Commvault Cloud Primary Use Case
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.
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.
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reviewer1544721
Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We do a lot of backups daily, and mainly we just keep the operating system images. We do take database and active directory backups as well. We handle all types of backups using this product.
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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.
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.
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DilipRamgopal
Storage Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are a part of a global team for data protection. We have multiple regions around the globe that we are supporting 24/7. This is our presence with respect to the data protection environment.
We are backing up around eight petabytes of data in our organization. We have multiple platforms that are being backed up. We have OS servers, and we are also backing up multiple applications such as Exchange. We are using different databases such as Oracle and SQL Server. We also have NAS shares originating from NAS devices.
We have a hybrid environment, and we also have on-prem. We are backing up on-prem, and we also have a cloud for which we are using Azure Backup. Currently, I'm using version 11 and service pack 22. I started with version 7, and I have worked on versions 8, 9, and 10.
View full review »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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Clay Fosbrink
Computer Specialist at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
I've been here for 37 years and I've seen all the data challenges there are. The Centers for Disease Control consists of multiple centers that are all under one umbrella of CDC, but each center has its own budget, its own IT, and its own data collection. They were all disparate and they could not be put under one system where we could protect all of them. Everybody had their own protection. Everybody had their own little silos.
Around the time we brought in Commvault, our challenge was to bring those silos together where one larger team could diversify into specific areas. For example, disaster recovery was a whole team of people. That's all they did and they specialized in it. We could develop SMEs in each area of IT, such as disaster recovery, database, and hardware configuration. We had to attempt to bring all these silos together. There's resistance to that to this day, because everybody thinks that they're special and the other people don't matter. Our challenge was centralization at that point. Each area had its own way of backing up and several of them had Commvault already, but it was at that point that we settled on Commvault as our backup solution.
Before Commvault, virus infection was our big problem. If a virus got fished into a system, recovery was disastrous.
Currently, our use case is disaster recovery, pure and simple, including everything from a file restore to a complete system restore.
It is on-premises and also hosted in the cloud.
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Nav
ICT Consultant at U.K. Local Government
Back in July 2021, we migrated to Office 365. I am in the process of migrating users' mailboxes from on-prem to Office 365 in the cloud. In the initial design, there was no backup solution. Whereas, we back up all mailboxes twice a day onsite. I raised it with Senior Management that we need a backup solution for users' mailboxes.
Via Metallic, we are backing up Exchange mailboxes in Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. Our presence for OneDrive and SharePoint is very minimal because we are still in the project phase. We have already migrated 100 mailboxes out to the cloud and further migration of another 600 users. We are in the process of scheduling that.
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Kristian Smith
Manager, Technical Services & Support at Linamar
Our primary use case is for Office 365 Backup. We started out as an Exchange Online only company. Then we were looking for some sort of backup solution to augment the existing Microsoft Office 365 archiving features for a price that was more compatible with our company versus what Microsoft was offering for their archiving solution. We also needed the ability to do time and date stamp retrievals. We ended up settling on Commvault at that time. We've been with them, and we've seen it more from being in the Commvault virtualized infrastructure to being the Metallic.io SaaS solution.
We protect mostly Exchange Online, but really we do the whole breadth of Office 365 with them. We were looking at some other solutions, but with them, we're doing our entire Office 365 Microsoft Online platform.
View full review »We use the solution for auto backup and tape library.
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reviewer1131192
IT Senior Systems Engineer at Southland Industries
We use it for data protection.
We have two consoles: one on the West Coast and another on the East Coast. Our database copy and auxiliary are sent to an outside location for DR, just in case we need to do a system recovery.
Initially, it was on-prem, but we moved it to the public cloud since everything is on the cloud.
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.
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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.
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Armando Carlos Monroy
Storage and Backups Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We provide backup services to our customers and we implement Commvault for most of our backups. This includes cloud with VMware, cloud with IBM, cloud with Azure, SAP applications like HANA or traditional SAP, for databases including Oracle and DB2, and across several operating systems including AIX, Solaris, Windows, and Linux.
We have a separate, private backup network. It has its own appliances from different vendors and the information on it is not visible to our main network. This is to help protect against ransomware and other threats.
View full review »Our current use case is for storage backup of large Veritas Clusters. We have around 350 TB of storage backup and we use Commvault's HyperScale X with unlimited data backup.
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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.
View full review »We use Commvault to back up all our enterprise solutions, like MS SQL, Exchange, file servers, and MongoDB, but we don't use Commvault for multi-environment management. There is a primary site and a disaster recovery site that we control offsite with one console.
