Commvault Cloud Primary Use Case
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David Nahtigal
IT System Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is as a backup and recovery solution. We have two data centers and we have a Commvault server for replication in both. We back up all our infrastructure with this solution, from Active Directory to SQL, web servers, file servers, databases, et cetera.
View full review »Backup and recovery is our primary use case, but we use it to back up all our laptops and help with our computer switch-out process. When somebody receives a new computer, we use Commvault to migrate their data from their old computer to their new one which has eliminated one of the most time-consuming pieces of that process.
We also use Commvault Activate for e-discovery and to help with lawsuits and claims at the end of our projects. It helps provide our outside counsel with the data they need.
Commvault Backup & Recovery backs up our central business services for the university. At the enterprise level, we have also expanded our environment to back up colleges across the university, including through specialized networks that we call the Campus Cloud. We provide MDMs and backups for these colleges. Many of our schools did not have any backups before, so this was a real gain for them. We were able to do this fairly easily with Commvault Backup & Recovery. We simply had to add disk space for their backups.
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Commvault handles our backups across both cloud and data center environments. It manages our short-term backups on-premises, followed by a transfer to disaster recovery for data older than 30 days, ultimately migrating them to long-term storage.
We are seeking a solution for secure and encrypted backups that comply with both our information security policy and the data retention requirements for database archive logs. Additionally, these backups must fulfill all customer service level agreements for all storage under our responsibility, including NAS, SAN, and any other backup methods specified in our service catalog.
Our deployment model is a hybrid of public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure. We primarily use AWS as our main cloud provider, with Azure as a secondary option.
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reviewer1094850
CISO at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use the deception piece of Commvault, not the backup solution.
We use deception decoys across our corporate networks and across our OT networks to emulate vulnerable systems so that if a threat actor were to get inside and start scanning the network, the hope is they would bump into one of these, and we would get the alert, and we would be able to react and know some of these inside. Most of what we deploy in terms of decoys have some level of vulnerabilities that threat actors would be interested in, such as an old version of an operating system.
View full review »I've done almost everything with Commvault, e.g., back and forth centralization for file systems and applications like SQL, Oracle, VMware, and Hyper-V. Commvault does a lot of integration.
Most of our installations are on-premise, but I remember doing one installation on the cloud.
We always work with the latest version of the solution.
View full review »We use Commvault Cloud for backup and recovery with Air Gap Protect and Risk Analysis to be more cyber resilient.
We deployed Commvault Cloud as a hybrid model both on the cloud and on-premises, and it will continue to be that way. It was 100 percent on-premises. With the migration, it will be about 90 percent cloud and 10 percent on-premises.
View full review »It is a good solution in the enterprise market and serves as an enterprise solution. It is a leading solution. So, you have different kinds of workloads. My customers have a type of workload that the solution supports. Either you can have the solution on the cloud or on the on-premises version. Also, there are different kinds of workloads, like Oracle, SQL, MySQL, or MongoDB. Normally, you will not find all kinds of workloads in one product.
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reviewer1874277
Director of Information Technology at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
We use it to back up everything in Office 365: our Exchange mailboxes, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. And we use it for Azure Active Directory. The thing we use it the most for is recovering email messages or mailboxes.
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reviewer2306727
KGS Hosting Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We are using it for large data center backups, remote office backups, and cloud backups and restorations across all our environments.
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reviewer2055642
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use Commvault Complete Data Protection as an enterprise data backup solution. Previously, we used it for databases, but nowadays, we primarily use it for our servers and user data.
View full review »Commvault's primary use case centers around comprehensive data management and protection, particularly in cloud environments. Organizations leverage Commvault for its robust capabilities in backup and recovery, safeguarding data across both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures.
The solution excels in facilitating the efficient management of data in hybrid and multi-cloud setups, enabling seamless movement, copying, and overall control of information stored on platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Commvault plays a pivotal role in disaster recovery planning, ensuring swift data retrieval and business continuity in the face of unexpected events.
Additionally, the platform often extends its functionality to include archiving solutions, aiding organizations in meeting compliance requirements and optimizing long-term data storage. With a focus on security and compliance, Commvault provides features to protect data and align with regulatory standards.
Moreover, it may contribute to cloud cost optimization by offering insights into data usage and implementing strategies for cost-effective storage. It's essential to consult the latest documentation or contact Commvault directly for the most current information on their cloud solutions as of 2024.
View full review »All universities today have both on-premises and off-premises data. Therefore, Commvault is our go-to service for on-premises and off-premises storage arrays and data recovery. Thus, the best way for us to think of IT as a service today is to consider that whenever we have lost a file or something has crashed, we have been able to retrieve it 100 percent of the time for over ten years now. This is significant for us, and Commvault provides us with data backup as a service.
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David SQUELBUT
Project Director at ANVOLE
I recently deployed Metallic for backup storage on Azure for a customer who lost all their data. Metallic helped me to restore the data within an hour, which is much faster than restoring from Microsoft services with a ticket on support services, which took four to five days.
View full review »We used Commvault HyperScale X to increase the security of datasets, to be sure that all data and all backups that we have are secure, and that we have them in another place, such as disaster recovery. The idea is to always have a third copy somewhere else. The initial idea was to have a third copy of that backup sets to be in the state government data center. However, before they finish, I left Ministry, and they have not finished that job.
Generally, the idea is to have a possibility, for all backup data, after some time, to be saved in another place. For now, everything is still inside the Ministry.
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reviewer1881243
Especialista de respaldos at Engine Core
We are a customer service provider. The implementation that we carried out is for a client that wanted to support all the operating systems, applications, and services in the cloud that it has but only with a centralized product, which would additionally allow having Snapshot within the platform in order to speed up the RPO and RTO times that are currently available.
