Azure Backup vs. Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Backup
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Backup is a cloud backup service.
$5
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Commvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A
Pricing
Azure BackupCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Editions & Modules
Storage in GB/Month
$0.0224 to $0.0569
per GB
Backup Instance <50GB
$5.00 + storage consumed
Backup Instance > 50 GB but < or = 500 GB
$10.00 + storage consumed
Backup Instance Instance is > 500 GB
$10 for each 500 GB increment + storage consumed
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure BackupCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Azure BackupCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Considered Both Products
Azure Backup
Chose Azure Backup
Azure Backup, Commvault, Acronis Data Protector, and Veeam Backup are popular backup solutions that offer similar functionality to protect data and applications.Azure Backup vs CommvaultCommvault is a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution that covers everything from …
Chose Azure Backup
Cost and SLA were important [in our] decision to prefer Azure Backup over others. The customization of existing policy with an archive of data was not available in competitors so we had preferred Azure Backup.
Chose Azure Backup
I won't say Azure Backup stacks up against these mentioned backup solutions, they're just for different approaches/implementations.
Depending on your requirements, you may have a mix of Azure Backups for 'simpler' backups and another backup tool for the most complex applications …
Chose Azure Backup
The cost, not only in the short term, but in our long-term calculations.
Even in need of improvements, the pre-sale and post-sale support is very good.
The ease, like many Microsoft products about scheduling backups, the friendly interface, the fact that there is no need for an …
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
When it comes to on-prem, we only use Commvault for data protection. Anything in Azure we use Azure Backup.
The main difference is there is more data protection types supported with Commvault. Although Azure Backup supports on-prem as well, you simply get much more options and a …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
The option for replacement started with the need to replace our old backup software. Commvault [Complete Backup & Recovery] brought us the possibility of reducing disaster recovery time, implementing a friendlier interface, a higher rate of data deduplication, the possibility …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Azure BackupCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Azure Backup
8.7
11 Ratings
3% above category average
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
-
Ratings
Versioning9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files9.26 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
File search7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Azure Backup
8.9
11 Ratings
3% above category average
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
-
Ratings
User and role management9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
File organization9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Device management8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Azure Backup
9.0
11 Ratings
6% above category average
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
-
Ratings
Performance9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
Reliability9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Reports8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Azure Backup
-
Ratings
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
7.7
73 Ratings
5% below category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings7.765 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings6.761 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings7.065 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.068 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.368 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings7.073 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings7.255 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings7.471 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings8.068 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings6.762 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings8.663 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings8.663 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings8.061 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings8.360 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Azure BackupCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Small Businesses
SugarSync
SugarSync
Score 10.0 out of 10
Veeam Data Platform
Veeam Data Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Azure BackupCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(11 ratings)
8.1
(75 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(12 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(4 ratings)
8.6
(52 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure BackupCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Backup is suitable for companies of various sizes, with varying amounts of data. The cost of the investment should be thought out carefully so that there are no bad surprises with unnecessary files going to Azure Backup. The interface is friendly and easy to configure and it does not require your company to have a backup expert. It is highly recommended for companies with smaller number of servers and better if the servers are already running in an Azure environment.
Read full review
Commvault
Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
Read full review
Pros
Microsoft
  • Azure Backup is fast! Coupled with the fact that Microsoft created Azure and Windows - these two operate phenomenally together!
  • Administering the backups inside of Azure is a breeze. The ability to mount, restore entire backups, or recover files, has been made very easy. You do not have to download any media to recover something, you do this all in the cloud and it gets mounted in Microsoft's systems. Making this process less than a quarter of the time you would have spent with your 'other' backup solutions.
Read full review
Commvault
  • 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
Read full review
Cons
Microsoft
  • backup schedule calendar would be cool
  • Backup vaults should ask if you want to send notifications when you first set it up, there have been a couple of times when I noticed a month later that, backup job failures were not configured to send email notifications.
Read full review
Commvault
  • 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.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Commvault
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.
Read full review
Usability
Microsoft
This Justifies that usability of azure is at huge extent
Read full review
Commvault
Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
Read full review
Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
Read full review
Performance
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
Read full review
Support Rating
Microsoft
One of the differentials of the solution is the high level of guarantee and support of the Azure Backup solution. Microsoft is a reference in a technology company with a highly trained support team and helps us with any questions or technical problems with the tool. Service is fast and efficient with trained engineers.
Read full review
Commvault
I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE team.
Read full review
In-Person Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Commvault
Traning is very easy very helpful
Read full review
Online Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Commvault
Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
Read full review
Implementation Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Commvault
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.
Read full review
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Backup works on Azure, the most famous of the cloud systems that the whole world has switched to, which is now a very large part of the Microsoft ecosystem that we have been used to using for years. Therefore, it is less tiring to use the additional service of an infrastructure that we already use, even if it is a part of it, which can be easily integrated with existing systems, which is one of the most important issues we IT professionals pay attention to. For this reason, we wanted to swim in familiar waters instead of another brand.
Read full review
Commvault
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.
Read full review
Scalability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
Read full review
Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • It allowed us to have our VMs protected very quickly and with simple implementation.
  • It saved us from taking backups from Azure workloads from the on-prem environment, or even deploying a Backup environment on the cloud.
  • It has a low/'controlled' cost as you "pay-as-you-go."
Read full review
Commvault
  • 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.
Read full review
ScreenShots