I know Commvault has another interface for the multi-site, but I've never used it before, so I don't have any experience with that. However, we have a passive primary server at the disaster recovery site, and if we have trouble at the main site, we can use the disaster recovery server.
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Marlo Alexander
System Administrator at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
We really needed a product where we could extend the Microsoft Office 365 backups and archival process, as well as back up our Office 365 SharePoints and our users' OneDrives. That way we could have a seven-year retention plan and if we need to go back and grab someone's email that they accidentally deleted two years ago, we could.
We also needed a solution that we didn't have to have onsite storage for, because we had a storage restriction onsite. This product gave me the ability to have everything stored, as a SaaS model. Everything is right there.
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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.
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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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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.
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.
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Will Knudsen
Network Engineer at Rosnet
We use it for backup and disaster recovery. We protect Windows and Linux servers, Windows 10, SQL, and Office 365.
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MatthewMagbee
Datacenter Manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Commvault is our primary solution for all backup and recovery; for index, for analytics, for everything.
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.
We are a managed service provider, so we offer backup as a service to our customers.
We do a combination of on-prem, cloud, and hybrid Commvault, so we have a little bit of everything. We do a lot with on-prem, but we have a lot of customers that have been moving to the cloud. We also have a number of customers who are exclusively in the cloud and customers who are talking about exclusively going to the cloud. There has been a definite shift to the cloud and using Commvault in the cloud.
We deploy private clouds. We have also done AWS hybrid cloud and Microsoft Azure.
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Sheron K Brown Sr.
Systems Engineer at PAREXEL International Corporation
We have full functionality as a complete data warehouse, and I've been tasked to leverage the multiple features and licenses that Commvault has, as they apply to our business. We're using every feature and what we are not using, we plan to be using.
We back up multiple platforms in our environment: Windows, Red Hat, Linux, Oracle. We have hypervisors, a large VMware environment. So it's a pretty enterprise-class environment.
We use it for custom reporting to better manage our backup environment and there is a lot of discovery in that area too. The better question might be how we're not using it right now. We try to leverage every feature that's out there, as a complete data warehouse.
It's a hybrid. It's an on-prem, but we're in Azure now, too.
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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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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Mithilesh Kumar
Manager (Utilities & Offsites) at a pharma/biotech company with 11-50 employees
We use it for server, laptop, and desktop backup.
We are using the latest version.
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reviewer1002471
Assistant Manager of IT at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
We use Commvault to back up our employees' data. I work for a retail organization, so our users aren't in a single office. Before we were using a backup solution that could only take a backup in one office at a particular time. This was a disadvantage for us because the users kept shifting from one office to another. In some cases, we'd need a critical backup, but we couldn't do it. That's why we switched to a cloud-based solution.
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Modi Schwartz
VP Technologies at MindU
We are doing backups for a customer's 365 tenant details. This is for 365 backup and recovery. The applications that it protects with backups include: all the details on 365, SharePoint, Team, and mailboxes.
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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Munichandra Guduru
System Analyst at CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
It is used as an enterprise backup solution.
View full review »We are using it for taking backup of our virtual servers and some physical servers.
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Marius Horja
Storage & Data Protection Transition Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It's being used as our main backup and recovery product. We use it to back up virtual machine infrastructure, using VMware and/or Nutanix. We use it to back up our SQL, Exchange, and File Systems, where is a mixture of Linux, Windows and Solaris. We also use it to backup NFS and CIFs Shares under NetApp. We also use Commvault for Oracle Backup and/or RMAN Clones.
We migrated everything we had from other vendors to Commvault. About 95 percent of everything in our environment, is being backup by Commvault.
On-Prem, Cloud, Data Centers.
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reviewer1131192
IT Senior Systems Engineer at Southland Industries
We primarily use the solution as a backup.
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VladanKojanic
Project Manager - Business Consultant at Comtrade System Integration
How we implement this solution in a government institution is a little tricky; it's more closed. One of our most important use cases is how we protect and back up documents and files from users outside of our building because we must follow security standards. We use only HTTPS protocols, a special proxy server, etc.
View full review »Our clients use the solution for their emails.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
View full review »We primarily use the solution as a backup for databases, VMs, or servers.
View full review »The solution is primarily used to protect against ransomware. It helps protect data and allows for data recovery and backup.
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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Heiner Schulte
Senior Administrator at Viega GmbH & Co. KG
We have the solution deployed on-premise and private cloud.
