Altaro VM Backup vs Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery | TrustRadius

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Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 24 reviews and ratings

Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 178 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

Fast and simple setup. I didn't need to read through ANY documentation to set up and have a backup running.
Easy and cost-effective licensing. I didn't need to count CPU's or VM's or other random facts to work out my licensing. Just how many hosts, and then one of 3 feature levels of which two have unlimited VM licensing. Hosts x Feature Set = Cost.
Easy Restores. Backing up is one thing, but restoring and having confidence in the restore is another. It just works, simple and effective.
Help is easy to find if you need it. From within the app, it gives you options of email, phone, and live chat, which is usually available even with odd time zones in play.

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Manager in Information Technology

Computer Hardware Company, 11-50 employees

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Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
Improves our Disaster Recovery
Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive

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Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Single file restore is not included in the 2 VM free edition.
Can't restore a single SQL database, you have to restore the entire VM.

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System Administrator

GOPLegal Services, 501-1000 employees

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For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.

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Unix Team Manager

Johnson & Wales UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 8.2

Based on 8 answers

It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.

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Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 8.5

Based on 10 answers

Not very user friendly. The interface is OK but takes a while to learn and navigate. Once learned, it is not too bad to use. They have an application and HTML version of the console. Not all the options and features are in the HTML version of the console but are supposed to be at some point.

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IT Technical Support Specialist

Mid-Continent Instruments and AvionicsAirlines/Aviation, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.

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Shalika Senadeera

Senior Technical Support Engineer

South Asian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.Information Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

No score

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software

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Shalika Senadeera

Senior Technical Support Engineer

South Asian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.Information Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Altaro VM Backup 8.8

Based on 14 answers

The chat is very responsive. They work hard to find you a solution. They are very competent and very friendly. Most of the time they will simply open a request for you and ask to send the support package (bunch of logs and files) and will come back by email, but you can also click on the chat button inside Altaro to talk to someone.

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Director in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 9.4

Based on 81 answers

The real winner of this company and application is its staff of support engineers and the management. Seriously, I could hate the application and despise using it and would still subscribe and deploy 100% across the company. No other company works as hard for its users as Commvault. Having a solid application on top of this is more than anyone can ask for.

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Manager in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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In-Person Training

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Traning is very easy very helpful

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Shalika Senadeera

Senior Technical Support Engineer

South Asian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.Information Services, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

No score

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.

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Shalika Senadeera

Senior Technical Support Engineer

South Asian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.Information Services, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 9.5

Based on 10 answers

Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.

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System Engineer

StratogentInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Altaro brings value to organizations looking at other platforms. It's definitely less expensive overall than Veeam, Datto or Infrascale. The recovery solution for Altaro is very good and reliable. Any organization looking at Veeam should consider Altaro as a potential alternative - depending on requirements. Although lacking in some granular backup/recovery systems, organizations looking at the backup of VMs only - numerous VMs with an off-site cloud location already setup. Costs can potentially increase if numerous versions or long deletion policy needs to be maintained. However such costs would increase on Veeam as well. Solarwinds and Carbonite charge based on selected sizes while Asigra has an amazing deduplication system for VMs, however, Asigra can become pricey with longer deletion/versioning setups as well.

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Owner

Office Wave Technology SolutionsComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.

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Senior Storage Engineer / Backup Architect

UNC Health CareHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software

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Shalika Senadeera

Senior Technical Support Engineer

South Asian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.Information Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

We have a reliable backup solution.
I always know if/when a job fails.
Any time I have had to restore a backup, it was a straight-forward process.

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Jarret Schwartz

Operations Manager

Technics Dental LaboratoryMedical Device, 11-50 employees

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I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Altaro VM Backup Editions & Modules

Edition

Free	Free
Subscription License - Standard Edition	59.80²
Subscription License - Unlimited Edition	73.80²
Subscription License - Unlimited Plus Edition	89.20²
Perpetual License - Standard Edition	$595³
Perpetual License - Unlimited Edition	$695³
Perpetual License - Unlimited Plus Edition	$875³

per VM/per year
per host

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Altaro VM Backup

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

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