We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud and Microsoft Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File Archiving solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Quick backups and restores of data are the most valuable features. It is important that it is an easy solution to integrate with the SAML authentication of our tenant, so we can have our users log into the systems and do their own restores, if needed."
"The solution is scalable."
"Commvault has support for backing up operating systems and servers."
"Metallic helped me to restore the data within an hour, which is much faster than restoring from Microsoft services."
"We can use it on-premises and in the cloud."
"When an interruption takes place due to an incident, the signaling and notification are very extensive."
"The compression and deduplication are great for optimizing bandwidth and speed. I don't have to worry about it or think about it, and, because it's a SaaS solution, I don't have to worry about the storage size."
"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 most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange are its ease of use, and simplicity of communication, and we can track communications between teams."
"The deployment is a plug-and-play process."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It gives me benefit in terms of integration with other services such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive. It makes my work much easier."
"It is user friendly."
"The solution can scale well."
"It integrates well with calendar, scheduling, etc. It's easy for employees to make meetings and plan their agendas."
"The product can scale."
"Its technical support could be better."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly GUI."
"You need quite a lot of human resources to maintain a Commvault environment, to keep it operational. Also, it would be nice to if there were an easier way set up some Commvault components."
"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."
"There are many settings that have to be done on your own. It would benefit from a better interface."
"This solution can be complex and difficult to administer because it supports all of the many platforms, so it would help if they could simplify it."
"Training."
"The stability of the tool could be improved."
"I'd like the archiving process to be faster."
"In terms of probability, every now and then there are changes coming and going. The changes are not that frequent because every month they got updates back, so that is an issue."
"The pricing could be better, and it could have an easier implementation."
"The solution is stable, but it could improve. It's crashing if there is a big mail database. The Zimbra solution is better in this area."
"They keep making all these changes, and our system was down for four or five days. They finally got it up, but there are still lots of quirks."
"From a security point of view, Microsoft should enhance the new features. Technical support could also be better."
"I think that improvements should be made in creating greater abilities for Microsoft Exchange in terms of Reasearch and Development."
"Sometimes we don't get support quickly enough - for example, if there's some global hacker attack, we don't get served as quickly. The skills of the technical staff can also vary, and Microsoft could perhaps improve their training."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 2nd in File Archiving with 104 reviews while Microsoft Exchange is ranked 3rd in File Archiving with 78 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange writes "Very stable with an easy-to-use email management system". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Microsoft Exchange is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, KerioConnect, HCL Domino, Open-Xchange and HCL Notes. See our Commvault Cloud vs. Microsoft Exchange report.
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