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.
"Commvault's Command Center is one of the best solutions out there. You can rely on Commvault solutions for the most complex and most demanding environments."
"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."
"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."
"The embedded deduplication engine is really good because we use a Near Line SAS disk as a repository for our backups, and we don't need to pay for another appliance such as a Data Domain or Quantum so that we can have hardware-based deduplication."
"The cloud integration is a massive win for us, giving us a single backup service for all of our on-premise and cloud systems."
"Whoever has an Endpoint license can store unlimited data on the cloud."
"We switched to Commvault because we were looking to centralize management. This reduced IT administrator time as well as providing stability and reliability for data backups in a single console."
"Complete Data Protection is convenient because you can manage various types of databases, and it's pretty easy to set it up."
"Veaam technical support, from my perspective, is one of the best technical support I've ever engaged with."
"Technical support in Veeam is good."
"The tool is easy to use and straightforward regarding restoration and creating backups. It's user-friendly, providing results and sending alerts when something goes wrong."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Teams environment."
"The support offered by both Veeam and our third party supplier is excellent."
"The way it backs up personal files is great."
"It is very simple to set up."
"With respect to the cloud, they need to offer more integrations."
"If I were to ask them to work on something, it would be the fidelity of the alerts that occur. They should tell me if it is a real event or not. It is easy for it to identify that something hit it but give me more information. They can build AI into the engine so that I get better output from an alert to tell me if I should really be interested in that or not."
"The HTML interface is a remarkable improvement. However, there are still some features that are not available in that interface that are available in the Java console, but I'm sure that will come with time."
"Compared to Rubrik, MongoDB Data Protector, and NetBackup, Commvault is better. The licensing team was quite tricky recently because they stopped the unlimited files for that license. Commvault made a bank of 500GB only, a node-based license can take it, which is disappointing. Reporting needs to be more granular. Also, there should be a showback of data being backed up, and the backup cost to share the cost internally with the department."
"When you deploy Complete Data Protection for past services, it's more complicated because you cannot directly back up from the previous service host. We have to build a proxy server, like a middleware, to directly access the past database server. It's complex and hard for beginners to figure out."
"The solution requires constant attention. Commvault is very complex. We are constantly making adjustments and working through hotfixes, updates, and issues."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved and made cheaper."
"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."
"They can provide a dashboard for sizing. This feature might get included in the next release."
"When you add a new site for backup, it gives you a notice that there is a new site, but the way you select that and configure that could be slightly better. It works, but it is not always very clear. For example, for the URL, you need to hover over the title or the name of the site. You should see it immediately on the screen. It should have a better user interface for selecting what you want to back up so that you get a more clear overview of the sites that are there and the ones that you want to combine in a backup. Its user interface should be more user-friendly. It has a lot of scrolling and doesn't give you a complete overview when needed. That's the main thing why it is not very user-friendly. It should have a better user interface."
"When you are working in the Cloud security is very important."
"If clients are backing up onto tape, Veeam's newest versions don't really deal with that."
"The license pricing can be reduced."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 can improve by reducing the time it takes for backups. I have mentioned this to Veeam and hopefully, in the next version, it will be a faster backup."
"They need more documentation, awareness, and assistance."
"If you use a device to back up with compression and duplication, the solution doesn't work."
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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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