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.
"The rate of duplication is great."
"Commvault is both very stable and scalable."
"Backup and archive with a single window, with a single backup job. You only need to type "c"."
"They have a strong development team and are market leaders in the space."
"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."
"The 1-Touch recovery feature is helpful for all customers."
"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 is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the built-in integration with Office 365, which helps us protect email accounts and servers. We use it on virtual servers on the cloud with Azure, or we can use an agent on physical servers."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration with M365. Its GUI is intuitive and not bad. The granular recovery options for VMs have been useful, though not as crucial as Office 365 integration, which is why we use it. Granular recovery depends on the specific problems our customers face."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup for Office 365 are the ease of use and instant back and restore."
"The solution is also easy to manage and work with."
"The feature that I like the most is the system backup recovery from OneDrive."
"Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is reliable and easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is easy to use. It's very simple and clients find it very easy to find all objects and things they need with the Veeam Explorer."
"There is room for improvement in terms of data security."
"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."
"Commvault likes to be ahead of the game when it comes to merging with other platforms, but sometimes it's before they have the solution truly baked in. Office 365 is an example. I feel that my company might be a litmus test for their solution, because we have such a large environment. Some of the promised solutions that we received from Commvault were more like testing solutions. They weren't really validated, meaning they were possibilities. There have been a lot of hot fixes for the solution that we're using right now, more than we expected."
"The setup was a little bit difficult for a non-IT person like me. My OneDrive is protected by multifactor authentication, and to get the backup to begin behind that multifactor authentication took a little bit of almost customized support, even though I was following the instructions and the videos. That process could have been easier."
"Commvault is a rich system that might scare somebody the first time they see it because it feels so huge."
"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."
"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 only problem is that some of what we snap most of is the VMs. We found about 10% of the VMs that we can't snap because they're too interactive. It actually causes the application to crash."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 can improve by adding more features with Microsoft teams. We have many files that we are working on with Microsoft teams and there should be more integration and features."
"Pricing is an area for improvement, and I would rate it at five out of ten."
"They should include some more options to send alerts in existing monitoring software."
"In some instances, a customer is not necessarily backing up Microsoft 365. For instance, they might be backing up a large Oracle database. It would be nice if they could tweak it to compress the file, so it's easier to transfer a huge file."
"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."
"Currently, I'm working for Huawei and they dropped the support for Huawei, so that's an issue for us."
"This is a cloud solution, and the speed can be slow sometimes."
"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."
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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 58 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of 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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