We compared Commvault Complete Data Protection and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Commvault Complete Data Protection and Veeam Backup for Office 365, Commvault's initial setup is more intricate and time-consuming, necessitating expert assistance. However, Commvault offers a wide range of recovery options, robust disaster recovery solutions, and excellent support. Veeam Backup for Office 365 has a straightforward setup process and is praised for its stability, ease of use, and affordability. Veeam lacks some integration features and automation capabilities, but it provides good backup services for Microsoft 365 and has a user-friendly interface. Commvault is more comprehensive and adaptable, while Veeam is simpler and more cost-effective for Office 365 backup.
"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."
"It's a software-based solution so we just need a license to expand it."
"The features I find most helpful in Commvault are its ability to perform incremental backups and significantly reduce backup times for our diverse multi-architecture, multi-environment environment."
"Commvault has support for backing up operating systems and servers."
"The product is user-friendly."
"IntelliSnap for snapshot collection is one of the most efficient and easiest ways to back up large amounts of data."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and stable and can be made to fit one's needs."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup for Office 365 are the ease of use and instant back and restore."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 has good security, and I also like the process they use for backups."
"We are able to store it on various cloud providers such as Amazon S3, Rocket, Azure, and IBM Cloud. It can also do on-premise integration, and we are able to use storage from on-premise. We are also able to recover data. It is a really good and intuitive solution. Veeam has developed a fantastic product. I've never seen anything that I don't like about Veeam. It looks like a very complete solution. It is really mature, simple to use, and quite interrogative. It also has APIs for writing scripts."
"The most valuable feature is that we don't need different agents to back up our files from different accounts."
"It is very simple to set up."
"It is very easy to integrate. You can do it very fast."
"The solution helps reduce our workload."
"We are using a production environment with customer-sensitive data on it. As per our central bank rules and regulations, we can't keep our customer's sensitive data in the cloud."
"Commvault could make the product more cost-effective on the public cloud side. We are using this solution to back up whatever is still on-prem. We are not using it to back up what is on the public cloud because we have a native backup solution for that, which is provided by the vendor. As our footprint gets bigger, we will continue to evaluate this, but the last time that we did a cost analysis, the cost was not comparable to the solution that public clouds are offering."
"The main area for improvement is that we sometimes experience negative effects from their updates. If they had a larger test area for their updates, that would help."
"You can't change Metallic's retention policies without contacting the Commvault support team."
"The most common feedback I get in terms of Commvault is that it can be complex. I always refer my customers back to their own environment. Almost everything that goes into Commvault is a request by a customer. While it can be complex, it can also be very simple. You just need to understand your environment in order to make sure that you really need to turn on that extra feature or thing inside of Commvault. Maybe you don't need those things. It really depends on how simple or complex your environment is, whether you need all of Commvault's features."
"I would like more communication informing us on what Commvault is doing in the background."
"Data center backup must be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the Knowledge Base and error reporting. I would like to see best practices in the Knowledge Base, and have the ability to diagnose errors without contacting support."
"It's hard to predict the usage on the storage. I need to make some estimates for customers in terms of how much storage will be needed on the cloud, and this is always tricky. It would be helpful if they could help us estimate storage or simplify the estimation portion."
"They should include some more options to send alerts in existing monitoring software."
"When you are working in the Cloud security is very important."
"Currently, I'm working for Huawei and they dropped the support for Huawei, so that's an issue for us."
"The solution could improve by having the ability to back up without an agent installed on the system."
"In the next release, it should have direct export to tape drive abilities and NDMP support."
"When using Veeam Backup for Office 365 when there is a server that's running, I have to have a hard drive installed on it. For example, if I want to use another storage solution, I can't incorporate it very well. If I want to use SMB or other protocols I cannot use them with the Veeam Backup for Office 365. They have the support in the other Veeam Backup and Restore solutions, but it doesn't support it in this solution. Hopefully, in the future, they figured it out."
"The pricing model is unnecessarily confusing and could be simplified."
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Commvault Cloud is ranked 2nd in Cloud Backup with 104 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Safe storage, reliable, and easy to use". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Zerto and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Cirrus Backup, Veeam Backup & Replication and N-able Cove Data Protection. See our Commvault Cloud vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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