy to navigate.

Roopesh Mohabeer - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Support Analyst at Warwyck Private Bank Ltd
Real User
Top 5
2021-04-07T13:32:50Z
Apr 7, 2021

It is easy to use and stable. It delivers what has been promised. When it says it can do something, it can actually do it, as opposed to some of its competitors.

Diego Torres - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at AT Vault
Reseller
Top 5
2021-01-11T12:18:48Z
Jan 11, 2021

Commvault has a unique administration platform with more features than its competitors.

EV
System Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2021-01-06T15:46:39Z
Jan 6, 2021

When an interruption takes place due to an incident, the signaling and notification are very extensive.

PM
Consultant at Konica Minolta
Real User
2021-01-06T15:11:28Z
Jan 6, 2021

Commvault's many features can be explored to get more value from more solutions.

FA
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-12-24T12:38:06Z
Dec 24, 2020

The product is a reliable solution.

RD
Senior Manager Infra/Workplace/Cloud Platform at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-12-22T13:49:49Z
Dec 22, 2020

We can use it on-premises and in the cloud.

Mark Torpy - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Protection Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited
Real User
Top 20
2020-12-16T21:05:06Z
Dec 16, 2020

It's very user-friendly. It supports a wide range of workloads. It's quite easy to use, it's very powerful and it's scalable.

GK
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-12-08T09:00:24Z
Dec 8, 2020

The initial setup is straightforward.

FA
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-11-22T15:44:00Z
Nov 22, 2020

The most valuable features are the ease of use, the graphical interface, and it's high speed.

JB
Sr. IT Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-11-06T20:07:24Z
Nov 6, 2020

This product has allowed us to recover data when we've had issues.

JA
Systems Architect at The University of Auckland
Real User
2020-11-04T12:10:12Z
Nov 4, 2020

Scalability, as well as stability, are a couple of important parts of this solution.

KL
Project Manager at datasitter INC
Real User
2020-11-04T07:23:41Z
Nov 4, 2020

This is a very stable product.

EV
System Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-11-02T18:58:24Z
Nov 2, 2020

Commvault is both very stable and scalable.

JH
IT Senior Systems Engineer at Southland Industries
Real User
Top 10
2020-10-31T09:11:00Z
Oct 31, 2020

They have a strong development team and are market leaders in the space.

JG
Data Center Shared Services at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2020-07-12T11:48:00Z
Jul 12, 2020

The solution also provides me with a complete view of our data. I write scripts to report information from the Command Center daily. I report it in HTML and have the status of the last day for the whole environment.

KR
Infrastructure Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Reseller
2020-06-10T08:10:00Z
Jun 10, 2020

Commvault software is a single platform where you can enable whatever you want to use, like endpoint protection. You can enable those licenses on a single platform screen. This is where I see the value ad. This is a single management tool.

FR
Director of Technology Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-06-02T08:40:00Z
Jun 2, 2020

Its compression and deduplication allow us to store more backups and save storage space. The reporting is great; we are able to obtain critical business reports and infrastructure/usage information very easily.

AR
Sr. IT Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Real User
2020-05-27T16:23:00Z
May 27, 2020

The solution’s user interface for managing the on-prem environment is good.

AC
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-05-27T16:23:00Z
May 27, 2020

What I find valuable is restoring the complete server. Restoring files is also valuable, but I like restoring the server because you don't have to rebuild a new one.

Mostafa Atrash - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Palpay
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2020-05-27T08:03:00Z
May 27, 2020

The Command Center is provided from the web interface. You can back up the data for everybody, but also you can give everybody the ability to view and restore their data. For example, if a laptop, machine, or environment is owned by X, then X can look in and see the environment and data that he has backed up. He can see everything that he owns and can manage the environment as he wishes. It gives him an excellent view of his environment and infrastructure. Also, if you are a service provider, you can back up data for multiple companies and give everyone an interface for their environment to manage, backup, and restore data. Commvault has done excellent work in this area.

SN
CTO at Greenware Technologies LLC
Real User
Top 10
2020-05-27T08:03:00Z
May 27, 2020

One of the most valuable features is the encryption which helps save you from ransomware. Because the data is already encrypted, it cannot be encrypted again.

SB
Systems Engineer at PAREXEL International Corporation
Real User
2020-05-24T06:44:00Z
May 24, 2020

The data is well-protected. It doesn't age off until it's copied. That's a big feature right there. When you reach the end of your retention, it does not expire until the secondary copy is completed. That allows you to hold onto data that otherwise would have aged off by retention. I like that feature. It's hard to just delete or lose data using the Commvault platform.

FH
Backup Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-05-24T06:44:00Z
May 24, 2020

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.

AI
Senior Systems Consultant | Virtualization at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Reseller
Top 10
2020-05-20T06:52:00Z
May 20, 2020

All workloads can be integrated with Commvault. If we use a new technology, Commvault integrates with it. Commvault is a data management solution with support for building the DR side of things. With Commvault we can rapidly back up and restore any application we add to our environment.

