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."It's a software-based solution so we just need a license to expand it."
"Commvault integrates well with all types of operating systems and supports heterogeneous environments."
"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."
"Commvault has a unique administration platform with more features than its competitors."
"Complete Data Protection is convenient because you can manage various types of databases, and it's pretty easy to set it up."
"The solution's stability is excellent."
"Restoring is very fast. In testing, I did a restore for a single item from a mailbox. Within a minute, I had the message back in my mailbox. So, it didn't take hours or days. Obviously, there will be a limit. If we suddenly go into DR and have to restore five terabytes of emails for people, then it will take a couple of days, which would be acceptable. For general usage, where we have to do the odd restore, we have never had issues. It happens within minutes."
"The solution is scalable."
"I find the Outlook client very valuable. It allows me to connect to the Exchange Server and send and receive emails easily. The graphical interface is user-friendly and has a good look and feel."
"Exchange has helped us with encryption."
"Communication is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The technical support is fine."
"It's user-friendly."
"It integrates well with calendar, scheduling, etc. It's easy for employees to make meetings and plan their agendas."
"It is a product that is simple to manage, and easy to use."
"It is user friendly."
"The product could be more convenient in terms of working with different solutions and having more integration between the different products in the market."
"Our main pain point is that some of our hardware is old. For example, the SSD disks for our application database are slow. It's hard to avoid a slowdown in our environment because the size of our backups is growing every year. If you're growing and don't upgrade the environment, you will see slower backups and restores. You must enhance the environment if you are growing."
"Could be easier to implement."
"They reply to the support portal weekly, but there are some delays."
"I think there is room for improvement with the reports. They are a little poor."
"It does not have an easy deployment. The deployment is not something that just anybody can go in and deploy."
"The functional integration could be better."
"Persistent binding is a feature that I would like to see in the next release of Commvault."
"From a reliability perspective, they need to improve the search engine, it is not very powerful."
"The price of Microsoft Exchange could improve, it is priced high."
"In the version we have, I would like to see better communication between the end device and the Exchange server."
"Microsoft Exchange needs to improve how it handles and assigns policy and security."
"The default storage capacity is too small."
"In terms of what should be improved, they should probably move to a cloud option like Office 365. We would like to get this functionality without the need to deploy complex hardware and software solutions. This should be the next thing, making Exchange more related to Office products, which are more cloud-oriented, less on-premise or desktop-oriented solutions, like the direction Google is strongly moving towards."
"The product or service could be improved in terms of Microsoft Outlook client compatibility."
"It doesn't work very well on a virtual machine. We had to move it around. There are also issues when you try to move it between computers."
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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