View full review »I used it during a POC, and now, it is in production. We opted to go for the N minus one release and not the latest one.
We use it for the backup of servers. It is also used when users need to take a backup of their laptops or mail archiving.
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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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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.
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Benjamin R Roper
Backup and Recovery Specialist at Parsons
We use it for endpoint backups. They are laptops and we needed a solution that could handle Linux, Macintoshes, and Windows, in different locations, and Metallic was the best option available.
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reviewer1253568
Director of Technology Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It is the primary backup/recovery solution for our VMware platform.
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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Marditsa Daremas
Services Manager at MTI Systems
Our customers use all the Commvault modules related to data backup and protection.
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Buddika Sandaruwan
Senior System Engineer at V S Information Systems
We are using it as a backup and recovery solution.
We have a server on-premises. Our hardware is running on HP devices. We are only using the on-premises solution. In the future, we will use the hybrid or cloud solution. Our management is trying to go for hybrid solutions.
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Javier_Gonzalez
Data Center Shared Services at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
We previously had two different backup solutions, one that covered physical machines and another one that covered the virtual machines. We decided to go ahead with an enterprise tool and we chose Commvault to back up both. It's backing up more than 1200 VMs and more than 150 physical machines.
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.
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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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reviewer1518231
Disaster Recovery Coordinator at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Generally, we use the product for backup capabilities as a primary function, and we also use it for disaster recovery.
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MohamedHussein
International Investment Agreements Specialist at GAFI
We use the solution for backup and recovery.
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reviewer1439151
Project Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Our customers mainly use it as a mixed backup solution of primarily virtual environments, whether it is Hyper-V or VMware, and also in some cases, physical machines. Some of our customers must have tape access, which is one of the reasons why we often propose and use Commvault.
We are a partner and service provider for Commvault. For some customers in Belgium, we are also implementing Metallic.
In Holland, we have some installations with cloud connectivity. However, in Belgium, we only use the cloud for archival purposes at this time.
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reviewer1437054
Senior Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Commvault to back up our NetApp environments to a file and data server. Commvault backs up everything, including our databases and the log files from these databases. We have a cloud, but we're not managing it with Commvault yet. We are also not using the isolation and segmentation features. We're only using Commvault internally, but it's still important for us to have those features. We've chosen Commvault for its full capabilities.
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Michel Scheepers
Technical Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We use it in the most traditional way: for backup and restore. We don't use it for all the other things that are also possible with it because we are quite a big company. We have all the specific tools we need for specific purposes.
We tested Commvault in the past for archiving, but in those days it was not really stable yet. So we selected other solutions for that.
We use Commvault on everything. We are using it in our own data centers but also in the cloud. We use Azure for most things, but we also are working on testing some things on AWS.
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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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Kelly Page
Senior Database Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I use it for backing up the database of our Microsoft People server system.
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John Gagliano
Aviation Attorney at Gagliano Law Offices
It is used as a single backup for my small office's Microsoft 365 account, particularly the OneDrive files.
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Filip Hasa
Backup Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We're using it mainly to back up operating systems like Windows, Linux, and databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL.
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Manoj-K
Architect at The Lean Apps
I'm using it in my company and using it with customers.
View full review »It's an enterprise backup tool. It is the competitor to Dell and IBM, TSM and Symantec NetBackup, or rather what's called Veritas NetBackup.
It's an enterprise data protection tool. It's almost in the top three or four solutions out there.
We have one environment with 500 servers, and another environment with 1,000 servers.
We definitely plan to continue using Commvault. We basically support the customers, their MSP. We use Dell as our own data center MSP product but we are supporting this for other customers.
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reviewer1062186
Sr. IT Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
I am primarily using Commvault for backing up the physical and virtual servers.
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Praveen
Backup Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Right now we are using on-premise and cloud backups. We run 300 to 400 jobs per day.
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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.
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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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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.
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reviewer1744923
Owner at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
We use Commvault to backup our cloud environment.
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Mahdi Bahmani
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing
We are a solution provider and we have contracts with some of our customers to support their data centers and infrastructures. Our support is based on their needs and we choose solutions for their environment. One of the products that we use in this capacity is Commvault.
Commvault is an enterprise-level data platform that is used for backup and replication. It offers four product lines including complete backup and recovery, the HyperScale integrated appliance, disaster recovery, and Activate Analytics. We use the backup and recovery solution.
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Lobna Alkomy
Backup & Recovery Section Head at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm using the backup email feature with the hypervisor backup on VMware. I'm also working with different databases.
