We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud, IBM Spectrum Protect, and Iron Mountain Connect 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 is both very stable and scalable."
"Integration with Active Directory and the Azure platform make it a complete solution."
"This product has allowed us to recover data when we've had issues."
"Not everyone has agents for everything and Commvault has agents for most products. It's the most complete."
"Backup and archive with a single window, with a single backup job. You only need to type "c"."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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 technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."
"It is very stable after deployment and will perform in a steady state."
"It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."
"From a tech perspective, utilizing deduplication is one of the most valuable features."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"Nothing beats this solution for file backup."
"The feature we have found most valuable is when you want to integrate it with a Tape Library and then do the DRM life cycle. That is when it works the best."
"The most valuable feature for me is the policy management capabilities"
"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."
"They can improve the VMware recovery and VMware backup. There is an improvement area on the VMware infrastructure. They can make available what they call a VSA proxy. They can have an appliance-type setup to deploy VSA backups and help recover quicker. They can have an appliance ready. Instead of having to have a server dedicated to that and installing software on a server, they can just provide an actual appliance for that."
"The price of Commvault HyperScale X could improve."
"The solution must provide deception files across the network."
"Commvault could benefit from increased automation to streamline processes and enhance predictability."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved and made cheaper."
"The deployment process should be simplified because it is not something that just anybody can do."
"Sometimes the web page doesn't work. I don't know if it's an outage or if there is maintenance going on in the background. From time to time, Commvault will suddenly stop taking backups for some intervals."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."
"There have been scalability issues. The core product does not support scale out. We needed to create a new system and manage resources separate from the existing one."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"There is room for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect, especially regarding its support for virtual environment backups."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see more integration with different platforms."
