We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Commvault's many features can be explored to get more value from more solutions."
"We can use it on-premises and in the cloud."
"It integrates redundant storage and preserves jams in a storage area, providing up to 70% compression rate."
"The cloud integration is a massive win for us, giving us a single backup service for all of our on-premise and cloud systems."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and the duplication is quite good."
"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."
"This product has allowed us to recover data when we've had issues."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"It is a little more complicated than it really needs to be."
"We've run into some issues when attempting to restore very large numbers of files. Of course, that's more of a design issue."
"The initial setup is rather complex, especially when switching versions."
"There is room for improvement in terms of data security."
"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."
"Additional SaaS application support would be good... we have SaaS applications that may not be big enough for Commvault to support yet. Box.com is one we've asked about for years, and it's just not on the radar, as far as I know."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately two days. However, the process could be more simple."
"I would like to have a manager-level dashboard to review the backups. This is not from an administrative perspective where you can see the details of the execution. Rather, it would only show the percentage of completeness for each one."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
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Commvault Cloud is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery with 104 reviews while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is ranked 63rd in Backup and Recovery. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli CDP for Files writes "Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and Zerto, whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Arcserve UDP and IBM Spectrum Protect.
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