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Syed FasihUr Rahman
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We provide our clients with this solution. Most of my customers use Commvault as a backup solution only.
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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 »Our primary use case is for backups. We are customers of Commvault and I'm a senior IT administrator.
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Brijesh Parikh
Senior Architect, Cloud Infrastructure at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
We use it to backup and protect our virtual environments. We do Active Directory, SQL, file server, and some application levels backups. We do Office 365 and SharePoint backups too.
We back up everything locally first, then store it in the cloud.
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JoaoLavrador
Pre-Sales at Arrow ECS Portugal
This solution is mainly used for virtualization and Oracle data protection. The customers I work with use it to protect their machines and active databases.
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.
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SIVASHANMUGAM NATARAJAN
CTO at Greenware Technologies LLC
We primarily use the solution for ransomware protection.
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reviewer1096965
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for all infrastructure. We're using it for the five pillars and for database backups and management.
View full review »We use it to back up some servers and to restore things.
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HamadaFarag
Technical Consultant at Beta Information Technology
We are a systems integrator and we sell Commvault to our customers.
One of our customers has Oracle Cloud and we needed to create a backup for that. Only two solutions can do that, Commvault and Veritas. Our customer compared Commvault and Veritas by doing a PoC of each. We displayed the features of each one and the customer chose Commvault.
We have another customer with a different environment. They have virtualization and they have a physical infrastructure and many operating systems and environments. They compared different backup solutions like Commvault, Veeam, and Veritas, and Commvault was the only solution that could cover all the operating systems and the whole virtual and physical environment.
Another customer is in the petroleum sector. They have different sites and they need replication between the sites and they also need to back up their main sites and their remote sites. Commvault is one of the best solutions for this scenario.
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MithilaPerera
Senior Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are mainly using it for backing up our VMware environment, some file servers, and some SQL databases. We also use it for some replication.
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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 »We use the solution for mail archiving and sync application features. We can back up the virtual environment with its help.
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Kevin Liao
Project Manager at datasitter INC
We are a solution provider and we offer Commvault to our customers.
In my company, we are also using it for backup and recovery.
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KobusRas
Infrastructure Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use it mostly for backup and sell it to our customers. We are moving more into data management. Our customers also use it for data classification, it's becoming a major role.
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Thamer Salah
Senior Presales Consultant at OFFTEC International
For the past five years, I was part of a big team as a solution architect that was designing Commvault as a solution for different connector projects and enterprise sectors within the region: the Middle East, North Africa, and so on.
Commvault is unique in the backup and recovery category. It has many features. If you are using the Commvault as a backup, you don't need any additional software to have an archiving solution. While with other products, you do. We use Commvault for backup, recovery, and archiving.
View full review »The solution is mostly used for backups as customers ask for virtual machine backups.
View full review »We use Commvault HyperScale X for effective backup, recovery, and archiving of hardware and software solutions.
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NimitPuvar
General Manager of Sales at Ashtech Infotech Pvt Ltd
We use the solution for cloud and data backup.
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reviewer1096965
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using it for backing up all of these services in the full infrastructure.
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SIVASHANMUGAM NATARAJAN
CTO at Greenware Technologies LLC
We are a partner and a service provider for Commvault in the Middle East. We use it for both backup and recovery, and sometimes for replication.
It has on-prem solutions and we are also going with Azure.
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reviewer1271601
Sr. Network Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use it to back up NetApp shares, servers, and virtual servers. We also use it for Active Directory and databases. We used to use it to back up Exchange servers, but we're moving that to the cloud. It has a lot of features but we mostly use it to back up and recover stuff.
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Abdillah Itcentral
Presales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My company is the official distributor of Commvault in Indonesia. Our job is to implement it for our customers and I have installed it for a number of customers. They have various environments: Some are on-premises and some have a cloud environment, and some are using both as a hybrid solution, where they back up from on-premises to the cloud.
We have a Commvault instance within our company as well, and we use it for demos and to back up our environment, such as our VMware database, to the local data center. And we also back up to the cloud.
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reviewer866136
Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Most of our clients have an on-premise environment. They are traditional environments, but they are slowly starting to use the cloud for IT solutions and services. Lately, we've been shifting some workloads to the cloud and using the product there. It's been a slow transition, but we are doing it. We are partners in the Latin American region, so we are trying to find the best fit for every customer and recommend different backup solutions depending on the client. Some are easier to install but lack certain features.
