We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud and Microsoft Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File Archiving solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"We have VMware, Hyper-V, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL. We have a lot of different systems, and all of them are supported under one licensing agreement. That's one of the benefits."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to backup over the dedicated Fiber Channel directly from SAN."
"It runs all the tests and emails us the reports. We take daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots, and I integrate the storage snapshot scripts with the Commvault workflow. The Commvault workflow runs all the scripts and sends us the reports. It also features cloud-side reports and workflows. Commvault has many tools for backing up, restoring, and archiving things, but we use another service for our archives."
"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."
"Commvault has a unique administration platform with more features than its competitors."
"It never fails. Sometimes we miss a backup, but there's always a reason for it, and it's not the fault of Commvault. In the last three years, we've never had to open a ticket with Commvault."
"The most valuable features of Commvault Hyperscale X are the full responsibilities inclined in conversion with high responsibility rates."
"It is very well integrated with other Microsoft programs, teams, and so on. They work well together."
"It's a very user-friendly application. The mail server is also valuable when compared to other services like SquirrelMail."
"The technical support is fine."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Exchange's interface is good. All of our engineers like it and are accustomed to using it."
"It gives me benefit in terms of integration with other services such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive. It makes my work much easier."
"Internal communication stability within Exchange is ensured by the stability of the internal network which is guaranteed by default."
"Commvault Complete Data Protection would benefit from improving their training resources."
"Just to keep it running is time-consuming. There are five people on my team. Commvault was supposed to be one of the less time-consuming solutions, but in reality it takes 60 percent of our time just to keep it running, and that's not even fine-tuning it; that's just to keep it running."
"The setup is not that straightforward or easy. Even the documentation is not generic or public like other products. You have to be a partner or you have to have a specific account and download it from the vendor themselves."
"The interface could be improved because it has two different consoles."
"The stability of the tool could be improved."
"One issue we face is the complexity of the console. That could be improved on. It takes users time to get familiar with Commvault. On average, it takes our customers between one and three months to learn it. The console and the way you configure Commvault have very advanced settings. It takes time to understand how it works."
"Bare-metal restore needs some work. It's not intuitive and seems to have been an afterthought."
"The initial setup was complex."
"When an update wants to come, it should just come maybe once or twice rather than having us deal with constant updating."
"It doesn't work very well on a virtual machine. We had to move it around. There are also issues when you try to move it between computers."
"The desktop version of Microsoft Exchange receives emails a little slower than the online version."
"From a security point of view, Microsoft should enhance the new features. Technical support could also be better."
"The solution is stable, but it could improve. It's crashing if there is a big mail database. The Zimbra solution is better in this area."
"I think that improvements should be made in creating greater abilities for Microsoft Exchange in terms of Reasearch and Development."
"One thing for improvement would be to have an offline version of Exchange available for use if our connection goes down."
"They could continue to improve the consolidation and integration of mailbox services to make them more flexible, easier to deploy, and more manageable."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 2nd in File Archiving with 104 reviews while Microsoft Exchange is ranked 3rd in File Archiving with 78 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange writes "Very stable with an easy-to-use email management system". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Microsoft Exchange is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, KerioConnect, HCL Domino, Open-Xchange and HCL Notes. See our Commvault Cloud vs. Microsoft Exchange report.
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