HF
Technical Consultant at Beta Information Technology
Consultant
2020-05-19T07:27:00Z
May 19, 2020

Commvault has support for backing up operating systems and servers.

PG
Backup Administrator at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Real User
2020-05-07T08:21:00Z
May 7, 2020

We use Commvault Command Center for backups and restores and for the creation of new clients. We use it for other functionalities as well. In terms of VMware, I can go directly to the Command Center, enter VMware, and I can search it directly. Command Center is very useful and it can be used for more advanced techniques.

MP
Senior Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2020-03-15T08:07:00Z
Mar 15, 2020

The most important feature is that everything can be controlled using a single console.

MS
Technical Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
2020-02-06T11:37:00Z
Feb 6, 2020

The solution's interface is easy to use. For manageability, it doesn't matter where the resource is coming from or going to. That's the great power of the Control Panel: It's easy to use and does not matter if you manage on-prem or cloud resources.

MM
Datacenter Manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2020-02-06T11:37:00Z
Feb 6, 2020

I'm a big fan of the reporting. You can build your own reports; it's very customizable. You can have individual reports going to groups of people or individuals. You can have them go out multiple times a day. It's basically a free-for-all as far as reporting goes. If anybody wants a specific job report every day, you can build it, schedule it, and have it go out and never touched it again. It's pretty nice.

BP
Senior Architect, Cloud Infrastructure at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-02-02T14:59:00Z
Feb 2, 2020

It provides us a good holistic view of everything that we have backed up so far. It also provides us all the recovery points. If we look at an an object that has been backed up, we can tell how many retention copies it has, how far we can go, and recover any data, if needed.

VK
Project Manager - Business Consultant at Comtrade System Integration
Real User
2020-01-26T09:26:00Z
Jan 26, 2020

The most valuable feature is sharing data sets like they're in a private cloud. We call it our "private cloud" because we can share anything that is inside our backup set with our colleagues or with other people, and yet, everything is still in Belgrade, in Serbia. It's not somewhere else on cloud servers. Everything is in our environment.

AV
Data Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-01-26T09:26:00Z
Jan 26, 2020

The multi-tenancy is the most valuable feature for us because it's the only software that is fully multi-tenant and that has all the features we need to provide to all our tenants. It provides us with advanced features for MySQL and Oracle, among other platforms

JL
Sr. Network Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2020-01-23T14:14:00Z
Jan 23, 2020

The solution provides us with a single platform to move, manage, and recover our data across on-premise locations. Some of the guys have been using it to move a virtual machine from VMware to the Microsoft solution, Hyper-V. They back it up and then they restore to the different virtual machine provider, and that works great.

JL
Pre-Sales at Arrow ECS Portugal
Real User
2019-11-18T07:26:00Z
Nov 18, 2019

It's a complete software that can protect all the main applications. Perhaps that's the feature I like most. The integration with the NetApp and other apps is also very nice.

DM
Chief System Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-09-29T07:27:00Z
Sep 29, 2019

It's very stable.

KA
Expert System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2019-08-12T05:55:00Z
Aug 12, 2019

It's the leader in backup and archiving.

ME
Data Storage and Protection Team Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-08-12T05:55:00Z
Aug 12, 2019

We are using a KVM system in our cloud, and this solution works very well with it.

SU
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Reseller
2019-06-23T09:40:00Z
Jun 23, 2019

It is much more scalable and flexible than everything else in the market.

TS
Senior Presales Consultant at OFFTEC International
Consultant
2019-03-28T08:19:00Z
Mar 28, 2019

Global deduplication and the indexing of the data object are the most valuable features. It saves costs on the product side by doing compression and deduplication. It will help you and make your life easy to reach the data that you need within the minimum downtime when it's required.

it_user633354 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Consultant
2019-02-21T08:22:00Z
Feb 21, 2019

In the VM, we have Live Recovery, Live Mount, and Live Sync.

it_user670536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Architect for Datacenter Proximus at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2018-08-01T07:08:00Z
Aug 1, 2018

It's an enterprise product. It's a stable product. We have good support. Almost all databases are in the scope.

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GK
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 8, 2020
We are a service and solution provider, and we use Commvault to secure our client's data. Our motto of security is to secure the data and using this is very important. We are providing services to commercial and financial companies, so our data is critical. We have two options for backing up data. We have a DR site, and we can also back it up on-premises.
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Data Protection Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited
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It's an enterprise backup tool. It is the competitor to Dell and IBM, TSM and Symantec NetBackup, or rather what's called Veritas NetBackup. It's an enterprise data protection tool. It's almost in the top three or four solutions out there. We have one environment with 500 servers, and another environment with 1,000 servers. We definitely plan to continue using Commvault. We basically support the customers, their MSP. We use Dell as our own data center MSP product but we are supporting this for other customers.
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