We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud, IBM Spectrum Protect, and Rubrik 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 very simple to use and it is automated."
"The granularity of the Office 365 Backup & Recovery feature is very good. We've used all of it, recovering data from each of the four systems that we back up with it, and it works very well."
"It's very stable."
"It's an enterprise product. It's a stable product. We have good support. Almost all databases are in the scope."
"Technical support is great."
"Commvault's many features can be explored to get more value from more solutions."
"IntelliSnap for snapshot collection is one of the most efficient and easiest ways to back up large amounts of data."
"It has significantly reduced the amount of manual work required to manage our backup operations. We're going from an on-prem to a non-on-prem, we're all doing nonsolutions. So we really can't compare it against anything else."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"The most valuable feature is the backup speed."
"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."
"The product is very stable."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"We had some VMware issue as VMware did some changes on the AHCI drivers. Rubrik saved our environment those times."
"There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"The archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"It has a streamlined user interface, provides an improved tech support experience, and reduces time required to locate and restore data."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"The fact that the API is so available to us with the playground — there's an internal and public playground — is also valuable. We can write API calls — and although I'm sure there's a way we could hurt the data — we write those calls with a lot of certainty that we won't be destroying anything. We write these API calls using really easy mechanisms and generate automation a lot faster."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"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."
"This product is overly complex to operate and run."
"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."
"The solution requires constant attention. Commvault is very complex. We are constantly making adjustments and working through hotfixes, updates, and issues."
"Improved documentation and user training resources could contribute to a smoother onboarding process and more effective utilization of the platform's capabilities."
"The customer support is not good."
"This is not a very high standard product."
"The initial setup is rather complex, especially when switching versions."
"Its management part can be better and simplified. It is kind of a beast as compared to Commvault or Veeam, but they are more user-friendly. They are also easier to learn, whereas Spectrum Protect definitely takes time. They should simplify it. Our teams are pretty comfortable with it because we have been using it for a long time, but from the perspective of a new user who is evaluating or using this solution, it is definitely more complex in terms of manageability. Its monitoring could be improved so that it can even monitor the jobs that are scheduled by external schedulers. There are situations where a database team might decide to use their own schedulers, but currently, Spectrum Protect is not able to catch those jobs in the Operation Manager console."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"The dashboard and user interface could be improved to make them more user-friendly."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
"The functionality is missing, but they are very receptive to our thoughts and ideas."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."