Version 11 was implemented with capacity licensing that allows the integration of an innumerable number of products, limiting only the use of the license.
View full review »We had a requirement to store our database and virtual machine backups in the cloud instead of having local backups. To fulfill that requirement, we use a Metallic solution. The reason that we are moving to Commvault Metallic is that, at that moment, we are using a Commvault backup solution. While using the Commvault backup solution we got positive feedback. So, we didn't hesitate to move to their own cloud solution, Metallic. While using this product, we've also received the same positive feedback.
View full review »We use Commvault Complete Data Protection backup and recovery.
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Raju Sah
IT Executive at Surya Nepal Private Limited
We use the solution for file system backup, Linux OS system backup, and Domino backup. Our data center team uses the solution for testing servers and database-level backups. In my company, we are not using the end-point features.
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reviewer2293788
Senior Manager Information Security at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The product is a little honeypot server or technology we can deploy in our network. If an attacker gains access to our network and looks around for things, they would find assets that look real but are honeypots. We have a couple hundred of those deployed in our environment, looking like various servers, other types of technology, and workstations spread out across our network.
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reviewer1055571
Senior Systems Consultant | Virtualization at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Our company uses the solution to implement cobots for customers.
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Vamsi Vardhan
Technical support at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
The product is used purely for backup and restoration of data. A company can use the product if it needs to keep the sensitive data in its disk and cloud safe.
View full review »The rate of duplication is great because when you do the first full backup, it duplicates 20%, but when you do more increments, depending on the mode, the duplication is 99%. It is also great at detecting ransomware. It's not an antivirus, but when you copy files, the system can send you a message such as, "Mr. Albert, have you downloaded 10,000 files in two minutes? Why are you doing this?" Again, it's not an antivirus, but it notifies you if something is wrong with your system.
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S Hossain
Backup IT Specialist at Padma Bank Limited
We use the Commvault for data optimization because it maintains enough data. We have implemented it to run two incremental backups per day and a full backup at the end of the week. We also perform the restoration of the database and DR servers, using it.
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reviewer2214615
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is used as a backup for Office 365 workloads.
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SIVASHANMUGAM NATARAJAN
CTO at Greenware Technologies LLC
We primarily use the solution for ransomware protection.
View full review »We primarily use the solution as a backup for databases, VMs, or servers.
View full review »Our clients use the solution for their emails.
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Heiner Schulte
Senior Administrator at Viega GmbH & Co. KG
We have the solution deployed on-premise and private cloud.
View full review »I use Metallic to back up a customer's environment. It's the solution offered by our partner, a South African company called Data Protection Management. I'm just the intermediary, providing data loss prevention to my client. I've never seen the interface or used the platform. My client uses Metallic to backup data from Microsoft solutions like SharePoint and OneDrive.
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Vamsi Vardhan
Technical support at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
Customers who can’t afford storage on their on-premise servers can easily use the product to move to the cloud.
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reviewer1055571
Senior Systems Consultant | Virtualization at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use the Commvault HyperScale X to manage complex infrastructure, so deployments are fast.
View full review »Complete Data Protection is a multi-platform solution that covers almost everything — Linux, Windows, SQL Server, Oracle, MYSQL Postgres — in a single platform. You can schedule backups and restore databases locally or remotely.
The solution is primarily used to protect against ransomware. It helps protect data and allows for data recovery and backup.
View full review »We use the solution for auto backup and tape library.
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Manoj-K
Architect at The Lean Apps
I'm using it in my company and using it with customers.
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Robin John
Solution Architect at IT Solution
We have used Metallic to offer a package of services to some of our clients along with Nutanix. One of our clients just started using it for Mac agents. They purchased approximately 35 licenses.
View full review »The solution is mostly used for backups as customers ask for virtual machine backups.
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Aamir Majeed
Storage / Backup Administrator at Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
We use Commvault HyperScale X as an enterprise backup solution. We do backups of different applications and save their backups on this solution.
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Robin John
Solution Architect at IT Solution
Commvault is an enterprise-level backup solution that can use multiple agents at various sites. We have many customers, including banks and hospitals.
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Vamsi Vardhan
Technical support at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
We deploy the solution on cloud and on-premises, but when we want to go on-premises, we need at least two servers, like CommServe and MediaAgent. Whereas we can use cloud from anywhere, like a web interface, without having a MediaAgent. Everything is flexible in the web console.
View full review »We use the solution for mail archiving and sync application features. We can back up the virtual environment with its help.
View full review »We now have the capability to recover a virtual machine without relying on the NFS system, but instead are able to use certain features provided by Commvault. This is why we've opted for Commvault over other technologies.
View full review »We use Commvault HyperScale X for effective backup, recovery, and archiving of hardware and software solutions.
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MANPREET CHANIAAN
IT Ops at Schmitech Inc.
Our primary use case for this solution is for backups and restoration, and we deploy the solution on-premises.
View full review »I am using Metallic for backing up Microsoft 365.
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Vamsi Vardhan
Technical support at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
The primary use case of Commvault Complete Data Protection is purely to protect the data in the database.
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NimitPuvar
General Manager of Sales at Ashtech Infotech Pvt Ltd
We use the solution for cloud and data backup.
View full review »I have used this solution within the past 12 months.
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MohamedHussein
International Investment Agreements Specialist at GAFI
We use the solution for backup and recovery.
View full review »Our primary use case is for backups. We are customers of Commvault and I'm a senior IT administrator.
View full review »I am a certified administrator with Commvault.
Commvault is used for recovery and disaster recovery. I configure HyperScale for my clients in Brazil.
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