Commvault has a large customer base in the enterprise segment, so it provides a complete recovery solution for our largest clients. That's the way we use the product. We focus on enterprise solutions in large companies in Columbia and the South American and Latin American region. Commvault has a strong track record protecting the integrity of workloads, and it has many different features needed in the corporate environment. We have various technologies that need to be backed up and protected. In that sense, Commvault is a comprehensive solution.
No other vendor has such a wide range of solutions, including traditional on-premises workloads, cyber cloud members, and cloud links. All of those features are comprehensive enough to be considered for the largest client.
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Pedro Martins
Consultant at a integrator with 5,001-10,000 employees
We prefer Commvault because they are backup agents who have a vision about what we can do with applicable backup solutions. I have one solution with five local backups and remote backups between the five. First-line core backup and synthetic full backup for applications. These are our policies and logic to access the files and take over or restore files.
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John Askew
Systems Architect at The University of Auckland
We are using Commvault to protect some of our workloads in the public cloud. We are using it in AWS SAM and Office 365.
View full review »We have it in our data center, and it's primarily used for our servers. We take backups of the data to protect ourselves. If by mistake we delete some data from the primary storage, we can restore the data from the backup.
For the last six months, we have been providing a graphical user interface for our customers for Commvault so they can, themselves, restore files and folders.
View full review »I am using Metallic for backing up Microsoft 365.
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Arunesh Rajendran
Sr. IT Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
So far we have tested the backups, add-on based backups and VM-based backups, as well as snapshot-based backups. We have done restores, file-server backups, and object-based restoring. We have done database backups as well.
DR is the most important thing. For other things it seems comparable to other backup solutions, but right now, we do not have any DR site. Using this, we are planning to set up DR.
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ChiefSystemEngineer9
Chief System Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Our primary use case is for backing up the .NES file system. I backup VMware and Windows cloud servers. It's deployed on-prem.
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reviewer2256603
Commvault & EMC Networker, Avamar Backup Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use Commvault Complete Data Protection backup and recovery.
View full review »I have used this solution within the past 12 months.
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reviewer1055571
Senior Systems Consultant | Virtualization at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are a partner for Commvault and our role is to implement the solution for our customers. Our customers in Egypt are in the banking and financial sector. They use Commvault to back up their data. We help in sizing the workload of the customer, designing the solution and implementing it. We also support the customer if they face any issues.
We have a hybrid implementation. The first target for the backup is on-premises and the offsite backup is on Azure cloud.
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reviewer1273227
Data Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We use it for backup as a service for our tenants. We are service providers. We host Commvault partially on our cloud and we also use some physical servers for a part of the Commvault infrastructure.
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reviewer1435143
System Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We use Commvault as our main backup solution.
Commvault is also a very reliable backup solution; this is one of our main use cases. There are several other use cases, but backup is the most dominant feature.
Our organization has between 500 to 1,000 employees. The IT department and a few admins use this solution.
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reviewer966699
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Our customers use Commvault as a backup solution.
I work as a system integrator. We implement and support Commvault in our customers' environments.
We usually deploy the latest major release.
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reviewer1522866
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I both use the solution myself and provide services to my clients using the product. Mainly, I use the product for virtual machine backup, Office 365 backup, file servers, SQL Service, Oracle, et cetera.
View full review »We are the most important communications company in Argentina. We deal with a large variety of customers. We are partners of Commvault and I'm the company founder. Our company provides IT solutions.
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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.
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Bhaskar Venkat Kota
Sr. System Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We are a solution provider and Commvault is one of the backup and recovery solutions that we implement for our customers.
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reviewer1552032
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is used for normal backups, file system level backups, or database backups.
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reviewer1435143
System Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We are using Commvault as our main backup software.
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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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reviewer1464375
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We are a service and solution provider, and we use Commvault to secure our client's data. Our motto of security is to secure the data and using this is very important. We are providing services to commercial and financial companies, so our data is critical.
We have two options for backing up data. We have a DR site, and we can also back it up on-premises.
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Mehmet Erdogan
Data Storage and Protection Team Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using this solution to backup our public and private cloud data. It is very compatible with all backup types and environments. It backs up our databases, as well as other systems such as email and files.
We are using a KVM system in our cloud, and this solution works very well with it.
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Exprtsyseng67
Expert System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Our primary use case for Commvault is to archive our files. It allows us to move images from temporary storage to permanent storage. Commvault moves everything from the source to the destination, with categorization of the image archive.
View full review »It's for the file system backup, reel backup, and databases.
We have been using the solution for four years.
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